The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-25
COLUMBIA WINS GRANDLY


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The official time was: Columbia
3:5i:59; Shamrock, 4:O5iO.
Elapsed time: Columbia, 4:j3: SO ,
Shamrock 0:O4:OG
Corrected time; Columbia, 4:5S:5S;
Shamrock 5:04:0l.
Thus the Columbia wins by 10 min
utes ii seconds actual and 10 minutes
8 seconds corrected time.
The elapsed time of the Columbia
from the out mark to the finish was 2
hours minutes 40 seconds; Shamrock,
hours Z minutes seconds, showing
that in the fifteen miles before the wind
the Columbia had gained % seconds.
SECOND RACE.
NEW YORK, October 1.-THE top
mast of the cup challenger Shamrock
carried away twenty-five minutes after
the big single sticker had crossed the
starting line today, and her enormous
club topsail, with it's 5000 feet of can
vas, came rafting down on the deck,
leaving her a hopeless cripple. No
amount of pluck or courage could face
such a catastrophe and Captain Ho-
garth imediately abandoned the race
towing back to the anchorage as he
had cleared away the wreckage. The
Columbia continued over the course
alone, placing to her credit the second
of the races for the Americas cup.
The accident to the Shamrock ruined
the race and caused the keenest regret
among the yachtsmen and the thou
sands of sightseers who were on hand
to witness what had promised to be a
glorious duel. 1t is unfortunate that
the defender should have been the ben
eticiary of an accident as there is lit
tie glory in beating a cripple, but the
rule is irOn-clad. If crippled before
the start time for repairs is allowed.
but once over the line, if anything car
ries away the sufferer must make
such repairs as best he can, or. if rend-
cred hors du combat, as the Shamrock
was today he must take the conse-
quences. There is good sense and log
ic behind the rule. The races are a
test of construction as well as of de-
sign and seamanship. Doubtless if Mr.
Iselin could have had his choice in the
matter he generously would have de-
clined to continue in view of the Grip
pied condition of his rival but the rules
gave him no alternative. He was in
duty bound to go on and as he finished
well within the time limit the race was
his.
COLUMBIA SAILS WELL.
Had the accident not occurred. how
ever, it is believed the Yankee boat
would have repeated the beating she
gave the challenger yesterday. During
the twenty-five minutes the yachts
sailed she had gone through the Sham
rocks lead like streak and had estab-
lished a lead of more than 300 yards
on the weather bow.
The day had promised a glorious con-
test. There We're only gray neutral
tints in the morning, but a twelve
knot breeze out of the east kicked up
the whitecaps. and the wind and tide
helped to pile up the tumbling waters
The race was to be over an equillat-
eral triangle ten miles to the leg, which
would give the challenger chance at
her faVorite point of sailing, reaching.
The Columbia made fine race of it,
pluckily holding on to her club topsail
throughout and setting her balloon lib
in the final reach for home. Her time
was little short of marvellous. She COW
cred the course in three hours and thir-
ty-seven minutes, the beat ten miles
to WindWard in one hour, thirty mine
minutes and eleven seconds, the reach
to the second mark in fifty-three min
utes and fifty nine seconds, and the
last leg in one hour. three minutes and
fifty seconds. AS she crossed the fin
ish line she let go her headsails, and
one of the Deer Isle sailors treated the
spectators to an exhibition of daring
as he climbed out over the peak hal
yard eighty feet in the air to loose the
club topSail.
Later in the afternoon the Shamrock
was towed up to the Erie BASIN in the
upper bay. a new tOpmast will be sent
up tomorrow and she will be remeas-
ured. She will probably be taken out
for a spin tomorrow to try her new
stick, and the third race of the series
will be sailed on Thursday. This race
will again be over windward and lee
ward course. and if the Columbia wins
the series will have been completed
without giving the Shamrock an op-
portunity to test her merits in her ia
Vorite point of sailing over triangular
course.
NEW YORK, October 1S.-The re-
measuring of the Shamrock took place
at Erie basin today. Immediately af-
ter measurement the yacht was cast
off, and Mr.. Cornell said that she was
going direct to Sandy Hook bay, where
the top mast would be rugged and the
mast be ready for tOmorrow's race.