New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-30

hours passed before the flagship people could COM
scicntiousy ask the feet to try to move At last
at ! 30 O'Clock the signal went up to give the CON-
mand to the sailing course. This meant little
twenty -one-me from the flagship or Matln-
necock Point east-northeast ten miles to a buoy
thence five miles. thence a finish or Eatons
Point Light.
AN INEFFECTUAL CONTEST
The wind was light at the start. and it may be
said that the between the Defender ana
Vigilant only served obscure the real issue ana
perhaps to lead the Viglant's Old friends slightly
astray in their calculations regarding the stand
she will ultimately take with the Defender
And 1t cannot be denied that these friends OF the
Vigllant have some solid fact TO go upon when they
point to the small margin which the Defender won
BY lone minute and forty -nne seconds) In race OF
twenty-one miles They say that the Withholding
of all ofcia, measurements has ceased 10 ne q
virtue. now that Nalkyrie III Is fairly stared on
her ocean passage. and they claim tnat there IS
such big time allowance coming 10 NlSilaht 'nat
she afford to Ignore the fact that she only ar
rives mi-ute and forty -nne seconds pehiho III
They also say that in the transposition OF Ngise
lants ballast fyom inside her hull 10 the bottom
when the former inside weight lowered in the
water It did not sink the hull as FAR as IL aid Ssy
Is sailing less waterne length than Wnen con-
testing with valkyr!e II. and that the allowance lowe, &c
showing tina: the vigilant is the boat which must
compete with Nakyrie H.
THE VIGILANT MAY BE THE WINNER.
Ii would certainly be 6. surprise TO most people
to find that according to the rules the Nigllant
has never yet been beaten by the Defender; and If
We except the las; race OFF Sandy Hook where the
Vgilant perhaps lost Ave minutes during bad luck
In the wind nukes II may perhaps appear that she
has In reality at least TWO races whlch were
published as defeats The Could people have every
right TO claim priority for the Nigiant as the de-
fender of tho cup IL IL be shown That the new boat
cannot sail fast enough to give her such time as
the respective measure mcnt5 require ana u ths
happens Il will argue that the cup Is III danger
because II Defender. running at perhaps someetnls
ninety feet. cannot give Nlgiiant sulilcIcn.
time represent large difference IN .cfstn tnHl'
Nakyre III VIII have 10 meet the same ulitu :.
In any the pubic Is not assisted IN any w
| To a CONCLUSION by to-day's race. IL was niue
! nillpond affair which interpreted nothing, untl
the boats DE tried In siashng breeze ana esp
| cially in the wndward work the same od doub,s
must prevail To-days race was p'iHrnt pas
| a beautiful scene. The great white cutters ana
schooners STRAINED OF Glen Cove IN such pro-
cesson as can be seen nowhere else III tne wotld:
| A. b1wspri lapned mainboom In the clusters tnat
were hurrylrg for position they completely ma the
| opposite shore from the spectator. ana X was n
,rial 10 have TO time them all they passed one
only desire at such time Is 10 lie DacK ana 'riiA
| In the beauty OF the whole thing.
Not until afterward. when the dlrerent classes pc
| gan 10 tail out AMI when individual dueis began
d!d the interest become absorbing. The queen MAO
| gallant hu, unsuccessful struggle with the Wasp
was closely watched and II was with great pleasure
that the win OF the new schooner Anlorlta was no
| ticed Gould Trokaw abandoned last year an aD1e
Yacht the Nator In order to build new ilyer ipt
the season Of 1895 and he is devoted 10 the pe't
ntar.cfs ~ the best kind OF sport. 1t IS only fair
that his long-continued efforts now meet tner que