St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-17

yacht plunged Three light lee lines on the
Puritan's lib were led aft and when hauled
tant by Gen. Paine and much improved the
sail. Out from the northwest at las came
a splendid sGuall of wind, whistling through
the shrouds of the boats, laShing the green
into foam and sending the spray in sheets
over the yachts to windward. Those on
the small tugs were drenched with the
heavy seas that blinded them. Every one
thought the cutters tOpsails must come in.
Down she went, heeling over as she
fell, by the force OF the squall, till her
lee rail was lost to sight in ''smother" of
glittering foam; over yet, till the water was
washing up to her Skylights amidship, and
there was the limit Capt. Carter held her
to her course. Then about north by east,
one-quarter east, for the wind had hauled
to north norwest, and she seemed to
spring through the choppy seas which
were Tapped with seethipg ''white-
caps" as far to windWard as the
eye could reach. The Puritan was
making excellent weather of it this time,
and was steadily ''eating" up through the
Genestas lee. Just before she tackled at
SAT she has full half mile on Genestas lee
bow Instead of tacking when she could
have
CROSSED THE GENESTAS BOW,
She kept on, thereby, the committee saw,
losing much valuable ground. The Genesta
went about at 2:1S. This stretch to the
westward proved to be the last one, as the
wind favored the yachts, so they were able
to fetch the finish. When Capt Crocller
found he could easily fetch the lightShip
he started the sloops' sheets and
gave her ''good full" She was then about
half O mile on the Engllshman's weather
quarter, who also had his main sheet
started a triae, but was pointing" very
high at 1885 the Puritan kept broad off and
came by ''boiling" down for the
Genesta, weather, evidently III
tending to blanket her. Capt.
Carter seeing this. put the cutters helm
down suddenly and shot the Genesta into
the wind across his rivals stern and took a
windward position himself, although he
operation. There was 'lufing"
the Puritan got far enough ahead.
They were then, at 4:53, about three and a
half miles from the finish. The water was
getting smoother every moment, while the
breeze continued strong.
THE PURITAN INCREASED HER LEAD
steadily, and crossed the finish line at
her rousing reception. MI. Forbes
and the crew responding heartily
The Genesta crossed the line at 4:10 80,
only two minutes and twenSSy-four seconds
behind her. Fhe yachts looked grand as
they dashed across the line. Both were
taken in tow by the tugs Scandinavian and
Lucenback and cast off at their Staten island
anchorage at o'lock. The race was over,
and the American cup was still retained on
this side Of the Atlantic.
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
There was great rejoicing at the rooms of
the New York Yacht club tonight, each
member, as he entered, not feeling satisfied
until he had shaken every other members
hand and asked him what he thought of the
victory. The general impression was that
the English boat had been fairly
beaten with wind and sea that gave her
all the advantage she looked for, and that
were it not for the miserable way in which
the Puritan was sailed she could have easily
beaten the Genesta by at least ten minutes
more than the corrected time. The Pacific
Yacht club sent congratulatory tele-
grams to the New York Yacht
club from San Francisco signed by
their commodore, Caduc. The captain,
owners and others of the Puritan people
left tonight for Boston. The Genesta
people take their defeat i'll good part 1t
has been decided by the club that the race
for the commodores cup will take place on
the 18th inst The race for the Breniten's
reefs challenge cup will be on the 21st, and
that for the Cape May challenge cup On the
26th inst.