The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-07
SHE WON THE DREXEL CUP
DEFENDER PROTED TO BE MORE THAN 4 MATCH FOR FIGIL4iNT.

The Wind Was Light and as Heavy Sea
 Fog Came Up the Regatta Committee
 Stopped the Race at the Twenty ne
 Has Been Settled.
 Newport, R. l., Aug. 6.-Defender won the Drexel cup to-day, the cruise of the New York Yacht club ended in blaze of glory to-day and the Amer ica's cup committee have set August 20 and 22 for the trial race off Sandy Hook. The yacht which will undoubt- edly be chosen to meet Lord Dunraven's S challenger showed her powers to-day by defeating the Vigilant six minutes and ten seconds over a twenty-one mile triangular course in a light wind. There were seven miles of windward work on the first leg and the Defender gained five minutes eighteen seconds. The second leg was reach and the new sloop did the seven miles in one minute and twenty-two seconds less time than the Vigilant. On the last leg the Vigilant used spinnaker part of the way, while the Defender did not and the 1893 boat also got an ad vantage from the shifting of the wind. As result she gained thirty seconds on the Defender It was on the program for the yachts to go twice over the course, but sea fog came up suddenly just as Defender finished the first round and the regatta committee stopped the race at the twenty-one mile point. There were six $200 medals offered by Captain J. R. Drexel of Philadelphia, which were raced for to-day by as many classes of schooners and sloops. The winners were:
 Schooners, second class, Emerald de- feated Marguerite; fourth class schoon- CTS, Amorita defeated Elsemarie; fifth class schooners, Loyal defeated Neaera; third class sloops, Queen Nab defeated Hildegarde; sixth class sloopos, Uvira defeated Norota, and Gossoon.
 The last named did not finish owing to a broken spreader.
 The course to-day was from Bren- Gon's Reef Lightship, seven miles southwest, one-half west to and around the whistling buoy off Point Judith, seven miles east by south, three-quar- ters south to and around a spar at sea and seven miles north, three-quar- ters west to Brenton's Reef Lightship, twenty-one miles to be sailed twice over unless otherwise signalled.
 There was very little air stirring when the yachts, left their anchorages ' I, ,oeIHc I11f I>x, 1,A got past the Dumplings and showed their noses in the open whitecaps were visible. These did not last and the wind dropped to from six to eight knots an hour and was southwest. At 10:40 the flagship Sylvia arrived off the lightship and signalled the course. At Il o'clock the preparatory gun boomed The small sloops were started at 11:10, going over in the following order: Queen Nab, Gossoon, Katrina, Hilde- garde, Uvira, Norota.
 At 11:15 the schooners were started The Amorita reached the line first, fol- lowed by the others in this order: Marguerite, Elsemarie, Emerald, Loyal and Neaera. The last two were so late that they were handicapped. The com mittee held the Defender and Vigilant back five minutes longer than has been customary and sent them off at 11:25. Their start afforded the most exciting incident of the day. One minute before the gun the two big sloops were north of the lightship jockeying for wind ward position. The Vigilant was near est the line, heading for it first. Cap tain Barr aimed to swing under the x,1-, | old hulk as he could run without hit ting. Captain Half shook out the baby jibtopsail and with her largest club topsail and big jib and staysail pulling for all they were worth the new boat jumped through the water, overtaking the Vigilant and tapping her on the starboard side. There was not room for the Defender to squeeze in between Vigilant and the light
 Captain Half held his course and a disaster seemed inevitable. MT. Iselin, standing on the deck of the Defender yelled at the owner of a steam yacht "Get out of the way. You've no ex- cuse for being there" The captain of the steam yacht gave his craft a turn back and her mainmast poked a hole in the lifeboat swinging from the davits of the lghtship. The stern of the steamer, the Gladys, butted against the big bulk and with a crash her mainmast snapped short off, the railings,, flagstaff and deck fixtures 5 aft were smashed and the British en- sign went down with run. Mean while Captain Barr let the Vigilant run off a couple of points to port, giving the Defender room to slide in between him and the lightship and cross the line first, although he was clearly enti- tied to hold his course. The tactics of Captain Half were practically the same as in the race off Sandy Hook when Z MT. Willard filed a protest, on which I no action has been taken.
 After the advantage thus gained in crossing the line the Defender had the } race her own way. Five minutes after N crossing she tackled toward the shore. The Vigilant followed suit. The De x fender made it a long board and when she went about off Narragansett Pier she was a good half mile to windward of the Vigilant. Both boats then took short tack on and off shore down tow ard Point Judith. At 12 the Defender s had passed the Emerald, the leading s schooner. Ten minutes later she pass ed the Queen Nab which had a fifteen minute start of her and left the fleet