St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-10
VICTORIOUS VIGILANT.
TIE GALLANT SEA RACER WINS QUITE
EASILY
GREAT cup DEFENDERS, RACE

Interesting View of the Race From
Start to Finish-JubiIee Ran
Second, the Pilgrim Third and
Colonia Brought Up the Rear
Whistles Blown and Guns
Fired at the Finish.
NEW YORK. Sept 9.-Whoeyer said
a mackereI skin means wind is a Lase
deceiyer. Whoever spread abroad the
impression that cloud banks in the
south were harbingers of squalls knows
not whereof he speaks.
All day long the southern sky was
haunted with enough mackerel to
supply continent. 1t hung in
long silent shoals above the level sea
line, thanked on either hand by winged
cloud dragons. gorgeous. whales and
other strange, weird shapes, suggestive
of 4 wet sheet and a flowing sea; but
there was no wind.
All the hoarse roar and thunder of
Thursday were gone. The winds had
sneaked back to their misty ocean
caves, and there was scarcely enough
breeze to spank a frown into the face of
the slumberlng sea. So for six hours a
dreaming argoSy of white sails, ana
prOsaic argosy of black and white steam
ers hung like the fleet of Ulysses Off the
Jersey coast around four tall yachts that
looked fer all the world like SO many
girls IN white crinolineS.
The entire crowd of great and small
craft massed about the old lady who
snip, and waited for developments.
Fifty faJhoms or so away from the
lightshlp lay the big flagship May
with the august and digniieC regatta
committee on board. They, like their
humber brethren. were waiting for
developments i'll the
WAY OF WIND.
The course was triangular one, ten
miles long, but there were hundreds of
yachtsmeu who did not know what a
leg was-that is. a marine leg.
Slowly the great racers circled around
in the light wind, their club tOpsails
looking as though carved from the
clouds. Through all the preliminary
eVolutiOns CoIonia and Vigilant hung
together like partners i'll a waltz, with
their griZZled old captains watching
eacn others every move. The Pilgrim
hung sluggish as snail on the wrong
side of the starting, but George Stewart
knew what lie was about and so did
Capt. Rhorlock.
Suddenly i'll the midst of the veering
and lacking and churning. a pillar of
smoke burst from the StarbOard side of
May and thunder Of the preparatory
gun rolled over the waters.
At the same time, as ii by signal. the
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into a thousand sparkling CLEANS of
sapphire. Keeling under the sudden
Impetus. C0i0nia, Jubilee and Figilant
ieaped into line apd came bearing down
toward the starting point like three tall
pillars of clouds.
What is the matter with the Pill
grim" everybody asked. The sharp
noSed Boston boat was plying slowly
down the windward Iightshlp at the
rate of about three miles an hour.
But Stewart had calculated his dis
lauce well, as the results showed.
TIE VIGH.ANT
had tackled aSterh OF the COlOnia and
jubilee and was i'll a bad position. An
other volley of wild echoes broke from
the black OulwarkS of the May. and the
yachtSlnen knew that they h ait just two
minutes more to get across the narrow
stretch OF water between the tiameship
and thI old Scotland
Down came the jubilee as fast as she
knew now, followed closely 10y the
CoIonia. When they were fifty yards
from the line the Pilgrim poked her
long nose slowly past the stern of the
light ship, then Iutfing sharply, the
breeze caught her great sails and away
she went in the lead by six lengths.
NANf nar Ina l.taair ;antI IF ~ InI.itAl
followed closely by the ColCnia. The
Nigilant was last over the lile. thirteen
seconds over the two minutes time
limit.
The yachts all went over the line on
the starboard tack.
Shortly after passing the line the
COlOnla wheeled on a port tack. and a
moment later the Pilgrim did likewise
Five minutes later ColOnia grew lone
some or something. and turned again to
the starboard scheme. 1t looked as
though she had become long away
from the Vigilant. The latter, i'll COLI
panY with
JUBILEE. WAS POKING
along rather lively half mile to the
north. Look at Jubileel Rah I0r
Boston beaner!" shouted young
yachtsman from the General Sl0cum.
The cry was taken up until the fleet
was buZzlHg with comments. The griZ-
lied old thoroughbred, Gen. PAYNE. had
lifted MS boat away up TO windward of
the Nlgllant, and was boring along like
cOrkscrew right into the eyes of the
wind. By this time COlonia had reached
over to the couple, but we'll astern. Her
sailing was vastly different from that of
Thursday, and she did not seem to point
any Xybarp "a NiuifaD nd In,
on this particular leg.
In the meantime, away-off to the
south, the Pilgrim had also gone on the
Starboard tack and was. to the eyes of
the unlnitiated, apparently out of the
race. 10 all appearances the Jubilee
had a firm and rather high grip on this
leg.
When the red flag buoy was discoy-
cred most OF the feet pOlied away faster
than ever TO get in at the death. jubilee
was some distance ahead, and could
have rounded the flag at distance OF
ABOUT 500 feet.
Nigilant was furlong behind, point
Ing directly at the flag. She could have
shaved it had she so desired.
Gen. Payne and Skipper Hansen were
afraid OF being hampered by the Vigil
liant in rounding, so they sheered fur
Their away from the flag to give the
VigiIant. which had the right of way,
plenty OF sea room.
Old Hank Hoff promptly eased the
Nigilant off, thus forcing the Jubilee
still further away from the flag Then
he sheered around and made
FOR THE FLAG.
The Jubilee went hOpelessly wide of
the mark, and lost greatly in doing So
4 ( this Daiut the Pilgrim tooL- a houd
i'll the lacking pie. Around the mark
she came, with her jib even with the
Vigilant's stern, amid an uproar from
the entire fleet. The COlonia came last,
looking very pretty, but doing very
poorly.
Away went the racers on new leg 10
the southwark like a flock of big butter
flies followed by the motley crowd of
passenger boats. Throughout the sec
ond league The Yigilant steadily in
creased her lead, while jubilee took