The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-10
ABoUr To-DAY,s YACHT RACE.

NHchts IN iertect Irim-A Largo fleet
Expected to Witness the Raoe-TO Have
Clear COurse-Dunraven's Cablegram-
British Comments on the Race.
The second of the races for the Amer
iea's cup will be sailed to-day, and
Weather Observer Dunn has promised
fair weather and light to fresh winds
from the southwest. 1t is expected, of
course, that the Defender will be again
victorious, and the interest in the race
to Americans now centers in the time
by which she will defeat her English
rival, and the way the two boats COM
pare in good, stiff breeze, The
race on Saturday was a splendid test
of the liabilities of light airs and
lumpy seas. and the Yankee sloop
proved herself the superior of the Val
kyrie by minutes and 40 seconds.
The Valkyrie, until Lord Dunraven
recently declared her to be, to his mind,
best in a strong breeze, has always
been considered light air boat. Her
19-minute victory over the Britannia
was made in almost calm. The De-
fender, on the other hand has always
been looked upon as aboat which would
sail fastest in strong bneezes, and for
this reason the American public hoped
that the wind would blow strong during
the international races.
1t blew lightly on Saturday and the
Defender won. After the first hour Of
the race, when things really did look
blue, she showed her superiority over
her rival in pointing and footing, and
on the run home increased her lead 5
minutes and II seconds. Now the
yachtsmen want good wind, a hard race
in stiff blow, to test the weatherly
qualities of the great craft to the ut
most.
The race to-day will be sailed over
a triangular course. The start will be
from the Sandy Hook lightship unless
the weather conditions make another
starting point necessary, as was the
case on Saturday, Each leg of the tri-
angle will be ten miles. The first
leg to be. sailed will be laid out for a
dead beat to windword.
Another enormous fleet is expected to
witness the race to-day. Yachtsmen
earnestly express the wish that some
steamboat captains will show more
sense than they did on Saturday, when
at times they seriously interfered with
the racers.
In regard to this Rear Commodore
Bergen of the N. Y. Y. c., commanding
the patrol division abs issued the
following: &
The thanks of the officers command
ing the Patrol division of the New York
Yacht club are rendered to the captains
of the excursion steamboats, following
the Americas cup race on Saturday
for their kind and prompt attention
to signals and requests. The few ex-
eeptions are the commanders of YES
sells concerning whose movements COM
plants have been made to the press.
These individuals are without excuse
for their conduct. They had warnings
from the patrol vessels and knowledge
of the effect of their actions.
1t would be unfair to blame the great
body Of steamboat captains present
on that occasion fer the deliberate sell
I lLsIl LlSDGieYIOE Ol uIlp lew. tAS bIlGIG
is no power in the New York Yacht club
to control such men, the fair-mintled
public have the obvious corrective in
their own hands; it is to permit them
to follow the races alone.
The Importance of keeping the turn
| ing marks of Tuesdays triangular race
! clear is SO great that attention is again
| called to the fact that at no point of
| the race, either at the start, or during
| the runs from mark to mark, nor at
turning marks, nor ait the finish should
steamboats, approach within half a
| mile of the racing yachts, and to the
| further fact that on Tuesday there will
| be patrol vessels stationed both to
windward and leeward of each mark,
and commanders of all vessels are par
ticularly requested not to pass between
such patrol vessels and the marks.
Defender and Valkyrie lay at anchor
yesterday morning about half a mile
apart off Bay Ridge. They were con-
| tinually surrounded by a fleet of boats
| containing curious spectators. The
sailors on Defender We're engaged in
scraping down her freeboard, scrubbing
| her deck and making the thousand and
one final preparations necessary before
! the race. Herbert G. Leeds and H.
Woodbury. Kane were on board.
Mr.. Leeds said that the chances were
! that the Defender would net leave her
| anchorage until this morning, when she
would go down in tow.
H. Maitland Kersey went on board
| the Valkyrie at 1890 a. m. yesterday.
When seen he said:
"The Valkyrie will be already for to-
| nlorrow's contest, and we all hope
| to do better than on Saturday. / have
no more to say about Saturdays race.
1t is now a matter of history.
1--WE go out for a trial spin this af-
ternoon, if the weather is favorable"
The Valkyrie's crew We're as busy
all morning as the Defenders, and do
| ing practically the same work.
1t was said that Valkyrie's ballast
had been shifted. Her bow seemed to
be a little higher out of water, giving
color to that report. When Designer
Watson first came over this fall and saw
Valkyrie it was said that he was not
pleased with her trim.
CLEAR COURSE,