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Alain Gerbault, French sportsman, arrived on his 30-foot sloop Firecrest in Le Havre amid whistles and cheers after a six-year cruise alone around the world. He learned that the French Government had made him an officer in the Legion of Honor. Voyager Gerbault immediately went to Paris to see the Davis Cup matches (see p. 56). Present there was Mlle. Suzanne Lenglen, now a tennis professional, whose refusal to marry M. Gerbault is supposed to have driven him off on his travels. Last week M. Gerbault said: "I think I shall stay ashore for a while now." When...
Yachts. U. S. Secretary of the Navy-Charles Francis Adams last week sailed his class Q 25 rater Bat against eleven other boats, won the third Eastern Yacht Club championship, at Marblehead, Mass. Charles Francis Adams Jr. sailed the famed sloop Vamtie, now owned by Gerald 13. Lambert ("Listerine"), in her 100th race against E. W. Clark's Resolute, her oldtime rival as defender of America's cup. Charles Francis Adams Jr., able son of an able father, won. Score of the 100 races: Vanitie, 55; Resolute, 45. Last week's Vanitie-Resolute course: 41 miles from...
...eighth successive summer, conductor and cynosure at the nightly concerts in Lewisohn Stadium. Last week he had just returned from mountain climbing in Mittenwald, Bavaria (famed for violins), with his daughter Eleonor, eleven. Eleonor goes to school in Switzerland, prefers sailing on her father's 20-ft. sloop. Last week she went to Chicago to visit her divorced mother, Pianist Elly Ney.* Mr. van Hoogstraten's hobby is sailing; his horror, fishing...
Appropriately born at Quincy, at ten he was scudding over Quincy Bay in a sail boat, out to Hangman's Island, where his father doted on the smelt-fishing. At twelve he was racing his own little boats and, soon after, sailing with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper...
...gentleman's straw hat blew into the water, upsetting a sailboat. Yachts kept running into each other headon. In one race a blue sloop in front of all the rest had a collision with a swan and was forced off the course while hundreds of people watched the others, ship models, big in their grace, sweep on, racing in a regatta held by the Bureau of Recreation on a lake in Central Park, Manhattan. A deaf mute, one Raphael Freedman, won first prize with a boat made of aluminum...