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Except for 90-year-old America, matriarch of U.S. racing yachts, no U.S. racing boat is more beloved by U.S. yachtsmen than the three-masted schooner Atlantic. On any yacht-club veranda, mention of her name unwinds a reel of yarns...
...Crimson yachtsmen were unable to cope with the high wind on the Charles River Basin yesterday, and were forced to be content with third place behind M.I.T. and Princeton in the Quadrangular Regatta for the Jack Wood Trophy...
America's oldest motorboating trophy, the Gold Cup, is a gold-plated silver urn that looks like an inverted Napoleon's hat. It was put up in 1904 by Manhattan's Columbia Yacht Club, to give the "monkey-wrench sailors" something to race for. Yachtsmen still think motor-boatmen are crazy. But there are enough mechanically-minded U. S. citizens, willing to spend $50,000 for a boat and 500 hours a year tinkering with it, to make the Gold Cup race one of the most exciting sport events...
Earlier this spring in two similar races the Midshipmen have outsailed M.I.T. and Princeton and fallen before a Williams group. For the first time since last summer the Crimson yachtsmen will have a chance to work in something larger than a dinghy...
...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...