(MARI)TIME WARP! 1924: BAY SAILING COMPETITION UNPARALLELED

INQUIRER'S REGATTA EPOCH IN YACHTING
Events on Barnegat Bay Were Brimful of Keen Competition and Most Enjoyable to Devotees of Sail and Water
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From a Staff Correspondent.
SEASIDE PARK, N.J., July 5.
All Barnegat Bay is now pondering over the results of the various races in the Philadelphia Inquirer's regatta staged yesterday on the bay before the Seaside Park Yacht Club here. The yachtsmen of this section are also joining in a unanimous vote of thanks to The Inquirer for the impetus which its regatta has given to the sail boat racing game here. The stirring victory of Judge Charles L. McKeehan's Mary Ann, over Commodore Thatcher's Helen, of Seaside Park, a boat which in past seasons was never a match for the faster boats of the bay in the cat boat class, is one of the prize topics of conversation, not only among the populace generally who follow the doings of their sailors on Barnegat as their pets and know their every move.

The other results also come in for a word. Bay Head's sweep of the sneak box races largely through the doings of the Dale family in which the father, Orton G. Dale, triumphed in the 20-foot sneak box class with the Scotia and his son, F. Slade Dale, landed the triumph in the 15-foot sneak box battle with the C.U. Later.

The third Bay Head victory in the sneak boxes was one for the fair sex as well as for pretty young Miss Elizabeth Cox scampered away with the honors in the junior 15-foot sneak box class race yesterday morning over a group of sixteen other masculine and feminine skippers of the younger generation with her Betsy Bobbit. And now she is the queen of Barnegat.

Skipper Ritner Walling is Hero
That the Ardo 2d, owned by Ritner Walling, of the Seaside Park Club, did the expected and gained the victory in the sloop class in which she won the championship last year, saved the day for the local club is admitted, and now he is the hero of Seaside Park for his yacht was its only winner.

The committee is still very busy inventing new mathematical systems and further methods of solving Chinese puzzles in its effort to solve the class B cat boats tangle. But still it is very much in the dark as to just what the new rule in this connection means. Yesterday's race was the second for class B cats, and therein lies the trouble. The first race a week ago was solved after a fashion, but when it came to sort in several boats which did not appear in that race and properly handicap them it became almost impossible.

The sponsor of the new rule was one of the contestants in the race and he could not be called upon to enlighten the committee as to what the rule means. And nobody else knows. So it looks as if the Bequet, owned by T.F. Brooks, of Island Heights, which was awarded the trophy on the preliminary figures, might continue as the winner, simply because nobody is able to check up the figures.

Class B is for cat boats which do not meet the strict requirements of Class A, and consequently quite a few different types of "cats" appear in the group and it is very difficult to so handicap them that they all have a fair chance.

The yachtsmen of Seaside Park are all overjoyed with the exceptional success of the regatta in every way from Commodore Frank Thatcher down to the youngest of the boy skippers. The banner entry list, the splendid weather conditions and the series of stirring races are all that any one could ask for, and now all hands are feeling fine after having slept off the celebration which followed the races at the club house last night.

Barnegat Bay In For Big Year
Barnegat Bay is in for a big season. The point races for the season's championships in the various classes were opened with the various events in The Inquirer regatta and the winners are now on their way to their respective crowns with an edge which their rivals must overcome. These point races are held virtually every week all year with the seven member clubs of the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association taking turns as the hosts for the events.

Next Saturday Mantoloking Yacht Club entertains the Barnegat Bay fleet. A series of leading events then follow. On July 19 the famous Morgan Cup will be races for from the Island Heights Yacht Club. On July 26 there will be races for the Wanamaker trophies. August 1 and 2, the Barnegat Bay fleet will cruise to Beach Haven for the open races by the Little Egg Harbor Yacht Club.

The following week is the season's headliner on Barnegat when the Seaside Park Yacht Club will be the host for the staging of the annual Sewell Cup race which every year is the foremost contest of the season. Thereafter, Lavallette, Bay Head, Toms River, Seaside Park, and Island Heights take their turns with regattas.
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The success of sailing on Barnegat Bay is one of the features of American yachting. No other place in the country has the real true sporting rivalry which exists among the various clubs lying around the famous bay. And in no other spot do the sailing craft turn out in such numbers and do such wonderful races result as here. They are all real sailormen from boyhood to old age. And the girls must not be forgotten, either. And even the clubs scattered about Long Island Sound, which have for so long specialized in the windjamming games, will have to keep mighty awake if they are not to be left behind.

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