St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-21

down to the line, there was fully |
three lengths of clear water be- !
tween them, the Vigilant for the first |
time being in advance They came |
scurrying along to the boat off the
hghtship with mainsail, club top
sail, forestaysail and jib set The |
Defender probably never showed |
such a fine setting of canvas, but !
the Vigilant's clothes were even bet |
ter. Both were on the starboard
tack, having been told by the sig
nal that their course would be dead !
against the wind. As they went |
over the Vigilant set her baby top
sail and in doing so luffed up into
the wind long enough to make her
lose probably fifteen seconds, if not
more. As usual, the Defender went
about almost as soon as she had
crossed the line. She stood away
on the port tack, while the VigiIant
continued on a long board. The De-
fender stood on short tack for
couple of minutes and then went
about TO overhaul the Vigiiant. For
some time it looked as though the
Vigilant were actually outputting
the Defender, but the appearance
was doubtless due to the fact that
the Defender was pointing higher
into the wind. 1t was 1915 when the
Defender got honestly abeam Of the
Vigilant, a good sixteenth of mile
to windWard. The Vigilant, fearing
that the Defender would pass her,
came about on the port tack and
tried to cross the bow of the new
boat. AS she did so she took in her
baby jib topsail But even that i'm
pOrtant maneuver did not enable her
to split tacks with the Defender, for
the Defender went about almost at
the same time
GAINED RIGHT ALONG.
When they stood back for the New
Jersey shore the Defender was fully
half mile in the lead. Both yachts
made the outer mark on this tack.
/ the Defender gaining right along.
At the rounding she eased her main
sheet and took no less than seven
minutes in dropping her spinnaker
pole and setting that sail on her
port side. The handling of the boat
was wretched. The Vigilant rounded
finely. The wind had run up to
about fifteen knots by that time,
and the center-boarder heeled well
over to port to a very sharp angle
before she gybed her boom over to
port and got ready to set the spin
maker on the starboard tack. On
the ten-rnile beat to windward the
Defender had gained six minutes and
. thirty-three seconds. Then came the
run before the wind home Within
a mile of the finish line the De-
fender hauled down her spinnaker
and balloon jib topsail, running con-
siderably to the westward in doing
so. Then she made a reach for the
home line and got there at two
hours, four minutes and twenty-nine
seconds. She turned the Sandy Hook
lightship all right. The Vigilant
made her rounding in much the same
style. By this time the wind had in
creased to eighteen or twenty knots
an hour. The Defender stood away
on the port tack for probably two
minutes, long enough to let the on
lockers think that she was going to
obey orders and go over the course
again, but she stood away for Sandy
Hook point. There was an ominous
gathering Of wind clouds down to the
southwark, and the kickers said that
Defender was afraid of blow. IN
truth the boat had sustained serious
damage, in that her upper rigging
was so badly stretched and Ioosened
that if she had been forced into a
second round of the course she might
have carried away a mast, if not
the mainsail itself.
VIGILANT KEEPS ON.
In the meantime the Vigilant went
around the Scotland lightship, but
took down her club topsail A very
few minutes after her jib was COM
pletely torn into shreds by the wind.
The Vigilant had seen by this time
that the Defender had quit, but
Commander Willard was going over
the course anyhow. As soon as the
committee boat saw that Defender
had gone home, the Vigilant was
overtaken and informed that the
days race was hers. On the run
home before the wind Vigilant had
gained one minute and thirty-three
seconds, which in proportion TO the
distance was the best gain that the
center-boarder had made on the fin
keel. Following is the time Of the
boats on the first round:
Outer Elapsed
Start. Mark. Finish Time
Defender 11:4e:53 1:09:1S 2:04:29 2:17:36
Vieilant 11:45:56 1:14:54 2:0S:32 2:22:3s
Thus it VIII be seen that the De-
fender beat the Vigilant, on the
elapsed time of the only round, by
five minutes fat.
FAST TIME PROMISED.
Curry Says He VIII Whip Gentry
Tomorrow.
CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-The trotting
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