Yachts

Last week scores of costly marine playthings sported along the Atlantic seaboard. In the final, climactic race of the New York Yacht Club cruise, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, persistent vacationist, piloted Gerard B. Lambert's Vanitie to beat George M. Pynchon's Istalena for the King of England's cup.

In 1920, the Resolute successfully defended the America's cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV. Syndicates of Atlantic coastal tycoons were announced last week, two of which carry on the old Vanitie-Resolute rivalry:

George Nichols, skipper and managing owner.

Members--Henry Walters, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Richard Teller Crane Jr., Arthur Curtiss James, Junius S. Morgan Jr., Gerard B. Lambert (owner of Vanitie), George T. Bowdoin Jr. Designer--Clinton Hoadley Crane. II

Winthrop Williams Aldrich, manager.

Members--Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, skipper; Commodore William Vincent Astor, George Fisher Baker Jr., Commodore Floyd Leslie Carlisle, Ogden Livingston Mills, E. Walter Clark (owner of Resolute), George Whitney.

Designer--W. Starling Burgess.

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Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer--Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance).

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A New England syndicate, headed by John Silsbee Lawrence of Boston.

Probable designer--Frank C. Paine, one-time partner, now rival, of Designer Burgess.

In the final race of a German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier races, captured the President Hoover cup (sponsored, not donated, by the President, who, no yachtsman, hears about yacht doings from Secretary of Navy Adams).