Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-17

which pointed their noses towards the
city. The excursion boats and pleasure
yachts followed suit, and so apparently
the question as TO the supremacy OF the
English cutter or the American sloup Is
settled, AZ least, for the time.
MEurs on rnr RACK.
NEW YORK, sept. ld.--The Puritan has
beaten the Gencsta to-day over the forty
mile course from scotland light-ship
twenty miles 70 leaward and return,
minutes, seconds actual time. or min
ute, SS seconds corrected time The race
was said by the oldest yachtsmen 10 he
the best and most closely contested
ever seen Ia the world The
wind WAS moderate from the
west-northweSt at the start. AS the
yachts We're dead before IL 10 the
outer mark IL Increased, and before they
had sailed halt the windwad returning,
II was blowing half way from north
northwest with quite a bumpy sea. The
Puritan housed her top mast, but the
Genesta lugged her top sail TO the finish.
She was two minutes SIX seconds ahead
at the outer mark.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
NEW YORK, Sept. iG.-"The cup STAYS
in Amerlca.n These words were spoken
by ex-Commodore James IL smith ~ Tho
Puritan's main boom passed the liuht.
shin to-day after tho closest contcst s,,nr
sailed over any fortv.milc course
The Genesta was beaten one
minute and thirty-eiyht seconds
corrected time. 2 minutes ana seconds
actual time, The ronrse was twcntv
miles 10 leeyard ana rotnrn frn,n no
Scotland lIght.shin The wind heIng
west-northyest ne vacbts ware san,
away on an east-soutbeast conrse dnod no.
fore the wind. In this RIM Tho rnttcr
heat the sloop minnie and 81 seconds
From there 10 the finish they made hnt
one short tack of a milo and tyo Ian,
lengths ofniue and ton mlles resnnrti,clv
In 4 hard galo OF wind. which rban,scd ~
the north northwest soon after ma onter
mark was turned. m'tbIs ,vorl thc pnri.
tan gained minutes ana no sncnnds
from point 10 mint
Leaving Nor thren ls,st pI.or a, a
O'Clock The COMMITTEES boat i'nokenhscb
fiying Tho aags of tbe Nav, yorp Tast',,,
and ROYAL Thomas vschi cinhs str"s,nad
down the bny n staten island tati,s ~,
hoard there Mr. IouIs y parard IA ,,n
Iawanhake Watch cIuh and Nj. p,,ie,,t ~
the Prisculla. Tberc wore also on hoar,i
ex-Commodore lanes n snt,1, - ,hn
New YORK Yacht elnb. lranklin parsiorG
the Marine artist. mud others "
The sky overhead was clear as n hon
but ont over The New Jersey hills IN the
westward. 6ency within clouds v,,r,' ,.isi,,,,
giving promise Of an increase in IN, tn,,so
of tile moderate br,egc from no. ,,nst-
northwest then blovyIna mere
was one solitary snrrtator ON
the bluffs of Fort Wordsworth
as the boats PASSED through the Nnrro,ys
where there had been Thousands IN NInr.
| day 10 see the finish of tbe 0rst rocc
| There was no time lost I'm prenarntions
| to-day. When the iudgos, boat arrived
of Sandy Hook the Genestn ana Puritan
werd both under weigh close nm tn tbc
Scotland lipht.ship. thc starting noini
| As soon a. Mr.. SCHUYLER. rcprpsentiny
! the tienestu on the Puritan was mn an
/ board the latter Yacht and can't Robert
! Center boarded the Genesta Ia
/ do similar duty for The puri.
/ tan people, the tug Scandinavian
| in charge of Alessrs. Llppncoft
aud Mr. Olsen, WINS sent nway To iock ONT
the twenty mile course east-soutbeast 10
4 the leeward, and az lO:45 Che committee
I boat anchored with the lipht-shp hearinr
/ southwest distance of 100 Yards This
formed the imaginary line over which thc
Yachts were to pass. Al this tllno The
steam-yachts Electra. rtonsna. strongnr
Corral, Vision. Sentinel. Polvnia and Slv
Lark had gathered 10 the southwest of tbe
Judges boat. The steamers Grand Re-.
nublic. Taurus Sirins n n pava and
The Old steamship Richmond thcI, dcrls
fairly black with entbnsiastic sncrtators
I'M close by with enongh amos 1ying to
snpply n conple of clrcnses The brco1c
was ircsheninp every moment and I'D
prospect Of n grand race 10 tbc Howard
where The yachts couId carry their snin.
makers. was sufficient 10 crootc m, ,,t-
most excitement
when the prennratory whistle WINS o,von
NJ II O'Clock. Inc Puritan inv abont n
quarter Of mile astern nj Ia indye,s
hoat. bcaJlug Ia the sontheast ,S,th bor
sninuaker horn do,yn IN III storl,oard
hsr main sheet hnuled ~, ann hcr m,
sheet 10 Inc windward ono mint
hefore the starting ,,.histln ,yas hIa,,,n
the Genesto cane tearlng across tbn
mos Stern and he pnrItan5s bo,y q, the
mort tack heading norallel Win tbe linz
rbose who were ,yatchin, tbc ,nn"o'
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