The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-09-13
The vAlKYRlE WiTHDRAWS
And Defender Sails Over the
Course Alone.
Tho Action of Lord Dunraven a Great Sur
prise-He Claims That the Crowd OF
Excursion Steamers on the Track Made
Kaoine an Absurdity-Commod
Glonnie Discourages ALI Bope or
Further Racing

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE internal
tional race between Defender and VAL
kyrie for the American cup is ended.
On the whole it has been an extraotdi.
nary series, and whilo tho result ia
satisfactory to the American people,
two at leas. OF the contests that went 10
make up tho match were not De-
fender won in clesn race on Saturday.
on Tuesday last she crossed the line
behind the English boat, but was
awarded the race on foul; to-day she
had walkover. and to-day's occur.
rences WAS all the moro unfortunate.
not only because great crowd had
gathered to witness the struggle, but
because tho weather conditions were
sucn as to lead many to suppose that of
all days Valkyrie would be in her ele-
ment.
Ihe race scheduled for to-day
promised to be more exciting one than
either OF the two preceding, for On YES
terda7 Valkyrie had boon tuned up to
the highest pitch in anticipation CT to-
days contest.
Lord Onnrsven had expressed him
self as apparently satiefied with the
ACCESSION rendered by the cup committee
L.
marked up was fifteen miles to leewsrd
and return, starting from the lightship.
There WAS some little delay and 1t was
noticed that Valkyrie was lacking q top
Sal and was simply sailing under main
sail and lib.
The preparatory gun WAS not fred
until about twenty minutes after the
liked time. In the meanwhile the an
nouncement WAS made from tho patrol
hn hot ID T,,
race unless clear course WAS guarsn-
teed by the committee It seemed I'M,
possible to secure more open water than
ie had already done, for when the pre-.
patatory gun was fred, the nearest boat
to the racers was fully haIf q mile away,
ana the greht ms )rity OF the excursion
steamers and other craft WAS much
farther off in the dstarcs.
ihe Starting gun went at the ap-
pointed time and almost at tho same
instant Defer der crossed the line; and
just moment before the handicap gun
was fred Valkyrio t:o crossed the line.
IL was evident to those who had been
watching tho English boat that she h ID
no Intention OF racing, and 80 it was
proved. for no sooner was the line
crossed than she hauled TO on the star
boa-d tack instead of following her
rival out. and passed under the stern of
tne llgnt6hlp.
The American boat m ado good head
way with her spinmRker set, and after
starting at 11:20:24. rounded the first
mark ut 1:26:5S and finished at 4:O4:36.
General regret was expressed that
the series for the American cup, begun
80 auspiciously and promising such rare
contests, have ended so disastrously,
Defender went over she line at4:O4:3o.
nne was greeted with another most en-.
thusiastic salute as she did So The
time as taken by the committee repre-,
sented that she went over the course in
4:44:l2. With the 20 seconds time allow
ance her correct time was 4:43:43. Late
In the afternoon an attempt was N ade to
see Dord Dunraven. He was invisible.
His friend and adviser, Roar Commo.
dore Glennie, was neen on tho City OF
bridgeport. the Valkyrie's tender. Mr..
Glennie said that his lordship I'D gone
away into the country somewhere, he
did not known where.
He hardly believed that has lordship
would again sail Valkyrie on this side
of the water. he intended to return to
England very shortly and he lad an idea
thas Vaikyrie would do the same. When
1t was proposed that the Defender
might 60 acrosa next wear and rscs in
English wa;ors mir. G!epnie made no
reply. hu. turned on his heel and babe
the reporter good night.
A London csblegram last night saws:
Reuters news agency this evening sent
request by cable Co the Estl OF Dun-