The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-21
|S|R THOMAS Upton WILL co
HOME WITHOUT THE CUP
The Historic Mug Stays This Side Challenge to the
World-The Columbia Won the Last Of the Series
AMagnificent Rough Weather Duel-Showed
Her Superiority Under All Conditions.
Upton Will Come Again.

bowled down for the float. Three min
utes later, when they took in their spin
makers preparatory to gybing, the CO.
lumhia was length in the lead and
footing like mad The yachts swept
around the mark, the Columbia II sec
onds ahead, but so close that one
chorus from the fleet answered for
both. The Columbia had gained min
ute and Is seconds in the 15-nlile run.
AS they leaned away on the starboard
tack for the beat home the white flyer
was to windward and about a length
ahead. With their sheets trimmed fiat
aft they surged into the head seas,
sending the brine smoking as high as
the spreaders. The careened until their
lee rails were awash in the swirling,
driving waves. Oceans of spray came
over and occasionally shot crests Of
green water forwards. Everything
aboard was wet and dripping. Seldom
has there been such smashing sea
under the bows of cup contestants.
The water spurted 20 feet into the
air. The green boat labored more than
the Yankee. Once or twice she buried
her bowsprit in the seas, wetting her
head sails. 1t was a grand sight.
The Columbia pointed almost a point
higher than her~rival and footed just
as hard. The Columbia had housed
her working topsail before they turn
ed the mark, but the Shamrock held
on until, with constantly freshening
wind, she decided that it was danger
Gus to carry it longer, and a sailor was
sent aloft to lower it. 1t was deli
cate job with the big 9O-footer buck
ing into the jumping sea like bron-
cho. but after five minutes of hard
work 1t was successfully accomplished.
On every fresh tack to windward the
Yankee increased her lead sailing SO
close that the old salts said she could
wipe the eye Of the wind" At 10:45
the Columbia was leading by quar-
ter of mile. The situation for the
Shamrock was desperate, and, reckless
OF the consequences, the British skip
per decided to crowd on more can
vas. Fearlessly he sent up and after
a deal of trouble, succeeded in setting
small club topsail. The Columbia
had the race we'll in hand and did not
need to risk a broken spar. Fortu-
nately the challengers topmast did not
carry away, though she leaned over
under the press of canvas until her
slippery decks were tilted at an an
gle of 30 degrees. Her speed was un-
doubtedly increased, but her inability
to point lost her almost as much as she
gained in footing. Then she resorted
to splitting tacks, once running close
in shore under the Navesink highlands.
A slight cant in the wind favored her
at this time and she managed to close
up the gap until little more than half
a mile separated her from the Column
bia. The patriots began to feel ner-
vous, but with the finishing line two
miles away there was little danger.
Shamrock Lost.
Soon after the wind blackened a lit
tie, and thereafter the Shamrock lost
rather than gained ground. All the ex-
cursion boats at this time We're buck
ing into the head seas for home as fast
as their screws could churn. The tub
boats We're flooded. But. as on the run
down, the pace was too hot. and not
half the fleet was in it at the finish.
The rush of the yachts through the
sea on the last tack was ma gnficent.
Geysers spurted from the bows and
drenohed the sailors lying piled up
against the weather rail. As the Yam
kee shot across the finish line between
the lightship and the committee boat
the shippers of the fleet that had got
there in time almost forgot to open
their whistles, SO absorbed Were they
in the stirring spectacle. But they
made up for it later. The defeated
challenger raced across five minutes
and l. seconds later. The much-toute
rough water boat had been beaten
over 3O-mile course six minutes and
is seconds actual time. or with the al
lowance she was to concede to the CO.
lumbia On account of her longer water
line. six minutes and "a seconds The
Shamrock got a noisier reception than
Columbia, as she first did, perhaps be-
cause the later time at which she
crossed gave opportunity for some of
the belated vessels to get uu.
A grand spectacle followed. The vic
tor, after lowering her sails, set the
stars and stripes at her topmast
truck at both ends of her spreader and
at the taffrail. Soon the whole fleet
blossomed out in American flags. Pat
riotic shippers ransacked their lockers
for them and they flew them from
every staff and mast. The Corsair. the
flagship of the New York Yacht club,
had six flags Tapping in the stiff
blasts. Then her crew cheered and the
hardy Deer Islanders aboard the de-
fender responded with barred heads. All
the ships in the excursion fleet follow
ed, turning loose their whistles in a
chorus, whose notes rang
ed from the deep bass of the sound
steamers to shrill falsetto of the tor
pedo boats. Some OF the excursion
boats kept their whistles going half
way 20 New York
Later the Erin, which had remained
behind for few minutes with Sham
rock. steamed up to the Columbia, the
stars and stripes fluttering from main
and mizzen. The Corsair greeted her
with cannon. which she acknowledged
by dipping the English union jack at
the taffrail. Then by Sir Thomas or
ders the crew of he Erin lined the rail
and gave three good Anglo-saxon
cheers for the victor. They were re-
turned with interest by the proud crew
of the Columbia. The American boat
was the first to reach her moorinS
buoy inside the Hook. and when her
late rival came up in tow the sailors of
both had the opportunity to cheer each
other.