'A Day of Trials and Joys: Wor-tying Morning Followed by a Glorious Afternoon 'The crews of 16 of the Shanghai' Yacht Club's boats had occasion jon Sunday to be well satisfied with the reazon—whatever it was—that first sent them sailing, for the afternoon, at least, was the sort to pi real life into' a man. It was an important day, for both sections were sailing for the first leg on the Challenge Cups of their respective classes. There were ten of the big boats out and six of the Byrne boats. The Spectre, who was the only, absentee of the Byrne boats, crossed the line some ten minutes after the start and followed the same course, but stopped chort of the finish of the first half, At the start there was a moderate breeze from southeast, but this almost died away before the Junk Channel was reached and thereafter became more faint with every mile, though freshening over the last two miles up to the halt at the first measured mile post la Seven Mile terribly fatiguing journey, especially for the skippers of the Byrne boats, most of whom prefer to handle both mainsheet and tiller.
Gnome's Sensational Performance The Tweetie, who is all but unconquerable this season, simply romped away in her class, finishing over 9 half-hour ahead of the Rover, who Was closely followed by the Ella and Skootsum. The sensation of the race up was the performance Gnome, who, despite the fact that the Byrne boats started ten minutes after the miscellaneous class, gaily overhauled and sailed past' such formidable racers as the Violet, the Viking and the Oistos and finished barely 1) min, behind the Skoo and 20 min, alead of the Pixi way her nearest rival.
of the slower bouts were 80] sting the first half of he Tong journey barely dropped anchor before the Vice-Commodore wag compelled to give the signal for the return race, an fearing that there might not be sufficient wind to enable the fleet to reach home moorings. Ie sent the' two classes off together to save time, and they made a beautiful picture, {for a fine breeze suddenly sprang and they were tearing about the wide stretch like a kennel of whip pets. Tais time it was the Pixie, With the Vice-Commodore ut the! tiller, who created a sensation and all bit shared the honours previourly won by the Wraith and Gnome for Teading the whole feet home.
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