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Races at Jamestown. 
HE regatta committee of the Jamestown In- 
ternational Motor Boat Carnival held a meet- 
ing recently and announced a series of races for 
power boats for handsome prizes. Not only 
the winner, but all contestants will receive 
prizes, all others than the winner being pre- 
sented with suitable engraved pewter mugs as 
mementos of the event. 
The dates of the events are as follows: 
Sept. 4.—Reliability trials, six hours’ duration, 
for motor boats of all classes, in which con- 
tinuous progress, speed, condition after trial, 
economy of fuel, economy of lubricating oil, 
efficiency of reversing mechanism, ease of con- 
trol, ete., will be taken into consideration. 
Sept. 5—Long distance races for boats of 
all classes, in c the distance to be not 
less than 100 miles and not more,than 150 miles. 
Sept. 6.—Mile and kilometer speed trials for 
boats of all 
Sept. g and 10.—Series races with time al- 
lowance as per rating for cabin cruising boats 
and open high speed boats of all classes; also 
races for open high speed boats of all classes 
without time allowance, by classes, boat for boat. 
In the series races each boat will be awarded 
each day a point for each boat she defeats, plus 
one point f sailing the A boat that 

asses, 
classes. 

tor race. 
starts and does not finish will receive no point, 
but will be counted as a defeated boat in the 
award of points to those that finish. The award- 
ing of points each day will be made on the 
basis of the greatest number of boats starting 
in the class on any day of the series, it being 
assumed for the purpose of the competition that 
the number of starters is the same each, day. 
he winners therefore, in each will re- 
ceive the same number of points each day. 
The winners of the races will be the 
Oats in the several classes that have won the 
greatest number of points when the series is 
completed. Where four boats start there will 
e a second prize, and where seven boats start, a 
hird prize 
On the closing night of the race there will 
ec an illuminated and decorated naval pageant 
in which all the boats at Hampton Roads will 
ve asked to participate, and at the conclusion 
class, 
SEFIES 
of same a great display of pyrotechnics will be 
made specially prepared for the occasion by 
“Pain.” It is expected that this event will be 


ever witnessed on the waters of this 
or any other country. : 
1 the Motor Boat Club of 
leaving New York city on Aug. 20, 
greatest 
e cruises of 
America, 

and the American Power Boat Association, 
leaving New York city on Aug. 22, will have in 
their combined fleets some 50 boats, both of 
the cruises having for their terminating point 
the Jamestown Exposition. Those participating 
in either of the cruises will have ample time 
after arrival for visiting the Exposition and 
other points of interest before the start of the 
for the week of Sept. 4, and many of 
those taking part in the cruise will also par- 
ticipate in the racing events in which they are 
eligible. 
Entries for the respective events will close at 
noon on Saturday, Aug. 24. Those desirous of 
securing particulars, rules, entry blanks, etc., 
can secure the same by addressing or calling 
personally upon Mr. Hugh S. Gambel, Secre- 
t 
( 
Traces 
ary Jamestown International Motor Boat 
carnival Committee, 314 Madison avenue, New 
York city. 
lhe world’s famous motor boat, Dixie, owned 
by Commodore Edward J. Schroeder, of the 
Motor Boat Club of America, will be shipped 
immediately from London on the steamship 
Minnetonka, to arrive in America in time to 
compete in the motor boat races to be held at 
the Jamestown Exposition during the week of 
Sept. 4. For the first time in the history of 
the sport in this and other countries the Dixie 
has succeeded in winning the British Interna- 


tional trophy, which has heretofore been held 
ry England and France, and which is to the 
motor boat sport what the America’s Cup is 
t> yachting Unon arrival of the steamship at 
New York Dixie will be immediately placed on 
voard another steamer and shipped to the Ex- 
yOsition, where she will be tuned up and made 

FOREST AND STREAM. 

ready for the great motor boat race week and 
will endeavor to break all existing world’s 
records for speed. 

Greenwich, Conn., to Hampton Roads. 
JupcInGc from the entries the Indian Harbor Y 
C.’s ocean race to Jamestown will be a very 
successful affair. No less than eleven entries 
have been received so far and two more are 
A( ~ = - - 
expected. Nearly all the boats are schooners 
ranging in size from the large Invader, 136ft. 
over all, to the litthke Venona, 65ft. over all. The 
only craft not a schooner is the yawl Windward. 
This race, out around Montauk and down the 

TUNIPOO, 
Owned by C. A. Cooley. 
Photo by Jackson, Marblehead. 
coast, is about 400 miles long, starting off Green- 



wich, Conn., at 10:10 A. M., on Saturday, Sept. 
7. The entries are: 
L.O.A. L.W.L. Beam: Draft 
Endymion, Geo. Lauder.....135 103 24.4 \4 
Invader, R. A. Rainey.......136 95 25.6 bee hi! 
Ingomar, M. F. Plant........ 27 87 24.3 16.2 
Fleur de Lys, L. A. Stimson, 
M..De. eee eee 87 21.9 14 
Lasca, R. P. Doremus : 89.11 ke 10.3 
Seneca, G. Mercer, Jr....... 68 5 10 
Grampus, L. D. Armstrong.. S84 60 18 10.3 
Venona, R. Olyphant ........ 65.6 3.6 15 9.6 
Margaret, G. S. Runk........ 93 60 19 8.6 
Eclipse, LL. J. (Callanants.21) 85 62 19 12 
Windward, J. M. Goetchius. 93.3 64,2 19.5 10.6 
Possible entries: 
Loyal, J. J. Rollins, et al.... 79.9 61 19 7.6 
‘Ettistlhe, “RR. Boatiod: seccuee 150 110 28 14 
All schooners, except Windward, which is a yawl 
This race is open to yachts of all rigs over 

4oft. rating (including auxiliaries) and _ three 
cups have been offered. Commodare Rainey 
offers a $500 cup for first prize: WVice-Com- 
modore Stewart offers a $300 cup for second 
prize, and Rear-Commodore Hart offers a $to0 
cup for third prize. A special cup is offered for 
auxiliaries and a commemorative prize will be 
awarded to each yacht sailing the course. 

Tne American trio of sonder boats are now 
on their way to Bilboa, Spain, to see if they 
have any better juck with the Spaniards than 
they had with the Germans. 

[AuG. 31, 1907. 

Motor Boating to Jamestown. 
rom New York to Jamestown, Va., by way 
of the inland canals and bays, is a most enjoy- 
able kind of a trip, and lucky are the men who 
can find the time to make it. A fleet of motor 
boats from the American Power Boat Associa- 
tion of New York have recently made the run. 
Among those who went are Enmrrita, Marie, 
Zorayda, Katherine II., Rampant, Mylert and 
Teddo San. 

Indian Harbor Water Sports. 
On Monday, Sept. 2, the Indian Harbor Y. C. 
will hold high carnival upon the water. Yacht 
races will be sailed where ladies act as the 
helmsmen. The start will be at 2 P. M. Then 
there will be dinghy race for captains’ colors, 
canoe race, lady and gentleman doubles, blind- 
fold rowing race for boys, tub race, canoe 
obstacle race, fancy swimming, swimming race 
for boys, fancy diving, swimming race, man fish- 
ing—angler against swimmer, tilting in canoes, 
beginning at 4 P. M. 

Motor Boats at Larchmont. 
Tue Larchmont Y. C. will hold a series of 
races on Aug. 31 for the following classes of 
motor boats: 
RACING DIVISION. 
Class C—AII over 4oft. over all length, rac- 
ing in one class. 
Class D—Not over 4oft. and over 33ft. over 
all length. 
Class E—Not over 33ft. and over 26.25 ft. over 
all length. 
Class F.—Not over 26.25ft. over all 
racing in one class. 
CRUISING DIVISION, 
Class K—AIl over 4oft. over all length, rac- 
ing in one class. 
Class L.—All over 4oft. over all length and 
under, racing as one class. 
Entries must be made in writing and cigned 
by the owners or their representatives, and 
should be filed with the regatta committee at 
Larchmont not later than Thursday, Aug. 29, at 
8 o'clock in the evening. 
length, 


The Last of Schooner Atlanta. 
ATLANTA, the once famous schooner, built at 
City Island in 1873 for Mr. Waldorf Astor, and 
winner of several important yacht races in the 
70's, has been sold to a junk dealer to be broken 
up at Boothbay, Maine. 

Imp Wins at Oyster Bay. 
In a hard breeze in Oyster Bay, Imp proved 
her name appropriate by winning from six other 
15-footers. These boats are all alike, so it is 
largely due to the sailing and condition they 
are kept in who wins. Imp is owned by Mr. H, 
S. Landon. 

DESIGNER C, D. Mower is turning out plans 
for a class R racer for Mr. Donald Abbott, of 
Oyster Bay. She will be built this fall, She 
's the first new candidate in the class R, her 
dimensions being 21ft. waterline, 32ft. over all, 
7ft. beam, 5ft. 6in. draft and ssoft. sail. 
RRP 
MANCHESTER, the double bilge board and 
double rudder catboat, designed by C. D. Mower 
for Mayor Weaver, won the Swell cup, the 
emblem of supremacy in Barnegat Bay. 
RRR 
Mr Roy A. Rainey, of New York, has placed 
an order with Messrs. Scott & Co., of Greenock, 
Scotland, for a steam yacht of 1,400 tons to be 
built from American designs. 
rere 
THE New York Y. C. will sail its races for the 
autumn cups off Glen Cove on Sept. 5 over the 
regular Sound course for all classes of schooners 
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