The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-09-08
THE YACHT RACE
Intense Interest IA the Event BAG
Turn Out-fOstponed.

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is dotted with yachts of every size aid
shane. and each one is GRO vdcd with
people who have come to wines the
race Tor the American cup, between the
British Yacht Gsnesta and the American
Puritan. Early this morning the wind
was light. from the west. 1t calmsd
down however, and by THIS time there
lis hardly enough wind to ill the sails.
The wind is now four miles an hour
and from the north; he weather IS
haZv. Several yachts are beating OUT
from the horseshoe, Others are BEING
To we'd. The sel il as smooth as pane
of glass. The yach. ParitGp, in tow of
the tug Luther I. Hard, passed OUT
at 9 50.
SANDY Hook, IL a. m.-Yachts, stea-
, mers, steamboats,, tugs and sal !hg
,, crafts of every description are going
. out towards Scotland Light, the starting
place for to-day's race. Never before III
the memory of the oldest inhabitaht
was such a fleet assembled around
, sandy Hook.
The GeaestG sailed out under mani
, sail. foresail. club tOpsail. jlb ana Jl0
tonsaiI at 1923. When outside the DO k
,, She took a tug Foat for the light-shlp.
New YoR6, September 1.-The pro
;; eramme of the committee governing
: the international race for the Amerl-
! can Gun between the American yacht
: PDritaa anc English yacht GenestG Is as
follows: The first race will be twenty,
! statute miles to windward or to leewaru
! and return from Scotland lightship, II
: it is possible to make the course from
J that point if not from SANDY HOOK
. iientship. Second-The race to be over
I the club course, length about thirty
Of .rht miles, In this race the eontestlng
yachts in starting will cross an lmagin-
|, ary line drawn from tn judges steamer
u u anchored opposite Owps Head, Long
l Island and boat anchored in shore
y from the steamer, thence (keeping out
{ side of Fort Ltfayette) To and around
{ sandy Hook lightship. turning 1t from
5 the north and east and then returning
q over The same course TO the hnlSh
u line, drawn between the home STAKE
% boats.
u lar course. forty statute miles long.
u Starting from Scotland lightshlp the
Y contesting yachts will cross the line at
8, the start and finish in the same man
~ ner as the first race.
e SANDY Hook, September moon
re II looks ad for the yacht race TO day
70 there is so little wind. The contestlne
III yachts are still around Scotland llght
IeS Ship. Such feet as Is now assemoleu
VI at the Highland lightshlp has neyel
u been seen there before. The sloops ar
~ ready. but the wind is rather light. The
te weather is still hazy out pleasant:
en- SASpY Hook, September IL 40 pm
pe The yachts have started in the laterna
ne tional race for the American cup. In
~ P,tritaa got off a so p. M, followed D
is the Gcncstr at 1910. The wind is ligh
e3 from the southe east.
icy The measurer of the New York 1ach
ne Company gives the following as IN
icy measurement for calculation OF IN
sailing: Length of Genestd from tol
ing mast head to deck 81 2-10 feet, end {
ost noon to tin Of bowsprit 140 5-l0 fee
ne gaff &c feet, water line 81 6-10 feet. In
up PtritGq,'s m easurementS are as follows
ere From tnpmast head to deck l02 LILO Zee
ms from end Of boom to top OF bowspr
nc III 6-IO feet, gatf AZ feet; water line
10 1-1Oth feet. She therefore gives q
lot Eepesid thirtv-one seconds time ALLOW
o" ance. The PuritGn is being sailed 3
Captain Aubrey Croker, assisted Q
Captain Joe Ellsworth and TWENTY-FIVE
able bodied seamen, and the GeaeSG
ent being sailed by CAPTAIN John Carte
Wv ana Mate VIM. Hosgate and hite'
British tars.
ent $50 p.m.-Tne yachts are now stan
ice. ing to the eastward and are still ne
oil, the Iightship. The Pertain is to 4
wIndward and about half mile ahea
ton With the present wind, IL is not e
Il nected that the race can be sailed mu
tie within the prescribed time-seyen hou
-al- or no race.
car Roth Yachts are standing southwe
ing The Puritan is we'll to windward; WI
zeal very light.
eve SANDY Hook, September IA m.
The Puritan has gained three ninG'
lied and forty-hve seconds so Tar. ana
call leaving the Gclresta all the time.
tier ala p.m.-Both yachts are dol
aho,t and now standing east-southea
= The Puritan is mile TO windward:
at s AKA p.m,-The yachts are still stal
nt's mo esst.southeast. The Puritan
pot Lining ali the time, nd looks
the be two miles TO windward. ADO
ing, fifteen miles have been run.
The 7.15 p.m.-Nothing definite mas p
the learned since the last bulletin.
wed yachts are now reported standing
lent the starb7a rd tack to the south. =
He the steamboats, are coming BACK. !
he wind is light, southeast; haZy.
how POSTPONED, AFTER ALL.
.4Op.m.-The race between the r
mand Genesta has been postponed
til tomorrow.
NEW YoRK, September T.-Owinl
meet the lateness Of the start, the initial
to- between the GenestG aud Paritdn, am
cont a lack of wind afterwards, the yachts
ceeded to-day in making only nan
been course. or twenty miles. In this twe'
is no mile heat to windward, the P~r
iring souarely outsailed the GenestG, one
It all in ten and nearly two miles IN I've
d to A haze settled upon the bay all mori
tated and there was no wind from any qua
ident until nearly noon. A hundred SO ga
lding Yachts lay in the Horse SHOE az ga
ering Hook this morning. when the lu%
&c Of boat Lslckenbach, arrived from H y ~
With the Judges, Messrs. J; II. Ia
Chas. Steb5ins and Philip Schuyler.
as o'clock, am, Jay Goula,s 81
Yacht Atalantq passed out by the e., ~
pun! followed in ten minutes by the
Wells luther c. Ward; towing. the
p~r;fqn. She was saluted by guns
nearly every steam yacht IN tns !;
while on her way to the ScotiahI u \ !
Lake ship. the starting point. The G G
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