Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-17
COLUMBIA LED AT TIE time
The Next Race VIII Be Sailed on
Thursday
COL L MBIA ENr ALON


| one Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht was dis
| ahled by the HI ieaking Of her topmast. and
| she Was obliged to give up the race. while
| the Columbia, under the rules governing
contests for the International trophy, pro-
| ceeded to sail over the course alone.
At the time of the accident the cup de-
| fender was leading the challenger by sew
| eral boat lengths.
| The starting gun was fired at II o'clock
| At 11:o0:40 the Shamrock crossed the line
| the Columbia following ten seconds later.
| For about a quarter Of an hour the Sham
| rock held the lead, but made no gain. Then
| the defender overhauled and passed her
| end continued to gain until the catastro-
| phe occurred that put the Shamrock out
| of TIE race.
| MACKAY-PENNETT CABLE BOAT.
2:lo p.m.-The Columbia crossed the finish
| line at 2::}5.5o. unofficial time
WESTERN UNION CABLE BOAT.-The
| Columbia rounded the second mark at
1:33:t5.
The Oflcial Time.
Western Union Cable Boat. official time:
Shamrock. 11:o0:15; Columbia. 11.o0.l7.
First mark, Columbia, 12:39:2s; second
mark, Columbia, 1:38:27; finish, Columbia,
2:31:ls
SANDY HOOK, October 17.-Later It was
announced by one Of the officers Of the
Erin to 4 representative of the Associated
| Press that the next race would be on
Thursday instead of Saturday.
NEW YORK October 1.-THE earliest
weather conditions today were not favor
able for the sailing of the second race in
| the international series Of contests for the
Americas cup The wind was light, from
| the southeast, and the sky was overcast.
l. 81, ,l,.ls
OF Sandy Hook. at about O'Clock. prep
arations We're being made on board both
| the cantesting yachts for the race. The
wind. however. was only about three knots
| at that point. with light haze IN the air
| and a gentle surf making muric on the
shore.
The observer Of the Associated Press at
| Long Branch soon after 4 o'clock an
nounced that the wind there was about Of
| six and a half miles strength, and also
| about southeast
| The Highlands of Naveslnk, at 1:40 am,
! telegraphed that a seven-knot southeast
| erly wind was blowing there and increas-
| ing in strength.
| At Galilee, at am. the wind was about
| southeast, with indications of freshenlng.
| Long Beach, at am. wired that the
| weather there was partly cloudy, with an
| eGsterly wind blowing at the rate OF about
| four miles an hour.
| As the day progressed the wind freshened
| off the Highlands. still from tie southeast
| and by s O'Clock It was blowing over eight
| knots. fully strong enough for the racers
| to cover the course within the TINS limit.
Both the yachts had their head sails up
| in stops before o'clock, and their crews
| were eagerly scanning the horizon for indl-
| cations of more breeze.
Triangular Course Today.
Under the conditions of the race series.
today's contest was set down as a trangu-
| lar course, ten miles TO each leg OF the
| triangle.
With the wind southeast It looked as II
the yachts would have a beat straight sea-
ward to the southeast on the first leg; then
a broad reach toward the Jersey shore,
with booms to starboard and balloons set
with the second mark anchored about five
| miles east OF Long Branch, and, finally. an
other broad reach home to the finish. also
with the bailooners set and booms well 10
| port
As both yachts are known To he good cf
| the wind, it looked this morning, with the
increasing breeze. that the race mighs be
sailed in fast time.
The Shamrock was the first to leave her
moorings this morning, fully forty minutes
ahead OF her usual time Of departure.
At $50 am, dscarding the use of a tug
the peak of her mainsail was put up, ana
she swung away from her moOrinss toward
the Columbia, anchored half a nile to the
westward. Going astern of the white
yacht, the green racer began completing
the work of setting her mainsail and by
$50 am. it was halfway up. ana She was
running rapidly oGt toward the ship cham
nel.
After running by the Columbia's quarter
the Shamrock gybed around. and. heading
up into the wind, finished setting hcr main
sail.
AT $50 the wind still held from the south
east about knots, but at that time it ap-
peared to have fallen off slightly. Still,
there was suttici mt wind for race. as
number of coasters off shoI'. and a big
sQuare-rigger coming up from the south
were making fairly good progress.
The sky was comparatively clear, and for
the first tins for over week Sandy Hook
lightship could be seen from the Highland
lighthouse.
Shamrock slow Getting 10 work.
1t took the Shamrock over half an hour
to get her sails set, and before she got
fully started fer the lightship the Columbia
was taken in tow by her tug and slipped
out ahead of the green boat The Sham
rock followed her, but although she had
her jib broken out, she signaled her tug to
come alongside, and also left for the light
ship in tow
The procession of tugs and yachts, with
the newspaper fleet passed out by the
Hook shortly after o'clock, making
straight for the starting line. g.
In the meantime the sun was coming out
strong. AT 8 O'Clock the wind off shore had
fallen considerably, and was not blowing
much over five or six knots an hour. The
failing conditions began to assume the
same exasperating form as on race days
last week, but the yachts made their way
out toward the start with the hope that the
breeze might hold good, and that they
would have another decisive contest.
Guests of Sir Thomas Upton boarded the
Black Bird at the Battery, and when she
left for the Horseshoe the steamer had
about sixty passengers on board
David Barrie, the representative of the
Shamrock 5 owner, expressed his belief
II at the Shamrock would ''do herself JUS
tice' today, if there was a race. This may
be the last race witnessed by the guests OF
Sir Thomas. as most of them have arrang-
ed to sail for England on the White Star
Liner Oceanic tomorrow.
Among Sir Thomas Lipton's guests today
were Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
-ad Reraafard Sir lInllr-.- RLlt.intt