Birmingham age-herald., 1895-09-07
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minutes. and consequently there was disappointment when the announce ment was made. Tt will take a pretty stiff breeze to save us at that rate, said one member jokingly when he heard the result of the measurements.
 "Oh we don't need the twenty-nine seconds" said another yachtsman. Let us make her present of it"
 The regatta committee expressed them selves as being perfectly satisfied with the result of the measurement and seV- eral members declared they would be better pleased if both yachts went to the line tomorrow on equal terms.
 MT Hyslop's official report is as fol lows Length on load water line-Valky- rie. SSS5; Defender, SS.45. Length from fore end of main boom to forward point Of measurement-Valky ,1S6. .02 ;Defend- CT, 1Sl.79. Length from foreside to fore mast to forward point of measurement Valkyrie, 1894; Defender 73.5o. Length extreme of spinnaker boom-Valkyrie, 1894; Defender, 73.36. Length of main gaff-Valkyrie 79.50; Defender, 64.95. Length of top mast-Valkyrie. 57.42; De fender. 4594 Height upper side or main boom to top sail halyards block-Val- kyrie, 129.S0; Defender, 125. 5.4S. Square root of sail area as per rule-Valkyrie, 11414: Defender, 112.26. Sailing length as per rule-Valkyrie, 101.49; Defender, 10O36. Time allowance, 29 1-10 seconds.
 On the eve of the battle betting has be- come quite brisk and Canadian money has been held back for better odds of 3 to 3 on Defender, but in large amounts the orders were to 5 and 10 to '. The latter was the latest figure at the New York yacht clubs and hotels On the stock exchange today it is said on good authority that $36000 was placed. F. T. Adams placed s7000 on Valkyrie at odds of to 10. The wager was laid for an English client. The betting opened and closed at to 10, with wagers in the in terim at 8 to 10 The Valkyrie end of the betting has been taken principally by Canadians.
 The weather outlook for tomorrow fla vors the American rather than the Brit ish boat. Local Forecaster Dunn, after carefully going over his reports today, said: rTaking all in all the conditions most likely to prevail tomorrow will be favorable for the contest. There will be brisk wind of from twelve to eighteen miles an hour. It will come at first from the northeast, shifting to southeast erly quarter. It is bound to be an on- shore wind. The indications are that the sky will be overcast nearly all day. There may possibly be light showers, but it is not likely that there will be any heavy rain"
 Yachtsmen and mariners who have records as prophets agreed substantially with the government weather sharp. They said that all signs indicate good wind coming right In from the ocean, and as such a wind generally brings a swell with it the yachts will have a bit of sea to contend with in the thrash to windward which is mapped out for them. As the Defenders weather qualities have been fully determined and the British boat Is supposed to be at her best in a smooth sea and light winds, 1t may be said that tomorrow promises to be a Defender day.
 It is only the most rabid rooter for the yankee boat, however, who claims that defending the cup Is easy this year. Yachtsmen who have seen the Dunraven boat both in dock and under sail de- clare that the Englishman has a better chance for capturing it than they ever had. Their boat is nearer the American model and is expressly built for wind and water conditions which prevail off Sandy Hook. That the contest of this year is to be a race of we'll matched boats and no walkover Is so generally conceded that greater interest in the result and greater desire to see the races prevail than many former international contest
 It is estimated that fully 30,000 persons will witness the race tomorrow. Besides the multitude of private crafts that will flock toward the Sandy Hook lightship before II o'clock there are excursion boats by the score to give those not for tunate enough to have yachts of their own or to have friends who do an op- portunity to witness the contest at moderate fare. Sixty-five excursion steamers are advertised to leave this city, and others will start from Brooklyn, Newark Jersey City and other points