The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-11
Not Much Doubt That the Visllant
Will Be Selected.
THE YACHTS RACE AGAIN TODAY.
A Rough Weather Test IL All That 10
Needed Now to Settle tho Question of
supremscy-Ih Owners Of the Boats
Satisfied with Saturdays Raoo.

NEW YORK, Sep 11.-Although rough
weather test is still needed to decide which
yacht is most worthy to defend the cup
against the English valkyrie, yet there is
little doubt that the vigilsnt, from her
fine performances of Saturday and Thurs
day, will be the boat selected by the COM
mittee. By Saturdays work she clearly
demonstrated even to the most enthusias-
tic advocates of rival yachts that she is su-
perior to them sailing through placid seas
with light winds. She vanquished the
Jubilee over a course Of thirty miles,
reaching and running, by 4 minutes and 80
seconds; she defeated the Pilgrim by 8
minutes and seconds, aud she left the
keel New York syndicate yacht Colonia IL
minutes and "a seconds astern.
The owners of the Vigilant were con-
WINGED by her performance during the
cruise OF the New York Yacht Club that
she was the best of the quartet, and this
latest struggle merely strengthened their
conviction. But nobody OF any nautical
pretensions expected that she would defeat
the Colonia so thoroughly. The first leg
of the race was intended to be dead heat,
but because of the shifting of the wind
from east southeast to the southwark, It
was long leg for the Vigilant and the
Jubilee, and short leg and long one,
just before the rounding of the windward
mark, for the Colonia and Pilgrim. The
Vigilant was two minutes and two seconds
ahead of the Pilgrim at this point two
minutes and six seconds better than the
Jubilee, and three minutes and twenty
eight seconds ahead of the Colonia.
In the reach, close-hauled, from the first
to the second mark, the Vigilant was
twenty eight seconds ahead Of the Jubilee,
five minutes and twenty seconds better
than the Pilgrim, and four minutes and
forty eight seconds superior to the Colonia.
In the run home the Vigilant was two
minutes and ninetoen seconds better than
the Pilgrim, two minutes and thirty five
seconds superior to the Jubilee, and min
utes and 22 seconds before the Colonia.
The Vigilant, having crossed the line at
the start with handicap of ID seconds,
actually beat the three other yachts by just
IL seconds more than she is credited with
officially. She lost these IL seconds,
which she didn't need, simply by bad sea
manship.
C. Oliver Iselin, of the vigilant said to-
day:
uuCu picdSCu WIN tnS tcSuit, ouu
feel that the boat is the best SO far. The
race was fair test for all the boats. We
want the best boat to be selected, aud we
think that this one is as near the front as
any of them. IL the Valkyrie Is storm
weather boat we can stand As much OF it as
she can. If anything is lacking to make
her strong, we will have 1t, and she will
stand whatever the valkyrie will"
George Stewart, who was on the Pill
grim, said:
81 am we'll satisfied with the race. She
did well considering the recent rapid
changes that had to be made. We shall
stay in aud race until the end. Saturday
we could have fetched higher on the first
leg, but we mistook the course, beiieving
there was going to be more windward
work"
Gen. Paine said he wanted more wind,
and so did Capt. Sherlock, of the Pilgrim.
The third o. the trial races will be sailed
to-day.