The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-09-08
THE GREAT YACHT RACE
FOR THE WORLDS TROPHY CUP,
The host lntense Interest and Greatest
Crowds Ever Assembled for y simi-
lar Event-The Yankee Yacht
Ahead, but Lack of Wind
Spells the Sail.

AZ =. m. from the dry dock on which
she had besn cleared and pot-leaded
to the American docks at Tompkins.
Vile, Staten Island, whore, shortly
after 10 O'Clock, Mr.. John N. Wilson,
tho New York yacht clubs measurer.
took her accurat, measurement. She
WAS found to bo 50 S5- 100 feet in length.
and 81 teet 10 inches on the water line,
This measurement makes her allow
the Genesta exactly 81 seconds oyar
the courses she will sail. Fifty sail of
ysohts, including many Of the Eastern
and Boston yacht clubs, accompanied
the Puritan and the Genesta from their
anchorage to the Horse Shoe, Sandy
Hook. The wind was light ut tho start,
but in the run ut,when fresh breeze
came from tho westward, the Purltan
slipped past the Genesta and held ths
advantage to the anchorage. The start
Will be made tomorrow at 1850. Two
hundred sail OF yachts are lying at tho
rendezvous and over 800 vessels will
accompany the contestants over the
course.
THE PROGRAMME.
NEW YORK, Seps. Z. - Tho pro.
b'"n"o VI .iiV oVhthiittoo governing
tho international racs for the Amari.
can cup, between the American
yacht Puritan and the Eng
lisn yacht Genesta, is as follows:
The first race will DO 20 statute
miles TO windward, or to leeward,
and return from the Scotland light
ship, II 1t ia possible to mako course
from that point; II not, from the Sandy
Hook lightship. b, of the Interna.
tional code, displayed from tho Judges
boat will aigni'y tue former; d, tho
latt9r.
The start and tho finish: Tho con.
testing yachts will pass between the
judges boat and the lightship. The
outer mark is TO bs kept on ssarboard
IN rounding.
The second race ls to bs over
the clab COURSE, length about
80 statute miles. Ia this
race, thu yachts, in starring, will cross
M imaginary line drawn from the
judges steamer, anchored one.fourth
of mile below buoy No. is, opposite
owl's Head, Long Island, and a mark
boat, anchored in shore from the
stoamer, thence keeping outside OF
Fort Lafayette, to and around buoy 10,
passing TO the west and sonth of 1t,
thence south 60 buoy lsN. passing
south OF 1t and north OF buoy
., on tho point of Sandy Hook
TO and around Sandy Hook
lightship, turning IL from north and
east aud then returning over tho Same
course 20 the flush line drawn ut tho
homo stake boat, which will bs au-
chored abreast ana to the eastward OF
buoy No. l5. All yachts must pass TO
tho eastward OF the westward buoys
Nos 0, IL, 10 aud 10 and 10 the west
ward OF tho red buoys OF Nos. l0IS, IL,
Ia aud ~, both going and returning.
Tho thtrd race will be over triong
ular course, 40 statute miles
long, starting from the Scotland light.
ship. The yachts will cross the line az
tho start and finish In the same man.
ner as in the first race.
Tho weather thus tar, according to
reports, favors the Puritan. She
works better in smooth sea. Both
boats, however, Can take better blow
than live miles an hour.
EAGER EXCURsIoNIsTs.
At an carly hour this morning tho
river fronts were invaded by q small
army of well-dressed men, most OF
whom carried overcoats and had
marine glassas strung over their
shoulders. Many ladies woro with the
mon, aud tho destination OF all was The
yacht raco, by way Of numbsrless ex-
cursioa boats,which,gnily deeked with
bunting, rested easily at the ends of
the plers, from far uptown down 10
tho battery, on either side OF tho city.
Al the i0st Of Wost Twenty. third
street tse police boat Patrol received a
select asnemblago. Farther down,
fre.f I'm. foot Ne 81 la
steamer Richmond carried away a
of the Iron Steamboat company wero
boats receiving lavgo loads Of pssson.
gers.
THE RETTiSa
which last night had changed
shifted again this morning
to sos and $40 TO SlOo In favor of ths
Pari,an.
MHAsuREMENTs.
Tho moasurar of tho Now York
yacht club gives tho following as the
lnessuromnns calculation OF tho sail
iug lnngth ot tho aanssta: From ton
masthead 20 deok, 07 2-l0 feot; ond OF
beam to tip OF b1wsprit, liOk
feet; gaif, i6 ioet; water limo, 81 6-i0
foot.
Too Purltan's measurements arc AZ
follows: From top masthead 10 deck,
lO2 LILO feet; from end OF boom to tin OF
bowsprit, lii CLIO foet; gaif, AZ feot:
wator limo, 81 LILO feet.
he therefore glvos the Gsnosta 81
secondS time allowance.
Tho Puritan III being sailed by Can.
tain Aubrey Crocker, assisted by
Captain Jool Ellsworth aud - able.
bodied aeemen, and tho Genesta Ia bo.
ing sailed by Captain John Carter aud
mate, William lasgstc, md 10 British
tsSs.
HISTORY OF rus cur RACE.
Tho cup for which tho 0ones.a and
tho Puritan arc now contosting, IL hold
In this country by virtue OF the sailing
OF Tho yacht America, who won II d
years ago, and Il has never
Doen recapturod by Engl fish sails. II
was offered by tho Royal Yacht club,
In 1851, during tho great worlds fair OF
that year, open 10 yachts from all nn.
tons. Toe race In which the America
carried OF tho cup was sailed on Au-
gust ~. There woro Is ontrios. The
America won by - minutes ahesd of
tho best OF tho other vessels, Tho Ar.
rurs. Tho cup thus won became tho
club IN. July, 1857, tho Americs's
owners having transferred IL to ths
club. In 1870 au attempt was mals Ia
recover the cup. Tho raco came oiron
tho Ssh ~ August OF that yoar between
the English yacht Cambria.
owned by Joseph Ashburry'
aud fleet OF American yachts'
Tho Cambria camo In tenth In tho
race, tho Magic frat and tho Old
America second. In 1871 another trial
wss made by Mr.. Ashburn, who
seemed determined to got back the
cup. In this contest, the Ameriran
yachts, the Columbia and tho Sappho
won hve. out OF eight races arranred
for. Twice more-in 1916 and IN ISL
american yachtsmen had 10 defend
tho cup. The contestants came from
Canada and were badly beatan
BY the Americans. The DAY here
!. honored generally ia ship.
ping quarters by libersi
display of English and American
ilsgs. The races begun to-dav Will