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i9P ML ST. LOUIS REPRESENTED America-to -Spain YACHT RACE King Alfonso's Cup, the Prize for IVhich an International Armada Will Sweep Across the Atlantic Ocean Under Sail Alone. Charles Ii- v. ti (1 i who will be one of the crew in the Alfonso XIII race. Adams is one of the small number who still cling resolutely, even tenaciously, to the sail.

Though many times becalmed in Massachusetts Bay, it would. It seems, be rank heresy for him to deign to look at a motor boat. A little outboard motor could easily show him its sometime superiority over na Tg 'lS- imrw -r ittm. iff- mm ''m 3 Gerard B. Lambert's yacht, the Atlantic, formerly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt.

entries had been received, and one of the first ships among them was' the Atlantic. Mr. Lambert had but a short time before purchased it from Cornelius Vanderbilt. ture, but Adams prefers to be becalmed and wait until a breeze comes along to run him home. This skipper, whose preference stays true to the old days, neither drinks nor smokes.

ERE Is the biography of the Atlantic: She was built in New Ti Aloha, owned by Arthur Cur tin James of New York. yachtsnien ifare made 13 attempts to recover. Many American yachts made the trans-Atlantic trip after the America had gone before, but It was a little sloop from Boston, the Alice, sailed by Captain Arthur H. Clark, a famous clipper-ship commander, that proved the ocean could be crossed by a yacht in, racing trim. York in 1903 for Wilson Mar By a Member of the Pott-Ditpatch Sunday Magazine Staff HE Alice made her historic voy age in 1866, and her Journey was the inspiration for a match third by a schooner known as the Sea Call.

The Atlantic is the smallest of the trio of three-masted schooners entered In the July race. She is 185 feet over all. as compared with the 195-foot Guinevere and the 200-foot Dauntless. On of her contestants, the bark Aloha, measures 218 feet from stem to stern. But then she has her inferiors as to size, for she is larger than the brigantine Cressida, the schooners Speejacks and Zodiac, and the schooner which Senor J.

Echevarrieta, well-known Spanish yachtsman, has purchased in England, a schooner that once belonged to the last Kaiser. But to get to racing yachts in general. The Atlantic Ocean and racing yachts are acquaintances of considerable standing. The first time a yacht racer crossed the northern ocean was in 1851, when the yacht America sailed to England in cruising trim, and then, breaking out her racing canvas, won the cup which since has borne her name, a trophy which England's T. LOUIS, on occasion dubbed "the city surrounded by the United States," a slogan which, considering the amount of territory occupied by this land, certainly conjures up no shall.

Designed by William Gardner. She was made of steel, with three masts and an auxiliary steam engine. In 1904 she went to England and returned with two highly prized trophies, the Brenton's Reef and Cape May cups. In 1911 the Atlantic successfully defended the Cape May cup. But she was beaten for the Brenton Reef trophy by the Karina.

For the King of Spain's race the Atlantic has been rerigged. This work was done under the supervision of Frederick M. Hoyt, a New York designer, who was aboard her as a guest in her ocean race of 1905. She has been given three hollow steel spars, one of which was carried by the Resolute in the last America's Cup race, another by the sloop Vanitie and a But when the race is on and he is at the tiller, the gentleman can, it is said, exhibit a highly expressive vocabulary. Skipper Adams will -not be the only one of his particular unit in the race who is a veteran around whose head hang the glories of the past.

For his ship, the Atlantic, likewise has a history, and an enviable one. She won a title as an ocean-racing champion 23 years ago, establishing a trans-Atlantic yacht record from New York to Cowes which still stands. And. doing it, she won the then Emperor of Germany's cup. That cup, too, has a history, but a history not so pleasant as Skipper Adams' or the Atlantic's.

It was very lovely in design, it was three feet tall; surely it seemed to be of high intrinsic value, let alone the value of its symbolic significance. But, lo and behold, 13 years it Sixteen years passed. Then oauie the summer of 1886 and Mr. T. R.

Bush of the New York Yacht Club, proud possessor of the schooner vncht Coronet, so proud in his ownership that he flung a challenge 10 anyone who would take it for a rac over the Atlantic. His challenge, like Ashbury's, found a ready taker. He was Caldwell H. Coult, who had bought the old Dauntless, and the yachts were scheduled to sail away in March. The course this time lay from upper New York harbor to Roche's Point, Ireland, and Captain Samuels was again at the wheel of the Dauntless.

It was his third ocean race. But the old ship Dauntless, hero of two decades before, was not the stanch racer she once had been. The first night out she sprang a leak, and water had crept up to the salon floor before it was discovered. At the time she was about 100 miles east of Sandy Hook. But did "Bully" Samuels turn back? Not a bit of it.

He shortened sail a bit to relieve the strain on the hull, and for the next 15 days those aboard had reason to believe they had rumped most of the North Atlantic through the hull of the old ship. The Coronet won easily, making the crossing in 14 days, 33 hours and 30 minutes. But the Dauntless, leaky old ship that she was, carried off one claim to glory. She made the best day's run, doing J28 miles from noon to noon, with her crew pumping constantly. Before she reached port the drinking water had given out, so that for the last few days of the voyage all hands quenched their thirst on champagne.

between the two schooners Fleetwing and Ve3ta. The race was from New York to Cowes, the stake was $20,000. Then along came James Gordon Bennett with his schooner Henrietta; the stake was raised to $30,000, and they sailed away from New York harbor December 11. At the Henrietta's wheel was Captain Samuel "Bully" Samuels, a great sailor. It was apparent from the very beginning of the race that great sailors were needed.

Strong weather was their lot from the start, and in mid-At LI 1 1 was won, it was discovered not to be of silver, as everyone had good reason to believe, but instead it was of pewter. Its literal worth was about $35. The appearance of the Atlantic in the Spanish King's race marks the first time the Mississippi Valley has been represented in an International event for major yachts. In the "pewter cup race" of 1905, Chicago was represented by the three-master Utowana. lantic they were overtaken by a typical "snooter." The ships battled with the strength of the sea, and tragedy touched them.

Six men aboard the Henrietta they Included two men at her wheel ere swept over the side. But on Christmas Day the Henrietta sighted the Isle of Wight and a few hours later swept across the finish at the Needles. Her time was 13 days, 21 hours and 45 minutes. The other two next ocean race was that of 1905, the race for the pewter cun. The Atlantic, oi couibc I i ine TVe, It arou Play the heip.

o' at Miss Ladi P.i hc-T rout, V-nr m. ElIK fat! Hi, Oil Fi 01. h8, rid t'A Tin If! fweet thought of cool ocean breezes, nevertheless is to go down to the sea in a ship in July, the occasion being King Alfonso cup race for the yachting championship of the North Atlantic. The St. Louis yacht is a three-masted steel schooner, it is called the Atlantic, and it is owned by Gerard B.

Lambert of this city. It is said to have an excellent chance of carrying off the cup donated by the Spanish King. One of the reasons the Atlantic's chances seem so favorable is that its skipper will be Charles Francis Adams, and he is one of the outstanding figures in the race. Adams finds in racing a pleasant though sometimf-s stormy avocation during two months or so of vacation period. For the rest of his 12-month period each year he is occupied with the not too easy task of being treasurer of Harvard.

Besides, he holds other financial trusts which rumor tells us run up into the billions. ADAMS, the descendant of two Presidents, has been a sailor and a boat racer since he was a child. He was born on the shores of Massachusetts Bay and for more than 50 years he has handled tillers and wheels until his skill and judgment and ability, derived from hard experience in thousands of races, has become nearly the kind often referred to as uncanny. One of his most remarkable exploits was In 19 20. when, sailing the Resolute in the Lipton race, he defeated the Shamrock IV.

with the odds appearing tremendously against him. Much of this veteran's success, as he will himself tell you. has been due to preparedness. He is one of the very few yachtsmen at Marblehead wherr-he has done nearly all of his racing during the past 20 years who refuses to employ a paid hand in keeping his boat in condition or sailing her. For his crews he chooses keen, lively boys and girls.

His daughter, Catherine Adams, now Mrs. Henry S. Morgan, often has handled the Jibsheet and spinnaker on his yachts, and for the past five years hia iiuinsheet man has been his son. CharK Francis Adams 1 1 1 i I il Coune to be followed in the Spanish race. The dark line is the great circle or shorten course from New York to Santander, the dotted line, the one which the yachts probably will sail.

owned by Allison V. Armour. It finished ninth in a field of 11 starters, reaching the finish two days after the lantic which sails under Mr. same ENTRANTS IN THE SPANISH CUP RACES AND SOMETHING ABOUT THEM KING ALFONSO'S CUP RIC YACHT OWNER ownership this year. The yachts racing across the Atlantic this summer will be divided into two classes, the division being made according to size.

The smaller craft are to be given a week's start over the larger boats, so they may all finish at the same approximate time. was entered. So was the Hamburg, very fast German schooner, sent over by the German Emperor. There were the Valhalla and the Sunbeam, both Britishers, and seven other Americans. A memorable race it was.

what with the fast time made and the perils encountered. A southwester overtook them in midocean. The smaller craft hove to; the larger boats kept at It. The Atlantic, with Charles Barr. credited with being the best American yacht master, at the wheel, made as high as 341 miles in a day, and'he sighted Bishop's Rock in 11 days and 16 hours.

She rushed across the finish line at the Lizard in the great time of 12 days, 4 hours and 1 minute, a tW unbeaten record. The Hamburg 18 hours astern; the Valhalla came a day later. That German race, as it is called, was a great stimulus to yachting. Al it paved the way for a series of inter national matches with smaller craft, with the so-called sonder boats, in par-ticular. The sonder Is a long-ended, fin-keel knockabout, about 25 ft over all, and in 1906 three of tW (Concluded on Page contestants came In next day, the Vesta following the Fleetwing by 49 minutes.

Four years later came the first race for the America's Cup. There was a fine schooner, the Cambria, owned by James Ashbury, and Mr: Ashbury announced he was desirous of racing his ship from Europe to New York. He found a ready taker in Bennett who by this time had substituted the Bchooner Dauntless for the Henrietta. It was decided that the course would run from Daunt'B Rock, off Queens-town, to Sandy Hook lightship, and with "Bully" Samuels at the helm of the Dauntless the schooners started off for America. This time Captain Samuels' luck was not so good and the Cambria reached the finish 1 hour and 43 minutes the victor.

It is said that the American ship was ahead off Nantucket, but that the breeze shifted and favored the LENGTH OVER ALL 218 feet 200 feet 19? feet 185 feet 180 feet 172 feet 127 feet 126 feet 113 feet RESIDENCE New York New York Princeton, N. J. St. Louis Madrid New York Concord, Mass. Newark, N.

J. Detroit Bark Aloha Arthur Curtiss Schooner Dauntless H. Wilmer Hanan Schooner Guinevere Edgar Palmer Schooner Atlantic Gerard B. Lambert. Schooner Orion J.

Echevarrieta Brigantine Cressida Herman Oclrichs Schooner Speejacks Albert Y. Gowan Schooner Zodiac J. S. and R. W.

Johnson Schooner Azara Detroit yachtsmen course takes them from New York to Santander, a distance of I 3200 miles over the billowy At lantic. The small boats are scheduled to sail on June 30, and the larger ones are due to shove off on July 7. A navy cruiser is expected to accompany the fleet, reporting the progress of the race by radio. It was last July that the announcement of the Spanish race was made. Before a week had passed a half-dozen QUEEN VICTORIA'S CUP Schooner Nina Paul L.

Hammond New York Schooner Pmta William J. Curtis Jr. New York Schooner Santa Maria Spanish yachtsmen San Sebastian Schooner Mohawk Dudley F. Wolfe Boston Schooner Diablo A. E.

Pcddcr Los Angeles 60 feet 60 feet 58 feet 58 feet 58 feet Cambria all the way to the finish. Page Two. Sunday Magazine St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 27, 1928. el.