The herald., 1895-08-30
DEFENDER BEATS v|G|LANT
Still the Americas Cup Commit
tee Is Not Satisfied
ANOTHER TRIAL ORDERED
Valkyrie Shows Herself on the Course
for Time
Unsteady In a Breeze and Creates More
ID disturbance Under Her Bow Than
ANOTHER TRIAL ORDERED
Unsteady In a Breeze and Creates More
Disturbance Under Her Bow Than
the Vigiiant
Associated Press Special Wire.

Assoclated Press Special Wire.
NEW YORK, Aug. 2o.-The second
trial race between the Defender and the
Nigilant over triangular course of eight
miles to the leg, started from the Scot
land hghtship. was one of the lost in
teresting events that ever took place in
NeN York harbor.
There was all kinds of weather from
almost a dead calm to blow of forty
miles an hour. In every point of sailing
and in every kind of weatl e. the Do
fender showed herself to be far superior
to the Vig,lant.
The ValKyrie made little bit of
show of herself while the racer, were at
work but it was 50 slight that no estimate
could be placed ..on he. qualities as COM
pared with either those of the Defender OF
Vigilant.
The regatta committee of the New York
Yacht club, which had the race in charge
let the boats off in regular time. When
they reached the line. the Defender was
twelve seconds ahead and with that differ.
ence they made their start.
Both boats stood off we'll to the south
ward, which gave them beam wind.
For couple of miles tle breeze continu-
ed blowing at the rate of seven or eight
krots an hour and they went ahead fast.
The Defender continued gaining on the
Vigilant until the end of the two miles
she had lead of over half mile.
BY this time the Valkyrie. which had
come out OF her berth inside the hook.
showed up in the open and undertook to
chase the racers. She fell into the same
hraaua tbot
had had when they started on their jour-
ney and it carried her down the course for
two miles, when it collapsed.
The Defender and VIgilant had the
breeze desert them some time before and
they were only standing still when the
English boat rearly came upon them
with rush that was occasioned by the
breeze which all had been favored with
up to this time. but which dropped at
point about two miles to the southwark
of the lin
When the Valkyrie got down to within
three-quarters of s mile OF che Vigilant
and found herself in practical calm, she
went about in a laboring way and headed
for horne. Experts who watched the Eng
lish boat said that even with that very
light air and the smoothest kind of sea
she made great deal Of comInotion from
her bow. even more than the Vigilant.
In the almost imperceptibe breeze the
Defender made headway. The, boats
Jagged along for almost two hours IN that
way. Defender continually gaining. When
the Defender finally rounded tle first
mark she occupied three minutes and
half in setting her spinnaker. Then be-
gan a rush before the wind for eight
miles. Heretofore in a run before the
wind She Vigilant has gained on the De-
fender. but today the keel boat covered
the eight miles in not only better time,
bat gained the astonishing advantage
Of two minutes and twelve seconds over
the Vigilant. After r,unding the second
mark big black squall came up out of
the west The Defender had no sooner
turned the mark than the gale was upon
hsr. She stood it bravely and there was
no inclination to take in her big club
topsail. The sheet of her jib parted I'M
der the strength of the forty-mile wind,
and within minute tho head sail was
fragments had been hauled down and an
other new and whole sail set in it's place.
This last leg was a close race for home.
the Vigilant not being able to withstand
the wind, took down her club topsail soon
after rounding the second mark and
shortly afterward withdrew her baby jib
topsail.
The Valkyrie got little piece of this
quail as she was returning to her berth,
Gut Captain CraneId hauled down all
head sails and the prodigious club top
sails. But it was said by the sharps who
looked at her from Sandy Hook that with
only her massive main sail she keeled
over enough to show that she is very
tender for one so big. Defender went on
fairly flying through the water, her deck
was level and her performance was
simply marvellous.
When the wind dropped to about ten
miles an hour and lasted at the stretch
up to the finish, Defender went on in
creasing the gap between herself and the
Vigilant. So it can be seen that every
point of sailing. even the run before the
wind with spinnakers set and in all
strengths of breeze the Defender not only
outsailed Vigilant but defeated her al
most ridlculously. And yet the Amer
lca's cup committee does not seem salts
fled that the Defender Is the better boat,
for they have ordered another trial race
for tomorrow.