The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
BRITIsHERS BEATEN.


ner in the First International Contest
The Puritan Leads the Genesta from
Start to Finish-Her Rival Over a Mile
Behind at the Close.
New YORK, Sept. 15.-The race be-
tween the Genesta and Puritan yesterday
was over what is called the inside course
is down through the Narrows, across the
lower bay, around buoy No. 10 on the
southwest split, leaving that buoy on the
port hand, thence to the southwark of buoy
No. 81 and to the northward of buoy No.
on the point of Sandy Hook, out around
the Sandy Hook light ship, and home over
the same course, finishing at buoy No. Is,
just aside the Narrows. The distance is
thirty-eight miles.
The preparatory signal, long blast of
the whistle on the judges boat, was sounded
at 1925 The Genesta and Puritan were
lying within three hundred yards of the
judges BOAT The tide was running strong
flood when the starting signal was given at
1880. Both yachts came down for the
line almost together. The Puritan
was to windward and crossed first
at 1882 :O2, with tine Genesta two sec
0nds behind. As the time limit was 1922
both yachts were handicapped. Standing
across to the Long Island shore they both
tackled close under Owls Head at 10 81 80.
The Genesta feeling" puff, VIII ich struck
her just as she filled away OH the port tack,
she shot ahead of the Puritan. But the gain
was only mOmentary, for when both tackled
Fifteen minutes later the Genesta was good
800 Tardssin the Puritan's wake. AS the rival
craft passed through the Narrows the hun
Of o%040 o{o.1 I'll,
sloping green bluffs cheered the contestants
on. The Puritan, catching putf OF wind,
passed out first while the Genesta lay al
most motionless under the lee of the fort.
When she finally got the breeze the Puritan
was nearly mile ahead. lacking to the
west OF buoy IA at 10:0S the Puritan
reached the quarantine anchorage. The
wind was very light, and neither yacht made
very much speed against the tide. When
both went about at IL :32 p. M, the Puritan
to port and the Genesta to starDoard, the
former was fully half-mile to windward.
After five tedious stretches to windward,
buoy 10 was weathered and rounded as
follows: Puritan, 1:16:22; Genesta,
1925. They were here saluted by the at
tendant steamers. The Puritan passed
buoy at :32, and the Genesta passed it at
malnsail, club-topsail, fore-staysail, jib and
jib-topsail
From here to the ''outer mark" was the
most exciting part of the contest. Travel
Ing at a ten-knot rate in fresh breeze, and
heeling till their lee rails were ''awash,"
they made pretty picture. Quite heavy
swell came rolling in from the eastward,
and soon their crests were covered with
white-caps, while an immense fotilla
OF pleasure steamers, supplemented
every moment by others from the
city, chased each other at full speed
for the lightship to witness the turn,
which was made by the yachts as
follows: Puritan, 2:14:54; Genesta, 2:19:16.
Both were greeted with applause from
steam whistles, guns, and hundreds of
Threats as they luffed grandly round the
mark, and kept away, with sheets started,
for the point off Sandy Hook. The Puritan
held her lead well, and both, with booms
off to starboard, came to the west
ward like race-horses, only to strike
ihtO a calm streak and head wind
off the Hook The Puritan went about
at 1924 and stood into the Horseshoe for
three minutes, when she was able to wealth
er buoys So and 10. The Genesta made
the same tackS later, and both rounded
buoy 10 as follows: Puritan, 3:3S:05; Ge-
nesta, 3:46:05. Setting her balloon jib-top-
sail at once and starting her sheet broad
Off to Starboard, she soon increased her
lead on the Genesta, although both
very light air. The Genesta's spinnaker was
after rounding the buoy. The Puritan's
cv,ip ol-o,h rO Ia, h,,k h.
was not set. She crossed the finish line at
4:3S:05, and was followed by the Genesta
at 4:54:52, making the actual lead of the
former Is minutes Al seconds, and the cor
rected lead 16 minutes 10 seconds.
A rope was thrown and made fast
to the English cutter, and she was taken in
tow by q tug. Sir Richard Sutton
ran up to the bow of his boat and asked
to be lowed alongside the Puritan.
This was done, and when the cutter ran
alongside the sloop the tars crowded to
her side. Sir Richard stood upon the rail
sci almost touched he cried: snow, men,
give them British hurrah." He led the
cheers himself with his hat in hand, and
the English tars shouted with him. Hip
hip, hurrah! hurrah" The Puritan men
returned the salute, and all the bay echoed
with cheers and hurrahs, three times re-
peated for the English crew and herown, too.
The Genesta's main cap was broken
during the race, and the outside race has
been postponed until Wednesday. The fol-
lowing table gives the actual result:
Start Finish. Corrected
Puritan .....-io g 1855 sSs @ @
Captain ';Joe' Ellsworth, who was ON
the race was over: II don't think we have
any sure thing at all in sailing against that
boat-she's terror. She was not far be-
hind us when we got in to the point of the
Hook, but we were able, by pulling the CEN
terboard up little, to skim along Flynn's
Knoll, where she could not go, and so
gained on her. But if there is a strong
breeze in the race of Wednesday, twenty
miles to windward, it will be very close
thing between that cutter and the Puritan. /"
Sir Richarn Sutton last evening entertained
on board the Genesta party of friends
from the yacht Stranger. Captain Carter,
the sailing master of the Genesta, was the
only person of any sort of authority who
could be seen. "We were beaten fairly"
iAO Do'us OOuODOuy . 6Oo " DO0osf ohd
somebody has got to be beaten. The cap
of the topmast is somewhat sprung. We
can make it all right. though, by to-mor-
row. But the boat wasn't beaten because
of that. We were squarely beaten on our
merits in light wind"
LONDON, Sept. 15.-All to-day's papers
appear with long descriptions of the race
between the Puritan and the Genesta. The
prevailing opinion is that the light breezes
of yesterday, though unfavorable to both
vessels, told more against the Genesta than
against her rival, and that the length of
time occupied by the race shows that ii
does not offer conclusive test of the sail
ing capacities of either.
3Ia
-Ice-cream has become standard
for judging of peoples social status.
At Newport there isn't an ice-cream
saloon anywhere in the region of cot
tages, and the same is true of the fash
ionable part of Long Branch; but at
Ocean Grove, where nobody preteuds
to be anybody in particular, ice-cream
saloons abound, and five hundred per-
SONS can he seen eYnptviDor sallcerS with