Some News and a Little Gossip. 
The races for the Manhasset Bay Challenge 
Cup, which are scheduled to begin on July io, 
promise to be the feature of this season s sport, 
l'his cup is held by the American Y. C., having 
been won last year by Stuyvesant Wainwright s 
Cara Mia. Tlie Seawanhaka Corinthian, Man¬ 
hasset Bay, Indian Harbor, Corinthian of Mar¬ 
blehead and Eastern yacht clubs have challenged, 
and it is expected that still another challenge 
will be received from the Boston Y. C. This 
means that three of the Eastern 31-raters will 
come around the Cape and meet in local waters 
four of the same class owned here, and of these 
four, three are new boats. There are three new 
boats building for this class for Eastern yachts¬ 
men from designs bv George Owens. Commo¬ 
dore William H. Childs, of the Indian Harbor 
Y. C., is having one built at Herreshoffs, a syn¬ 
dicate of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has 
ordered a Herreshoff boat, and a syndicate of 
the Manhasset Bay Y. C. has ordered a boat 
from Gielow designs. It is said, too, that 
Gardner has an order for one of these boats 
which, if the rumor is true, will undoubtedly 
take part in the cup race. 
On Gravesend Bay Class Q will be boomed 
this year with two new boats, one from Gardner 
designs for Gherardi Davis, and one from Mower 
designs for a yachtsman who at present wishes 
to be unknown. This boat will be ready for 
launching next month and will be brought to 
Gravesend Bay in May. The Grayjacket cham¬ 
pion of last season, the Soya and Spider, too, of 
last season's boats will be in commission, and 
the racing should be of the best. 
It is as well that the small classes promise 
good sport, as the outlook in the larger classes 
is not at all good. There have been more rumors 
about the Westward having been purchased, but 
no definite announcement has yet been made. It 
is hoped by all that the crack schooner of last 
year wid be brought back to these waters to 
meet Elena, building at Herreshoff’s for Morton 
F. Plant. 
In the large class of schooners there will be 
Enchantress and Karwiina, and these two boats 
will be raced in some events and possibly in 
some long distance races with Atlantic. The 65- 
footers will not be in commission, according to 
the present plans of their owners. H. F. Lippitt, 
owner of Winsome, is now United States Senator 
for Rhode Island, and he will be too busy to at¬ 
tend to racing this summer. G. M. Pynchon has 
recently married and will not have Istalena in 
commission. With these two not in racing trim, 
it is hardly likely that Cornelius Vanderbilt will 
fit out Aurora. In the next class Rear Commo¬ 
dore Daniel Bacon will have Avenger in com¬ 
mission, but unless someone buys Shimna, now 
laid up at Herreshoff’s, there will be nothing 
for that yacht to race against. 
The Larchmont Y. C. has at last joined the 
Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound. 
Now all the racing clubs on the Sound are in 
the association. For various reasons the Larch¬ 
mont Club has always objected to the associa¬ 
tion as far as that club was concerned, and while 
the schedules have been arranged without any 
conflicting dates, there has been a feeling among 
other Sound clubs that Larchmont was receiving 
more consideration than it was entitled to. The 
trouble has been smoothed away largely through 
the influence of Commodore Leonard Richards 
and of Horace E. Boucher, chairman of the re¬ 
gatta committee. 
C., of which W. Burton Hart is regatta com¬ 
mittee chairman, has arranged for a cruising 
race from Greenwich to New London to take 
the yachts there for the Harvard -4 ale boat race, 
and the Seawanhaka Corinthian Y. C. has ar¬ 
ranged a race to the westward after the race. 
At the same time the Eastern Y. C. will start 
a race for big yachts from New London to Mar¬ 
blehead. The New York Athletic Club will have 
its usual races through the Sound to Block 
Island, and other long distance events will be 
announced by the New Rochelle, Manhasset Bay 
and other clubs. 
The season will end with a championship race 
revived by the Indian Harbor Y. C. This race 
is to determine the individual champion of the 
Sound and will be similar to the Wilson cup 
races of the lower bay. When first inaugurated 
some years ago it was suggested that the race 
should be an annual affair, a different club man- 
againg it each season. The Indian Harbor Club 
held one race, and then as other clubs did not 
take up the plan, it was dropped. Now it is to 
be a feature again. Ah yachts 40 feet and under 
will race in one class, with full time allowance. 
A most attractive vacht list has been issued by 
Seaman & Huntington. It contains 132 pages 
of handsomely illustrated matter and gives pic¬ 
tures and details of all sorts of pleasure craft 
from the small catboat or power skiff to the big 
cruiser. The list is in great demand because it 
tells so much about yachts that is of interest 
to all. 
Under the auspices of the Philadelphia Y. C. 
it is proposed to devote the week of May 29 
to June 3 to a race week on the headwaters of 
Chesapeake Bay. Each day will have its special 
events. All will be held within sight of the ren¬ 
dezvous at Fords Land. . 
411 representative clubs of Philadelphia, Balti¬ 
more, Chesapeake Bay and coast resorts will be 
invited to participate. At a meeting of the club 
held at Essington, a preliminary plan was pre¬ 
sented, and Commodore Barth authorized to ap¬ 
point committees. Details will be formulated at 
once and yachting given a newer and stronger 
impetus. , _ , 
The customary “flag day" on the Delaware at 
the Philadelphia Y. C. house will be held Satur¬ 
day, June 17. 
The Holyoke Y. C. has elected the following 
officer«: Commodore, C. E. Cowan; Vice-Com¬ 
modore, J. E. Bardwell; Rear Commodore, 1 . J. 
Morrow; Purser, George Webster; Finance Com¬ 
mittee, Lewis Warner, C. K. Fiske and J. A. 
Jones; Cruise Captain, S. E. Whiting; Fleet 
Captain, J. Bertram Newton; Fleet Surgeon, 
Sumner Whitten; Regatta Committee, Lewis 
Warner, J. V. Bardwell and L. F. Hayward. 
Commodore W. H. Childs, of the Indian 
Harbor Y. C., has made these appointments: 
Fleet Captain, Frank Bowne Jones; Fleet Sur¬ 
geon. William Burke. M.D.; Fleet Chaplain, the 
Rev. William V. Waller. 
dent; James W. Alker, Manhasset Bay Y. C„ 
Secretary; Victor I. Cumnock, Seawanhaka- 
Corinthian Y. C., Treasurer; W. Butler Duncan, 
Jr Charles P. Tower, H. A. Jackson, Jr., and 
E. Burton Hart, Executive Committee. 
The racing schedule was adopted. the sea¬ 
son will open on Decoration Day and close with 
a championship race, all yachts in one class on 
Sept. 23. The schedule is as follows: 
May 30—Harlem Y. C. annual; Bridgeport 
Y. C. spring. 
June 3—Knickerbocker Y. C. annual. 
June 10—Manhasset Bay Y. C. annual. 
June 17—Larchmont Y. C. spring.^ 
June 22—Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. special 
classes. 
June 23—Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. special 
races. _ . , . ,, r 
June 24—Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. L. an¬ 
nual New York A. C. Block Island race. 
June 28—Indian Harbor Y. C. race to New 
London. 
July 1—New Rochelle Y. C. annual and ocean 
races. 
July 3—American Y. C. annual. 
July 4—Larchmont Y. C. annual; Hartford 
Y. C. annual. 
July 8—Riverside Y. C. annual. 
July 10—American Y. C. Manhasset Bay chal¬ 
lenge cup races. 
July 15—Larchmont Y. C. race week. 
July 25—Larchmont Y. C. race week close. 
July 29—Indian Harbor Y. C. annual. 
Aug 5—Horseshoe Harbor Y. C. annual; 
Corinthian Y. C. of Stamford annual 
Aug. 12—Huguenot Y. C. annual; Bridgeport 
Y. C. annual. 
Aug 19—Stamford Y. C. annual. 
Aug. 26—New Rochelle Y. C. special; North- 
port Y. C., annual. . . 
Sept. 1—Seawanhaka-Corinthian 1. C. special. 
Sept. 2—Seawanhaka-Corinthian Y. C. fall. 
Sept. 4—Larchmont Y. C. fall; Norwalk Y. 
C. annual; Sachem’s Head Y. C. annual. 
Sept. 9—Indian Harbor Y. C. fall. 
Sept. 16—Manhasset Bay Y. C. fall; Larch¬ 
mont Y. C. special. . . 
Sept. 23—Indian Harbor Y. C. championship 
race. 
The schedule of races arranged by the Sound 
association is a good one, and the contests wi 1 
give a variety of sport. The Indian Harbor Y. 
Sound Racing Schedule. 
The annual meeting of the Yacht Racing 
Association of Long Island Sound was held at 
the Hotel Astor last week. Prior to the 
meeting of the delegates, the Executive Com¬ 
mittee "had a short session and elected the 
Larchmont Y. C. to membership. This club has 
always held out for its so-called independence, 
and whi’e it has not been allied with the asso¬ 
ciation, it has worked with it in arranging dates, 
etc. Now there is harmony among the Sound 
clubs which will help the sport. 
These officers were elected for the year. 
Stuyvesant Wainwright, American Y. C., Presi- 
Massachusetts Bay Schedule. 
The annual meeting of the Yacht Racing As¬ 
sociation of Massachusetts was held last week 
at the Boston Y. C. house at Rowe’s Wharf, 
Boston. " 
The reports of the officers showed that the 
association is in fine condition, and the follow¬ 
ing officers were elected for the I 9 11 season: 
Charles Francis Adams 2d, President; B. S. 
Permar, Vice-President; A. T. Bliss, Secretary, 
I H Willey, Treasurer; C. F. Adams 2d, A. T. 
Bliss, B. S. Permar, H. W. Robbins and Ernest 
Hendrie, Executive Committee. 
Hereafter, in figuring the season’s champion¬ 
ships the yachts in each class will be considered 
as starting in at least 80 per cent, of the races 
of the yacht having the greatest number of 
It was voted that the association indorse the 
open squadron run of the Lynn Y . C. from Bass 
Point to Marblehead on Aug. 6. 
In the coming season’s racing the Cohasset 
Y. C. will give a Y. R. A. open race for the first 
time. Another change in the schedule is that 
the Lynn Y. C., which since the formation of 
the association has always had Labor Day, V 1 
this year give its open regatta off Bass Point. 
Saturday, Aug. 5 - The season’s schedule, the 
following dates except July 4, Aug. 7. 8, 9, 10, 
11. 1 7 . 25, 29 and 30 being Saturdays: 
May 30—South Boston Y. C., Y. R. A., City 
Point. „ t, . . 
June 3—Boston Y. C., Y. R. A., City Point. 
