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Died. Henry Frederick Lippitt, 77, president and board chairman of Manville Jenckes Co., Rhode Island's largest ($39,000,000) textile firm, vice president of Cotton Textile Institute Inc., onetime (1911-17) U. S. Senator, yachtsman (his sloop Weetamoe won the Astor Cup in 1906); of a heart attack; in Providence...
...Author La Farge's latest. The armed brig Glimpse, Jonas Dodge, Master, was three years out of Chog's Cove, R. I. She had had some close escapes from British cruisers; her crew had a fat share of prize money coming to them. Their last capture, a sloop flying the Spanish flag, they discovered too late was a U. S. vessel. Of the prize crew of four men put aboard her, one was drowned in a hurricane, one died of tropical fever; the other two were shipwrecked. When the Glimpse got safely home again Captain Dodge paid...
...years when he was busily building his fortune and reputation, "Tom" Sopwith kept his hand in at yachting. Five years ago, aged 40, he popped up as owner of Mouette which he sailed himself with astonishing skill. Two years ago he bought Shamrock V, Lipton's last challenge sloop, won season's honors with her against the King's cutter Britannia, 24 Hags...
...going. Take care o' yourself, Eph. I will; don't forget me Sue. I won't. Wanting to kiss her and afraid to do it." Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors...
...boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible to steer, Bellport drifted into a marker, received another disqualification, withdrew. Ruth Sears, who had finished second in the first race, found a puff on the last leg of the three-mile triangular course and won. Next day the breeze was brisk in the morning, light...