Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-06-08 | Page 7 | Venona Wins First Race

VENONA VENOM WINS FIRST RACE Smaller Boat of Fleet With Captain Bliss in Charge Reaches Beaches Bermuda First Bermuda June 7 With her starboard rail under water and driving under three lower sails In a breeze reeze the Venona owned by George E Biles BItes of Boston and carrying the flag of ot the he Eastern Yacht club crossed the line ine at this afternoon on winning in class C in the race from Marblehead to tJ Hamilton the start of ot which was as made mad shortly after 11 II a m last Wednesday When the Venona crossed no other con contestant contestant contestant was in sight The rhe elapsed time tithe was 99 h 32 m tn 15 s a and the corrected time tibia 98 95 h Ii 12 1 m and 15 s a aThe The Venona enona Is the smaller boat in the fleet Captain Bliss and his crew ac RC account account count for the fine tine run by their keeping well to the eastward on Thursday and Fri Fr Friday Frida day da so that they picked up the tile southeast gale last night and ran for the tle Island with stacked tacked sheets s tl The little yachts best run was miles from noon on Saturday to noon Sunday Soon after the Venona finished d another yacht acht appeared on the horizon It proved to o be the Marchioness She was as fully full twenty wenty miles behind the winner At dark dan tonight she still had a good five miles to o go