Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — Yachting In 1905. [ARTICLE]

Yachting In 1905.

There are excellent reasons for believing that when the yachting season of 1905 opens the owners of racing sloops and schooners will And that they may sail in almost any club race under rules of measurement and rating that will be eminently more satisfactory than those of former years. Representatives of the leading clubs in New' York and eastern waters at a recent meeting took up the measurement question in a businesslike way and, to use a nautical phrase, gave it a thorough overhauling. The result was that changes of a radical nature will take place looking towarcl the betterment of the present conditions and the adoption of uniform rules that will encourage the building of a healthy type of yacht, doing away with the freak, and at the same time permitting boats of the old type to be so classified that their owners may enjoy the sport of racing, with some chance of winning a prize now r and then. The present method of obtaining the sail area is to be abandoned, and It will in future be determined by the measurement of the yacht’s spars, as set forth in the rules of the Yacht Racing Association of Long Island Sound, New York. Hjalmar Lund in, Able Wrestler. Hjalmar I.undin, a Chicago athlete, Is gaining considerable prestige in the European wrestling world. Lundin, who has been in Europe for the last two years, has in that time defeated some of the best of the foreign wrestlers, his latest victory being over H. Nieman, the champion wrestler and athlete of Germany, at Gothenborg, Sweden. More than a month ago Lnadtn-ar*' rived in New' York on*his way to Chicago, having failed to arrange a mutch with Nieman while No sooner had he arrived in New'/York than he received a challenge the German wrestler. He accepted, went to Sweden, and the match was Hold at a fashionable circus in Gothenborg. The first fall went to the Chicago man after sixteen minutes of work. Lundin won the second fall after a few minutes of wrestling, arid it was fully ten minutes before Nieman recovered his feet. The crowd cheered Lundin for his decisive victory, and the “Star Spangled Banner” was played. Lundin was an employee at the Pullman shops ten years ago, but soon attracted attention by his athletic prowess. The Figure Skating Championship. New life will be added this year to the national figure skating championship In New' York by the infusion of foreign blood. This will be the first time in the history of American skating that the European and American schools have competed in this country. The present amateur champion. William Duffy of the New York Athletic club, will again take part; also Dr. A. J. Keane, champion for four consecutive years, and in addition Salchow' of Stockholm, the present champion of Europe, and Hugel of Vienna.

The Gordon Bennett Anto Race. The racing committee of the Automobile Club of America has announced several important changes governing the receipt of entries for the James Gordon Bennett cup race team for next year. The date of closing the entries is Dec. 15, and the date on which the cars must be placed at the disposal of the committee has been extended from April 15 to May 1. The contestant must file with the secretary on or before May 1 an affidavit that his car has been entirely completed for a period of two weeks.