The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-07
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The Mischief, owned by L. r. Busl,
was selected TO meet her, and on No.
Nenber she defeated the Atlanta. nv
20 minutes, 10 seconds, 1t was in 1885,
mat Sir Richard Sutton's cutter Cen
esta, designed by J. Beaver Webb
gave our yachtmen a scare, but that
very fast vessel met one a. little fas-
Ter and the cup was still safe. 1t was
IN 1885 that she came over from Eng
1dnd and met the Puritan, Boston
boat.
Puritan and Genesta.
meantime the ironclad Priscilla was
constructed on plans laid out by A.
cary Smith, the popular New York de-
eIgner, and the new boats went in the
lTlal races with the Oracle and the
heoouin, the latter being an out-and-
out cuter from designs by John Har-
Esy, an out-and-out Englisbman. The
Puritan and Priscilla were the largest
Sleeps that had ever been built in
America.
There were three trial races and the
new boats and had them all to them
selves. The Priscilla won one. but the
Puritan defeated her twice, and was
selected to defend the cup.
The Puritan-Genesta match consisted
of best two out OF three races Two
disappointing starts were made when
the event was called off, The Puritan.
fouled the Genesta at the start and
was promptly and properly ruled out
On September II they made third
unsuccessful start. On September IA
they sailed over the New York Yacht
club course, a distance of about thirty
eight nautical miles and the Puritan
won by is minutes, 10 seconds, after
allowing the Genesra 28 seconds.
Gave Them a Fright.
1t was on September Is that the Cen
esta gave the New Workers a fright
The race was twenty miles down the
wind and beat back. The cutter boat
beat the centerboard one minute, q
seconds on the run out, and on the
beat back the Burgess boat managed
to cross the line one minute So seconds
ahead.
The Genesta won the Beckons reef
and Cape May cups from the schooner
Dauntless before she returned to Eng
land.
In 1886 the Boston peope built the
Mayf1ower. The cutter Galetea, owned
by Lieutenant Villa Hem, r. M, and
designed by Beayer-Webb, was the
challenger and she had her turn at be-
ing beaten in two straight races.
The trial races in 1886 were contested
by the Mayfiower, Puritan. Priscilla and
the Atlantic, sloop paid for by a party
OF Brooklyn, N. Y, capitalists. The May
flower was easily the best of the quar-
tette and she successfully defended the
cup. On September Z again over their
inside course She defeated. the Galatea
by u minutes, 9 seconds. and two days
later IN the open the Burgess creation
wor by 29 minutes, seconds.
Then the Thistle.
The Scotch steel cutter Thistle was
The next challenger-to take a ZHlloping.
She was designed by George L. Watson,
dent when they sent their ship over the
Atlantic in 1887. At the instigation or
General Paine, Mr.. Burgess then turned
out the Volunteer, which proved to be
trial race with the Mayfower was needed
TO show the new boats superiority.
Two years ago Lord Dunraven built
another Yacht which was the second of
the name of Valkyrie and brought her
over after the cup, The events of 1873
are within easy recollection and memoir
able will they always be. Everybody re-
members how four big single stickers
Tyere bI1ilt to compete for the honor of de-
Tending the cup. General Paine was al
the front with the Jubilee. One New YORK
syndicate produced the Colonia and an
other body Of New YORK ya vac T5a
fourth candidate came from Boston ana
was called the Pilgrim. The Vigilant was
selected to defend the cup and after sew
eral glorious trials she beat Valkyrle Ia
three straight races.
This Years Match.
The match this year between Valkyrie
III and Defender wilA be comprised OF
hest three out of i've races, and will
be started from tie Sandy HOOK nght-
shin. which is rs miles outside Of sandy
Hook They will be held on alternate
DAYS, the first being programmed Tor
Sent The courses will be thirty miles
long each and the turn will be taken at
Is miles to windward or leeward ana re-
turn and the triangular course OF ~ miles
20 the leg until one Of the racers win
II is generally admitted that this year
will see the closest contest ever had Tor
she cur, Valkyrie III showed before she
left home that shS IS the easiest yacht
ever built over there. at least in light
water. Defender has beer tried IN
ali kinds of winds, Though she
I mn seal and it is the universal
oninion among experts that she Is petter
than Nigilant by ten minutes IL NOT more
in thirty miles, and NIg1lant is peueVeu
to be four minutes faster IMAM she was
Some Betting.
,rbere has been some betting on the re-
eult of the match, the hackers OF the
T; mp yacht having invariably demand
erl' ODDS 5si They have asked for z to 3
ye; in some eases have accepted b to n
=. otoi,e6 not by practical yachtsmen, but
nv sporting men who nave oeen leu 10
b ny eve from the newspapers that the
Taikyrie is going to furnish surprising p
e,,,tion displayed in making predictions.
eil It was refreshing to an Amer-
,nan to hear one of the most capable
n16Ees come out fat-footed one DAY IN
this manner.