' May 5, 1916. 
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YACHTING, GOLF, TENNIS 
AND OTHER SPORTS 
Along the NORTH SHORE 
Samer 
YACHTING is to play a most im- 
portant part in the life of the 
North Shore this season. The New 
York Times says of yachting: 
“Even with the America’s Cup de- 
fenders Resolute and Vanitie definite- 
ly out of commission for the season 
and the challenger, Shamrock IV, 
boxed up in a dock at Brooklyn 
awaiting the end of the European 
war, thus eliminating the fleetest of 
the ‘wind-jammers’ from the sport, 
yacht racing this season promises to 
be the best ever known in this coun- 
try. 
‘*The fact that every sailing yacht 
fit for racing or cruising is to be put 
in commission this month; that a half 
dozen new classes of one-design boats 
have been built by members of diff- 
erent yacht clubs, that yacht brokers 
are being besieged by would-be-own- 
ers who have been disappointed in 
being able to build boats and now 
wish to charter, is the best evidence 
of the unusual interest to be taken in 
the sport this season,’ said James W. 
Alker, President of the Yacht Racing 
Association of Long Island Sound, 
member of the New York Yacht club, 
and one of the most enthusiastic of 
amateur sailors. ‘To me it looks like 
the best year we have ever had in 
sailing-yacht racing, for the interest 
in the sport is more widespread than 
I ever knew it, and my experience 
covers more years than I care to talk 
much about.’ 
“Mr. Alker voices the sentiment of 
yachtsmen generally, none of whom 
are the least pessimistic over the pros- 
pects. Zest will be given to the sport 
in the New York club, the premier 
club of the country, by the appear- 
ance of a new class of twelve forty- 
footers, which will take precedence 
over the fifty-footers which have 
furnished such excellent sport during 
the past three seasons, and the thirty- 
footers, which in the ten years of 
their existence have furnished some 
thrilling finishes and the best of ex- 
perience for the amateurs who stood 
at the tillers. But eight of the origi- 
nal dozen of this latter class remain 
in the ownership of members of the 
New York club, and it is expected 
that at least six of these will be at 
the races this season. Of the big 
fifties a half dozen will be in commis- 
sion as last season, and among them 
a repetition of the beautiful aquatic 
pictures limned at their starts and 
their rattling finishes of the past sea- 
sons are certainties.” 
From the activities in the Manches- 
ter boatyard of Walter B. Calderwood 
it would appear that the North Shore 
is to come in ‘for its full share of 
yachting this summer. The many 
yachts stored in the yards for the 
winter are beginning to shed their 
coverings of canvas preparatory to 
the springtime scrubbing and painting. 
Keels have been laid for Richard F. 
Hoyt’s new 21-footer of the extreme 
racing type and for the “Pam” the 
trim little craft which will go to Lake 
Erie when completed and tested. The 
latter is the property of Commodore 
H. A. Parsons of the Cleveland Yacht 
club and was designed by John G. 
Alden, the Boston naval architect. 
At one side of the main shed in the 
yards workmen are busy on the big 
barge being built for Boston parties 
from the designs of Swasey, Ray- 
mond & Page, Inc., of Boston. This 
ponderous craft is 80 feet long and 
20 feet wide and will be propelled by 
immense sweeps. The lines of the 
boat are “scowlike,” but*when com- 
pleted and ornamented it will present 
an elegant appearance. It will be 
used in a big pageant in Boston the 
coming summer. A number of small 
craft is being overhauled in the yards 
and the ways at one end of the main 
shed hold completed power craft 
awaiting the order of launching. 
GTEEPLECHASING is is being re- 
vived with unmistakable interest 
and enthusiasm. In discussing the 
subject, Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., one 
of the most prominent amatuer riders 
in the country and chairman of the 
Board of Race Stewards of the 
Brookline Country club, said: ‘‘Those 
who have followed the sport for any 
considerable time have, with few ex- 
ceptions, ‘been satisfied with a 
thoroughbred or well-bred Virginia 
hunter, with an extra turn of speed, 
or a more or less discarded flat racer, 
with a little extra size and bone, that 
has been taught to jump. Such horses 
have almost entirely constituted the 
steeplechasing stables of this country, 
and not the ‘chasers,’ bred for the 
purpose. 
“The fact that a great many of tie 
best-blooded chasers in Europe have 
been bought by Americans during the 
last year is the beginning of an era in 
Lreeding in the United States which 
will ultimately make this the greatest 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 17 
s:eeplechasing country in the world. 
It is such men as Thomas Hitchcock, 
Henry W. Bull, Joseph E. Widener, 
and J. Temple Gwathmey, who will 
bring this about. They are the most 
prominent supporters of the present 
steeplechase movement. 
“T have never before noted such en- _ 
thusiasm over this sport, and I will 
be keenly disappointed if the meeting 
over the Clyde Park course on June 
15 and 17 does not result in some 
wonderful racing.’ 
HE Essex County club at Manches- 
» ter is to be the scene of two im- 
portant golfing events next month, 
and possibly other events of import- 
ance later in the season. The Wom- 
en’s Eastern Championship will be 
played at Manchester on Noe 
Tuesday and Wednesday, June 5, 6 
and 7; and on Thursday, Friday and 
Saturday, June 8, 9 and to, the Gris- 
com Cup Competition (for women) 
will be played here. These are two 
of the biggest events of the season in 
the golfing world. Players from all 
parts of the eastern section of the 
country will be on hand and the event 
is sure to occasion much social activ- 
ity. 
MANCHESTER BASEBALL. 
The minstrel show tonight, for the 
benefit of the Manchester baseball 
team will be a starter of interest in 
the team for the coming season. It is 
hoped that the show will be well 
patronized. ‘The team this year, it is 
hoped, will be a top-notcher. In ad- 
dition to the nucleus of the team an- 
nounced in the BrreEzE recently there 
have been no certain additions, al- 
though Manager Fritz is negotiating 
with prospective players. The open- 
ing game will be played on Memorial 
Day in Manchester when the team of 
the United Shoe machinery will be 
taken on. The game will be a fore- 
noon affair and should bring out a 
good crowd. 
The field was being put in condition 
this week by the addition of fresh 
loom on the diamond, filling up the 
depressions and making it smooth. A 
few more days of dry weather and 
the grounds will be in fine condition. 
A colored woman beat Mrs. Twic- 
kembury in this: She was telling her 
qualifications as a lady’s maid, and 
said she had kept house. “Then I 
suppose you can cook, too?” “Indeed 
I can, yes’m; and if you'll try me 
cooking, you'll find it palatial.’”—Eyv- 
change. 
America’s most valuable crop is 
babies. 
