The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-26
WON BY SPENCE.
Ethe1wynn Beaten by Twenty-three
Seconds.


OYSTER BAY. n. Y, Sept. 2-The
second race between the half raters,
Spruce ", the English boat and Ethel
wynn, representing the Indian Harbor
Yacht club, of Connecticut, for the in
ternational challenge cup offered by the
Seawanhaka-C orinthian club of New
York, was won by the English boat to-
Gay by % seconds. The race was over a
triangular course, laid on Long Island
Sound, each leg of two miles and the
course sailed over twice, making a total
of twelve miles. The yachts were sent
away at 1890.
They were tagged to make their first
heading for a point east by south, half
north, which was a reach with the wind
southeast. Before the racers got half
over the, first leg, the wind hauled to the
eastward and they had to beat the rest
of the way to the first turn.
Spruce showed good judgment at an
early stage of the game by remaining in
close to shore, and avoiding the rough
water. Ethelwynn was compelled to make
d tack more than Spruce befoe she got
around the first mark, but she got there
5 minutes, II seconds ahead of the chal-
lenger. On the next leg it was a broad
reach on which point of sailing the Brit
did not crawl up ON her rival. On the
contrary, she lost "a seconds. Then the
boats headed for home to complete the
first round. This leg was close reach
and ON it Spruce gained on EthetWynn
seconds and when they started On the
second roun there were only minutes
6S seconds between them. Now the wind
shifted to the southwark again an ana
wynn. She passed the American and left
a clear length of water between her tan
rail and Ethelwynn's bow, within an
eighth of a, mile OF the first mark, on
the second round, Spruce passed Ethel
WYNN but the Yankee Immediately drew
ahead again, only to surrender to Spruce
Shippers had a bit of a luffing match
between themselves EunelWyIn-, WeIH-
ahead, nearing the fifth mark and drew
away from the Briton. turning the mark
81 seconds before her antagonist.
On the first leg, Mr.. Field ran up half
a, dozen jibs before he got through with
his experiments and in that sort OF mon
KEY business, lost enough time to have
The last leg was a, beat to windward,
Mr. Field carried on a policy OF tong
tacks, while Mr.. Brand went about SO
often that onlookers declared ne was
facking twice to Fields once. The breeze
was blowing six knots an hour, wnen
the boats began to beat, but before they
reached the finish, it had dropped to
FYhelwynn stodd on a. long board to
the eastward which Spruce, 6y makl ing
her small sized lacks scooted over unt
iine close hauled, % seconds ahead OF
t the American 1Ts which had eased off sheets
far away from the finish and came an ntI1
very fast, but too late The ofnclaI LII. Ills
tehie IS as follows: Start-Spruce, 12:90;
E fst5fi i2:3O:O8. Finsh-Spruce, 4;29:44
Ethelwynn, 4:26:Ut. I'LL, .o;d
II was beaten by too many jibs," sag
eME T F5Ga alSgr hi had some Of hose sans
head sails aboard and | tried them al
before ! discovered that four were IRE d toe
many. If I had held onto a small orle
IN the little beating that we had to go
and an on one of good size in reaching, Ethel
WYNN would have made a. better show