The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-30
VIGILANT EASILY BEATEN
SHE IS PROVED TO BE NO MATCH
 FOR THE DEFENDER.

The New Cup Defender Beat the Gould Yacht on Every Leg of the Twenty -four Mile Cnurse-Weather Conditions Were Extremely Variable Throughout the Race.
 New York, Aug. 29.-The second of the official trip races between the yachts Defender and Vlgilant was sailed to- day. The Vigilant was beaten over every leg of the twenty -four-mile course and finished IS minutes 8 seconds be- hind the Defender Nearly half of this difference, however, was due to the fact that the wind died down to nothing just after the Defender had crossed the fin- ishing line and while the Vigilant was still on her way in.
 The course decided upon for to-day's race was triangular one, eight miles to leg. The first leg was laid south- east the second north by east, one-half east, and the third leg west by south. At the start the wind was nearly due
 
 reach. The second leg would have been a reach also had not the wind hauled around to the S-S-W, making it practi- cally run. The last leg was a close reach. The weather conditions were ex- tremely variable throughout the race. On the first leg the wind was blowing about seven knots at the start but be- fore the mark was reached it died away until the yachts were almost becalmed- At that time and later it was excessive ly hot. On the second leg the breeze was fair one for a time, but again died away almost to nothing. On the reach home it blew up a squall, with rain, thunder and lightning. At one time the wind reached thirty knots.
 The start was made from Scotland lightship. There was a large f1otilla of yachts. tugs and excursion steamers on hand. At 11:10 the preparatory gun was fired. In the maneuvering for position the vigilant had the best of it. One minute before the signal both were on the starboard tack close hauled, and the Vigilant was to windward. Both had plain lower sails clubtopsails and their balloon jibtopsails were up in stops
 Defender bore away for the line first, breaking out the balloon half minute before the signal. Captain Barr gave the wheel of the Vigilant turn and she started for the line near the com mittee boat. The balloon blossomed out as signal for the start at 11:20. The Defender bore over the line at 11:20:3S and the Vigilant at Il 20:40. The bow spirit of the Vigilant was tapping the stern of the Defender and was on the weather quarter of the new boat. The latter footed too fast to be blanketed, and walked out of the way. The wind was out of the west at an eight-knot gait. The boats moved away from the line and with balloons drawing and big clubtopsails bellied out they were off on a reach of eight miles to sea.
 When the Defender got clear of the fleet she began to increase her lead and in ten minutes had opened four lengths between her and the Vigilant. Her new rig and well fitting sails seemed to be doing good work for her The Vigilant had up an entire Heres hoff suit, and her clubtopsoil was a lit tie larger than Defenders. The bal loon jibtopsail of Defender did better work than the smaller sail of the Vili- lant. The syndicate boat glided through the water with an easy motion, and in half an hour had eight lengths to the good. The breeze gradually lost strength and the yachts failed to keep up the burst of speed they showed at the start. The Va1kyrie, with Lord Dunraven on board, was coming out of the Hook when the race was started She was good mile and half behind. Her canvas was mainsail, clubtopsail jibstaysail and No. 2 jbstaysail. She bowled along at a good rate. At Il 40 Vallzyrie changed her topsail for one of greater proportions. It was larger than the balloon of either of the Amer jeans and set beautifully.
 While the Americans were almost in the doldrums the Britisher seemed to have a good breeze and dashed along at surprising gait.
 The apparition of the cup hunter bowling along over the course while the two American boats were lolling from side to side with barely steerage way, was not pleasing to the patriots on board of the excursion steamers and yachts. The Vallyrie was carrying the wind with her and drew up on the yachts at 12:30, having cut down the mile and a half lead to less than half a mile She lost the wind at 12:31 and drifted as they were doing, but in her drifting she was creeping up on the VigiIant and probably on Defender also.
 Then at 12:33, just when an elegant opportunity was offered for comparison with the white sloops, Lord Dunraven's boat jibed and headed back toward the 1ightship. There was freshening breeze coming in from the southwest, and the Defender catching 1t before the Vigilant increased her lead to near ly half a mile. The direction of the wind made it necessary for Captain Half to make short tack to port in or der to reach the first turn. Vigilant laid a better course and got there with out tacking. The Defender turned at POI. The VigIant at 2:06:17.
 The Defender dropped her spinnaker pole into place after turning, as the shifting of the wind was made the second leg run to leeward. The Vigi- lant was quicker and had her pole out before the turn and her sail drawing thirty seconds after rounding. The run to the second mark was uneventfuI