The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04
DEFENDER AS SWIFT ASADEER
SHE EASILY OUTsAILs THE VIGIL
LIANT AND VOLUNTEER.

She Allows One 81 aud the Other So
Seconds and Then Heat the FORMER
by 3 Minutes and 32 secondz-So
Longer Any Doubt That She Ont
ciasscs Both of the Other Boats.
The BreeEe for the Race Strong
and steady.
Vineyard Haven. Mass, Aug. alright
and early this morning the yachtsmen
We're astir on the boats OF the New York
Yacht club az anchor in Newport Harbor.
Clear skies over head and a gentle south
westerly breeze betokened another hne
day for the cruise. The Defender left at
sunrise ana had tow from Bristol, her
gan having been replaced at the Herres-
hoff yards last night by a new one. The
Vigilant was ready for another brush win
the new boat and she had a new Herrel-
hon club topsail aloft iu place of the ons
She has used all the week No other
changes We're noticeable. The Volunteer
also was on hand. The course to-day was
seventeen and one-half miles east, south
est OF Vineyard sound light and twenty
miles east-northeast up the sound to
Vineyard Haven. The wind was SOUTH
southwest. making the first seventeem
miles a reach with the wind abeam ana
booms to port. The rest Of the race was
a broad reach.
The preparatory gun sounded at 10:3d
o'clock. Ton minutes later the smaller
sloops and cutters started. At 1850 o'cloclz
the gun for the hrst-class sloops doomed
and the Defender was almost on the in
stant. The Vlgilant was two minutes later
and was very near being handicapped. Tho
Volunteer did not cross for nearly min
ute after the second boat The Defender
ana volunteer carried their number two
1ib topsais. The Nigilant started with a
big No. / sail, but changed it to a No. q
az ll;So O'Clock, IS the wind was frcshen-
ING and she was hccling considerably The
Dig sloops rushed through the water with
their lee rails awash and gained rapidly
on the schooners from the start In half
an hour the Defender began picking them
up one by one and dropping them astern.
The Nigilant followed suit but nor at
SO lively pate as the Defender. The
new boat was easily outfooting the Vigil
lant and the old Volunteer could not hold
up with her comLany. Passing VineyA.d
Haven light the Defender led the pro-
eess'on. and she increased her lead over
tac Nigilart until she was nine minu. es
1hend. Al ? O'Clock she showed the waS
| for tho fleet INTO Vineyard Haven. ,yl.h
| the breeze holding strong and steady, No
| yachts rushed along TO the finish, the De-
! FENDER showing the way with a little IN
| ercase In her splendid lead At 202II
clock she crossed the finish line, and
was timed from the steamer Shearwatsr.
watch had tcfn sen, ahead by the regular
committee, so that the Sylvia might nnt
have TO make undue hustle to the finish.
a little over six m'rutes later the Vigilant
rounded eX-COnmodore Morgan's black
| hulled yacht beaten, but still fast and able
\ quarter Of ar hCur later the Volunteer
fnished. and samC where in between them
the Jubilee rourded up into the Haven.
otter speedy fun, which would have
shown well lad Il been a racing one. rn9
official time when received will show that
the Nlgilant was handicapped 81 and fhe
volunteer 90 seconds. Taken from these
! figures the lcf,Ider's victory over tha
Vigilant is by minutes and 30 seconds.
The Defender is to have a new steel
boom and gaff These new spars Will
probably be made at the machine shops ag
| Bristol, and win be hollow cylinders, built
upon the same manner as steel boat hulls
are constructed, with light steel plates I'M
sections and tapering a trhe in size from
the partners to the hounds of the SPAR
II has been estimated that there will be a
reduction Of weight by this move from the
wooden spars of something like a ton.
while the stability will be all the better.
as the cylinder spars will be trussed in
side with steel spurs all the way along in
the same manner as the steel spars Of the
Valkyrie III. are regulated