Evening journal., 1895-09-13

their shoulders evon if she were not,
Tho patrol fleet OF steam yachts seeing
that Nalkyrio demanded moro than she
then had, steamed about like furies order
ing the excursion boats and tugs that had
business there even further back All
obcycd orders and made the opening wild
or still.
With the finest chance for clear and
even start that ever was given for an
Americas cup race, the committee fired
the preparatory gun at 11;1O. Nalkyrie
had gone TO the southwark of the light
ship, which was to the southwark of tho
position that the committee boat had tax
en- Defender was then TO the westward OF
the line, and she worked up through the
line and among the excursion boats just
as if she had no fear of them OF anything
else.
Defender Sails over the Course Alone.
Defender had up her clubtopsail, stay
sail and jib and was ready for a race Al
11;16 she dropped her spinnaker pole in
position on the starboard side and gave
further evidence Of her readiness TO con
test. Valhyric had in the meantime shak.
en- out a staysail under her jib, and that
movement inspired the thought that at
last she was getting ready to fight her op-
ponent.
But the thought was wrong. Valkyrie
had no such. intention, as it was after
ward proved. At 1919 Defender eased OF
her sheets to the full and headed down
to the line, n beautiful picture, and shook
out her spinnaker and balloon jibtopsail
as she crossed the starting point.
Nnlkyrie came up from the southwark
and rounded the lightship in q careless
sort Of fashion, crossing the line within
one second of handicap time, the gun pro-
claiming the end Of the latter period be-
ing fired at IL ;22, two minutes after the
starting signal
As soon rs Valkyrie crossed she came
up into the wind, and everybody knew
that she had quit. Defender went on with
everything drawing in the light breeze of
about five miles an hour over q smooth
sea, just tho sort of conditions that should
suit Valkyrie. Defender stood on with her
spinnaker drawing until ll;45, when the
wind hauled TO the southwark, and she
was Obliged to haul in her spinnaker. She
also downed her staysail and jib, allowing
the balloon jibtopsail to do all the work
forward.
The excursionists followed her with en-
thusiasm and kept on cheering her from
that time until she passed the finish line.
She rounded the outer mark at ! :26:5S,
and as she did so there was a shrieSing
from steam whistles and noise from can
non and a waving Of handkerchiefs and a
general hurrah as great as though she had
had a good, game competitor.
All during the beat home the wind in
creased I'm power, and as the champion lay
over, sometimes with lee scuppers under,
she presented q sight that made the on
lockers cheer and cheer again and again.
As she was approaching the finish Mr..
Iselin yelled through a megaphone to the
committee boat Do you wish me to cross
the line? He received no answer, and nc
repeated the inquiry. Again no answer,
so Defender went over at 4:O4;36. She
was greeted with another most enthusias-
tic yell and howl and gun reports as she
did So
The time as taken by the committed
represented that she went over the course
in hours A minutes 12 seconds. With
the 30 seconds time allowance her cor
rected time was 4 hours 43 minutes AZ
seconds.
Atlantic Yacht Clubs Offer.
The Atlantic Yacht club intends offer
ing cup for race or series of races
which they hope may yet be arranged be
tween the Defender and the Valkyrie.
In tho desire of bringing about such Z
race the club will offer a cup to cost moi
less than So, 600 for the winner.
Everything will be left TO Lord Dun
raven to arrange. He will be allowed tC
choose the waters in which to race, the
only limitation being that the race OF
races must be sailed somewhere between
Sandy Hook and Marblohead and the
limitation of time will be fixed at Oct.
as the date by which the result must be
determined
Dunraven will be allowed TO arrange
matters that the date Of the race or race.
will not be made known to anybody but