Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-26
yALKYRIE WINS AGAIN.
Yet II Is Held She Can't Get the
American Gun.

lCoppiDhted 1889 bu James Gordon Bsnnettl
HARwIcH, April e. New York Herald
Cable-Specal to THE BEE.l-The vallsyrie
won again to-day, in the New Thames Yacht
Club channel match, from Southend to
Harwch She beat the Trek by over 90
minutes actual time, and by 32 minutes and
IA seconds corrected time, adding her handi-
cap Of minutes and So seconds.
The race, however, was not an exciting
one, being mixture of very light breezes
and semi-dead calms throughout. 1t proved
one thing, however, and that is that the
Valkyrie can outdstance any yacht of her
class afoat. Some say that in a light wind
and on some occasions, to-day for example,
luck strongly favors her. AT the start the
Irex made slight lead and got away ahead
of her competitor the same as yesterday, but
the Valkyrie quickly pulled up on her, and
the match was pretty nearly procession all
the rest of the way.
The race was for yachts of any rig for
first prize of ESQ, and a second prize of ESQ if
four start, and a third prize of e20 IL six
start. The entries were the Mohawk, Vreda,
Yarana, Dis, Deerhound, Foxhound, Valky
rie, Irex, and Amphitrite.
The gun sounded for the start at s AS a. M,
and under fresh breeze from the landward
the entire fotilla moved gracefully forward,
in what for moment seemed an even line.
The Irex and Valkyrie were slightly ahead,
and in q minute or two James cutter could
be plainly seen outdistancing Lord Dunra-
vens champion. Behind them came the
Mohawk and the Deerhound; the schooner
Amphltrite followed, and close behind her
sailed the Vreda and the dimlnutive Dis.
The boats maintained the same order for a
while, in fact all of them did so for long
while, save the Mohawk and the Deerhound,
which tstarted Off together on lufing
match toward Sheerness, which vancouver,
though it subsequently gave them little
more wind, was OF no perceptible advantage
to either of them.
BY the time the Mouse light was reached
a fat calm had fallen over the water, and
the white sails tapped in struggling help
lessness for little time until a mere ghost
of a breeze came up, and famed them slowly
onward. Mean while the Valkyrie had pulled
up on the Irex and was steadily increasing
her lead over her big opponent, while the
Yarana was Just maintaining her position
as third. The Deerhound next overlook the
schooner Amphitrite, and remained ahead of
her during the remainder of the race, the
Vreda, Mohawk, Foxhound and Dis remain
ing solidly in the rear.
Coming round the buoy before the Cark
lightship the wind failed again, but quickly
veered round and took the crafts ahead
The Valkyrle, in her position as leader,
caught the breeze almost fifteen minutes
before her opponents, and taking down her
jib-topsail tackled and fetched around
the buoy and lightship. The others crawled
up slowly until they too caught the breeze
that had sent Lord Dunraven's yacht so far
ahead of them, but were altogether too late
to have prevented her victory, We're she even
not half so fleet racer as she is. Away she
sailed leaving her other competitors far in
her wake, and passed the buoy outside the
pier at Harwich nearly half an hour before
any of the rest
The gun was fired at hours, IA minutes.
10 seconds. The IreX came in in 6:40:37
The official time of the foremost quartette
was, the Valkyrie, first prize. 6:14:l9; Inex
second prize, 6;4037; Yarana, disqualified,
nil; the Deerhound. 7:15 Al the Amphttrite,
7:lS: :43. The handicap was, Irex, nil; Val
kyrie; minutes, 55 seconds, and
the Deerhound, 2S minutes, 23 seconds; the
Amphitrxe, 4 minutes, 40 seconds; the Yarana
would have secured third place save for the
fact that she passed on the wrong side of the
buoy. Some one in the judges boat en-
deaVoreu 10 slgnal 10 ner tne mistake IN Time
to avoid the consequences, but was promptly
prevented from effecting his purpose by the
judges, but the race in itself confirms one
thing, that scarcely needed confirmation, to
wit, the Valkyrie is better boat than the
Yarana or the Irex.
Down among the yachting men, to-day, it
was the freely expressed opinion that the
new cutter can not hope to win in race
against the Volunteer, save by the purest
luck The Circumstances being similar for
each, the Volunteer could walk away from
the Valkyrie.