Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-29
sCoopING THE vALKYRIE.
She Need Not Come to Try For the
American Cup.

American Cup.
copyright 1888 bp James Gordon Bcnnett.l
SoUTu END, May 80, 1880 a. m.-tNew
York Herald Cable-Special to THE BEE. =
A good breeze greeted the yachting enthu-
siasts at Harwich yesterday morning, as the
yachts, competing in the Channel match
from Harwich to Southend, maneuvered
for POSITION
The race was for the Asbury cub and the
clubs prizes, amounting to geo; first prize,
g40; second prize, eco; and an extra prize of
gl0 was offered for the third; the
regulations being that it be sailed for by
yachts in cruising trim, Of any rig exceeding
fifteen tons, the time allowance for rig and
rating to be according to the Royal Yachting
associations rules, and four to start or no
second prize.
The harbor was alive early with sailing
crafts of various kinds, and bronzed boatmen
padded and skulled in their little dingies
here and there betwixt and between the
yachts lying at anchor. The frowsy
old pier was profusely and gaily
decked with many colored buntings, which
tapped and foated iauntily in breeze, that
the most weather-wise old crones predicted
would last.
Punctually at o'clock the gun fred and a
brilliant start was made by the feet of com
petitors as follows: Deerhound, Yarana,
Valkyrie, Irex, Amphitrite, Mohawk, and the
Vreda. Away they went, the Valkyre slightly
leading, the Irex astern and to leeward of
her, each one fetching clear out of the har-
bor. The eager crowd watched them disap-
pear in the sparkling breeze.
Around the Maplin buoys and lighthouse
the Irex led, followed at some distance by
the Yarana and the Valkyrie, closely chasing
one another
"It's a regular Irex day aud she'll win in a
canter," was the general opinion of the eager
crowd, who scanned the race from every
point of vantage as long as they could see
anything of it.
A strong head wind was most needed to
test the Valkyrie's powers. She had 1t, and
was terribly beaten in the fifty mile run to
Southend pier.
A group of English yachtsmen awaited the
yachts as. one by one, they hove in sight
from the charmingly situated grounds of the
Yacht club at Southend. The Irex was the
first to cross the line, and her time from the
end of the pier was hours minutes and A
seconds. The Yarana followed in 3:25:23
then the Valkyrie came .third in 3:26:22,
hoplessly beaten by the Irex, and owing the
Yarana a time allowance, which placed her
bad third.
The Mohawk arrived in 4:12:57; whilst
the Amphitrite was regarded out of it. The
Vreda did not start. The wind blew fresh
from the southwest, all day, and neither OF
the winning yachts carried topsals.
At the finish the Herald representative in
terviewed some members of the Alexandria
Yacht club, who seem to be unanimous in
their opinion that it will be useless to send
the VallSyrie to compete for the American
cup, since she has been beaten by the
Yarana. "For," said one gentlemen, "the
Yarana could never come near to beating the
Thistle"
There seems to be a general dlsappoint-
ment at yesterdays result, and unless there
is some satisfactory explanation of the Val
kyrie's collapse, it is thought by some to be
| improbable that she will be sent to New
| York. Some Southend experts are of the
| opinion that the yacht was too heavily bal
lasted and they still think she is good in a
| light wind against all comers.