The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-13
HAIL, DEFENDER AND THE CUP!
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-uru Several minutes later she set the
.,mpass signals, d. c. G.. meaning that
~. course would be east by south. As
H. wind was blowing, this meant that
,ra race to the outer mark would be a
I'm before the wind and the return a
t.4t 10 windWard. The outer mark was to
h. turned to starboard.
rne Valkyrie. away down to the south
e.sr Of the line, kept on her course and
mid no attention TO the signals.
Al 1885 o'clock a gun doomed from the
committee boat and the American boats
ensign went up At the fore. That was the
rr-1iminary signal and gave the yachts
r,fiee that the preparatory signal would
h. given fifteen minutes later.
An eyes turned TO the British boat
and as no steamers were near the course
il was expected she would send up her
club topsail and get ready for the race.
Great was the disappointment when no
activity could be seen on Nalkyrie's deck.
me wind, which had dropped TO six knots
begau 10 freshen, and the Defender dash
"a through the water in fine style. She
,orred the waves with her bows, and
dashed spray on her decks she cruissd
along 10 the westward of the line. The
course was east-by-south and Capt. Haff
got his spinnaker pole out for the race
down the wind.
At 11l0 o'clock the starting signal was
fired The Defender was then standing
in among the excursion feet on the port
tack She went about and stood back
toward the line on the starboard tack.
The Vaikyrie eased her sheets and stood
farther away. 1t was then evident that
sas did not intend to start, and a murmur
of criticism arose
There was absolutely no excuse for her
behavior, as the attendant fleet was well
back of the line and the space for ma
ncuyering was ample.
Finally the Valkyrie came about on the
mort tack and stood up toward the line
AT lIlS o'clock she broke out her stay
sal but made no movement to set her top
sail or get her spinnaker ready for the
run to leeward.
Defender sailed well down toward the
line without starting her sheets; she head
ed toward the westward and lay to for
short while. Then she broke away once
more and stood for the line. She APP
preached it as near as desirable and
then luffed up again and at HIS o'clock
she ran her spinnaker boom out to star
board. As soon as 1t was out the spinna-
ker was set in stops and eRing off her
main sheets she started for the line. 1t
was evident she would make good close
start
Meanwhile the Valkyrie was coming
along slowly under her three sails. She
passed to the south of the mark with
her boom to port, ran well beyond the line
then jibbed slowly and made for the
line in a leisurely manner, without
making any move 10 set another
sail. 1t was evident that she was sulk-
irg and did not intend to race, and every
one was wondering at the cause of such
inexplcable behavior.
The Defender was well timed and made
a beautiful start. The signal was given
al II 20:O0 and she crossed at IL :20:02. AS
she did so she broke out her spanker.
bo Na1l rxrtfa u-ne mir Nj a
behind, crossing at 11:2l:5s just before
the gun denoting that the time had
elapsed was fred. Her boom was swung
off to port Immediately after crossing
she hauled in her sheets, rounded under
the stern of the light-ship and ran up to
windward of the line, where she lay-to
A few minutes later she took in her
sails and was taken in tow by her tug,
heading back for Bay Ridge.
The Defender kept on her course and
ran out to the turning stake. AS she
moved to the turn the feet of patrol boats
formed a line wen back of the stake and
10 lCeward. None OF. the excursion steam
boats were allowed TO approach nearer
than half a mile. The Defender rounded
the mark at 1:26:5S o'clock and headed for
the finish under close haul. The wind
was blowing eight knots per hour. She
finished at 4:0lI5 having covered the
course in four hours fOrty-three minutes
i:43:43.
The regatta cup committee met a the
New York Yacht Club house tonight ana
awarded the series of races to the De-
fender.
The following was posted on the clubs
bulletin board New York, Sept. y.
1879 p. m.-The Americas cup committee
received, at a. m. to-day the follow
ing letter from the Earl or Dunraven:
Dear Mr.. Canfeld-I have just received
your letter. ] regret that, being engaged
at the time you and Mr.. Busk were kind
enough to call at the Waldorf l could
not then give a decided answer to the
propositions made in our short conversa-
ton. | nave since considered the matter
carefully. Your proposition to postpone
the start until we nave sufficient room
meets only one out of my series of diff
culucs. l must adhere to my decision as
expressed in my letter of the 10th, and if
no solution can be found to those diff
cultics l must adhere to my decision as
expressed in that letter. l am fully con-
WINGED that the committee have done and
would do tomorrow all in their power to
keep clear course, but under existing
circumstances they are powerless.
IS I told you l would sail
if the committee would take
it upon themselves to declare the race
tomorrow void if in their Judgment either
vessel were interfered with by steamers
and tug boats. l regret that you are I'M
able to agree to that. l regret also that
the race fixed for tomorrow could not
bee postponed in order to give the commit
tee ample time to consider my former
letter and am sorry my letter was not
delivered sooner AS 1 explained to you,
was under the impression that the cup
committee had the protest and pending a
decision, did not think it right to place
the letters in their hands When l learn
td this morning that the cup committee
mad nothing to do with the protest 1 re-
Guested Mr.. Kersay, to whom 1 had in
trusted the letter TO hand it to you. In
case you do not receive this tonight l
shall take Valkyrie to Sandy Hook light
snlp tomorrow morning and will cross
tae line TO give Defender a start 1 in
close copy of letter 1 have written Mr.
1seln and addressed to the New York
4acht Club. Yours truly, Dunraven.'
All of the propositions of the above
letter We're discussed between Lord Dun
raven and the members of the committee
al o'clock p. m, yesterday. The reply
gwen to these propositions was as fol-
l. That it was impossible at so short
d notice to postpone the race fixed for to-