Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-27
LOST BY MISTAKE
Hard Luck Of the vencedor in
the International Race.
CAPTAIN MISSES THE sTAKEBoAr

y
Would Have Made the Series "Horse
and Horse"-Vencctlor Gets Over the
Finish Line Ahead Of the Canad an
Flyer. but the Lattcrs Big Time Al
lowance Gives Her the Trophy.
Toledo. Aug. 2..-The Canadian yacht
Canada defeated the challenger Vencedor
yesterday and won the international race
The defender Won by 26 seconds, time oil.
lowance, after as pretty a yacht race as
was ever sailed on Lake Erie 1t was
hard race for the Yankee yacht to lose, for
she had the race well won, but lost in
most unfortunate way. The course was
live Elile straight away to lceward and re.
turn ard repeat On the second turn
Captain BIrber could not make out the
stake boat. There were three boats in line
lying the American flag and there was
nothing To indicate which Of these was the
real boat. The stakeboat had two mass
Anch red below her was another small
boat with two mastS and AZ American
nag lying from one Of them. The Vence.
dor was headed properly for the right
boat, bat as she ncarcd it her captain
| seemed pcrplesed and undecided what to
DO Finally he pulled away for the fur
theri1o,t one and rounded them all.
His Error Cost Him the Race.
His error cost his boat the race. for he
lost fully two minutes hunting for the
right boat Had he turned the boat
| properly the Ncnccdor would have won
the race by about one and half minutes.
The friends OF the American boat felt the
unfortunate accident keenly The Ven.
cedur proved herself Just what her friends
| have always claimed she was fast boat
in go,i breeze and heavy sea Yester-
days race was in high winds and seas
and the Ncnctdor outsli!cd her rival on
each of ihr four legs.
II Was IA Great Race.
| IL WAS II yacht race from start to finish,
s,it h a. few people have ever seen. The
wind b!c~ from twenty to thirty miles ar
hour during the race. the seas ran high,
and as II to add variety there was little
| rain. Both boats stood mp in the breeze
and p!uwed through the heavy seas in a
| way greatly admired by the yachtsmen
| who saw them race and when it was ali
| over every one agreed that the Nencedor
| had done the best work and only lost be-
cause of the unfortunate circumstances Of
| going around the wrong stakebOat. What
| makes the loss more keenly felt is the
fact that the judges boat was not near
the stakcboat when the Vencedor was
ready TO go round. Had the judges boa,
been near the stakebuat it would have
ben n guide to tine Vcncetior and she
would have turned properly. The Canada
about thrcc-fuarters Of 4 mile astern and
to lesward, had no difficulty in making
out the boat, for before she was re idy t.
L n "a N hat I'm y
the judges boat had come up and thu
Ncnccdor was making the turn 1t wa:
Only necessary for hrr To shoot across the
triangle thc Ncncc,lnr sailed to no gOoG
purpUs, and sIvc to herself nearly u hal
mile. The Ncncc!or might have mad. III
this loss had not the wind and sea gon.
down while sailing the last half of tn,
last leg.
| Canada Meets with u Misliap.
| The start was delayed a half hoL,
by the Canada carrying away her top.
mast halydrds. At ll:20 the prepare
tory gun was fired. and then begaI
some as pretty sailing as one woult
| wish to see. Eoth shippers We're play
ing back and forth from the line tryin:
| to gauge the distance from which (,
make their lying start The wind a
this time was blowing from the south
/ west Ut atOUt OF twenty mile:
an hour and the sea was running high
Captain Barber took the Nencedor wei
back OF the line and turning came below
the stake boat. while Captain Jarvis
| kept well back of the line. Instead O
turning his boat. as every one expecte,
he would do. Captain Barber held he
steady on the line and made towar,
G the judges boat. ready to come abou
and cross the line at the crack of tn
2 gun. y moment before the gul
= cracked he headed her toward the line
and crossed 20 seconds after the guI
h was fired. The Canada came over 4
= seconds later. From this to the finis
OF the race the Ncncedor was neve
headed. Both boats crossed the lin
with jib top-sails and balloon jib Sc
4 and staysails in stops. The Vencedo
carried her club topsail while the Can
ada used working gafr topsail. TIL
sp!unaAcr booms of both boats wer
got out at once and as quickly as pos
sible both broke out spinnakcrs an
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