St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-07
Puritan and Genesta Make the Start To-
day-The English Cutter Grew
Fear Danger.
Olingstone and Phallas Will Each Give
Harry Wilkes Chance to Show
His Speed.
Lacrosse Between Indians and a Chi
cago Team - Sullivan Declines
to Meet Ryan.
Billiard Match Between S1osson and
VignauX Chicago Still Holds
First Place.
Great Yacht Race.

Special to the Globe.
New YORK, Sept. esterday was re-
ception day aboard the Puritan and she was
visited by about all the members of the
Eastern Yacht clubs at present in this
vicinity, and many and hearty were the
congratulations and wishes for success
showered upon the owners. Chairman j.
Frederick Toms and j. B. Busk of the
Americas cup committee also visited here
and had long conferences with Messrs.
Ford and Burgess. Mr.. Toms said that if
the wind was light and the sea stumpy in
the twenty miles to the windward race out
side Monday, he thought the chances would
be in favor of the Genesta. While in the other
two races the chances would be decidedly in
favor of the Puritan. Mr. Forbes concurred
in that opinion. An old salt prophesied that
the weather would be fair Monday, with a
rolling sea and fine breeze. William Krebs
OF the New York Yacht club will sail on
board the GeneSta to represent the Puritan.
The Genesta remained at her anchor off
Tomkinsville all day. The crew were prac-
tlced III housing and resetting the tOpmasts,
and the mainsail was hoisted and the top
sail set, also for practice. Sir Richard
Sutton, the owner Of the Genesta, and Sir
William Levinge, his brother-in-law, had
not returned from Niagara up to o'clock
this evening, but they were expected to ar
rive during the evening. So much has been
said about the seaw0rthiness of cutters as
compared with sloOpS that a well-founded
report current among yachtSmen is worth
mentioning. 1t is said that several of the
Genesta'S crew have signifed their inten-
tlon not to cross the Atlantic in the cutter.
In connection with crews of yachts, which
have been lying near by the Genesta, they
have said that on the way over the Genesta
had much rougher experience than her
captain has admitted, and that at one time
during the voyage everything aboard of her
was atoat for eighteen hours from seas
which she shipped. Their experience was
so trying that they have determined to re-
turn to England by steamer.
READY FOR THE RACE.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.-The Puritan was
towed at o'clock this morning from the
dry dock on which she had been cleaned
and pot loaded to the American docks at
Tompkinsville, Staten Island, where shortly
after 10 o'clock Mr.. John M. Wilson, the
New York Yachts club measurer took her
measurement. She was found to be SO $500
fast sailing length and 81 feet 10 inches on
the water line. This measurement
makes her allow the Genesta exactly
81 seconds over the courses she
will sail. Fifty sail of yachts, including
many of the Eastern and Boston Yacht
| clubs, accompanied the Puritan and Genesta
from their anchorages. The wind was
light at the start but in the run out, when
a fresh breeze came from the westward, the
Puritan slipped past the Genesta and held
the advantage to the anchorage. The start
will be made tomorrow at half past ten.
Two hundred sail of yachts are lying at
the rendezvous and over three hundred YES
sells will accompany the contestants over
the course.