Los Angeles to Diamond Head

Common Sense, loaned to her Honolulu Ad Club crew after a collision had wrecked their own ship, was the smallest boat in the fleet-27 ft. over all. Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California to Hawaii race since it was first sailed in 1908. They put out from Los Angeles Harbor on July 4, stood out across the Pacific in a light breeze.

Last week, while the island was in high excitement over President Roosevelt's visit, the little yachts began to appear off Oahu's Diamond Head. None of them approached the record for the 2,200-mi. crossing: 11 days, 14 hr.. by Manner in 1923. First across the line was Vileehi, in 13 days, 3 hr. She was followed by Manuiwa, Burrapeg, Fandango, Monsoon, Altair and Dolphin. After four days, when the handicaps of all other possible winners had expired, officials of the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club announced the winner: Harold Dillingham's Manuiwa. William Candy's Burrapeg was second.

In Hawaii, the name of Dillingham is to Dole as the name of Whitney is to Rockefeller in the U. S. Harold Dillingham, whose big house stands on Diamond Head Drive above the finish line of last week's race, has island interests in sugar. fruit, shipping and railroads as well as yachting. His brother Walter is a sugar and utilities tycoon as well as a crack polo player.

Manuiwa was one of the three Hawaiian entries in the Pacific race, one of the two boats that carried a radio transmitter. Halfway across, she sent a message: "All aboard Manuiwa are well but worried about where our competitors may be." Honolulu was also sufficiently worried to send navy planes out to search for five boats that had not yet finished: Scaramouche, Viva, Queequeg, Naitamba, Common Sense. But they all arrived safely.

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