The Forrest City times., 1893-10-13
THE CUP LOOKS SAFE.

British Challenger.
 Outsailed at Every Turn-The Amersca"
 Centerboard still Carries iOff the Palm
 as a "Get There."
 NEW YORK, Oct. 10.-Yesterday was Great Britain's day so far as weather for yacht race was concerned, ana 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 a 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 a 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 crystal. It had the vigorous freshness of October in 1t, and every old salt who sniffed it in the early morning predicted 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 compara- tive merits of the two crack sim gle-stickers would be plain before the 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 ot 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 prettier race than leeward run.
 When the wind came up out of the southwest in the early morning all the yachtsmen 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- cluded everything from a big ocean steamship to a naphtha launch. The big boats were the popular ones and many of the small craft did not go 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 wno went down to see to it personally that our Yankee sailor boys did their duty in defense of the America S cup.
 At the request of the skipper of the Vigilant all of the boats around the moved over to the other side of the course so that the yachts 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 and forth just to windward of the line. The Vigilant showed her Tobin bronze bottom as she heeled over and bowled along the seas dashing spray over her 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 a pretty start as they went first mark which was off North Long Branch and so close in shore that good view of the racing yachts was ob- tained from Seabright, Monmouth beach and Long Branch.
 As on Saturday the Valkyrie forged ahead at the start, she was not run hing 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 trife 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 Vigilant began to cut down the open water between her bow and the Valkyrie's stern. She walked right up and took the lead and the race was a 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- Dnds in the second ten-mile run, and three minutes and twenty-six seconds in the last ten miles She crossed the inc ahead of the Vallyvrie twelve min utes and twenty-three seconds actual time, and, deducting the time allow ince of one minute and forty-eight seconds, she won by ten minutes and thirty-five seconds. The steam whis- ties of all the craft that could keep he nace sci hu the white slnnn erected