Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-22
WON BY THE MAYFLOWER
FIRST TRIAL HEAT FOR THE
FOUR BIG SLOOPS.

BOston's New Craft Beats the Puritan,
Atlantic and PrisciIIa-The GaIatea
Spreads III er Wings and Makes a Show
ing Which Looks Bad for the Ameri.
cans.
NEW YORK, Aug. 21.-To-day's race,
the first OF the series OF trial contests 10
determine which of our sloop yachts
shall meet the British cutter Galatea in
September, resulted in victory for the
new sloop Mayflower. She beat the Puri-
tan by ii minutes and IL seconds over
forty-mile course. She also defeated the
Atlantic 10 minutes and 81 seconds, and
the Priscilla IS minutes and 30 seconds,
and made the fastest elapsed time over
the course. The Atlantic defeated the
Puritan by 90 seconds and the Priscilla by
minutes 3S seconds, while the Puritan
beat the Priscilla Z minutes and 1S sec
onds. The Atlantic was the first across
the line at 10:12:07 O'Clock. Capt. "Joe''
Ellsworth was at the wheel. The Puritan
was next, only 43 seconds behind, with
Commodore Malcolm Forbes steering her.
Then came the Priscilla. steered by Com
modore A. Cass Canfeld, at 10:l3:20
O'Clock, ana the Mayflower. under Capt.
Martin VanBuren, Stones Guidance
bringing up the rear at 10:14:26 O'Clock.
THE COURSE.
The course was to and around buoys 10
and S4; thence around the Sandy Hook
llghtship and return to the finish off buoy
10; passing between 1t and the judges
boat lying to the eastward of It. The
handsome quartette OF racing craft were
able to lay their courses from the start TO
sandy Hook against a flood tide, and
from there to the lightship it was dead
beat to windward. A great improvemen5
in the Atlantic's sailing was noticeabls
from the first. The accompanying sloops
were the steam Yachts Electra, LIgnon,
Stranger, Ocean Gem, Vision, Empress,
and the sailing yachts DauntIess, Espi-
rito, Miranda, Galatea, Estelle and twen-
ty-two tug boats and other craft. The
time made to buoy 10 by each yacht was:
Atlantic, l:l7:l9; Priscilla, l:19:20; Pu-
rltan, l;2O:l5; Maytlower, 1:20:44.
MAGNIFICENT MAYFLoWER.
AS soon as the Maylower "felp the
long ocean ewells she began to "OutfoOt''
the others. She had been steadily over
hauling the Puritan for some time, and
exactly at II o'clock, when about two
miles southwest of Sandy Hook, she
passed her to the windward. She then
made play for her only antagonist-the
Atlantic. Capt. stone, of the MayfOwer,
put the sloop about five seconds after mis-
rival and, though on the Atlantic's lee
quarter at that time, she was swalkedv
out to the windward of her in ten min-
utes, crossing her bows and taking first
place in the contest. When the Nav
Hover tackled the next time, at 12:3T
O'Clock, she WAS fully a mile to the wind
ward OF the Atlantic and travelling like a
race horse for the goal--the lightship,
over five miles dead to windward.
THE GALATEA.
The Galatea, navigated by Capt. Brad,
ford, and with Mrs. benn on board. had
worked out to the middle OF Gedney's
channel, where she squared away" for
home, having almost caught the others
with but little effort, although starting
far behind them. A feet of over 100
steam and sailing craft plunged and rolled
in the long swells at the "Outer mark"
awaiting the yachts. The Mayflower
overreached little on her last staTboard
tack, but going about came grandly along
for the mark. gybng around 1t at In. 36m..
25s., with the Atlantic next. at III. Am.
As, the Puritan at 1b. 46m. 5s., and the
Priscilla at In. Som. lis. Each received
an ovation from the steam whistles.
THE wINDwARD WORK.
The figures show that in the windward
work to the lightship the Mayhower beat
the Atlantic 10 minutes and "a seconds.
the Atlantic beat the Puritan AZ seconds,
and the Priscilla minutes Is seconds.
Several gross mistakes were made by the
Puritan's sailing master or she would
have made better showing. Lieut..
Hem, watching the May10wer from the
judges boat, said: "rhat boats eight
minutes round the ligbtship, and has no
spinnaker set yet. That wouldn't do in
my ship" The MayfOwer and Puritan
set their spinnakers TO the starboard,
while the other two set theirs out to port,
making pretty picture. The Mayflow-
er's split about len feet from the foot up
when off buoy IL. The Prisclllas also
split, but both held on, and the positions
of all changed but little on the run home
to the finish.