The San Francisco call., 1899-10-08

at 11:2O a. m, breeze nine knots an hour;
1135 Shamrock takes in spinnaker. dusts
II and hosts it again; II :55 a. m,
yachts about five miles from the start
ing point. Five miles in thirty-fve min
utes in a nine-knot breeze, is a mile every
seven minutes. At tnat rate of most
rapid bulletins the entire course of fif-
teen miles could be sailed in the same
breeze in hours and 80 minutes.
Most rapidly" Well, rather Too
rapid for the managers of the race, who
allow the boats five hours and thirty
minutes to finish. Too rapid, it seems, for
Columbia and Shamrock on two former
doubtedly rapid. The Yellow Kid must
have been travelling with the Prince of
Wales set
In another section of the matutinal lie
the Yellow Kid said he was trusting TO no
experiment. and further on, although he
refrained from referring to MaTconi as
"Macaroni" he stuck his tongue in his
sallow cheek and tntimated unkind things
about the distinguished Italian whose
coming to this country has resulted in the
yellow infants sore lambasting. He said
he was on the Mackay Bennett boat, get
ting news direct by cable from the scene
Of the race. The Call had the same thing
1t also had the Associated Press bulletins,
and 1t had the Marconi service, which the
Yellow Kid pretends to look upon as an
experiment. The Call received and still
has the Mackay-Bennett cable bulletins;
ii also got and has the Associated Press
bulletins. 1t used neither for the very
good reason that it had the real and only
things - the bulletins sent by Marconi's
own hand. The Examiner bad boy was
forced to use the others-when he did not
fake A brief comparison of the two will
not be amiss.
After a few preliminary bulletins an
nouncing the maneuverngs of the yachts
and the intelligence that the wind was
blowing, with good promise of a race, The
Call at Sis a. m, San Francisco time.
posted a bulletin announcing that the pre-
paratory signal gun had been fired. The
Yellow Kid posted similar intelligence nine
minutes later At $40 a. m. The Gail
announced the start, and at S:25 a. m. the
Examiner bad boy blew his tin whistle
to Indicate that the race was on. At the
same time The Call posted a bulletin that
the Columbia had crossed the line. and
four minutes later the Yellow Kid repeated
the news Then again, at S3S o'clock, San
Francisco time, he posted this, to make
sure possibly that his first bulletin had
not been misunderstood: "They are off
Journal" He might as well have included
himself with the Journal to make the
plural of those off
AT 9:56 a. m, San Francisco time, as
another instance Of the Examiner bad
boys most rapidly" he put the Sham
rock 200 yards ahead on the bulletin
board. Two minutes later he put out
bulletin that the yachts were on even
terms, racing neck and neck. Pretty rap
idly itself but nothing 10 the next one.
At 1885, San Francisco time, the Yellow
Kid posted
ASBURY PARK-Columbia now
appears to be gaining on Shamrock.
The boats from here appear to be
about a quarter Of a mile apart.
Three miles from stakeboat.
Three minutes later the Examiner Yel-
low Kid, having blown on the sails,
caused both yachts to turn the stakeboat,
Columbia leading, minute ahead of the
Shamrock According to the yellow Ex-
aminer's own bulletins, just quoted, the
Columbia had in three minutes not only
overcome the Shamrock's lead of one
quarter Of mile. but both yachts had
sailed three miles in three minutes.
A mile a minute. That beats Southern
Pacific time all hollow Most rapidly"
thanks to the Yellow Kid. Undoubtedly
he must have been travelling with the
Prince
For all the most rapidly" of the yell
low Kid, he could not manage to make 1t