Some News and a Little Gossip. 
Another Gravesend Bay yachtsman has been 
chosen as commodore of a Sound dub. Com¬ 
modore William H. Childs, who for some years 
led the Bensonhurst Y. C., has been elected com¬ 
modore of the Indian Harbor Y. C. Commo¬ 
dore Childs is an enthusiastic racing man. He- 
began with a yacht which he named Trouble, 
and later had a new yacht which he called More 
Trouble, and the successes of those craft were 
only fair, so that their names properly reflected 
the feelings of their owner toward them. Then 
Commodore Childs had a Q class yacht built 
which promised so well that he at once became 
quite optimistic and named it Joy, and Joy ful¬ 
filled his expectations. He owned the Sonder 
boat Joyette with which he won the President 
Taft cup in the races with the Germans, and 
then had a new Q boat built which he named 
More Joy He also owned the S boat Benson¬ 
hurst with which he won the Lipton Cup three 
years ago. Now it is rumored that More Joy 
will be sold, and if it is, Commodore Childs 
will have a new racing craft built for some good 
class. The new yacht may be named Ecstacy. 
The officers elected by the Indian Harbor Y. C. 
"are: Commodore, William H. Childs, sloop May- 
dic; Vice-Commodore, Lorenzo D. Armstrong, 
schooner Grampus; Rear Commodore, Lawrence 
Darr, sloop Eleanor; Secretary, George L. Flau- 
son; Treasurer, Richard Outwater; Measurer, 
Morgan Barney; President of Corporation, 
Charles T. Wills; Directors, terms to expire 
1913,, George Lauder, Jr., E. Burton Hart; Re¬ 
gatta Committee, E. Burton Hart, Chairman; 
Henry C. Felton, John W. Masury. This ticket 
was nominated by E. Burton Hart, Martin J. 
Quinn and Frank Bowne Jones. 
Demorest Lloyd, of the Eastern Y. C., has 
purchased through the yacht agency of John G. 
Alden, of Boston, the fast auxiliary cruising 
schooner Seneca from George Mercer, Jr., of 
New York city. Seneca is 95 feet over all, 68 
feet waterline, 20 feet 5 inches beam and 10 feet 
draft and has a 25 horsepower auxiliary Globe 
engine, and is one of the most up to date yachts 
of her size afloat. Sen'eca is commanded by 
Captain Thomas L. Somers, formerly skipper 
of the Gloucester fisherman Tartar and Francis 
J. O’Hara, Jr. Mr. Lloyd intends to start from 
New York on an extended Southern cruise 
through the West Indies and to South America, 
returning next spring for the summer’s racing 
and cruising in local waters. The boat will also 
be entered in the race to Bermuda if one is held. 
The race for sailing craft to Bermuda will 
next year be started from Boston and will be 
under the management of the Boston Y. C. It 
is planned to send the yachts off on Saturday, 
June 3, from off Rowe’s wharf where the town 
house of the Boston club stands. It is thought 
that by starting from Boston some more interest 
will be taken. It is announced that two yachts 
have already been entered, PI. S. Vanderbilt’s 
Vagrant, winner of the last race, and George S. 
Runk’s Margaret, winner in 1909. Seneca, 
owned by Demarest Lloyd, who last summer 
sailed Shiyessa, will also be a starter. The race 
comes early in the season and owners have lots 
of time yet to make preparations, so that there 
should be a fine fleet of starters. 
At the annual meeting of the Michigan Yacht 
Racing Association last’ week, Macatawa Bay 
was selected as the place, and Aug. 5 as the date 
of the annual regatta. 
For several hours the delegates argued over 
minor changes in the by-laws of the associa¬ 
tion, and not until after a motion to adjourn 
had been made did the delegates get down to 
real work and clear the docket of its burden. 
The strongest fight was made for a change 
that would bar professional sailors from all 
races, but it was finally decided to allow owners 
to pick whatever crew they desired when their 
boats were in any race. 
The schedule for the races to .be held next 
year was left to the schedule committee, with 
instructions to make its report at an early date. 
The officers elected were as follows: Presi¬ 
dent. A. Sheldon Clarke, Chicago Y. C.; First 
Vice-President, John Rice, Milwaukee Y. C.; 
Second Vice-President, A. A. Bennett, Jackson 
Park Y. C.; Secretary, Charles Scates, Maca¬ 
tawa Y. C.; Treasurer, F. D. Porter, Columbia 
Y. C. Delegates to yacht racing convention in 
1911, Dr. Bayard Holmes, Jackson Park Y. C.; 
O. C. Schornwerk, Columbia Y. C., and F. A. 
Price, Chicago Y. C. 
The Taunton Y. C. at its annual meeting last 
week elected the following officers: Commo¬ 
dore, Joseph S. Wiliams; Vice Commodore, 
Lewis M. Witherell; Rear Commodore, Samuel 
G. Wilkes; Treasurer, Frederick E. Goff; Sec¬ 
retary, Alton H. Ryder; Regatta Committee. 
.Clinton V. Sanders, Frederick E. Goff, Arnold 
T. Dean, Otis C. Chace, Clarence C. Robbins. 
Sailing in Winter Storms. 
Channing Williams, a member of the Boston 
Y. C., is one of the most enthusiastic yachtsmen 
on this coast. He prefers to sail his yacht in 
winter, when there is some weight to the wind, 
rather than drift about idly on a smooth sum¬ 
mer sea. According to the Boston Globe his 
yacht. Aimee, is built on the, fishing sloop model 
and is a husky little packet with a snug rig. 
She is as different from the run of yachts as 
her owner is different from the run of yachts¬ 
men. There is a’so a difference in the matter 
of crew, for Williams carries a gentleman of 
color before the mast, whereas in most yachts 
the blond is the favorite type of sailor. 
When Mr. Williams and his sable servitor get 
the sails of Aimee up, and the anchor on the 
bow. it is usually blowing a strong breeze. They 
do not care to sail in light weather. Further¬ 
more they have a weakness for sailing in the 
night. This may be explained in part by Mr. 
William’s love of sailing alone. When it is dark 
he cannot see the ebony countenance of his crew 
and therefore he feels himself to be alone. 
Every little while the comfortable brethren who 
keep the chairs warm behind the big observa¬ 
tion window at the Row'es wharf house of the 
Boston Y. C. hear something new about Wil¬ 
liams. Pie has been out in a blow or something 
like that, the account of which makes the chair 
behind the glass abeam of the radiator and near 
the push button seem a very cheery place, in¬ 
deed. 
This week there has been a new story about 
Williams. He had had a midnight sail that 
makes Paul Revere’s ride look like a stroll in 
a rose garden on a June morning. The sail 
began in the small hours of last Saturday night 
—or Sunday morning—and ended in the gray 
dawn. The starting place was Marblehead; the 
hour was about 1 :as. Wind northwest and blow¬ 
ing great guns. Ice making. Stars twinkling 
like the sparks from a 90 horsepower generator. 
At 2 o’clock Aimee began to dip to the swell 
off the light. With started sheets she hustled 
down to Thinkers Island and was then laid on 
her course past the Graves light. She had the 
who'e bay to herself. Nobody else wanted it at 
that hour. 
When Lone - Island light had been picked up 
she was headed up a bit. and with sheets flat¬ 
tened. laid for the mouth of Boston Harbor. 
Here the wind headed her, and Williams found 
himself in for a long, hard beat up the harbor 
with a head tide. He stuck to it like a book 
agent to a bright chance for an order and ar¬ 
rived off the landing at South Boston at 6. It 
was not a fast passage, but a powerful cold one, 
for the black hull of the sloop was white with 
ice when she came to anchor. After coffee and 
breakfast, Williams turned in for a snooze, well 
pleased with his sail. Aimee is still in commis¬ 
sion. 
International Cup for the Lakes. 
The trouble over the Canada cup may be 
cleared away soon through the offer of the 
Chicago Y. C. to offer a trophy to be known as 
the International trophy,’ and which is to be put 
in competition through the Yacht Racing Union 
of the Great Lakes. 
The present plans are only tentative, however, 
and the proposition will be abandoned entirely 
if the squabble over the Canada cup, now held 
by the Rochester Y. C., is settled. The local 
organization is already willing to build a yacht 
or yachts 'of the class to defend the cup. 
Commodore S. L. Richardson, of the Toledo 
Y. C., has also made an offer to donate a simi¬ 
lar cup to take the p ace of the trophy now in 
dispute, so a new trophy is assured either from 
Chicago or the Maumee metropolis. 
The present mixup over the cup is the out¬ 
growth of the Canadian clubs’ persistent chal¬ 
lenging for the trophy, their insistence upon the 
deed of gift being lived up to, and the inability 
of the present holders to fill the demands of the 
challengers. 
The Canada cup was donated in 1897. It was 
won by Canada and at once made an Interna¬ 
tional challenge trophy and named for the first 
yacht that won. After Seneca had won the cup 
for Rochester, she was sold to A. G. Hanan, 
who brought her to the coast. When the Cana¬ 
dians challenged again, the Rochester men had 
Seneca taken back to the lakes. The Canadians 
protested against this, arguing that when a boat 
leaves fresh water she is ineligible to return and 
compete for the trophy. The chief trouble, how¬ 
ever was that after Seneca had won, the rules 
of measurement were changed and scantling re¬ 
strictions adopted. These, however, did not ap¬ 
ply to boats already built, and so Seneca was 
exempt from the penalties under the new rules, 
but the new challenger would have to be built 
to conform to the new rules and would be at a 
serious disadvantage. 
The squabble began when Seneca was ready 
to race. It had been agreed that the lines of 
the challenger and defender should be submitted 
to the committees of the two clubs. Seneca is 
a Herresh’off boat and Herreshoff will never give 
the lines of any of his yachts, so the Rochester 
men were unable to fill their part of the agree¬ 
ment. and it looked as if they would have to 
forfeit the cup. The Canadians, however, in a 
very sportsmanlike way agreed to waive this 
agreement and the two boats were weighed to 
see if they properly fitted the class. Seneca was 
out of the class, but some slight alterations 
remedied this error. 
New York C. C. 
The annual meeting of the New York Canoe 
Club was held at the Hotel Astor on Thursday 
evening, Dec. 8. and the following ticket was 
elected for the ensuing year: Commodore, L. 
M. Pulz; Captain, C. V. Schuyler; Treasurer, 
H. M. Humphryes; Secretary, J. Braden; Trus¬ 
tee to serve for three years, H. B. Hill; Trustee 
to serve for two years, to take the place of L. 
M. Pulz. D. D Allerton; Trustee of Sinking 
Fund to serve for two years, B. V. R. Speidel; 
Auditing Committee, H. Elliott, H. A. Fales. 
