Stars

From England, France, Hawaii, the Philippines and many a U. S. waterway, little sailboats came by freight to Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars--the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7 1/2 in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10 1/8 mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days of strong racing weather. On the last morning the bay was choppy and little puffs heeled the gunwales down so that many of the racers shipped water. There were 22 racers out the last day, but the winners in points for the series seemed pretty sure to be Temple IV of California or Peggy Wee of Long Island. At the start Peggy Wee was over the line before the gun and had to clear off the course and come round again. Nine boats were around the first mark ahead of her, but somehow Arthur Knapp Jr. and Newell P. Weed worked Peggy Wee through them and slipped past Temple IV on the last windward leg, to come in fourth--winning first place with 98 points.

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