Of the eight boats entered for the race on Saturday afternoon, under the auspio of the Shanghai Sailing Duty seven cruised opposite the Public Garden at the time of starting, two o'clock. There was then a fresh S.E, breeze, and the tide was the first quarter of the ebb, but the sky was cloudy and it threatened to hi wet afternoon, The start was from a line from the Police Hulk to the Pootung Church spire, and the course was down the river to a stake-boat moored in the junk channel off the Middle Ground. The Arrow and Gemini started scratch; the Phantom and Fearless had an allowance of fifteen minutes; the Falke and Marion twenty-five minutes, and the Winifred forty minutes. 'The absentee was the Charm, which, if she had put in an appearance, would' have raced on the same terms as the Arrowand Gemini. The yachts crossed the starting line in the following order, according to the official time-keeper on board the Police Hulk exception of the Arrow, which had in one reef. A long leg was made on the starboard tack, the Falke, Marion and Fearless lying close to the wind making a weatherly course, while the Arrow and Gemini,
At Gibbs' Wharf the leading boats tacked, keeping fall, soon obtained " long lead. and the others followed suit. The Arrow was then ahead, with the Gemini a good second. Going about again on the Pootung shore, the Arrow shook out her reef and considerably increased her lead; the other boats, with the exception of the Gemini, being distanced. Approaching the Point they eased off sheets, act jibs, and. squared
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