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RULE 7. 
Sails. Yachts contending for prizes may carry sails as follows: 
Schooners. Mainsail, fore staysail, jib, flying jib, jib topsail, fore and 
main gaff topsails and main topmast staysail. 
RULE 10. 
Objections.—If ony objection be made with regard to the classification 
or sailing of any yacht ina race, such objection must be made in writing 
to the Regatta Committee before three o’clock P. M. on the next day after 
the regatta. 
RULE 13. 
Souuding.—Nothing _but a hand lead and line to be used in sounding 
during a regatta. 
RULE 14. 
Touching Buoys, &c.—A yacht touching any mark, boat or buoy used 
to mark out the course shall forfeit all claim to the prize, unless as in case 
specified in rule number nineteen. 
RULE 16. 
Floors and Bulkheads.—Al\ yachts, during a regatta, to keep the floors 
down and bulkheads standing. No starting or taking in water or ballast 
permitted withing forty-eight hours of the time named for starting, nor 
any trimming by dead weight allowed. 
RULE 18. 
Courses.—Any yacht bearing away or altering her course to leeward, 
and thereby compelling another yacht to bear away to avoid a collision, 
shall forfeit all claim’to the prize and pay all damages that may ensue, 
unless when two yachts are approaching the windward shore, a buoy or 
stakeboat together, with a free wind, and soclose to each other that the 
weathermost cannot bear away clear of the leewardmost, and by stand- 
ing further on would be in danger of running on shore or touching a buoy 
or stakeboat, then suchleewardmost yacht, on being requested to bear 
away, is immediately to comply, and Will forfeit all claim to the prize for 
not doing so. The weathermost yacht must, however, bear away as soon 
as the one she hails, if she can do so without coming into contact. Sf=38 
RULE 19, 
Rounding Buoys.—When rounding a mark, boat or buoy, the yacht 
nearest thereto is to be considered the headmost yacht; and should any 
other yacht in the race compel the yacht which is nearest to any mark, 
boat or buoy to touch said mark, boat or buoy, the yacht so compelling 
her shall forfeit all claim to the prize, her owner shall pay for all damages 
that may occur, and the yacht so compelled to touch a mark, boat or buoy 
shall not suffer any penalty for such contact. 
RULE 20. 
Cow'ses.—Yachts going free must invariably give way for those by the 
wind on either tack. 
RULE 21. 
Courses.—When two yachts (by the wind) are approaching the shore, a 
buoy or stake boat together, and so close to each other that the leeward- 
most cannot tack clear of the weathermost, and by standing further on 
would be in danger of running on shore, or touching a buoy or stake boat, 
such weathermost yacht, on being requested to put about, is immediately 
to comply, and will forfeit all claim to a prize for not doing so. The 
leewardmost yacht must, however, tack at the same time as the one she 
hails, if she can do so without coming into contact. 
RULE 23. 
Ruling of Regatta Committee—The Regatta Committee shall have 
full power to decide all questions that may arise in the sailing of the Re- 
gatta, and also to exclude all yachts which, by their decision, have viola- 
ted any rule of the Club, There shall be no appeal from the decision of 
this Committee. 
FLETCHER WESTRAY, | 
WILLIAM KREBS Regatta 
EDWARD E. CHASE, Committee. 
CHARLES A. MINTON. | 
—The annual fall regatta of the Yale College Boat 
Clubs will take place next week. There will bea single 
scull race on the 15th, for the Southworth cup, valued at 
$300, and ashell and barge race on Saturday, the 18th. The 
following are the entries for the single scull race: Messrs. 
Bussing, class of °74; Martin, 75; Wilcox, ’74; De Forest, 
76; Cook, °76; Sufferns, ’75. 
—The fall regatta at Buffalo has fallen through. But a match 
has been made between the representative crews of the 
Hibernian Rowing Club, and the Black Rock Rowing Club, 
to row a four mile race for $200 a side. The race to take 
place Saturday, October 11th, in Black Rock Harbor. The 
Hibernian crew will be as usual, viz.: Cornelius Dono- 
van, stroke; Patrick Hurley, number three; William Jones, 
number two; James Nunan, bow. The Black Rock crew 
will be as follows: George Raymond, stroke; Benjamin 
Pfeiffer, number three; Edward Powers, number two; and 
Joseph Raymond, bow. .The crews will start from the In- 
ternational bridge at Black Rock, rowing two miles to a 
stake boat and return. 
—The Yacht Eotlen, owned by Commodore Ashbury, 
who it will be remembered was in this country some time 
ago, was fired into by the Carlists, on October 4th, while in 
the port of Bilboa, Spain, and narrowly escaped destruc- 
tion. 
—The New York Rowing Club will hold asculler’s race- 
for the Leland medal, on Saturday, October 8th. Ru- 
dolph Shack and Frank Ellison are the competitors. 
—The Argonauta and Neptune clubs will row their an- 
nual four-oared race for the championship of the Kills, on 
October 15th. The Neptune crew will be: Frank Bacon, 
bow; Joseph McMurray, number two; Nathan F. Barret, 
number three; Charles De Kay, stroke. Argonauta: Ed- 
ward Smith, bow; Walter Man, Benjamin Stephenson, 
Frederick OC, Eldred, stroke. 
—The single scull- race between the champion George 
Lowe, of the Dundee club, and E. B. Atterbury, of the H. 
M. A. Club took place on Dundee Lake, Patterson, New 
Jersey, on October the 3d. The course was about one and 
five-eighth miles, and the prize a three hundred dollar set 
of silver presented by D. B. Grant. There wasa foul and 
the judges decided no race. The excitement was intense. 
—At a meeting of the National Convention of Amateur 
Oarsmen, held at Philadelphia, October 6th, there were 
forty-five delegates present, representing twenty-four clubs 
chiefly from the Middle States. Mr. A. F. Dexter, of Ber- 
gen Point, N. J., was elected president. Several attempts 
were made on the part of the delegates to alter the wording 
of the definition adopted last year of what constitutes an 
amateur oarsman. The amendments were all voted down, 
and the standing definition was declared satisfactory. 
WASHINGTON, October 2. 
EprTor or Formst AnD STREAM:— 
The Potomac was gay last week with thousands who 
witnessed the struggle between the Nassau Club of New 
York, and the Analostans of this city. The race excited 
Iuch interest from the fact that nearly all the members of 
the Analostans are young men of goo social position and 
great favorites in society, and a pull up the river of asum- 
mer evening, seated in the cushioned stern of their eight- 
oared barge, was a pleasure looked forward to by our 
young lady friends, as the compensating feature of a lt 
season in the city. And how those Analostanscould go and 
get beaten, when such lots of pretty girls were praying in 
their behalf, is more than I can comprehend. 
The fours were equally provided in the shell line; both 
shells were of cedar, built by Elliot of New York, and 
almost identical in lines and weight. The Nassau crew 
were somewhat the heavier, and this weight it must have 
been that told, for the losing boat made excellent time, 
and there was not a flaw, only the other got over the 
ground ina little the shortest time. The Nassau’s crew 
were, Johnson, stroke, 157 pounds; Montgomery, num- 
ber three, 168 pounds; Walker, number two, 155 pounds; 
Brown, bow .and captain, 145 pounds. Average, 1553 
pounds. The Analostans, Gurley, stroke, 150 pounds; Up- 
perman, number three, 165 pounds; Prescott, number two, 
140 ;ounds; Brown, bow and captain, 140 pounds. Aver- 
age, 148} pounds. Both crews showed evidence of care- 
ful training, and their trainers, John Blew for the Analos- 
tans, and Englehardt a pupil of Biglin, for the New York- 
ers, had no cause to be dissatisfied. The day was fine, and 
the water smooth. The course, from a point opposite 
Table Rock, (on the Virginia side), straight away down 
the river three miles, to a point opposite Easby’s wharf. 
The word ‘‘go” was given by the referee, Mr. Otterman, 
at four thirty P. M., and they started, but Gurley of the 
Analostans slipped his sliding seat, and made signal for a 
recall, ere a half dozen strokes had been taken. They 
were recalled, and again sent off, with the Nassaus 
slightly in advance, which lead they managed to keep 
throughout the race. The race was a good one, the in- 
terval between the boats closing and growing several times. 
The Analostans pulled a rapid stroke, forty-two to a min- 
ute, spurting up to forty-five, while the Nassau’s superior 
weight caused their forty strokes to the minute to do the 
same amount of work, and theline was crossed by them 
in sixteen minutes thirty-nine seconds, the Analostans 
being fourteen and one-fourth seconds later. 
A single scull race between Clark of the Analostans, and 
Truax of the Potomacs followed. This race was not of 
much interest; soon after starting Clark fouled a bouy 
and lost his seat, but very pluckily continued pulling, and 
made three miles, seated on two sharp iron grooves, in 
lieu of his proper seat, and in addition to theloss of pur- 
chase, was subjected to much physical suffering. Of course 
he had no chance after the accident, and came in some two 
or three minutes after his opponent. To all intent and 
purposes the race was no race, and’ the question of the 
comparative skill and ability of the two men is as far from 
settlement as ever. PIsECO. 
Sea and River Sishing. 
FISH IN SEASON IN OCTOBER. 
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Coast FisH. LAKES, 
Bluefish, Skipjack, Horse Mackerel, Black Bass, (Mic) opterus nig 
(Temnodon  saltator.) and archigan.) (two species. 
Spanish Mackerel,(Cero maculatum.) Pickerel, (Hsox reticulatus.) 
W gta Squetaug (Trout) Otoli- Pike perch,(Lucioperca Americana.) 
Us. 
BAYS AND EsTUARIES. 
Striped Bass, Rockfish. (Labrax laneatus.) 
—The New Haven Journal says that all fishermen have 
remarked that bluefish have never been so abundant along 
the whole New England coast as at this season. Informa- 
tion of the presence of immense schools come to us from 
all sides, and handsome strokes of luck in catching them 
are reported daily. One of the latest big stories from out 
of town, is of the day’s work of Captain Sam Peck, of 
Stratford, who took 900 by trolling last week. But our 
credulity is stretched to the utmost by the reports that 
reached us of thenumber of fish in New, Haven harbor on 
Friday. Anestimate is made, based on the number of 
schools in those waters, that not less than one hundred mil- 
lions of the shiny beauties crowded each other in the har- 
bor on that day. This immense number is attributed to 
the very large increase of white fish, on which the bluefish 
feed. All available fishing places are crowded, and thou- 
sands of fish are taken from the water every day, but still 
no diminution appears in the number of the arrivals. This 
extraordinary abundance seems to extend throughout the 
entire bluefish range, andthe run of fish, as we stated last 
week, isremarkably heavy, sometimes showing an average 
of sixteen pounds to a single fall. 
—We must accord the pennant for stripped bass of largest 
size and weight, for the past summer’s catching, to Mr. 
Wm. Peet, of Broadway. His largest one weighed seventy 
pounds, measuring four feet six inches ‘‘ over all,” 3 inches 
“hold,” and eight inches ‘‘beam.” He followed this up in 
succeeding days by catching, one day, eight fish, averaging 
over 50 pounds; sixteen averaging over 41} pounds, and 
twenty-one averaging over 37 pounds. He says the ‘“ big 
fish” did not give him much play, but was rather “logy.” 
He caught him with a Japanese rod, eight feet in length; 
this was on the 5th of July, off Southwest Point, near New 
York. 
The kingly fish was dined off of at the Dry Goods, or 
rather, Merchants’ club of this city, and doubtless many 
good fishing yarns were spun on the occasion. Mr. Peet is 
an enthusiastic knight of the rod, and as a natural sequence 
is a courteous and affable gentleman. May he have more 
of the same luck. Who can beat his record? 
—Mr. A. D. Vorce, of Farmington, Counecticut, bears 
unpleasant test:mony to the well authenticated fact that 
trout eat up each other He had an aquarium in his house, 
of large size, fed by a living stream of water, into which 
he once put forty-three trout, varying in size from two to 
eight ounces. Not many days elapsed before he discov- 
ered the big fish eating up the little fish, Over the aqua- 
tium was drawn a wire netting, and some of the small 
fishes when hard pressed would leap through the wire net- 
ting and fall upon the floor. In this manner nine of the 
number died. Ina few months none of the fish remained 
except the boss cannibal, which had nearly doubled in size, 
so well had he thrived on live trout diet. The same gen- 
tleman succeeded in transporting 1,500 trout from northern 
New York to his Farmington ponds, in a can without 
changing the wa‘er. Only two of the number died on the 
journey. 
PHILADELPHIA, October 3, 1873. 
Eprror Forrest AnD STREAM :— 
Possibly your proof-reader thought my statement in re- 
gard to catching sharks measuring from ten to twelve feet 
in length and weighing from five to six hundred pounds 
somewhat apocryphal, or 1 would not be made to say in- 
stead ‘‘a three foot shark weighing forty or fifty pounds.” 
Let me state a fact: Three years ago I captured ashark in 
Delaware Bay which measured over eleven feet in length, 
was nearly six feet in circumference in the largest part, and 
with a jaw eighteen inches across at the angle of the mouth. 
In the maw of this fish we found pieces of dead shark, beef 
bones, crabs, &c.. the aggregate weight of which, scale 
test, was sixty-eight pounds. The largest piece of dead 
shark measured thirty-one inches in length. 
It is not an unusual thing to take fish of the size above 
referred to. I have done it in scores of instances. 
Yours, truly, A. M. SPANGLER. 
An angling friend who despises eels, sends us the follow- 
ing device to get rid of their annoyance while fishing :— 
Eprtor or ForEst AND STREAM:—I do not know whether any of your 
sporting readers ever engage in fishing where interruptions by eels are 
frequent, or even occasional. If there are such, they need not be told 
that such interruptions are very annoying, being aggravated generally by 
the entanglings which are almost certain to follow, where there are no 
effective means at hand for the speedy despatchng of the unwelcomed 
intruders. My own experience in fishing for ‘‘catties’”’ in the Elk, and 
for perch at the mouth of the Sassafras rivers, as well as for certain 
kinds of salt water fish, was for along time so unpleasant that I put my 
wits to work a few month since to devise something that would enable 
me to summarily rid myself of these pests; and I flatter myself that I 
have succeeded. The accompanying rough sketch awill give you an idea 
of this new style of ‘‘eel killer,’ or “fool killer,”? as we have named it. 
The blade is made of stout saw steel, and in the broad part should be 
about two by two and a half inches. The teeth which should be slender 
and pointed, are five eighths of an inch in length. Ihave one made by a 
saw-maker’s apprentice in a few minutes, the teeth being punched out by 
one of the machines in use in the factory. The handle may be of a size 
and style to suit the taste or the creel of the fisherman, but should not be 
less than five inches in length. 
When an eel is taken, slip the thumb and fore-finger down the line until 
the eel’s head is reached, then placing one foot on the slippery rascal, 
insert the sharp teeth of the ‘eel killer’’ into his spine, just back of the 
head. The result is immediate death, and of course prompt relief found 
what two frequently is the cause of yexations delays. A. M.S. 
CINCINNATI, October 4th, 1873. 
Epitor ForEST AND STREAM:— 
I note the remark in your last regarding fly fishing for black bass in 
western waters, and would state that I have cast all kinds of artificial 
flies, from a well stocked book in both spring and fall, at Kelley’s 
Island, and in the spriug at Point au Pelee Island in Lake Erie, and have 
yet to see or learn of a fish rising to a fly of any kind at either place, al- 
though I doubt if a greater number or larger black bass can be caught 
anywhere in the season than at those places; or if caught that they will 
afford any more sport or prove more game. It is not uncommon to place 
one or two flies upon the leader and above the live bait generally used 
when still fishing, end in this manner when a school of bass is found it 
frequently hapens that two good fish are landed at a time; but my experi- 
ence has invariably been that the first fish hooked had taken the minnow 
and the other had seemingly run for the fly under the excitement (if the ex- 
pression may be allowed) caused by a vigorous fight upon the part of the 
already hooked. 
In this manner Mr. G. A. Ingersoll, of Cleveland, while still fishing at 
Kelley’s Island last week, hooked and landed with a light rod, three bass 
at once, aggregate weight ten and a half pounds, but as usual the largest 
fish was hooked first and had taken the minnow. 
Forty or fifty black bass, from one to four and a half pounds in weight, 
is an average day’s sport for one rod in the season at Kelley’s Island, where 
a good hotel, kept by Mr. C. C. Townley, isto be found. His charges 
are two dollars per day, and good boats and oarsmen can be had reason- 
ably. 
Tf any of your readers are able toinform me that the black bass of 
Lake Erie will rise for their flies, I would be glad to be advised of the 
modus operandi necessary to accomplish the fact. 
It has been a long time since the bass fishing was any better at the 
Islands of Lake Erie than it has been this fall. Kirpy. 
—The New Jersey Mirror (Mount Holly), says: “Our 
townsman, Joseph M. Hulme, has been indulging in a little 
fishing excursion on the Bay of Tuckerton, and on Tues- 
day of last week, with Captain Samuel Smith, of Mr. Pha- 
ro’s handsome yacht, caught 39 sheepshead in about three 
hours, the largest of which weighed about nine pounds. 
Captain Joseph Shores with his yacht, lying a few feet 
away, caught 26 of these prizes in the same time.” We 
have seldom heard of better success, and it is only those 
who are@nbred fishermen who can accomplish it. : 
—Information has just been received that Mr. Livingston 
Stone, who has under the auspices of the Fishery Commis- 
sion been superintending the breeding of salmon in the Me- 
Cloud river, California, will shortly start with one million 
salmon eggs to stock the eastern rivers. We learn that the 
Delaware and Susquehanna will comein for their share 
The Delaware, between Easton and the Water Gap, is al- 
ready growing salmon, which are to be seen any day at the 
mouths of some of the creeks there ranging from f 
seven inches in length. ; aa ae 
—Black Bass are being caught in small numbers in th 
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channel near the Navy Yard, AY aekantiade ag large ones, 
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