The Portland daily press., 1895-08-07
DREXEL CUP RACE.
Defender Again Shows Her Super
iOrity in Light Airs.
CAPTAIN HAFF'S SHARP PRAC.
TICES CAUSE AN ACCIDENT.

Ine lace Yesterday was on q Triangular
Course-Fog stopped the Race on the
| First Round-Tho Date Set for the Race
| Americas Cup.
| Newport, RI, Aug 6-The Defender
won the Drexel cup today, the cruise
of the New York Yacht Club ended in
blaze of glory tonight and the Americas
cup committee have set Aug. 20 and % for
the trial races.off Sandy Hook. The yacht
which will undoubtedly be chosen to meet
Lord Dunraven's challenger showed her
powers today by defeating the Vigilant
six minutes and ten seconds over 81
| mile Triangular course in a light wind.
There were seven miles of wlndward
work on the first leg and the Defender
gained five minutes and eighteen seconds
| The second leg was reach and the new
sloop did the seven miles in one minute
and twenty 1.-TWO seconds less time than
the Vigilant did. On the last leg the
! Vigilant used her spinnaker part Of the
way, while the Defender did not and the
1873 boat also got an advantage from the
shifting OF the wind, and as IL result she
gained thirty seconds on the Defender. 1t
was on the programme for the yachts to
go twice over the course, but sea fog
came up suddenly just as the Defender
finished the first round and the regatta
committee stopped the race at the twenty
one mile point. There were six 5000 med
ais offered by Capt. J. r. Drexel of Phil
adelphia which were raced for today by
as many classes of schoOners and sloops
/ The winners were: In the second class
sehoonera Emerald defeated the Marguer-
ite. In the fourth class schooners, the
/ A1,1n n1,it n t,rj %I,DL T11oN
fifth class schooners the Loyal defeated
the Neara. In the third class sloops the
Queen Nab defeated Hildeguarde In the
sixth class sloops the Uyitra defeated the
Norata and Gossoon. The last named
didn't finish owing to a broken spreader.
The course today was from Brenton's
reef llghtship, seven miles southwest by
half west to and around the whistling
buoy off Point Judith, seven miles east
| by south, three-quarters south to and
around a white spar out at sea, and seven
miles north three-quarters west to
Brenton's lightship twenty one miles, to
be sal led twice over unless otherwise sig
nailed. Very little wind was stirring
when the yachts left the anchorages, but
by the time they got past the Dumplings
and showed thier noses in the open sea
white caps were visible. These didn
last and the wind droppd to from six to
eight knots an hour and was south by
southwest The small ,sloops started at
10, going over in the following order:
Nab, Gossoon, Katrina, Hildegarde, Uyira,
Norata. At II. Is the schooners started
The Amorita reached the line first, fol-
lowed by the others in this order: Mar
guerite, Marie, Emerald, Loyal and
Neara. The last two were SO late that
| they were handicapped The committee
held the Defender and Vigilant back five
minutes longer than customary and sent
them off at 11.25. Their start afforded
most the exciting incident of the ~day.
| One minute before the gun was fired the
two big sloops were north of the lightship
| jockeying for a windward position. The
| Vigilant was nearest the line and head
ing for it first. Capt. Barr aimed to
swing under the stern of the lightship
as close to the old hull as he could with
out hitting it. Capt. Half shook out q
| est club topsail and big jib and staysail
pulling for they were WORTH the new boat
| jumped through the water, oyertakiug
the Vigilant and tapping her on the star
| board side There was not room for the
Defender to squeeze in between the Vigi-
| liant and the lightship and what little
room there was was occupied by the little
steam yacht Gladys of Kingston, Ont
! Capt. Half held his course and disaster
semed inevitable Mr.. Iselin was stand
ing on the deck of the Defender and
yelled at the owner of the Gladys, "Get
OuU u oio way YOU n0 Ao possluio eAcuso
for being there. !" The captain of the
Gladys gave the craft a turn backwards
and her mainmast Doked a hole in the
boat, swinging from the davits of the
| lightship. The stern of the Gladys butted
against the big hulk and with crash,
her mainmast snapped short off. sThe
railings flagstaff and deck fixtures aft
We're smashed and the British ensign
went down with a run. Meanwhile Cap
tain Barr ran off a couple of points to
| in between him and the lightship and
cross first although he was clearly entit-
| led to hold his course The tactics of Capt
Half were practically the same as in the
race off Sandy Hook. where Mr.. Willard
| filed protest on which no action has
| been taken.
After the advantage thus gained in
crossing the line the Defender had the
race ali her own way. Five min utes aft
er crossing she started toward the shore.
| The Vigilant followed suit. The Defend
er made long board and when she went
about off Narragansett Pier at H. 15 she
/ was a good half mile to the windward of
| the Vigilant The boats took short tack
on and off shore down toward Point Ju-
dith and atEl2 o'clockgthe Defender passed
| the Emerald and was leading the schoon-
er. Ten minutes later she passed the
/ Queen Mab which had q fifteen minutes
strart and led the fleet. At 12 30 the
| Defender was abreast Point Judith, lead
| ing the Vigilant by a mile. The Defend
er turned at the first stake at IL. 81. H.
The Vigiant turned at IL. 43. 20, Queen
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