Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1909 — AMERICA WON YACHT RACES [ARTICLE]

AMERICA WON YACHT RACES

Easily Defeats Germans Whose Boat* Trail Away In Rear. Marblehead, Maas., Aug. 31. —America won a decisive victory over Germany in the first of the series of Bonder boat races for the President-Taft and Governor Draper cups. All three places at the top of the list were captured by the defenders of the trophies, while the three challenging boats brought up well In the rear. The Joyette, owned by Commodore William H. Childs of the Bensonhurst Yacht club of Brooklyn won first honors, with the Ellen, owned by Charles P. Curtiss of Boston, second, and the Wolf, owned by Caleb Lorlng of Boston, third.