The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-11

about halt a lenStn anedu, DeSlueS pe-
ing to windward, She, therefore, was
nearest to the line and would cross
first,
On came the boats until only few
seconds remained before the starting
gun. Then 1T was seen that the Val
lxyrie was too near the line and was in
danger of crossing a second or two
before the gun. She Immediately be-
gan to bear away to avoid crossing. The
Defender was just ITO leeward and lit
tie behind the Valllyrie, and had no
need to bear away and did not propose
to do so. The Defender was allowing
Valkyrie plenty of room between her
self and the mark and acted strictly
within her rights in keeping her course.
Captain Cranfield could not call for
room and there was but one thing he
could do ITO save himself-that was 70
stop headway on Valkyrie. The orders
were given and all her sheets We're
Stacked off wide at once to spill her
sails and stop her headway.
Then came foul. The long boom of
the VallSyrie reaching out to leeward
raked across the deck of the Defender,
only eighteen or twenty feet away and
striking the topmast shroud on the star
board side carried it away, breaking
the jaw of the spreader and pulling the
bolt out of the brass spreader strap.
The Defenders lofty topmast imme-
diately buckled under the strain of her
jibtopsail with a loud crack, and at
this moment the starting gun was
fired-alt exactly IL o'clock. The De-
tenders crew were ordered forward to
take in her jibtopsail in order to save
the topmast from further damage and
in that condition she crossed the line
at 11:0115 The Valkyrie had preceded
her at 11:0013.
AS she crossed the line the Defender
hoisted a protest flag, and an answering
pennant on the judges boat showed it
had been seen and would be consid-
cred.
There is no doubt that the responsi-
bility for the accident rests entirely
with the Valkyrie. Her skipper al
| lowed her to get into tight place,
where there was every prospect of his
| crossing before CUR fire ana SO hav-
| ing to return ana re-cross. In his an
| xidty to avoid this he ran down too
close upon a boat which he was bound
to look out for, as she was sailing
clser hauled on the same tack and so
| had the right of way.
The two boats crossed upon the star
| board tack, but Immediately the De-
! fender went about on the port tack
| to bring the strain on the topmast on
| the uninjured side and Valkyrie fol-
| lowed on the same tack. An attempt
| to replace the broken shroud was made
| upon the Defender and a makeshift
| which partially answered the purpose
| was devised.
| At 11:24:00 the Defender went about
| upon the starboard tack and ten sec
| onds later Valkyrie followed. 1t was
| then seen that Valkyrie was a quarter
mile ahead of Defender and was fully
one hundred yards to THE WindWard.
This showed that the American boat
| even in her crippled condition was doing
| well. At 11:30 the two racers went
| about upon the port tack and five min
| utes later the Defender broke out her
i jibtopsail again. She took it in again
| very quickly, however, as her weak
| ened topmast could not stand the
| strain. The wind continued to freshen
and hauled little ITO westward.
At 1854 the Defender came about
again and the Valkyrie followed few
seconds later, both standing off shore
on the starboard tack again. The Val
4 kyrie was still about quarter of a
mile ahead. At 1910 both tackled to
| port again, the condition remaining un-
Lob 70
4 starboard was made BY this time the
i Valkyrie was not only three-eighths
or half mile ahead of Defender, but
i was also a quarter of IA mile to wind
ward. The wind had now freshened to
Il twelve or fourteen miles an hour and
the water became much rougher The
4 Valkyrie began to make a considera-
BILE disturbance in the water, rolling up
II quite a wave under her bow and slow
i ly, but surely, the Defender began
to creep up on her. She not only went
more smoothly through the water, but
Il she also began to outpoint the English
boat
She broke out a No. 2 topsail, which
in size was about the same as thai
which the Valkyrie had. Just as the
boats were rounding the mark the
breeze took another squirt, and be-
fore it settled down again it had reach
ed a velocity of twelve or thirteen miles
an hour.
The leg was a. reach close hauled with
booms to tarboard. This brought the
strain of the Defenders sails on hel
port sllrouds, which were uninjured
and for the first time during the race
of her ability.
She was half a mile behind the Val
kyrie when she rounded the stakeboat
and in less than half an hour she hat
of a mile. She had been minutes ant
35 seconds behind at the second mark
! and during the last ten miles she gain
ed one minute and seventeen seconds
which, deducting the difference of time,
at the start, and her allowance, made
her loser by only AZ seconds. Had tht
| last leg been five miles longer the De
fender would have won by over a min
, ute. But the leg was only ten miles
and the noble boat could not overcome
, her great handicap in that distance
/ The valkyrie finished first at 2:55:22
The Defender was 2 minutes is seconds
behind, at 2:57:40. The elapsed time'
Were: Valkyrie, 3:55:O9; Defender
j, 1856 :25.
Valkyrie allows Defender 90 1-10 sec
: aDds and Va1kvrie started | minute