Show SEA AND SAIL An Interesting Event in Foreign Waters LONDON June 5The Field speaking of the letter sent Mr Howard Gould says The rumor that the Meteor 15 fitted with a wheel forward of the mast is unfounded She only has a detachable wheel there for cruising I is a wonderful provision of the new racing rule that with 2000 feet more canvas than Britannia Meteor only rates at IOU or possibly 1012 Practically the tax on the sail is wiped out so far as the large class is concerned Saints beating Niagara by over a minute i min-ute per mile must be considered in these I days of close fighting a quite phenome I nai i light wind prevails for the remainder re-mainder of the season Niagara may have her sails increased but even then i is I difficult to see how she can reach the light weather form of Saint and Penitent Peni-tent Meteors win over the sixtymile course did not appear to be so brilliant or decisive de-cisive as her first essay yesterday But from a critical point of view i was equally meritorious a Britannia was more than once favored by the wind On I the with other hand Meteor had more S to finish inc corrected times or toe yachts at the finish were Meteor 4 hours 58 minutes 5 seconds Britannia 5 hours S minutes 6 seconds Satanlta 5 hours 1 minutes 18 seconds sec-onds I Ailsa 5 hours 17 minutes 2 seconds Niagara contrary to general expectations expecta-tions started In the race for the twenty raters In the regatta of the Royal Thames Yacht club and was beaten in I light winds by Penitent and The Saint Penitent crossed the line ten minutes ahead of The Saint and thirty minutes I before Niagara Mr Howard Gould says rather than have any doubt as to whether or not his tanks could be used for shifting moved shift-ing water ballast he had the tanks re |