St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-31
HAD TO DROP OuT-

The Vigilant had little the best
Of the start and kept well ahead for
some time. Finally, however, she
got into a lufing match with De-
fender, the latter pressing her close
ly, and Defender walked I'D ahead
and to windward and pulled grad
ually away. She was about five min
utes ahead when nearing New Lon
don Then she suddenly luffed up,
lowered her topsail, signaled for a
tug, and was eventually towed to
her anchorage in the harbor The
general opinion expressed after the
race was ended was that the De-
fender would have undoubtedly won
had she been able to finish VigiIant
thereupon sailed grandly across the
line and up the harbor winning
in h., 40 m, 81 s.; elapsed time,
over the sixty-four mile course. The
race across the Sound was one of
the finest sights ever witnessed by
the oldest yachtsmen here. The
breeze was strong enough to test the
sail carrying power of any sailing
yacht afloat, but they all chung to the
full sail from first to last and made
strong record breaking passage,
with rails churning the water into
foam and bows throwing the spray
high up the masts of the many COM
peting yachts.
IN A STIFF BREEZE.
The result Of the race demon
strates very little unless it is that
in a broad reach over sixty miles
in q. stiff breeze, Defender can beat
Vigilant, but not by quite as wide
a margin as her admirers would like
it to be. The Constellation, Of Bos-
ton, in the schooner class made a
remarkable run, covering the course
in 4:36:34, a really remarkable per-
Torrance. She was the first yacht
to reach this harbor and her times
compare fairly with the Vigilant's
The race today was started with the
first Of the ebb tide, which helped
the yachts greatly.
After the race the Associated Press
tug went alongside both the Vigilant
and Defender and asked Capt Barr
and Capt Haf for their views of the
race. The former would only say that
the race spoke for itself, and the latter
simply admitted that the Defender had
split a few sails, but the Defender peo-
pie did not look happy. A veteran
yGcStsman, who saw the race from the
schooner Iroquois, which also made q.
remarkably fine run, said that the
stiffest Of the breeze was about IL a.
m, when he estimated it was blow
ing fully twenty-five knots, and De-
fender, during the worst Of it, slowly
crfpt away from the Vigilant, both
yachts standing up grandly consider
ing. He added. however, that he hoped
the Vigilant had been greatly i'm
proved, otherwise he was of the opin-
ion that the cup was in danger.
Another expert yachtsman said that
the Defender was undoubtedly the best
boat, and that she can beat the Vigil
ant in any weather by good margin;
'tbut," he added, she VIII be- much
faster when she meets VaIkyris= II4.''
LIVELY ON THE WATERaf
New London harbor never looked SO
gay as it did this evening. To be sure,
the New York yacht feet puts IN here
every ysar, but this year the contest
between the old and the new -eupude-
tenders has proved a drawing card
that brought out such fleet as even
the capacious deep-water hafb0r Of
New London never saw before The
Vigilant, Ike the Defender, wasuthe
center of a fleet of row boats, sail boats
and launches, whose occupants Looked
with all their eyes at these triumphs
Of American shipbui1ding skill, The
United States dispatch boat Dolphin.
Secretary Herbert's flagship, was one
Of the conspicuous objects in the har-
Dor, and not suffer in comparison with
even the smartest Of the steam yachts
This evening the Defenders damaged
steering gear was taken to the Nor
gan iron works, where several men
were put to work on il. It is expected
that she Will be able to start with the
rest of the feet tomorrow.