The Portland daily press., 1885-08-04

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rection, followed by six or eight steam tugs
and several steam yachts. The race down to
BrentOn's Point was devoid of special inter
est, save that it was very short time ere the
Priscilla got to windward of the Puritan,
and obtained lead, holding it securely for
well nigh half an hour. Meanwhile, the
Oracle, tightening her sails, had been doing
well, running well up to the Isis, and so on
closing up the fourth-minute start which the
The yachts, bearing down towards Bren-
toms Reef and thence along the Newport
cliffs, made pretty sight, the chief feature
Of which was the struggle between the Pris-
ella and Puritan for first place. In tacking,
shortly after wrestling the lead from the PuT-
itan, the Priscilla lost her advantage, and in
little while the Yankee" as the yachts
men style the Puritan, forged ahead. The
friends OF the Priscilla became alarmed to
see their favorite making such an unusually
long tack to round Easton's. Point fearing
she would lose by SO doing.
In the meantime the two leading schoon-
ers, the Fortuna and Montauk, were keeping
company, standing off for Eastons Point,
but away to the rear of the foremast sloops.
which were having pretty much their own
way.
At 11.30 o'clock some important changes
took place, for the Puritan got well on to the
port tack and for a time heading directly
towards the Sow and Pigs in her effort to
weather Easton's Point, and shortly after
wards the Fortuna and Montauk tackled, the
Priscilla, however, being still headed
towards Easton's Point.
1t was the making of this long tack and
in delaying putting about 50 long a time
after the Puritan had done so that gave the
latter splendid advantage and which the
Boston men maintained to the end of the
race, Ssme four OF five minutes after making
che tack that brought her out from Easton's
Point the Puritan crossed the Priscilla's
bows, thus increasing her advantage over
the New Yorker for aIIpractical purposes.
Neither the Bedouin, Grayling, Mohican,
Isis, Oracle or Athlon were in the race
A few minutes before noon the Puritan
made another tack from Cormorant Light,
and at this point her advantage over the
Priscilla was absolute and it was conceded
that there was no necessity Of any special
which should wrestle with Sir Richard SUIT
tons qenesta over the possession of the
Queens cup, for the superiority of the Pur-
itan was manifestly. acknowledged by sew
eral of the friscilla's friends.
From Cormorant Light down to the Sow
and Pigs the race was well contested, the
going being tolerably fast. The two sloops
led the sckooners so much that only the time
OF the Puritan and Priscilla could be taken.
the former rounding at / hour "a min. and
the latter at 2 hours min. % sec. This
showed lead OF nearly IA minutes. The
next stretch Of Is miles was before the wind.
with the leaders holding their own. The
Puritan slightly increased her lead on the
nome Strecn, ana might nave done still bet
ter had she not shortened sail some half an
hour before reaching the winning point
Many of the contestants were distanced and
returned into the harbor
The Puritan crossed the winning line at
2 minutes and 81 seconds past 8, but the
Priscilla did not cross until 4h. 2 min. II sec.,
and after giving the time allowance to the
Puritan of min. "a sec. she was beaten by
10 min. 16 sec. actual time When the
Puritan crossed the line the schooners were
at least six miles off.
The race between the schooners was even
closer than that of the sloops, the Fortuna
beating the Montauk two minutes and 3S
seconds in the forty-five mile run, occupy
ing nearly six hours. The following gives
the the time of arrival of the yachts and
elapsed and corrected time