Show f Tip oc the Tongue in the New Yoilc 1 I Press tells the funniest Incident In the race lust week Thursday I was the 1 i efforts of n revenue cutter to clear the j i course of a fiftyfourfoot auxiliary i schooner that persisted In hugging the Columbia while she was putting her clothes on The boat had about a dozen passengers on board It hovered I hov-ered first on one side and then on another an-other until n revenue cutter shot out from the fleet that was back of the j I starting point with Its decks covered storlng t with revenue officers I came rapidly up when a young redheaded curly i locked ofllcer megaphoned as hegot up Get off the course and take a position half a mile behind the fleet The down I I I eastern skipper looking lazily around said Like hell I will You neednt think you can blow me off the ocean with that damn yellow funnel A timid passengcV protested saying I Captain we do not want you to betaken t be-taken back to port and lose your 1 j i I ccnsc and he replied Who Is lal11 Ing about going back to port 7 Not me I j Who Isto take me back Then came I the reply r A revenue officer will be I put on your vessel to run her back It whereupon the old Yankee said Lordy T will make a present of this boat lon lo-n damned revenue officer that can I run her back to where she belongs and added I tbo n mile off the course before the yachts begin maneuvering maneu-vering and I wont be half a mile behind be-hind the fleet either What do those fellows take me for I own as much of the ocean as any man or country I I was anchored out yonder fishing do you suppose the whole United States navy could make me move Not unless i r they sent me to the bottom but I nm I I here to see a race and I will keep out of I the way I am here to see the Columbia I Colum-bia win and she ll do It Shell make j that Irish boat look like a dry dock Ito I That cup Is damn heavy when you go to lift It He got out of the way but his was the first boat 1o start after the race begun and he gave his passengers passen-gers n magnificent view of the race r |