The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-11
RACE is NOT YET DECIDED
DEFENDER PROTESTS BECAUSE OF
d FOUL BY VALKYRIE.

Start the Englishman's Boom Scraped
the Defender and Tore Away One Back
Stay-Even Then After Hoisting Her Pro-
test Penpant the American Made Plucky
Fight in Her Crippled Condition and
Crossed the Line Only Few Seconds Be-
hind Her Competitor-Result of the Pro-
test to be Announced To-day.
New York, Sept. 10.-The second race,
between the Defender and valkyrie for
the Americas cup, took place off Sandy
Hook to-day. Close jockeying between
the contestants just before the start
resulted in an accident to the American
which spoiled the race. Fifteen thous-
and persons on steamers, tugs, yachts
and ocean vessels sent up a groan of
disappointment when the Defender was
crippled before the eyes of all. Valky-
RE after fouling the Defender was
away cup hunting. While no one sus-
poets her owner of Intentionally
fouling the Yankee yacht, the way he
raked his steel boom over the deck and
tore down the other fellows rigging
and then sailed away at his best pace
over the course was not pleasant to
Americans to contemplate.
From the first every attempt to Sc
cure fair play for the visitors has been
made and methods that prevail in
English races when an American boat
completes are not tried here. But for
the accident the race would probably
have been one of the finest in the hs-
tory of Americas cup contests. Moth
ing was lacking to make it a memora-
BILE affair. There was good sailing
breeze, the sky was clear after the
mist of the morning had been dis
PEELED and the ocean was comparative
ly smooth.
1t was good day for Valkyrie, but
it would have been a better one for
Defender had she not met with the ac-
cident. The crowd which witnessed the
race to-day was not as numerous as on
Saturday, but it numbered well up
into the thousands and many of the
steamboats, were dangerously over
crowded. The Defender was the first
Of the two racers to leave the anchor
age at Bay Ridge this morning. AIT
TAG she took line from the tug Wal
lace B. Flint and started for the
scene Of action. The Valkyrie left her
moorings ten minutes later in tow Of
the tug Pulyer. Both boats got up
their mainsails going down the bay.
Defender used the Herreshoff main
sail and her snow-white topsail,
The Valkyrie's mainsail was fitted far
better than that Of the American boat
On the Valkyrie with Lord Dunraven
were Arthur T. Glennie, H. Maitland
Kersey and J. R. Bush of the America s
cup committee. On the Defender were
Mr.. and Mrs. Iselin, Nat Herreshoff,
Woodbury. Kane, Newbury Thorne,
Herbert c. Leeds and David Hender-
son, the representative of Lord Dun
raven. The Americas cup committee
and the regatta committee went down
the bay on the tug Walter F. Lucken-
bach. The fleet of excursion steam
ers and yachts following the race was
smaller than on Saturday and there
was not serious interference at any
time with the racing yachts.
Soon after 10 o'clock the commit
tees tug, the Walter Luckenbach,
arrived off the Sandy Hook light
ship. She found a gentle breeze
blowing from almost due south at the
rate of six or seven miles an hour and
gently running sea with little or nc
ground swell. The conditions of vino
and weather were much like those OF
Saturday, the only difference, the
smoother sea, being in Valkyrie's ia.
vor The course was triangular, ter
miles on a side, with the start off San
dy Hook lightship. 1t was decided thai
the first leg of the triangle should be
laid due south, the second leg north
east by east and the third leg north.
west by west, one-half west. AS the
wind was blowing almost straight from
the south 1t was evident that the first
leg would be a dead beat to windward
the second leg a broad reach and the
third leg a close-hauled reach
Alt 1O:5O:O0 the preparatory signal was
fired Both the racers were then to ths
leeward of the line and some distance
apart. Both were on the starboar(
tack. Each had the same canvas, con
sisting of mainsail, clubtopsail, staysai
and jib, with a jibtopsail in stops ready
ITO break out. When the gun was free
the Defender, which was to eastward
came about on the port tack and stood
toward the Valkyrie. The latter, beine
still upon the starboard tack, had the
right of way, and as the Defender ap
preached she luffed into the wind ant
went about. This brought Valkyrie CT
the weather quarter of the Defender
that is, ITO windward of her and just {
trif1e behind but well overlapping her
and so gave her the weather guage
The Defender could easily have avertet
this by luffing and going about whe1
the Valkyrie did, but as there was fiv'
minutes left before the start she did no
think to do so, her captain thinking /
easy enough to shake off the Britishe,
before the cross. But there Captain
Haff made big mistake. The Valkv
RE was where she wanted and stayed
there. Do what she could, Defends
could not shake off the foe clinging II
her f1anks.
After the Englishman had secured th'
much coveted position both boats stood
along toward the westward on the por
tack until beyond the committee boat
Then Captain Haff gybed suddenly
hoping to get around and huff up t.
windward of Valkyrie before she coult
get around. But Captain Cranfield wa
quite as clever. He did not attempt Il
go about and gybed so quickly that III
relative positions of the boats remained
unchanged.
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