Show SKATE SAILING LIVELY SPORT sailor may travel a mile a minute ath no power save the wind to be one a celt the mast and the tiller and the boat sailing and ing blended at the speed ot a high class locomotive this Is the sport of skate sailing says writer in country life in america in an automobile 1 in a racing keel on a blooded horse the man that guides by clutch or till er or bridle is a piece of dead freight being to the extent of his weight a drag on the speed but skate sailing alone of sports that attack time mal es use of the guidance aselt as a part of the propulsive force the man himself is both sail area and live ballast with a forty mile breeze behind him and dean green ice ahead the skate comes the nearest we shall ever get to the wing tooted god that slid down a rainbow wings on his feet and his arms teth ered to great white wings he is the lyre of the west wind in a kind ot rhapsody of motion he is as sens alve to the situation as a photograph c plate every tremor of the sail ac alon passes through him and he adapts himself to the varl athons of an off shore breeze the old dream was of a cen taur man horse two natures in one body in this h century sport we have realized a man boat the effort to pro e that a man may cover a mile a minute unaided by steam or gaso ine by the propulsive power of wind alone will be made this ad avancing season by some skate at least |