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Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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ich a number of yachts were pre-sent, a select party of gentlemen dined togetherat the Marine Hotel at West Cowes. On September 2nd, 1814, yacht races, whichare referred to as the annual regatta, took placeand were followed by a dinner at .VldredsHotel, East Cowes, and in 1815 the HampshireTelegraph alludes to many members of theYacht Club, thus showing that the gentlemenwho had been in the habit of arranging theregatta and dining together afterwards, hadpractically banded themselves into some sort ofclub. The Yacht Club was formally constituted at ameeting held on June ist, i8i5,at the ThatchedHouse in St. Jamess Street, London. Thechair was taken by Lord Grantham, and it wasresolved that the club be called The YachtClub. The actual phraseology of the minutesis worth noticing, as showing that in this case,as in the case of the Water Club of Cork, anorganisation in the nature of a club had previ-ously existed, for we find it in the minutes that At a meeting of the members of the Yacht
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v\^ yachting) THE ENCYCLOP.EDIA OF SPORT 557 Club it was resolved, and again That thefollowing are regarded members of the Club,and here followed forty-two names, these beingno doubt the names of the gentlemen who hadbeen in the habit of attending the annual din-ners at Cowes. It was at the same meeting settled that thequalification for membership of the club shouldbe the ownership of a vessel not under ten tons,that ten members should ballot for the electionof any new member, and that two black ballsshould exclude; that the entrance fee should betwo guineas, to pay for two copies of the signalbook, and that the fiag of the club should bewhite, with a union in the corner. ■On August 24th, the first annual meeting ofthe Yacht Club was held at Cowes to electmembers and transact other business. It wasat the same meeting decided that yachts shouldfly a plain white burgee, and that officers ofthe navy should be eligible as honorary mem-bers. The first cf such honorary members electedwas

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