Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-21
CUP WILL STAY HERE
Columbia Easily Vanquishes English ohal-
lenger in Final Race of Series.
MAGNIFICENT ROUGH WEATHER DUEL
Just the Kind Of Breess as Sir Thomas
Has Been Praying For.
BLOWING TWENTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR
Shamrock Crosses Starting Line Over Minute
Ahead of Defender.
BEATEN OVER SIX MINUTES At FINISH
Yankee Yacht Points Higher, Foots
Faster ana Carries Itself Bcttcr
Than the English Sloop
Throughout Entire Course.

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Outer Mark
Columbia
shh"rocs ..'.... ........ ..12,10iIT
Finish Line
toiumbin ............... 2tIO 90
sh"mrock '............... 2,45iIT
Elapsed Time
soi"mbia ...'.............. 3,3S,25
shamrock ...... 3;I4 .I3
Corrected Time
Columbia .......,...., :,.aS,oo
Shamrock ...'.. .......... 3;Ii ,i3
Shamrock allowed Columbia 16,.
seconds,
Shnmrock finished Ave minutes
seventeen seconds after Columbia.
II was defeated in this race, the HnnI
one of the series, six minutes cipb-
teen seconds, actual time md six
minutes thirty-four seconds cor
rccted time.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-Through wild and
hoary seas, in a breeze that approached tina
dignity of a gale the gallant sloop Colum-
bia today vanquished the British challenger
Shamrock, by six minutes and eighteen Sec
oads actual time, and six minutes and thirty
four seconds corrected time, thus completing
the series for the Americas cup with n
magnificent rough weather duel and a
glorious Yankee victory.
For the eleventh time the attempt of a
foreigner to wrest from America the yacht
ing supremacy of the world has failed. The
trophy won by the old schooner America.
forty eight years ago, is still ours. a monu-
ment to the superiority of American seaman
ship and American naval architecture, and
standing challenge to all the world
The intrinsic value OF the reward for which
thousands Of dollars were expended to se-
| cure is small-simply an antiquated piece
of silverware. which Queen Victoria offerel
to the best sailing ship in the world in the
early days of her reign, but around 1t clus-
ter tbs precious memories of unbroKen
American triumph and the mastery of the
noblest of sports.
To Sir Thomas Upton, whose name is now
added to the list of defeated aspirants for
the honor of carrying the cup back across
the Atlantic, failure was a crushing blow
| His hope had been high but like the true
sportsman he is, the sting of defeat has left
no bitterness and with undauntei courage
| he intimate9 that he may be back with a
| better boat to try again.
| During his stay here Sir Thomas has made
| himself more popular than any previous
! challenger and yachtsmen OF this country
were glad to welcome him. Except for re-
to the challenger, this series of races has
been unmarried by single untoward Incl
dent. The boats have had two fair and
! square races, one in light air and the other
! in heavy blow, and Sir Thomas is per-
fectly satisfied that he was beaten by the
! better boat.
Magnificent Rough weather Duel.
( Today's race was a glorious test of the
! O har ,ft tbp
| There was too much frostiness in the air
| for comfort, and 1t was entirely too rough
| for landlubbers. A chilling blast out of the
northeast whipped foam out of the racing
waves until they whtened the face OF the
sea. outside the ocean was riot of white
| caps.
Some OF the holiday fleet declined to brave
| the perils of the harpies riding on the north
easter and those that did rolled and plunged
! in the tumbling billows sending all but the
old salts below.
Tho prayer OF Sir Thomas for wind was
answered. 1t was blowing twenty five miles
an hour at the ightship, enough wind and
enough sea to make any machine stagger.
Even the pilot boats, that can weather any
gale, were under shortened sail, and the
wind fairly tore the steam from the ex-
haust and smoke from the stack into shreds
The course, fifteen miles before the wind,
SClllu ny NtoL, tdllltu lHo ydEulS SlIdlBHL
down the Jersey coast to a point off Long
Branch, so that the race was sailed in plain
view OF those perChed on the high shores.
The crew of Columbia prepared for
the fray in yellow slickers and souwesters
and those OF Shamrock In white canvas. 1t
was bI0wng too hard for clubtopsais and
both shippers contented themselves with
hoistlng small working toDsails.
Both yachts fled across the starting limo
and wing, their spinnakers breaking out
like puffs of white smoke and setting hard
as plaster, Shamrock was over a minute
and one second before the defender but
this was not due to superior seamanship; /;
Captain Barr held off for that length of time
before the green boat crossed in order that
he might get the position astern, from where
he could blanket his rival
Yankee Trick Does Its Work.
The yachts made a beautiful picture as
they sped away. Columbia carried its spin
maker boom at an angle of almost forty five
degrees. This allowed the big sail to belly
far out forward and draw like locomotive,
but it was rather dangerous and twice
an extra puff carried the sail forward and
up until 1t tumbed over the stay. But the
Deere Isle sailors each time had It back
in place in a jiffy Shamrock had no such
mishap, as Hogarth carried his boom much
lower, The Yankee trick, however, did its
work, lifting the head of Columbia out Of
the water. until 1t seemed to be skimmlng
| over the ocean.
The excursion feet were chasing after the
yachts fast as their steam could carry
them. But the big sloops set so hot a
pace that they left half the tugs and some
of the steam yachts astern. They were go-
ing at a ffteenknot pace, the Yankee
slowly but surely oyerhauIing its rival It
soon reached the stern Of its rival, hoping to
gain position TO shut off It's wind. COlum-
bia had climbed 10 striking distance when
the challenger crowded on more canvas and
for five minutes 1t seemed to hold the
American.
AS the yachts approached the outer mark