The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-11

| co. Both boats Were on tie starbSard
tack at the time, SO both rlaimsd that
they had the right of way. l was 4
question among the exoer-s who We're
looking on whether Defender was a,
that moment the ov4rhaui;ng boat. II
sne mad been it was, accordias 70 rules
her place TO give way.
FINE POINT TO DISCUSS
The fine point came in the dis .uss;ens
Of the sharps whether Desenic.. who
| had been blanke.ed, and VINO had >
fall back in speed because % her huff.
| was the everhauling vessel AL the
same, with the parting Of the baby
| Jib tppsail sheet the sail ffappai = grea
deal in the wind and assisted in the
ioosenirg OF its own stay and the top
on the sterboar6. The slack OF the
top mast stay allowed the top mast to
bend far over toward the water on the
port side-so far that ii looked for a
moment as though the mast was about
| 10 be carried away. Captain Half in
] stantly eased off his vessel. He prob
/ ably felt that had he come up TO the
/ wind and met its full strength with his
| CLUB topsiai going. the entire upper out
nj would have been carried away. SO
he eased of to find out what real dam
| age had been done. He discovered
| that the topnlast had been sprung.
| IlolESI r I%AG COES r
] The Defender had in good seman-
| ship style held up the red protest flag
| when Ealkyrie's boom interfered so
much with her progress. Still she
! went on her journey very much worst
| ed by the collision but still gaining
After crossing the line she came around
| in about a minute and a half before
tack and sagged to leeward so far. be-
cause of Captain HaM's apprehension
that her upper starboard rigging would
| not mold, that a good many people said
| that she was out of the race; that she
had given it up. Others who knew
better remarked that the Defender PEG
pie would be towards If they dropped
before they got a decision. from the
committee in charge, and it proved hat
they were right
Defender was out to race, even a Grip
pie, and she went on as cripple, SO
that the wind up of the days business
showed that the fastest yacht in Eu-
rope could only beat the crippled Amer
lean over thiryt mile triangular
course by forty-seven seconds.
AS the yachts came about to the port
tack soon after crossing the line, Val
kyrie was a good eighth of a mile to
windward and several lengths ahead.
As they stood well back away on the
port tack the wind increased to eight
or nine miles an hour
VALKYRIE'S BETTER WORK.
During the tack Valkyrie plainly out
footed and outpointed the Defender.
who did not care to run up and sail on
the jib topsail. At 11:24 Defender
came about to starboard. Valkyrie
followed as promptly as though she
had been racing with a fellow we'll met.
On this tack Defender pointed Up very
-ar1r fo ct brf ~aI
better in both points of sailing. They
only stood away on this tack for about
five binutes; then they came around to-
gether. All the time Valkyrie was do
ing the better work in both pointing
and footing. There was considerable
wonder expressed that Defender with
out any jibsail did not point higher
than she did. but as a matter Of fact,
Valkyrie was going to windward all
the time she was going ahead. AZ
1854 Defender was the first ID come
about and she did it in very slow,
slovenly, careless manner. occupying
no less than q seconds. Val:,yrie fo.-
lowed her opponents example quickly
and continued TO race as UoIt out Cor
a cup should race.
At this stage of the game Defenders
friends looked very blue. They were
sure that Defender would lose the race,
but they did think their champion
should do better than she was doing.
They were willing to lose Under the cir
cumstances. but they Were unanimous
in saying that Defender should make
all the fight she was able, which she
certainly did not appear 30 make eV en-
a bluff at doing. After thai the boys
tried to console themselves with the
thought that the Defender cripple was
simply going over the course as 4 pro.
testing contestant.
SLIDES LIKE A SNAKE
The excursion boats wer= henaving
more generously than they did on Sat
urday. They really kept away at leas.
a half mile from the competitors and
remained we'll TO leewari at that time
The breeze was fresh ening from The
south right along. and Valkyrie being
TO leeward always felt the increase
first. The same thing was seen a. o,i
Saturday in the matter of the way the
boats went through the wate~ The
sea was far smoother, there being not
SO much ground swell, but Vaikyrie
splashed and threw spray from her
bows for many feet, while Defender
slid the water easily AM smoothly al
most as a snake.
During the latter part Of the beat out
TO the first mark Defender lid better
pointing but her jib was shaking n
good deal Of the time. At 1910 The
yachts came around to port and at
1924 back again to starboarI, on n, y
tack they were both able 10 make the
first mark. where their time was taken
as follows: Valkyrie, l hour. 81 min
utes, 43 seconds; Defender hour. 1 min
ute. SO seconds.
So it will be seen that ValKyrie led
out 10 the first mark by 3 minutes and
81 seconds.
ALAS, FOR THAT BALLOON
AS Falkyrie rounded she set her big
balloon jib tosaid and took N her jib
That big front sail filed magnificent
~ and drew with goodness knows how
many horsepower The Defender
cranks watched with all their eyes n
see if their favorite would Sc her ba.-
loon top sail They watched 10 fnd
IL Defenders rigging had been weaken
ed as they feared. Alas. DefsnJeg' MAS
only able To run up baby sail CT the
jib tOpsaA stay. \ larger spread II
canvass would have cause TOO nlucn
strain on the weakened stag. Defeu
er. however. set q balloon stay sail, and
not long afterward Naikyrie followed
SUIT and sent UP balloon o. her fore
stay. The wind was then about south
southeast going al the rate D. some
think like twelve miles an hJI- and
blowing well over the yachts quarters,
with boom we'll out 10 Ort.
On this second les, the cripP 81 -
fender OVERLAP led the Brito1 by less
than IL seconds. At the eai Z ti.s
broad reach. the yachts rosudei tie |
second mark as follows: Valkyrie. J |
hour. fifty-e.ght minutes. 10 seconds:
Defender. 2 hours. 10 minutes. - sec
onds.
on THE LAST LEG
New the wind had shifted - south |
west. by south and showed down Ia
eight miles an hour. The last ie-s was