The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-11

many horse power. The Defender
cranks watched with all their eyes to
see if their favorite would set her bal
loon jib topsail. They wanted to find
out if Defenders rigging had been
weakened as much as they feared.
Alas! Defender was only able to run
up baby sail on the jib topsail stay.
A larger spread of canvass would have
caused too much strain on the weak
ened stay. Defender did, however, set
a balloon staysail, and long afterward
Valkyrie followed suit and sent up a
balloon on her forestry. The wind was
then about south southeast, going at
the rate Of something like twelve miles
yachts quarter, with booms well to
port.
Good Work.
fender overhauled the Briton by no less
than II seconds. AT the end of this
broad reach the yachts rounded the
second mark as follows: Valkyrie,
1870; Defender, 2:01: 45
Now the wind had shifted to south
west by south and slowed down to
about eight miles an hour. The la1a
leg was by compass direction, north
west by west, half-west, and sheets
were hauled aft so that the vessels
would meet the breeze abeam. AS soon
as the boats had both laid their course
for home, Defender, with her sound
rigging to windward, began to consid
erably overhaul Valkyrie.
Valkyrie took in her balloon iib top
sail and replaced it with baby She
also set balloon staysail, but do what
she would the Defender overhauled her
in a really ridiculous manner and
gained on the English boat so fast
that when the finish was reached, Val
kyrie was only minutes and IS sec
onds ahead, after having gone over the
starting line l minute and 2 seconds
ahead.
More than one competent witness of
the days sport said that, considering
everything, Valkyrie was beaten worse
today than Saturday. Defender gained
on her on the second and third leg. AS
a matter of fact, the only time at
which both vessels had the same sails
set was on the third leg, and during
that run Defender gained 1 minute and
II seconds. The few champions of the
English boat who are left cannot to-
night find any consolation in the
achievement Of the ship today.
The official timetable is as follows:
Valkyrie-Start, 11:OO13; first mark,
12:57:43; second mark, l:oS:l0; hnlsh,
2:55:22; elapsed time, S:55:09. Corrected
time-3:55O9.
Defender-Start, 11:O1:15; first mark,
1:O1:35; second mark. 2:O1:45; finish,
2:57:4O; elapsed time, 3:56;25. Corrected
time-3: 55:56
Thus it will be seen that Valkyr1e
won by 1 minute 16 seconds on elapsed
time and after deducting 20 seconds,
which she allows Defender, by AZ sec
onds
The Protest.
It was said at the New York Yacht
cub that the decision of Defenders
protest would not be made until late
tomorrow. The committee having the
matter in hand is composed of Ches-
ter Griswold, Nicholson Kane and Ir-
wing Grinnell. 1t was announced that
the committe would not even consider
the matter tonight, but would tomor-
row have a meeting and take testi-
mony. This notice was posted in the
rooms of the New York Yacht club:
1.-The Defender protests the victory of
the Valkyrie on the ground that she
bore down on her just before reaching
the starting line, causing a foul which
resulted in the carrying away of her
spreader and the springing of her top
mast.
'''THE REGATTA, COMMITTEE -