Yachting Fixtures. 
SEPTEMBER. 
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. 
19. 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. 
Massachusetts Won Inter Bay Races. 
The series of races sailed on Narragansett Bay 
between catboats resulted in a victory for the 
Massachusetts representatives Dolly III and 
Iris. Five boats took part in these races repre¬ 
senting three Bays. They were Massachusetts 
Bay, Iris and Dolly III; Narragansett Bay, Ina 
and Bother, and Barnegat Bay, Virginia. 
The crews of the boats were as follows: 
Iris—Frank F. Crane, Henry S. Crane, Frank 
Freeman, Ralph G. Crane. T. E. Furnald and 
Winfield M. Thompson. 
Dolly III—Daniel Crosby, J. W. Coombs, 
Ralph Crosby, Frank Brown, Charles M. Stud- 
lee and H. Seymour. 
Ina—R. I. Fuller, W. J. Rooks, Walter Side- 
bottom, Ben C. Rooks and Ben C. Rooks, Jr., 
all of Providence. 
Bother—J. Harris Foster, John D. Peck, 
William E. Simmons, Newton C. Arnold and 
Richard P. Cole, all of Providence. 
Virginia—Leslie F. Mulford, Lewis Tissot, Jr., 
Harry Edson, John Drumm, William G. Gas¬ 
ton, Jr. and John Norris, Jr., all of Phila¬ 
delphia. 
Under the rules each boat was allowed a 
pilot, but by agreement the local boats were 
allowed an extra man in place of a pilot. This 
gave all but the smallest boat seven men each. 
The rating of the boats was on over all length, 
the measurements being as follows: 
Dolly III, 26.69 feet. Virginia, 26 feet, Iris, 
25.75 feet, Ina, 25.50 feet, Bother, 22 feet. 
The allowance was seven seconds per foot 
per mile. Under this arrangement the Dolly 
was scratch boat and allowed the Iris, im 29s, 
whereas in Massachusetts bay where the boats 
race on mean length of waterline and over all. 
the Iris has to allow the Dolly. In this match 
the Dolly pays for her full length, including 
bow overhang, while the Iris profits by a plumb 
stem and stern. 
The first race was sailed on Monday August 
15, in a steady southwest wind. The course 
was in the Providence River and its mouth, and 
was 13^ miles long. Bother got away ahead of 
the gun and was recalled and Dolly III got the 
best position followed by Iris, Ina, Bother and 
Virginia. The work on the windward leg was 
very lively and at the first mark the Massachu¬ 
setts pair had a good lead, and the race soon 
became one between those two yachts. Iris 
sailed well and at the second mark Iris had a 
lead of 5 seconds. This she increased to 48 
seconds at the finish. The elapsed times were: 
Iris, 2.26.00; Dolly III, 2.26.48; Virginia, 2.35.21; 
Bother, 2.39.58; Ina, 3.16.000. On corrected 
time Bother took third place from Virginia. 
The victory of the Iris has some unusual as¬ 
pects. The boat is one of the oldest of her kind 
racing today. She was built in 1888 by C. C. 
Hanley at Monument beach. The year she 
came out as a dark horse she beat the field at 
Newport for E. D. Morgan of New York, who 
had agreed to buy her if she won the race. Now 
in her 23d season, she did the same trick, tak¬ 
ing, beside a leg in the Inter-bay cup, a hand¬ 
some silver vase put up by the Edgewood Y. C., 
under whose supervision the race was sailed. 
Having been twice champion of Massachu¬ 
setts Bay under Mr. Crane’s ownership, Iris had 
a known reputation. She was critically observed 
by the other catboat men as she lay off the 
Edgewood Y. C. house. One noteworthy thing 
they might have noted about her was that no 
effort was made to take out weight to prepare 
her for the race. She had all her cruising dun¬ 
nage aboard, just as she came around Cape 
Cod. 
The second race was sailed under the auspices 
of the Rhode Island Y. C. on Tuesday August 
16. The wind was northwest and the yachts 
sailed twice around a 6 mile triangle with one 
l£g to the windward. The wind was quite 
strong and the sea very choppy. The conditions 
just suited Dolly III and she was not headed in 
the race. Iris while reaching to the second 
mark reduced the lead of Dolly but could not 
catch her. The start was a pretty one and 
Dolly got away well. The Massachusetts boat 
soon took the lead and finished first. The 
elapsed times were: Dolly III, 2.50.38: Iris, 
2.53.02; Ina, 2.56.32; Virginia, 3.03.40; Bother, 
3.05.40. 
A special race was sailed in the regatta of the 
Edgewood Y. C. on August 17, in which the 
starters were Iris, Dolly III and Virginia. This 
was won by Iris. The elapsed times were: Iris, 
1.22.45; Dolly III, 1.23.11; Virginia, 1.28.00. 
The third race of the Inter-bay series was 
sailed under the auspises of the Fall River Y. C. 
on August 18. The wind was southeast, and 
again Iris was the winner. She crossed the 
starting line first and steadily drew away from 
the others. The elapsed times were: Iris, 
2.58.00; Dolly III, 3.08.02; Virginia, 3.11.55; Ina, 
3.15.58; Bother, 3.20.46. 
In the fourth race sailed under the auspices 
of the Conanicut Y. C., Dolly was the winner. 
Iris was well in the lead when she carried away 
her mast-head and finished last. The wind was 
fresh and the yachts sailed in a choppy sea. The 
accident occured when the yachts were nearing 
the outer mark and Iris had a lead of about two 
minutes with Dolly III second. It was wind¬ 
ward work on the first leg to the Beavertail 
mark and a run home. The Virginia finished 
second but was beaten on corrected time by Ina. 
The elapsed times were: Dolly III, 2.30.12; 
Virginia, 2.40.33; Bother, 2.46.12; Iris, 2.52.43. 
The fifth and last race was sailed under the 
auspices of the Bristol Y. C. and it was won by 
Bother. The wind was light from northeast 
and later there was a flat calm. The elapsed 
times over the 10 mile course were: Bother, 
3.36.12; Dolly III, 3-3140; Ina. 3.34.11; Virginia, 
3.35.14; Iris, 3.3645. The corrected times were: 
Bother. 3.30.44; Dolly III, 3 - 31 - 49 ; Ina, 3-32-48; 
Virginia,3.34.53; Iris, 3.35.59. This was the only 
race in which the Massachusetts Bay repre¬ 
sentatives were defeated. 
The points scored in the series were Dolly 
III, 440, or 90 per cent.; Iris, 320, or 64 per 
cent.; Ina, 280, or 56 per cent.; Bother, 260, or 
52 per cent, and Virginia, 200, or 40 per cent. 
The total points by the teams were: Massa¬ 
chusetts Bay, 380 or 76 per cent.; Narragansett 
Bay, 270 or 54 per cent.; Barnegat Bay, 200 or 
40 per cent. 
After the races the yachtsmen were entertain¬ 
ed at dinner at the Hotel Belvidere and Dolly 
III was declared the champion catboat, and her 
owner was presented with the championship 
pennant. 
President Receives Spaniards. 
President Taft entertained the visiting Span¬ 
ish yachtsmen on board the yacht Mayflower 
on Wednesday, August 24, and then presented 
the cup which bears his name to Charles Fran¬ 
cis Adams II, owner of Harpoon, the winner 
of the international series. Many yachtsmen, 
including the owners and crews of the sonder 
boats, were present. After the luncheon the 
President said: 
“Gentlemen, I am in receipt of the following 
cablegram: 
“ ‘The Royal Sporting Club of Bilbao beg to 
tender to your excellency their most respectful 
greeting and homage of gratitude for the kind 
attentions and favorable reception of the Amer¬ 
ican subjects towards the members of their rep¬ 
resentation in the regattas off Marblehead.’ 
“It is a great pleasure to welcome the sport¬ 
ing representatives of Spain, here, and I feel 
that this is only the beginning of closer associa¬ 
tions between use and the Spaniards. The 
Spanish language and the English language 
cover most of the globe. It has been my for¬ 
tune within the last ten years to come close 
into contact with Spanish civilization, and with 
the results of Spanish energy and enterprise 
and courage. 
“I think the Spaniards may well continue to 
take part in sailing contests when you look 
back to Magellan, to Legaspi and Elcano and 
those heroes who found new worlds in cockle¬ 
shells that no sane man could try the ocean 
with now, a record of bravery that is unequalled 
in the history of the world. 
“My experience with the Spanish-speaking 
people has been so delightful that I have come 
to admire the Spanish character and Spanish 
courtesy so much that it gives me the greatest 
personal pleasure to meet three representatives 
of that grand old kingdom, and I extend to them 
a heartfelt welcome,, and as an evidence of our 
feelings, and I am sure I speak for all the 
American people, I wish to give you the toast, 
‘Long live the king of Spain.’ 
The Spanish Minister responded to the Pres¬ 
ident’s toast as follows: 
“Mr. President—I thank you for the welcome 
which has been so kindly extended to my com¬ 
patriots here. Their visit has been a success 
from every point of view. The hospitality that 
has been shown them has been incredible. Ev¬ 
erywhere we have been, by land and by sea, 
we have been followed and accompanied by our 
flag side by side with the Stars and Stripes. 
This has touched us all deeply and I beg to ex¬ 
press to you and to everyone who has been so 
kind to them their heartfelt thanks. 
“Gentlemen, I propose the health of the 
President.” 
President Taft presented the cup to Mr. Ad¬ 
ams on the after deck of the Mayflower. The 
President said he had heard of Mr. Adams’ 
prowess and presented the cup as an evidence 
of his hard work, and because he was the best 
sailor on the Atlantic coast. 
