Yach(ing Fixtures. 
AUGUST. 
Northport Yacht Club, annual. 
New Rochelle Yacht Club, annual. 
Marine and Field Club, ninth championship. 
Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, club. 
Beverly Yacht Club, sixth race. 
Duxbury Yacht Club. 
Rhode Island Yacht Club, club. 
Fall River Yacht Club, rear-commodore cup. 
American Yacht Club, Newburyport, cruise. 
Seaside Yacht Club. 
Atlantic Yacht Club, race.week. 
SEPTEMBER. 
1. Atlantic Yacht Club, open. 
2. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, special. 
2. Atlantic Yacht Club, open. 
2. Beverly Yacht Club, Sippican race. 
2-5. Chicago Yacht Club, triangular, open race. 
2- 6. American Yacht Club, Newburyport, cruise. 
3. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, fall. 
3. Beverly Yacht Club, Mattapoisett race. 
3. Duxbury Y. C. 
3. Hartford Yacht Club, special. 
3. Atlantic Yacht Club, motor boats. 
3. Bristol Yacht Club, open. 
3. Quincy Yacht Club, club. 
3. Corinthian Yacht Club, Marblehead, handicap. 
3. Ponquoque Yacht Club, association regatta. 
3. Seaside Yacht Club. 
3. Royal Canadian Y. C., cruise to Hamilton. 
3- 5. New RochelLe-Huguenot Yacht Club cruise. 
3-5. Portland Yacht Club, cruise. 
5. Beverly Yacht Club, open. 
5. Model Yacht Club, Brooklyn. 
5. Duxbury Yacht Club. 
5. Larchmont Yacht Club, fall. 
5. Norwalk Yacht Club, annual. 
5. Sachem’s Head Yacht Club, annual. 
5. Atlantic Yacht Club, annual. 
5. Rhode Island Yacht Club, open. 
5. Jubilee Yacht Club, club. 
5. Eastern Yacht Club, sonder. 
5. Lynn Yacht Club, Nahant Y. R. A., open. 
5. Gloucester Yacht Club. 
8. Duxbury Yacht Club. 
10. Indian Harbor Yacht Club, fall. 
19. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, club. 
10. Brooklyn Yacht Club, eleventh championship. 
10. Boston Yacht Club, Marblehead, open. 
10. Quincy Yacht Club, interclub races. 
10. Chicago Yacht Club, Com. Baum cup. 
10. Seaside Yacht Club. 
10. Beverly Yacht Club, seventh Corinthian. 
10. Royal Canadian Y. C., Prince of Wales cup. 
15. New York Yacht Club, Glen Cove. 
17. Larchmont Yacht Club, special. 
17. Manhasset Bay Yacht Club, fall. 
17. Atlantic Yacht Club, twelfth championship. 
17. Taunton Yacht Club, open. 
17. Duxbury Yacht Club. 
17. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, club. 
17. Chicago Yacht Club, fall regatta. 
24. Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, club. 
Lessons of the Season. 
As the season advances yachtsmen are be¬ 
ginning to discuss the lessons learned and later 
they will get together and possibly make some 
changes in rules and conditions which will ben¬ 
efit the sport. It’s a poor season when some 
changes in rules cannot be made and such an 
one might be regarded as a failure because the 
sport of yachting cannot stand still. One thing 
the cruise has suggested is a change in the con¬ 
ditions to govern the Astor Cup races. It has 
often been pointed out that it was not fair to 
the larger boats to have to race against 30 foot¬ 
ers and allow full times. It takes all interest 
out of the race in the first place and enables 
a small yacht to win often because of some 
lucky change in the weather conditions. The 
Astor Cups stand for the blue ribbon of the 
season and it is really absurd to watch a fine 
vessel cross the line and then to have to wait 
for perhaps an hour and a half to find out if 
some small craft cannot get in and snatch 
away a well earned victory. 
In the last races the Aurora, Winsome, Ista- 
lena and Shimma were fighting among them¬ 
selves and the Cara Mia and Windward were 
far astern, sailing on without any hindrance. 
They were profiting by the battle between the 
four larger sloops and as a result Cara Mia 
almost secured a trophy. 
There are not very many large yachts racing 
nowadays and those yachtsmen who still favor 
the larger type should be encouraged as much 
as possible. If small boats like 30 footers are 
able to pick up the best of the season's prizes 
the large racing yacht will soon disappear and 
owners will have small craft which are less 
costly and live on some steamer or cruiser. 
It has before been suggested to Colonel As¬ 
tor that there should be two prizes for schoon¬ 
ers and two for sloops, divisions being made as 
in the races for the different flag officers’ cups 
but so far the Colonel has not taken kindly to 
the suggestion. Now it has been suggested 
that a limit be placed on the allowances. An 
owner of a fast small yacht should be allowed to 
enter the race if he thinks he has a yacht fast 
enough to win, but such craft should rate as if 
they measured, say. 46 feet in figuring time al¬ 
lowances. In other words, full allowance 
should be made to yachts of the larger classes, 
but anything measuring less than 46 feet rat¬ 
ing should be figured as rating at 46. Some 
such condition as this would give the larger 
yachts much better chances of success as 
against the very small ones, and it would also 
keep the Astor Cups in the classes they were 
originally intended for—the larger ones. 
Such a condition is imposed in the race for 
the King’s Cup by limiting the size of yachts 
eligible. Sloops may not be less than 50 feet 
and schooners not less than 60 feet water line 
length. 
Another suggestion has been made about the 
courses for the King’s Cup races. Owners of 
sloops want a windward and leeward course. 
Owners of schooners want triangular courses 
and it has been suggested that the courses se¬ 
lected alternate, one year windward and leeward 
and one year triangular. So far the five races 
sailed for this cup have been over triangular 
courses, and strange to say, the slpops which 
are supposed to be at a disadvantage with 
schooners when reaching, have won three out 
of the five races, so that really the sloop men 
have not much to complain of. 
The British International Cup races were not 
as successful as they might have been and it 
is hard to figure out just where to place the 
blame.’ Everyone who saw the race is willing' 
to concede that the British should have won 
with Pioneer but for the unfortunate accident 
which caused her ‘to fire at the carburetor and 
hold her up for twenty minutes. Such a con¬ 
test should not be decided in one race. When 
yachtsmen are willing to make such a long 
journey for the sake of getting a good race, an 
accident should not be allowed to spoil every¬ 
thing. It would be better if the match were 
two out of three or even three out of five 
races, then a slight accident which will at once 
put a racing motor boat out of the contest 
would not matter so much. It is very probable 
that the conditions governing this trophy will 
be changed before there is another race. 
The trophy is held by the Motor Boat Club 
of America, but that organization cut very little 
figure in the races or the arrangements for the 
defence of the trophy. Through an agreement 
made when the Motor Boat Club was in finan¬ 
cial difficulties the Automobile Club of America 
had charge of everything and it was hardly rea¬ 
sonable to expect that men who know nothing 
about motor boating could manage things suc¬ 
cessfully. Before there is another race things 
will be changed and it is hoped for the good 
of the sport that motor boat men manage 
motor boat races. 
An ex-commodore of the Colonial' Y. C., 
talking of the motor boat trouble, last week 
said: 
“The lack of boats for the eliminating trials 
to represent this country in the international 
motor boat races brings up the much disputed 
question of control. International sailing races 
of all kinds have always been popular, for the 
reason that they have always been managed by 
well-known yacht clubs, having behind them 
large and influential memberships taking pride 
in the success of their races. International 
motor boat racing has lacked popular support 
for the reasofi that it has been controlled by 
a close corporation known as the Motor Boat 
Club of America, which unfortunately for the 
sport, is a club at the present time in name 
only. 
When it was organized in 1906 it had the 
cream of the motor boat enthusiasts on its roll 
of membership. Unfortunately it failed to ac¬ 
quire a permanent club house on the water and 
as a consequence the membership fell away un¬ 
til today it is very small and its only habitation' 
the use of a meeting room through the cour¬ 
tesy of the Automobile Club of America. In 
its early career Commodore Schroeder ably 
and successfully represented the sport, but with 
the decadence of the club, his interest waned. 
This condition would be otherwise if these 
races were in charge of such well-known clubs 
as the New York. Larchmont, Atlantic or some 
others who are experienced in managing races.” 
Harpoon Wins Taft Cup. 
It is doubtful if there was ever a more pleas¬ 
ing international match than that recently 
sailed between Spanish and American Sonder 
boats. Three boats from Spain met three boats 
of this country in a series of races sailed off 
Marblehead under the auspices of the Eastern 
Y. C., and although the American boats out¬ 
sailed the visitors in all weathers and some-' 
times won by large margins of time, the races 
were most enjoyable because the visitors were 
able to take defeat as good sportsmen should 
and came here mainly to try out their boats 
and to have some good sport rather than to 
win mugs. Of course, everyone in any sport is 
pleased with success and he is afterwards proud 
to be able to point to trophies .won by his skill. 
But winning is not the chief thing in contests. 
The man who can lose gracefully does more for 
the sport in which he is interested than the one 
who can capture all the prizes. 
The Spaniards made many friends at Marble¬ 
head and they go away with the knowledge that 
they have succeeded in their mission even if 
they did not take away the handsome prizes of¬ 
fered. They came for a good time, for good 
sport and for good fellowship. 
During their stay at Marblehead they were 
entertained every night and in their turn enter¬ 
tained. too. Before the races began Commo¬ 
dore Clark, of the Eastern Y. C.. arranged a 
banquet at which covers were laid for sixty, 
and the night after the Taft Cup’s ownership 
had been settled the visitors gave a dinner to 
local yachtsmen. Victoriano L. Doriga, presi¬ 
dent of the Federation of Spanish Yacht Clubs, 
presided, and had as his principal guests Com¬ 
modore F. Lewis Clark, the Spanish minister, 
Senor Riano, the owners and crews of the 
American yachts, the officials and many of the 
members of the Eastern and other clubs. Dur¬ 
ing the evening a cablegram was received from 
President Azner, of the Real Sporting Club of 
Bilbao, which read: ‘I beg to thank you most 
sincerely for the kindness to our members and 
am looking forward for an opportunity to re¬ 
ciprocate.” 
Former Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., responded 
in Spanish and his remarks aroused great en¬ 
thusiasm. 
The- racing began on Wednesday, August 17, 
and before that day six yachts were officially 
