Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-09

We Wouiu come IN an easy win
ner. We sped along in this manne
for about four hours and then the jury
mast and the sticks we had rugged III
parted and away for the second tim,
went our topsail and balloon lib. We
did what we could to arrest this disaster
but the short distance remaining to be
traversed precluded our undertaking te
again rig a temporary tepmast, SO We
scudded along as well as possible and goi
in as you know twenty-eight minutes be.
hind the Lurline. It was
A MAGNIFICENT RACE
All through, for at no time did the two
boats lose sight of each other and we
changed positions six times, the Aggie
being three times to windward and ahead
and the Lurline having the same record.
Theoretically we won under the time
allowance, for the smaller boat in race
is allowed 2A minutes for each foot in
length for every twenty-four miles raced,
and the Aggie rides only 6S feet 10 inches
on the water to the Lurline's about rs
feet. The actual time of the race was
ninety hours and thirty minutes for the
Lurline and ninety hours and fifty-eight
minutes for the Aggie, and as the dis
tance covered was about 558 miles, that
is very fine record. For the first
twenty-four hours we travelled as fast as
any pace ever made in American run
ning-276 miles in that time. Another
good trip made was round Point Con-
cepcion, when we logged forty-five
miles in three hours and ten minutes.
l think it possible that we will get up
another race and. with the Aggie in good
condition it is almost certain she would
win. The Lurline men claim that their
boat can make the best showing in light
weather, but that is matter to be de-
cided by racing. We were terribly
handicapped in our race, for we started
out in poor condition and met with cal
amity after calamity on the voyage,
while the Lurline was in frst-class con-
dition and nothing happened to mar her
progress during the entire journey.
If race were arranged for
q round trip between San Fran
cisco and San Diego / think that
the betting would be to l on the
Lurline for the downward journey and 8
to on the Aggie for the up trip. We
ran most of the time with three sails less
than the Lurline, but in spite of this we
did not get beaten very badly. The first
time our mast was blown away there was
regular hurricane raging, the wind
going fully so miles an hour. This did
not, however, impede US very much. as
the wind was in our favor, and the only
detriment was from the heavy seas which
would occasionally wash overheard.
The Aggie is on her way now to
San Pedro, where she will be thor
oughly overhauled, as she is not in
condition now to go to San Francisco for
repairs as 1 at first intended. AS the
Coronet is lying off San Diego it is proba-
BILE that we will have some more racing
very shortly, though nothing of the sort
has yet been arranged by the owners.
The Coronet will necessarily have to
lay up some time after her long trip, but
when she is in trim again, if Mr.. Rush
wants to match her against the Aggie,
will not say nay. By the
way saw in some OF the papers state
ment to the effect that had $1,000 bet
with Mr.. Spreckels on the result of the
Aggie-Lurline race. 1t is all nonsense.
did not have cent staked on the af-
fair, it was simply race for glory" con-
cluded Mr.. Mcfarland, as the scribe
pocketed his notebook and departed,
thinking that he might possibly be in
truding on too much of Mr.. McFarlana's
time