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Port Washington One Design Class. 
| For their size and cost, the Port Washington 
ne-design class are remarkable little boats. Ten 
f them were built in the spring of 1907 by E. 
erry Emmons, Swampscott, Mass., for mem- 
fers of the Manhassett Bay Y. C. from designs 
ty C. D. Mower. 
| They turned out to be such a good invest- 
ent, costing less than $250 complete, that other 
ilubs are considering the advisability of adopt- 
ing the same model. In fact, eight of them have 
teen built and are in use on Lake Sunapee, New 
‘lampshire. Their spars are solid, standing rig- 
ling wire, brass blocks and fittings with sails 
laade by Carpenter & Co., Chicago. They have 
janvas covered decks which is far preferable to 
iny other on a small boat. 
That they are speedy has recently been proven 
{a match races between Manhasset Bay bugs 
ind one-design dories, also in the recent races 
vith the new New Rochelle one-design boats. 
| Mr, R. Dusinberre’s boat, Cow Baby, has won 
ihe honors for speed among themselves. Each 
joat carries a crew of three men, but no ballast. 
1 The Bay Side and Knickerbocker yacht clubs 
lave these boats under consideration for some 
if their members with the idea of having inter- 
lub regattas. The dimensions of Cow Baby_and 
Jer sisters are: 


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atin our Sern ete En (ore thn oles sete yaretale oe 17.5 
Tue following is the record for eighteen club 
races for the season of 1907: 
‘ Points. 
Cow Baby, R. E. Dusinberre, Championship....... 3 
Axe CET VCE SEOONC Mais a scch meee caine ou ube binwaee 23 
Viva, Trench and Gray, third... 
Trix, Chas. F. Lewis, fourth.... 

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In the Saturday afternoon series of seven 
races Cow Baby, R. E. Dusinberre, won the 
championship, taking five firsts and two thirds, 
with 17 points to his credit. C. M. Prankard’s 
No. 8 was second, with 8 points. C, E. Hyde’s 
Zip was third, with 6 points. 
On Sept. 28 a team match of three races was 
sailed between two Port Washington one- 
design boats, two of the Manhasset Bay clipper 
dories and two of the Manhasset bug class. 
Cow Baby took two firsts and a second, and Zip 
one first and one third. This gave the Port 
Washington boats the series with 30 points. 
The bugs scored only 19, and the dories 8 points. 
These races were sailed in a strong N. W. 
wind and the superiority of the Port Wash- 
ington boats was most marked in the wind- 
ward work. 
In the series arranged with the New Rochelle 
one-design class the Port Washington boats 
again won, and in each event all of the Port 
Washington boats finished ahead of the New 
Rochelle boats. The Port Washington boats 
scored 56 points against 22 for the New Ro- 
chelle boats, and Trix, owned by Mr. C. F. 
Lewis, won the cup which was offered by the 
New Rochelle Y. C. for the match. 
Club House Burns. 
Tue Hudson River Boat Club, at One Hun- 
dred and Twenty-sevénth street and North 
River, was destroyed by fire Oct. 30 at mid- 
night, together with scores of rowboats, 
launches and racing shells and records of the 
club dating back thirty years. One of the shells 
destroyed was presented to the club on the oc- 
casion of its crew winning a race at the Phila- 
delphia Centennial, and was highly prized. 
John Degnnelly, a corporation inspector, a 
member of the club, discovered the fire. No one 
was about the club house at the time. He 
smashed in a door and tried to enter to save 
the records, which he knew to be valuable, but 
he was driven back by the smoke. 
The fire spread throughout the building and 
menaced a line of loaded freight cars standing 
nearby. The firemen gave their attention to the 
freight cars, seeing that the club house was 
doomed. Switch engines were rushed to the 
scene and all of the cars were saved, though 
several received a scorching. 
The firemen had great trouble in getting to 
the burning’ club house. Between them and the 
river front were hundreds of freight cars, which 
blocked the way to the engines. The firemen 
crawled under the cars, but were helpless. Then 
a call was sent in for the fire boat George B. 
McClellan, which undoubtedly saved many of 
the freight cars from being destroyed. 
Great crowds watched the fire from River- 
side Park and the Manhattanville viaduct. It 
burned brilliantly for an hour. The club house 
was valued at $20,000. 

Scud II. Scuds Away. 
THE Standard Oil Co. may have a law suit on 
their hands if they don’t return the “Scud IL.,” 
a 21ft. sailing skiff, owned by Mr.,Fred Goeller, 
Jr., dtaughtsman for Mr. C. D. Mower. 
Fred’s boat is kept moored off Port Morris, 
and in the heavy winds that blew on Oct. 30, 
the 21ft. clipper hove up her own anchor and 
went off on an independent cruise about noon 
time. 
A man put out in pursuit of her, but before 
he could reach her, she tried to sink one of a 
tow of three oil barges bound east behind an 
ocean-going tug. The barge’s crew lassoed 
the runaway and in a jiffy had her stowed on 
deck. Fred is now trying to find some means 
of getting her back. 

The Handicap Class. 
Tue handicap class has proved so successful 
in its racing on Long Island Sound that other 
yacht clubs are now considering the advisability 
of entering into some such a scheme in order to 
increase the interest among owners of old boats. 
The pace in the regular classes has become so 
swift that unless a man built a new boat every 
year he was soon a back number. 
The handicap class takes all the old has-beens 
and by a system of handicaps gives all these 
old boats an even chance for a prize. The 
popularity of such an idea has now been amply 
proven, and every year the ranks swell. 

Two new 44ft. launches for the New York 
Police Department, from designs by Horace See, 
are to be built by the Seabury Co. 

COW 
BABY, 

