The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-10-12
THE CUP LOOKS SAFE.


British Challenger, vaikyrie-Tho Latter
Outssiled at Every Turn-Tho American
Centerboard stin Carries ION the Palm
as n "Get There"
New YoRh, Oct. 1O.-Yesterday was
Great Britain's day so far as weather
for yacht race was concerned, and
Lord Dunraven and all the crew of the
rakish black cutter were happy when
they went down the bay In the morn
ing. c. Oliver Iselein and the gallant
crew of the white cup defender were
the happy ones when the yachts came
back in the afternoon. They had Il
triumphal escort of yachts and ex-
cursion craft up the harbor, for the
Vigilant had added another victory to
her score. She had walked away from
the Valkyrie in wind that topped the
| sea with foam and drove clouds of spray
over her weather bow. The day was
an ideal one for an outside race. The
sky was clear as n crystal. 1t had
the vigorous freshness of October in it,
and every old salt who shifted it in the
early morning predicted n blowing
day. The yachtsmen, American as
well as British, were glad the day had
arrived when there could be no excuse
of light winds for either of the con-
testants. All felt that the compare
tive merits of the two crack sim
! gle-stickcrs would be plain before tho
day was over and the anxious citizens
| of the two nations would be able to
make something more than a guess as to
which is the queen OF the yachts.
The first of the international races
was a run to leeward and return; that
of the second in the series OF three in
five was a triangular course of thirty
miles, ten miles to the leg. There
was bound to be windward work and
reaching. and that always makes a
prettier race than leeward run.
When the wind came up out of the
southwest in the early morning all the
yachtsmcn and yachtswomen put on
their blue caps and sea-going togs and
started down the bay on the usual
fleet of excursion boats, which in
cludcd everything from big ocean
steamshi p to a naphtha launch. The
big boats were the popular ones and
many of the small craft did not 90 half
way down the bay before they turned
tail to the seas that threatened to en-
gulf them and returned to the city.
There was the usual crowd of patri-
otic citizens VINO went down to see to
it personally that our Yankee sailor
boys did their duty in defense of the
Amcrica' S cup.
At the request of the skipper of the
Vigilant all of the boats around the
lig.itship moved over to the other side
nf +Is, 1,n could
work up close to the line under the lee
of the lightship without becoming
broken The fleet made a great show
on the waters. The great steamboats,
and crafts were black with people.
The yachts, bending gracefully in
the wind, and, keeping close together.
sailed in short reach back ana
forth just to windward of the line.
The Nigilant showed her Tobin bronze
bottom as she heeled over and bowled
along the seas, dashing spray over her
white -iacketed crew. The Valkyrie
did not heel quite so much but she
showed some of her copper below the
water line. The wind was blowing
twenty-five miles an hour when both
boats went over the line within two
seconds of each other The Vigilant
led by the length of her bowsprit.
They made pretty start as they went
on Il beat to wind of ten miles to the
first mark which was off North Long
Branch and SO close in shore that
good view of the racing yachts was OBJ
tanned from Seabright, Monmouth
beach and Long Branch
AS on Saturday the Valkyrie forged
ahead at the start, she was not run
ming quite as close to the wind as the
white sloop, but she was going faster.
In ten minutes the Valkyrie led by
four lengths, but the Vigilant was a
trihe to the windward. The Valkyrie
increased her lead to ten lengths at
the end of the first half hour and then
while the Englishmen on the steam
boats were hugging themselves with
JOY, the Nigilant began to cut down
the open water between her bow and
the Nalkyrie's stern. She walked
right up and took the lead and
The race was procession from that
point. The cup defender gained
four minutes and fifty seconds in
the first ten miles tacking to wind
ward; four minutes and twelve sec
onds in the second ten-mile run, and
three minutes and twenty-six seconds
in the last ten miles. She crossed the
line ahead of the Valkyrie twelve min
utes and twenty-three seconds actual
time, and deducting the time allow
ance of one minute and forty-eight
seconds, she won by ten minutes and
thirty-fivc seconds. The steam whis-
ties of all the craft that could keep
the pace set by the white sloop greeted
her, and the people on the decks yelled
themselves hoarse. The Valkyrie was
over two miles astern when the Vigi-
liant finished.
The'thirty mile race was run in three
hours and twenty-five minutes. Tho
wind blew almost half gale during
the last half of the race, and the boats
came in with decks forward wet
with spray.
The next race will be on Wednes-
day. 1t will be beat to windward
fifteen miles and return. Should the
Vigilant win again, the Americas cup
will remain here again at least another
year and the American center board
will be still the champion yacht Of the
world.
! An Awful Explosion.
ALLIANCE, O., Oct. 9.-At $3.50 this
evening an east-bound freight train
on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago railroad passed the village of
North Lawrence, a few miles east Of
this city. A little later the inhabi-
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