The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-04
YAnrrR1r LOSES .AaA1M.

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 Dunraven's Cup Hunter Very Tender in n
 Blow-Britannia Wins the Race-The
 Challenger is Beaten by the Ailsa as Well.
 Gourock, Scotland, July S,-Valkyrie III, Britannia and Ailsa started in the Mudhooh Yacht clubs regatta this morning on the Clyde in a rattling northwesterly wind that promised to hold and give the great single stickers a splendid chance to test their com parative capabilities,
 The course was fifty miles with seven turns. The sea was smooth.
 The starting gun boomed at 10:S0 and the Ailsa crossed the line, with the wind over the starboard quarter, at 10:3016. The Britannia followed on the Ailsa's weather quarter at 10:30;22, about half length astern. The Valky- rie was three lengths on the lee quarter of the Prince of Wales cutter.
 Jibtopsails were set just after the yachts started on the seven mile run down to the Skelmorlie mark. Valky- rie III. carried her second size clubtop- sail. The Britannia ran to the fore tt ltW llliQlS1 lLlCI liiS otttII aIlO lGQ her rivals around the Skelmorlie mark. The times there were: Britannia, 11:06;O1. Ailsa, 11:06:15. | Valkyrie, 11:06:S0. ,.. In the four miles of broad reaching 1 to the Ascog mark, with the wind just forward the starboard beam, the Brit annia held her advantage. From Ascog 1 up the Kilcreggan mark, stretch of ! eleven miles, it was a close reach, with sheets hauled we'll aft. The wind was l over the port bow. The wind had grown ] stronger, stirring up the white caps. 1 The trio were having a magnificent ] race, outsailing some of the steam 1 yachts of the attending fleets. The l cup challenger and the Ailsa were too { heavily canvassedl apparently, as they 1 heeled way over to starboard. The Britannia was making the best race of 1 it, standing up like church. Vallzyrie's tenderness was matter of general comment and wonder. She showed more of her bilge than was consistent with speed; practically sail ing on her uppers at times. She was beaten squarely.
 l The Britannia increased her lead to I Kilcreggan, where the yachts were tim ed thus:
 Britannia, 12:26,39. l Ailsa, 12:27:32. Valkyrie, 12:2S:1S.
 1 In the thre mile reach to the home
 mark, finishing the first round, with ] the wind over the starboard bow, Val 1 kyrie III. lowered her small clubtopsail, 1 the wind being too strong for her to car 1 ry it advantageously. Besides there was possibility of carrying away her 1 lofty topmast. Occasionally, when the l wind went down, the new yacht would
 rush forward, threatening to overhaul I the leaders, but she would lose in the blasts that bore her far over. l The Britannia rounded the home l mark three minutes and fourteen sec l onds ahead of valkyrie and one min ' ute and seven seconds ahead of the 1 Ailsa. Time: I Britannia, 12:45:30.
 l Ailsa, 12:46:37.
 valkyrie. 12:4s:44.
 Passing Clock light, about six miles from the finish, the Britannia was one minute and five seconds ahead of the l Ailsa and two minutes and forty five ! seconds ahead of the valkyrie. Time Britannia, 2:2418.
 Ailsa, 2:25:21
 valkyrie, 2:27:01.
 The Britannia finished three minutes { and eight seconds ahead of the valky. rie and one minute and ten seconds i ahead Of the Ailsa. With the allowance 4 she receives from the Valkyrie the Brit
 annia wins by several additional min. ,ites. Time,
 \ Britannia, 2:56,37.
 ! Ailsa, 2:57:47.
 I YalkYrie. 2:59:45.