The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-21

the same sails as the Vigilant except that she did not use jlbtopsail, Just after getting away the Defender went on the port tack, making a short board toward the Jersey shf"g. Five h.lnutes was enough for the Wg1ant was get ting more wind outside and Defender went about and started in pursuit of her rival.
 The wind was freshening and the Vigllant with her jibtopsail, where the Defender had none, and with larger clubtopsail than the new boat carried, was heeling over but footing. at a tremendous pace. The Defender with less canvas stood up better and point ed her head higher. The breeze made the sails draw for all they were worth. Both racers drew away fro the fleet, the steam yachts and excursion boats. The judges boat held them easily, but the others were strung out in the rear. For full half hour the two sloops con tinued on the starboard tack. The De- fender began to gain after the first five minutes and gradually the lead of 57 seconds which the Vigilant had at the start melted away. The Defender was pointed closer to the wind and was footing faster. At 12l7 the Vigilant went about The Defender went about at 12:1S:90, so that both boats were standing in-shore on the port tack with the Defender having a slight advant- age. The wind was working up quite a sea and both yachts dashed clouds of spray over their decks.
 At 1920 a strong puff of wind struck
 the Vigilant and she lay down until her bronze bottom was visible nearly down to her centerboard. Captain Terry luffed her up a bit and her jib- topsail was taken in. After this she did better, although the wind was increas- ing to a thirty mile blow, and both yachts had lee scuppers buried most of the time. The pounding of the heavy seas added to the severe strain on the sails, spars and rigging, gave both
 boats a severe test, but they stood 1t
 we'll in the beat to the outer mark. After the long board to sea both yachts stood in on the port tack well in-shore
 the Defender constantly drawing away
 until she was a good mile in the lead.
 At the outer mark, after ten miles of
 windward work, the Defender had
 wiped the 57 seconds lead Vigilant had at the start and was minutes, 36 sec
 onds ahead; total gain of minutes, 33 seconds. The time at this mark was:
 Defender, 1:0918; Vigilant, 114:54
 The Defender rounded the mark with out gybing and started on the run to
 the lightship. The vigilant gybed
 around the mark, a risk thing to do in the wind blowing, but 1t put her
 around the mark, risky thing to do
 the wind had shifted to southard. At 1:16:00 the Defender broke out her spin
 maker. Six minutes later she broke out
 her ballon jibttopsail, rather tardily.
 The Vigilant had her spinnaker draw
 ing at 1:18 and her balloon was out
 at 1:23. The quicker work on the Vigi-
 lant enabled her to cut down the lead
 Of the new boat and her balloon seemed to draw better than the Defenders
 Alt :45 the committee boat displayed two red balls, the signal that the boats
 were to go twice over the course mak- ing forty miles in all. At 1: :59 the De- fender took in her spinnaker prepara- tory to rounding the lightship. The time of the first round was: Derender, 2:04:29; Vigilant, 2:08:32
 The Defender had an advantage of five minutes elapsed time over twenty miles of the course. The Vigilant had reduced the lead at the outer mark by 1 minute, 3S seconds. Both boats started on the second round The wind had reached fully a forty-mile gait. Seven minutes after rounding the Vigi- lant lowered her clubtopsail and under plain lower sail continued her stern chase. The wind lashed the seas into foam and Defender with clubtopsail aloft held on. At 2:22 when she was on the port leading the Vigilant nearly one mile she luffed up in the wind for an instant and then although there was no sign of mishap wore away toward Sandy Hook, giving up the
 race.
 The United Press boat overlook the
 Defender, but MT. Iselin, when hailed and questioned would not explain why the Defender withdrew. The Defender
 ran inside the hook, lowered her top sail and scudded up the harbor to Bay
 Ridge. After the Defenders withdraw- al the Vigilant continued on her course
 The wind was blowing fully forty miles an hour and at 2:27 the Vigilants Herreshoff jib gave way before the strain. It split at the middle seam and verified the prediction of many yachtsmen that the new-fangled sails l would not stand a hard blow. Captain Barr got the sail down in a hurry and luffing up for a few minutes he got it slowed. A new jib was necessary to steady the boat and at 2:55 it was set. Four minutes later the Vigilant took | the starboard tack. Only two boats were now following the Vigilant One was the judges boat and the other the club boat. The Vigilant was rocking tremendously, dashing up clouds of spray and the crew was drenched to the skin. By 3:0S the Vigilant had covered seven or eight miles of the second wind ward beat, when the judges boat got to windward of her and spoke her. The judges shouted that the trial was over and the Vigilant had won the cup. The Vigilant, therefore, at 3:14 put about
 and went to her anchorage within the Horseshoe.
 Late in the evening several members of the Americas cup committee met at the club house and held a short confer ence At its conclusion the following announcement was made: