Sails

A 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.

A frail wind moved under dark skies, ruffling the water of Oyster Bay, L. I., and filling the sails of some six-metre boats owned by rich men. Slowly the little fleet beat toward a buoy close to a sandy bluff, rounded the buoy, sailed back to the Seawanhaka Club where at sunset a cannon went off. The two boats in the lead--the Lanai, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and the Saleema, owned by H. B. Plant--were picked to compete in the six-metre races to be held in European waters this summer.