Earned runs-Yale, 1; Pennsylvania, 2. Two-base hit-Bliss. Three-base hits-Rustin, Speir, Thomson. Home run-Case. Stolen bases-Rustin (3), Case (2), Thomas, Bayne, Reese (2), Goeckle, Thomson. Double play-Carter, Stephenson and Kedzie. Struck outBy Carter, 10; by Reese, 6. First base on balls--By Carter, 3; by Reese, 4. Left on bases-Yale, 5; Pennsylvania, 7. Hit by pitched ball-Stephenson. Wild pitches-Carter, 1; Reese, 1. Time--1h. 55m. Umpire

-Dave Orr.

I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Harvard ..2 о O 0 I O 2 о 2-7 Earned runs-Harvard, 2. Three-base hit-Brooks. Stolen bases-Abbott, Frothingham (4), Upton, Brooks. Sacrifice hits-Frothingham (2), Cook (2), Trafford, Wiggin, Drake. Wild pitches-Drake, 2. Time-2h. 20m. Umpires-Mr. Murray and Mr. Hopkins. Left on bases-Harvard, 10; Princeton, 4. First base on balls-Hallowell, Cook (2), Hovey, King, McKenzie (2). First base on errors-Harvard, 4; Princeton, 2. Struck out--Sullivan, Upton, Wiggin, Woodcock, Paine, Gunster, Otto. Double plays--Cook, Hovey and Trafford.

ATHLETICS.

APRIL is the month in which the school and college athletes quit the dull work of the gymnasium for the lively outdoor practice that leads directly to the championship games of May. Among the New York schoolboys the past season has been one of great activity. Nearly all of the prominent private institutions have given games which have resulted in a considerable lowering of school records; and at most of these games there were several events open to the athletes of the other New York schools.

This method of getting ready for the spring campaign may well be contrasted with that of the

Interscholastic Athletic Association of Boston, There the school games take place indoors during the winter, and culminate in an interscholastic championship meeting, held last winter in the middle of February. A regular feature of this meeting is a relay race between the first two schools of the previous year. After these championships there is an interval in training until it is time to get ready for the outdoor championships, held generally on the Harvard Athletic Field in the second week of June. Thus there are two distinct seasons in athletics, and the period of training is doubled without the danger of overtraining. If a scheme similar to this could be worked among the New York schools, it would without doubt double the incentive to train, and, by making races more frequent, steady the young contestants.

There is space only to mention the open events in the various school games. As might be expected, the best time was made in the

shortest distances. For a hundred yards and less the young sprinters compare very favorably with college and even with the oldest club sprinters. Simpson of Barnard, Brooks Harvard, and Fisher of Harvard, give great promise.

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At the Trinity School games, at the Berkeley Oval, the only open event was the mile bicycle run, which resulted as follows: F., L. Downing, Columbia Grammar, first (time, 2m. 50 3-5S.); G. F. Baker, Jr., Morse, second; W. J. Mooney, Trinity, third.

At the games of the Columbia Grammar School, on Manhattan Field, the mile bicycle race was won in 2m. 51 3-5s., by W. H. Fearing, Cutler; J. A. Powell, Cutler, was second, and J. S. Williams, Jr., Cutler, third. The other open events resulted as follows:

One-hundred-yard dash-First heat, P. W. Simpson, Barnard; E. W. Brooks, Harvard, second. Time, IIS. Second heat, H. C. Brokaw, Berkeley; H. L. Williams, Cutler, second. Time, 10 3-5s. Final heat, P. W. Simpson, Barnard; E. W. Brooks, Harvard, second; H. L. Williams, Cutler, third. Time 10 3-5S.

One-hundred-and-twenty-yard hurdle race for juniors-Won by D. Harris, Cutler; H. Vonn Baur, Barnard, second; F. Hollins, Cutler, third. Time, 18 2-59.

Two-hundred-and-twenty-yard hurdle race— Won by E. W. Brooks, Harvard; F. H. Bosworth, Jr., Cutler, second; H. L. Williams, Cutler, third. Time, 27 3-5S.

The games of the Oxford Athletic Association, which is composed of the athletes from the Brooklyn Latin, the Polytechnic, and Harvard School, were held in Clermont Avenue Rink, Brooklyn. The time in the fifty-yard dash was only a fifth of a second worse than the world's indoor record, 5 3-5s., held by E. B. Bloss, of Harvard.

Fifty-yard dash, open to New York and Brooklyn schools-Final heat won by Fisher; Stuart second, Brooks third. Time, 5 4-5S.

Four-hundred-and-forty-yard run-Won by C. Billings, Allen; E. W. Brooks, Harvard, second; F. Fisher, Harvard, third. Time, 63s.

One-thousand-yard run-Won by C. Southwick, Harvard; B. Atkinson, Harvard, second; F. L. Downing, Columbia Grammar, third. Time, 2m. 50 4-5S.

At the third annual games of the Cutler's School, held at the Berkeley Oval, a third bicycle race took place, which stands side by side in excellence with those at the Trinity and Columbia Grammar School games. This event, at the championship games of May 13th, promises to be well contested. The time already made is excellent, considering the conditions under which the races were run and the youth of the contestants, but it will be strange if the redoubled competition at the championship games does not better it. In the quarter-mile run, Fisher, the Harvard School sprinter, finished in 55 1-5s., which is only a fifth of a second worse than the New York scholastic record. This, with his record of 5 4-5s. for fifty yards, gives promise of great future power both in speed and endurance. The open events resulted as follows:

One-hundred-yard dash-First heat, H. Moeller, Columbia Grammar; W. B. Rogers, Barnard, second. Time, 11 3-5s. Second heat, T. R. Fisher, Harvard; P. W. Simpson, Bar

nard, second. Time, 11s.

Third heat, E. W. Brooks, Harvard; A. C. Ayres, Condon, second. Time, 11 2-5s. Final heat, Brooks; Simpson second, Fisher third. Time, 11s.

Quarter-mile run-Won by T. R. Fisher, Harvard; C. M. Billings, Állen, second; H. Rowland, Halsey, third. Time, 55 1-5s.

Half-mile run-Won by C. Southwick, Harvard; B. Atkinson, Harvard, second; Charles Atkinson and H. L. Coswell, Harvard, tie for third place. Time, 2m. 15 4-5S.

Mile bicycle race-First heat, E. Stevens, Jr., Woodbridge; II. A. Mossman, Condon, second. Time, 2m. 55s. Second heat, G. T. Baker, Morse; T. Duffy, De La Salle Institute, second. Time, 2m. 58s. Final heat won by Mossman; Stevens second, Baker third. Time, 2m. 50 3-5S.

APRIL 29TH.-At the Yale 'Varsity scratch meeting, W. O. Hickok, the football guard, threw the hammer 112 ft. 9 in., beating his own world's record. As the handle of the hammer was of wire, the record will not be allowed to stand. Hitherto the best man at throwing the 16-pound hammer was J. R. Finlay, guard on the Harvard eleven of 1891, who cleared 108 ft. 9 in. in the first Yale-Harvard athletic meeting. The mile walk was won by Wight in 7m. 6 4-5S. Two years ago this man was rods behind the Harvard walkers, who finished in 7m. 14 3-5s., and last year he was a very poor fourth to three Harvard men, who finished in 7m. 48s. In the coming season the tables are likely to be turned. The quarter-mile run was won by Bennett, a freshman, who was previously unheard of. If Bennett improves, it is not improbable that Yale will, in a year or two, win the quarter at the Intercollegiate, which race has hitherto gone to Harvard, with the exception of two years, when it went to Dohm of Princeton, and Shattuck of Amherst.

A summary of events:

Track events, 100-yard dash-Won by H. H. Bennett; W. M. Richards, second. Time,

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220-yard dash-Won by W. M. Richards; R. M. Spenser, second. Time, 22 1-2s. 440-yard run-Won by H. H. Bennett; Robert Anderson, second. Time, 51s.

880-yard run--Won by S. Scoville, Jr.; Hendon Chubb, second. Time, 2m. 6 2-5s.

One-mile run-Won by J. E. Morgan; S. Scoville, Jr., second. Time, 4m. 375. One-mile walk-Won by S. E. Wight; S. H. Bunnell, second, Time, 7m. 6 4-5s.

120-yard hurdles-Won by D. B. Lyman; McLane Van Ingen, second. Time, 16 3-5s. 220-yard hurdles-Won by McLane Van Ingen; E. H. Cady, second. Time, 26 3-5s.

Two-mile bicycle race- Won by W. H. Glenny; H. Parmelee, second. Time, 6m. 3s. Pole vault-Won by E. H. Rice; Herman Thomas, second. Distance, 9 ft. 6 in.

Running high jump-Won by J. W. Rowe; L. P. Sheldon, second. Distance, 5 ft. 5 in. Running broad jump-Won by L. P. Sheldon; C. B. Pinney, second. Distance, 21 ft. 7 3-4 in.

Putting the shot-Won by W. O. Hickok ; Alex. Brown, second. Distance, 37 ft. 8 in.

Throwing the hammer- Won by W. O. Hickok; P. T. Stillman, second. Distance, 112 ft. 9 in.

APRIL 29TH.-The Harvard inter-class track

athletic championships were held on the same day as the Yale games, and though none of the graduate school athletes competed, the results offer a fair basis of comparison. It will be seen that, though no record was broken, the showing is not inferior to that of Yale.

100-yard dash-Won by J. P. Whittren '95; E. B. Bloss, '94, second; L. Sayre, '96, third. Time, 10 2-5s.

220-yard dash-Final heat won by S. M. Merrill, '94; L. Sayre, '96, second; J. P. Whittren, 95, third. Time, 22 1-5S.

440-yard run-Won by N. W. Bingham, Jr.. 95; E. B. Hill, '94, second; F. H. Bartlett, 95, third. Time, 51 3-5s.

880-yard run-Won by H. C. Lakin, '94; C. H. Hubbell, '93, second; P. Richardson, '96, third. Time, 2m. 4 2-5s.

One-mile run-Won by D. W. Fenton, '95; A. Blake, '93, second; J. Bordman, '94, third. Time, 4m. 39s.

120-yard hurdles-Won by O. W. Shead, '93 ; K. Brown, '93, second; G. D. Whitehead, '96, third. Time, 16 1-2s.

220-yard hurdles-Won by H. M. Wheelwright, '94; G. D. Whitehead, '96, second; S. Jameson, '95, third. Time, 26 3-5s.

One-mile walk-Won by A. L. Endicott, '94; C. R. Bardeen, '93, second; F. Johnson, '95, third. Time, 7m. 13 3-5S.

Two-mile bicycle race-Won by F. S. Pratt, '94; P. Davis, '93, second; C. M. Holmes, '96, third. Time, 5m. 59 3-5S.

High jump-Won by T. E. Sherwin, '94; W. E. Putnam, Jr., '96, second; G. C. Chaney, '94, third. Height, 5 ft. 8 1-4 in.

Pole vault-Won by T. E. Sherwin, '94; H. M. Wheelwright, '94, second; W. E. Putnam, '96, third. Height, 10 ft. 3 in.

Running broad jump-Won by E. B. Bloss, '94; O. W. Shead, '93, second; T. Richardson, '94, third. Distance, 22 ft.

Throwing hammer-Won by E. Cockrell, '95; J. P. Whittren, '95, second; E. James, '95, third. Distance, 82 ft. 3 in.

Putting the shot-Won by R. MacAllister, '93; J. P. Whittren, '95, second; P. K. Whittemore, '95, third. Distance, 33 ft. 7 1-2 in.

The championship was won by the class of '94, with 49 points; '95 was second, with 30 points, '93 third, with 22 points, and '96 last, with 11 points.

MAY 6TH.-At the Harvard 'Varsity scratch meeting a few of the records of the inter-class games were bettered by athletes in the graduate and professional schools. W. H. Shea, L. S., put the shot 38 ft. 11 in., which is not up to his usual form. John Corbin, Gr., won the halfmile run in 2m. 3s., and W. F. Garcelon, L. S., ran over the low hurdles in 26s. The only other event in which the records of the previous Saturday were bettered materially was the mile walk, which Endicott won in 7m. 4 3-5s.

At the fourth annual handicap games at Princeton, Hickok, of Yale, threw the hammer III ft. 10 1-2 in. This time the handle was of wood, and the record will stand. It surpasses Hickok's previous collegiate record by 3 1-4 in.

MAY 13TH.-Harvard won the second annual track athletic games at Boston, making 67 to Yale's 45 points. E. B. Bloss broke the record for the running broad jump, making 22 ft. 4 in. We shall treat this subject in our next issue. JOHN CORBIN.

THE "merry month of June" will find the enthusiastic amateur "over hill and dale," firing off plates by the dozen, and, curiously enough, with a success in an inverse ratio to the numbers exposed. Why this should be so, and how to avoid it, is the main object of this article.

I have the greatest respect for the tourists who employ their kodaks or other form of handcamera in taking flying shots at whatever interests them on their journeys; they are good friends to the plate-maker, the stock-dealer and the professional developer, but are not entitled to be considered amateur photographers.

Photography is a means to an end-picturemaking; and the true amateur photographer is he, and only he, who in all his operations has that ever before him as the goal. To him the following observations are especially addressed.

The first essential in picture-making is that you shall possess the power of seeing. You must learn to see possible pictures in every phase of nature.

Not less important is the ability to place the pictures so seen on the focusing screen, and here the artist of the brush is more fortunate than he of the camera; as, while the former may leave out such features as he considers objectionable, the latter must include all that comes, his power over his material being limited to selection of the point of view, and perhaps the addition of some suitable object to the foreground.

The successful composition of a picture implies some knowledge of art, and I am aware that some artists claim that each artist should

be a law unto himself, and I also know that some of them make a sad bungle of the liberty. The photographer, especially the young photographer, will do well to make himself thoroughly acquainted with those laws, so far at least as that can be done by, say, a careful study of "Burnet's Essays," not to be slavishly followed, but rather to show him what to avoid; in fact he should make for himself a photographer's catechism of "don'ts."

Don't, except under very exceptional circumstances, place the horizon line of a landscape higher than about one-third from the bottom of the picture.

Don't under any circumstances whatever place the horizon of a seascape or marine view higher than the above position. Don't place the principal object, or any object of importance, in the middle-either horizontally or perpendicularly-of your pict

ure.

Don't have more than one motif, or object of special interest, in your picture, and see that everything else leads to or is connected with it.

Don't have prominent weak-that is, angularlines in your composition without something, either in contrasting lines or masses, to support and balance them.

Don't be tempted to photograph "a bit of beautiful reflection," the result of which would look equally well, or rather equally absurd, whichever side was uppermost. If you must expose a plate on such a subject, throw a stone into the water just before making the exposure.

Don't introduce figures into a landscape till you have learned to recognize, not only where they will do no harm, but where they will be a help to the composition; and where there are more than one, see that they are contrasted, sitting with standing, age with youth, light with dark, etc.

Don't have two or more lines running parallel to each other, or even single lines parallel with the sides of the picture; in fact have as few straight lines as possible, and never without contrast in some way.

Don't scatter the lights or darks all over the

picture, but concentrate and contrast them. Don't have a bare foreground, without anything to lead the eye to the principal objects

of the composition.

Don't

And now there is one "don't' more. suppose that having observed all these prohibitions, you will thereby of necessity have secured a good picture. The prescribed is much greater and not less important than the prohibited, but would occupy more space than is at my disposal; and so I must be content with a little

advice and a few recommendations, the result of some experience and of no little thought.

Limit-very much limit-the number of plates you take with you, and even then force into your head the fact that it is better to bring back some, or even all, unexposed than to expose them on subjects not in every way satisfactory.

As a rule, the less there is in a subject the easier will be the composition, and it is gratifying to know that it will also be the more pleasing. In other words, the simpler the composition and the smaller the included angle, the raphy. That implies the use of a lens of better it is suited for reproduction by photogconsiderably longer focus for any particular size of plate than is at present generally employed. Opticians in listing their lenses give their covering power at pretty nearly a baseline equal to the focal length-an angle of 532. and photographers have got into the habit of effective drawings by the best artists will show so using them; but an analysis of the most that they generally embrace not much more than half that angle, and the photographer would do well to follow the good example, and, except for interiors or in circumstances where a wide angle is essential, never employ a lens of less than twice that of the base-line of the plate-a ten-inch lens for 5 x 4.

Lastly, and probably most important because most difficult of control, is the lighting.

The text-books generally tell us that a picture may be lighted from either the right or the left, but never from directly behind or directly in front; and in this latter they are wrong, as in the hands of one who knows how to manage it some of the most charming effects are produced in that way. JAY SEE.

ALL the yachts, whose owners are of any moment, are in commission by this time.

This, of course, is the year par excellence, when no yachtsman worthy of the name can afford to allow his yacht to hibernate during the summer-if an Irish bull of so phenomenal a kind will be tolerated.

For, mark you, my brethren, this is going to be a phenomenal year in the annals of yachting on both sides of the unfathomable pond. Never before was enthusiasm at such a highly wrought pitch. The Puritan-Genesta, the Mayflower-Galatea, and the VolunteerThistle matches may be said not to be "in it" in comparison with the excitement of the present year. For America starts the generous strife by sending a Yankee yacht across the ocean to try conclusions with the best the British can furnish-Prince of Wales and all.

The pride of Great Britain has been touched up. The mere fact that Capt. Royal Phelps Carroll, of the New York Yacht Club, was bound eastward with the Navahoe to hunt for as many cups and money prizes as might come his way with a saucy Yankee clipper yacht from the board of so celebrated a designer as Nat Herreshoff, very naturally put the Britishers on their mettle. Thus, Watson was commissioned to design two powerful racing yachts- one for Lord Dunraven and the other for the Prince of Wales.

I fail to see how the new Valkyrie can help meeting the Navahoe in some of the early races, especially as the Navahoe is out for blood, and will take part in every race for which she is competent to enter. The competition will be brisker than ever known in British waters. The two little fin keels that Herreshoff sent across the pond last spring, demonstrated that America was in keen and active racing trim and quite anxious to measure her strength against any kind of craft pitted in opposition.

The fact that the Navahoe is bound to England reminds our gallant rivals of the old schooner yacht America, whose prowess is responsible for the international yacht-racing of to-day. Therefore they will do their liveliest to prevent the Navahoe having such walkovers as did that celebrated "two-sticker" in the early "fifties."

The Navahoe was formally put into commission on May 6th. She had been tried previous ly on several occasions, but on the date mentioned was turned over to Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll by her designer and builder. As hinted before in these columns, she is an enlarged and improved Wasp, with a centerboard added. Her preliminary trial trips, I am informed, were quite satisfactory to her designer, her owner and her skipper.

Of course, the writers in the daily newspapers, most of whom cannot distinguish the jib halyards from the gafftopsail tack, discussed her shortcomings most learnedly with any amount of nautical expletives, such as "hoist slacks," shiver my timbers," "splice the mainbrace," etc., such as are only heard of on the deck of an opera bouffe craft like Pinafore. But, as a matter of fact, the craft is no tenderer' than was expected, and when she meets her British antagonists is not likely to disgrace herself.

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In the bouts she has had with that thoroughly capital cruising schooner Iroquois she has beaten the two-sticker" out of her boots. This performance was nothing to brag of when it is remembered that Wasp and Gloriana are quite capable of sailing round the Iroquois under certain conditions. But still, as there were no large "single-stickers" in commission, the test was better than nothing. Capt. Ralph N. Ellis and Mr. Woodbury Kane will sail across the ocean in the Navahoe as guests of her owner, and will be attached to her all the season. By the time these lines are being read by the OUTING constituents, the venturesome craft will most likely be well on her way. Mrs. Carroll will sail on June 3d. I do not like to mention a lady's name in this column, but I trust I may be pardoned in this instance if I say that Mrs. Carroll is one of the pluckiest sportswomen alive. She has shot big game in Central Africa and is a capital yachtswoman. In England she has a host of friends, who will make her sojourn pleasant, while trying their level best by all fair means to prevent her husband from winning too many cups. Charles Barr, the skipper of the Navahoe, is now a fullfledged citizen of these United States, having forsworn all allegiance to the Queen. He now hails from the quaint old town of Marblehead, and is cultivating with commendable assiduity a Yankee accent. He "guesses" and "callalates" quite often, but the old Scotch "burr" sticks to him, and he can't get rid of it, no matter how hard he strives. A very capable skipper is Barr, as his doings on the Minerva and the Wasp conclusively proved. The Navahoe is the first large craft he has had charge of. When she leaves she will have thirty-two all told on board. She is handsomely and comfortably fitted up, but when she is racing she will be "gutted," if one may be allowed to use so expressive a word. Her crew will be closely cropped and clean-shaven, and there will be no more cats aboard than can catch mice. The ornamental element will be excluded, and Messrs. Kane and Ellis will have to pull and haul for their board. I have been at some pains to procure the absolutely correct dimensions of the Navahoe. They are as follows: Length over all, 134 feet; length on load waterline, 84 feet; beam, 23 feet 6 inches; draft, 13 feet. Her mast is 92 feet; her topmast, 56 feet; boom, 92 feet; bowsprit, 47 feet. At the widest part her keel is 3 feet 4 inches broad.

The Prince of Wales' cutter Britannia, designed by Watson especially to meet the Navahoe, was launched on April 20th at Partick on the Clyde. Her dimensions have not yet been made public, but according to the Field she has an overhang aft of quite 30 feet. She has also a long and powerful bilge, with a beam of about 22 feet and a draft of 16 feet.

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has a lead keel weighing in the proximity of 80 tons. She carries a big sail-spread, and from the shape of her hull should be exceptionally good at beating to windward. Her accommodations below are said to be first class-in fact quite equal to those of an ordinary 200-ton vessel. Capt. John Carter, of Wivenhoe, is in charge of her with his famous crew - smart and agile as lascars. Some people affect to sneer at the Prince of Wales as a yachtsman. This is a mistake. The Prince is a capital sailor and can handle a yacht in seamanlike style, unless the skippers who have sailed with him unite in lying. The Prince has a quiet and steadfast way of backing his opinions with sovereigns. And so has Captain Carroll. It is hard to say which of the two has bagged the biggest game, but there is no doubt that the American had to fight harder for his trophies of the chase along the banks of the Congo than the Prince in the jungles of Hindostan.

Commodore J. Malcolm Forbes, of Naushon, Mass., has bought the famous Volunteer from General Paine, with the intention, it is said, of restoring her to her old rig as a sloop, or rather cutter. It will be remembered that some radical changes were made in the forebody of this craft when she was transformed into a schooner, but at this writing I am unable to find out for certain if her hull will be restored to its former condition or not. I am inclined to believe that her rig only will be changed. Mr. Forbes is also the owner of the Puritan, which many men have wanted to purchase and turn into a schooner. Mr. Forbes is a millionaire, and a liberal one at that, and can well afford to own two successful America's cup-defenders. The Puritan, it should be remembered, beat the Volunteer once in a run from Newport to Martha's Vineyard.

It is said that Mr. Forbes, believes that the Volunteer in her old rig will be able to hold her own with the new-fangled racing machines of Herreshoff, Paine, and Stewart & Binney. I hear it rumored that Mr. Forbes will enter her for the trial races. If so, the contest will indeed be interesting. I have seen every race sailed by the Volunteer, and for windward work have never seen her equal. This is the true and only test of a yacht. A haystack may run fast before the wind, but a thresh in the teeth of a stiff breeze is needed to show what a craft is good for. There will not be wanting many adherents of the old ship. At any rate, it may safely be predicted that the Volunteer will not disgrace herself in her races with any of the new craft, especially in a beat to windward in a strong breeze. In this respect the Volunteer, either as a cutter or schooner, is simply superb.

Meanwhile the Stewart & Binney fin-keel craft Pilgrim is being rapidly hurried along at the yard of Pusey & Jones, Wilmington, Del. Her chief dimensions are 120 feet over all; on the water-line, 85 feet; beam, 23 feet; draft of hull proper, 5 feet; depth of fin, 17 feet; total draft, 22 feet.

Her draft, which is enormous, is doubtless the greatest ever put on a racing yacht. The aim of the designers would seem to be to obtain the greatest power possible on the least displacement. The Pilgrim has a larger sailplan than the sloop Volunteer had. She has only about 20 tons of lead, in place of the 70

tons carried by the Herreshoff boats, but it will be so low down that its leverage will be enormous. It will be securely fastened to the steel plate by bolts and angle-irons and other devices known to naval architects. There will be no danger of it falling off, even in the heaviest of seas.

Of course, her type is simply that of a racing machine. She has a metal centerboard forward of the fin, as I have before mentioned in this column. It is about seven feet long, and it is thought will add considerably to the boat's lateral resistance. Her rig, though larger than that of Volunteer, will be the smallest of the four cup-defenders. Experts in Boston calculate that the Pilgrim will be chosen to defend the cup because she has the least displacement (less than 100 tons), the easiest form to drive and the best rig to handle. We shall be better able to judge of her merits after the cruise of the New York Yacht Club.

I suppose that by the time the June number of OUTING is published all the embryo cup-defenders will be overboard and getting tuned up for the business of the season. There will be no lack of trophies for them to compete for. Every yacht club of standing has arranged for special prizes to be given to them. The more the merrier. The formal trial races will be sailed in September, but the America's Cup Committee has wisely stipulated that it shall be bound by no hard-and-fast rule. It shall be at perfect liberty to select any one of the candidates it may please, whether victorious or not in the actual trial contest. That is, the committee will take the general average of the most successful craft during the season, and if she happens to be beaten by a fluke in September, the defeat may not prevent her from being selected as the champion. This, of course, is the common-sense plan, and Commodore James D. Smith is remarkable for his straightforwardness and his wisdom. There is no nonsense about him. It is a pity that all his fellow-yachtsmen in the club are not tarred with the same brush. I have known him for years. I admire him and respect him, and I congratulate Lord Dunraven upon having so fair an antagonist to deal with in arranging the preliminaries of the race.

Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie, which has already had her trial trip, and has developed remarkable sailing qualities, it is said, is described as having a long, finely drawn out upper body with a little "tumble home." Her greatest beam is at the load water-line. She is 126 feet over all, and her length on the load water-line is 86 feet, a trifle under or over. She has a clipper bow, closely resembling that of the Wenonah. Her beam is 20 feet 6 inches and her draft of water 16 feet 6 inches. Her construction combines lightness and strength to as great a degree as yacht naval architecture has so far attained. Her bowsprit is simply a stump, its length outboard being 16 feet. Her sail-plan is large. She has hollow spars, and her mainboom measures 93 feet. Skipper William Cranfield, Lord Dunraven's tried and trusty captain, is in charge of the craft, and he can be relied on to develop all her latent speed.

The admirers of William Fife, Jr., of Fairlie on the Clyde, are rejoicing and with much reason. The 85-footer Calluna, which he designed for a Scotch syndicate, had her trial trip on May 8th, and is said to have done splendidly. It