The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-21

NEW YORK, July c0.-Defender has
met Vigilant and vanquished her over a
! course Of fifteen miles 70 windward and
return in the same waters that the cup
race will take place in September.
The course was one of the kind where
IN Valkyrie III will meet the cup defender
and that Defender is a boat much super
Tor 70 the Vigilant was clearly proven.
The new boat not only outsailad the
olG champion to a remarkable extent. but
she outfooted her as well when sailing
to windward. Moreover, on the run
centerboard hauled, she gained on the
! champion, an advantage that her most
enthusiastic admirers did not anticipate
The Weather.
The weather was about what is to be
expected during the season in which the
cup races will take place. There was a
good breeze of from twelve 10 fifteen
knots an hour blowing throughout the
day and the sea was. smooth.
Taking everything into consideration,
the trial was all that could have been
asked for in its results. it is believed
the Vigilant has been improved from
nVe to ten minutes III z course of thirty
mites over her form of 1873, and if this
is the case, the Defender must be
marvel The public did not seem to Iln-
derstand that the race of today and that
OF Monday may do away altogether with
the necessity OF formal trial races. There
fore the very interesting race was wit
messed by comparatively small number
Of people.
Never Saw Anything Prettier.
a yachtsman who has witnessed all the
races curing the last twenty years says
that in his experience he never saw any
thing prettier in The way of start than
that of today.
so quickly after the starting gun doomed
that every locker knew the fight was to
be to the death.
Vigilant was in perfect trim. 1t is
thought the owner of the Vigilant has
spent anywhere from $50, 900 TO $4,000 in
getting his boat ready, either to beat the
Defender, and ii that way enable him TO
carry out his cherished desire, or 10 con-
vince the American cup committee that
in beating mis- boat. Defender will DE
doubt in the mind OF any expert who
saw the race today that Nigilant was
sailed for all that was in her. That she
was beaten can he explained only one
way; that is, The other racer was a bet
ter boat.
All Ready.
The programme called for a start at
II am. and il WAS only twenty minutes
m;ttee of the yacht club, who had ar
ranged the race and were on Commodore
Browns steam yacht Sylvia ordered the
firing OF the preparatory gun.
Sylvia took up a position to the east
ward of the Scotland lightship and noti-
fed the yachts by signal that the course
the flagship and the mainmast of the
Scotland light to windward out into the
open sea or down the New Jersey coast
and return before the wind.
The wind at this time was blowing
about ten miles an hour, almost due from
the south. The same breeze held all day.
1t even increased during the a1tern92r92 t
but the sea was at no time rough. The
boats cruised around TO the eastward of
the starting lire until the word was
given. When that did come both were
coast with the wind, coming over their
port sides. They tackled down, Defender
always in the lead and getting over the
water at very rapid rate. Visiiant APP
peared to be rather sluggish, even as
early in the day as that; But when they
both came around and headed back for
the Scotland light, the old yacht TOOK !
on more the form of d racer.
Clever Work.
Defender was at least four lengths |
ahead. Coming up close to the llgntShlp; |
Defender was still several lengths aheao
She came around under the stern OF me |
old vessel and then stood or BoUh ytchlS |
had set mainsails, stay sails, lib sail ana /
lfb top sails, with a great club top san |
ar the head of their masts.
Defenders club top sail IS the Dlsgest /
top sail ever put at the head of mast |
of a single stick. and in view of the fact |
that Defenders gaff runs almost I'D and |
down from pole TO deck, the size OF thau
sail may be esta bliShed-
Round the hghtship she flung herset /
across the line III a way that was not !
only clever from the expert STANDPOINT
onds came Vigilant, and she looked beau
tifuI rounding the lightShip. The yachts
started over the line on the starDcard
tack. Defender was not fit, feet beyond
the line before she went about. went
over to the port tack and headed IN for
the New Jersey shore. Vigilant contin--
over four minutes from the time that
she went over on her original tack At
IL 81, Defender went about again. In
lacks that followed, some people TOOK
the time between a huff TO the wind and
a full sail on the other tack as ten sec
onds.
quick boat to tack. 1t has been estimated
She gained somewhere between 10 and 10
seconds on Vigilant in getting about: If
Defender can make her turn from full TO
full in anything like Is seconds, She Will
do. On every tack that was made, De-
fender showed up liz The lead and her
up against the wind was some
thing astounding
A Bad Mistake.
Defenders sails were almost always
chock full of wind, yet she headed up
higher than the old boat by from point
to a point and a half.
The HerreSchcf MODEL was already m
creasing the lead. until she niStook the
spot where the turning buoy was placed,
and by this misjudgment, lost probably
S1s minutes
At the time Defender made the mistake
at the buoy she was something more
than mile ahead.
Getting back to her course, however,
she rounded the buoy minutes 81 sec
onds ahead of Vigilant. Heading up for
nome the yachts ran up balloon Jib
opsails, swung over their spinnaker jib-
ooonls and set their sails over them. In
The handling of the sails. Defender
showed the expert training her crew had
while the Vigilant's men were
slower.
on the run home, it looked as though
vigilant with her centre board hauled up
vas gaining, but Defender went over the
inc first by minutes, 10 seconds, having
increased her lead on that run by Al sec
,nds.
GUARDS WITHDRAWN