St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-06
The RACE 4 FIzzlE.
No Wind for the Swift Sea
Cutters.
THE CONTEST WAS ABARD0RED
After the Yachts We're Out
Six Hours.
KALKYRLE ONE MILE AHEAD.
Biggest Flotilla That Ever
Sailed to Sandy Hook.
A DAY OF DISAPPOINTMENT.

New YORK, Oct. 5.-Baffled by light |
winds, the yachts Vigilant and Vakyrie.
when started today on the first of the
international races for the Americas
cup, were compelled to abandon the
contest. 1t was just $40 o'clock in the
afternoon when tug took the Valkyrie
in tow and the dismal footing of whis-
ties announced the failure of the days
sport. The English cutter was then a
mile in advance of the Vigilant, and the
points from which they had started al
most six hours before was yet miles
away.
1t was keen disappointment to the
thousands who had stood by the rails
and clung to the vantage ground on
board the steamers all day. The over
powering attraction of the big race be-
tween the English and American prize
winners drew the biggest fiotilla that
ever sailed to Sandy Hook 10 see yacht
race. And every boat was crowded, too.
Not one aboard had thought for other
than the outcome of the first contest of
the ships, for in that result they felt
that they could fOreShadOW the remain
ing contests. The fair god who looks
out for landSmen, however, made ma
terial change of the entire programme.
From dull. misty, threatening day it
changed towards noon to all brightness
and balminesS. The little wind that
promised something in the morning
almost died away in the afternoon, and
just before sunset, when the
HUGE BALL GLoWED
@ bank of mist, there was scarcely
ripple on the water, and not more than
a breath of air stirring. Even the tail
of cyclone. which few of the weather
bureaus at least had promised, would
have been preferable to the tantalizing
catspaws that merely turned the flap
ping sails of The yachts. There was
not much of the "wet sheet aud the
flowing sea, and a wind that follows
fast" about the race today. 1t was ag-
gIavating, but it was landSmen and not
y&chtsmen that had the first call.
They were both there, landSmen and
yachtsmen, alike wearing the same
stamp OF blue. peaked cap and the
gorgeous cOloring of badges, and both
pretty nearly in every instance
swearing by the staunch cup defender
They were filled with enthusiasm and
hope and expectation early in the day,
when the night came they simply did not
Know what to think. The fact that it was
necessary TO tow in both boats and that
there were still several miles of the
coulse to traverse, made the crowds
more uncertain at nightfall today than
they had been the previous day. Even
the prospect OF an additional race failed
to turn the disappointment into joy. A
long stream of craft, from iron steamer
to towboat, swept past tie battery and
down
THROUGH THE NARROWs,
almost from dayOreak. They went in
singles at first and then III couples and
small bunches until they gathered round
the gracefully swinging yachts near to
Where the old weather-beaten light ship
is forever rolling off the Hook Private
yachts gave way to the bigger boats
just as though yacht owners were not
millionaires, and then the latter took
short cut right under their very paddle
wheels and up close to where the police
had placed a guard line. All the way
down the course TO the stake boat the
big tiotilla followed the cracks, and
when they drew up like hol-
low square Of guardsmen they
reSembIed miniature marine
worlds exposition more Than anything
Else. Once around the stake-bodt,
and standing out for the homeward
journey, the favoriteS of two nations
had still the same following. What lit
tie breeze had sprung up was fair with
the racers, and screw paddles and wheel
paddles were kept in motion for the
few miles run on the return But it
had taken four hours to reach the stake
boat, and it was evident long before the
Nalkyrie rounded the turn that unless a
verilable gale sprung up, it would be
practically impossible to finish the race
inside the siX-hour limit. And SO Ii
proved. Fifteen minutes before the
limit the yachts
GAVE UP THE CONTEST.
On board the steamship Republic;over
which MT. Charles Chamberlain had
special supervision. many newspaper
men viewed the race. From her deck
the Associated Press reporters dis
patched carrier pigeons with the earIi-
est news of the start, finish and pro-
gresS of tie contest. A number of the
speediest birds i'll the country were fur
niShed by Alfred De Cordova, the
well-knoWn owner OF Cheto!ah farm.
North Branch, n. j.. and his nephew,
Eldowne De Cordova, thorough pig
eon fanc!sr, handled TIE pigeons with
consumate skill. just moment after
the start pigeon known 20 fame as
Vera Bellrta was funk owe.
the rail. She went Up higb
In the a;1, circIirg over tie wreaihs ei
Bmoke from the steamers ana pointing
In the direction Of her home, shot Ike
bullet toward the lana. Then sec-
Ond pigeon and a third, with the IN.
erring instinct, bore In the Associated
Press dispatches to their cote, where
special agents were awaiting tbeir de-.
livery. The last bird of al, Charlie
Noeresch0tfer, with body of blne and
geld ard a record like the Wind, brough,
In the neWs of the abandonment OF the
race, and Incidentally the disappoint.
ment ct the day. Il was day of thor.
Ough disappointment to the
LOVERS OF THE SPORT.
There was, rs a matter of fac., Nc
test between the yachts. Allowing thai
the cutter is 4 better model of reaching