Sport: Ithaca to Ithaca

Last week in Manhattan met the Cruising Club of America, famed organization of amateur yachtsmen who like to take small boats into the open sea. They had met to exercise the club's chief official function—the awarding of its yearly Blue Water medal to the amateur yachtsman (not necessarily a club member) who has performed that year the most "meritorious" seamanship. Medals for three years —1928, 1929, 1930—were given.

Thomas F. Cooke won for 1928. He sailed the ketch Seven Bells from Bradford River, Conn., to England, cruised her abroad for two years, and...