Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-10-21
COLUMBIA TOOK The SERIES
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liant sloop Columbia today vanquished
the British challenger Shamrock by
six minutes and eighteen seconds ac-
tual time, and six minutes and thirty
four seconds corrected time, thus COM
pleting the series for the America s
cup, with a magnificent rough weather
duel and a glorious Yankee victory.
For the eleventh time the attempt of
the foreigner to wrest from America
the yachting supremacy of the world
has failed. The trophy won by the old
schooner America fortynine years ago
is still ours. monument to the su-
periority of American seamanship and
American naval architecture and
standing challenge to the yachtsmen
of all nations. Unbeaten America
again tasted the glory of victory.
The intrinsic value of the reward
which hundreds of thousands of dol
lars were expended to secure is small,
simply an antiquated piece of silver
ware which Queen Victoria offered to
the best sailing ship in the world in
it cluster previous memories of un-
broken American triumph and honor
of mastery in the noblest of sports.
To Sir Thomas Upton. whose name
is now added to the list of the defeated
aspirants for the honor of carrying
the cup back across the Atlantic, the
failure was a crushing blow. His hope
had been high. But like the true
sportsman that he is, the sting of de-
feat has left no bitterness, and with
undaunted courage he intimated that
he may be back with a better boat to
try again. During his stay here Sir
Thomas has made himself more pop
ular than any previous challenger,
and the yachtsmen will be glad to
welcome him back
Except for repeated fiukes and the
unfortunate accident to the challenger
on Tuesday, the series of races has
been unmarried by single untoward
incident. The boats have had two fair
and square races, one in light airs and
the other in a heavy blow, and Sir
Thomas is perfectly satisfied that he
was beaten by the better boat.
Today's race was a glorious test of
the rough weather qualities of the two
yachts. There was too much frostiness
in the air for comfort and it was far
too rough for land-lubbers. The sky
was overcast with cold. Gray clouds
and fierce flaws of chilling blast from
the northeast whipped foam out of the
ra cling waves, until the whitened face
of the sea was a riot of whitecaps
Some of the holiday fleet declined to
brave the perils of the harpies riding
on the nOrtheaster, and those that did
rolled and plunged in the tumbling bill
lows, sending all but old salts below
was answered. 1t was blowing |
twenty-five miles an hour at the light
ship, enough wind and enough sea to
make any racing machine stagger. !
Even the pilot boats that can weather !
a gale were under shortened sail, and /!
the wind fairly tore the steam out of
the exhaust and from the smokestack
into shreds.
The course. fifteen miles before the |
wind, south by west. carried the !
yachts straight down the Jersey coast |
to a point off Long Branch. So the /
race was sailed in plain view of thou
sands of persons perched upon the |
heights of Navesink and stretched /!
along the shore from Seabright to
Asbury Park. The victor, after lower
ing 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. Patriotic shippers
ransacked their lockers for them and
they flew from every stack and mast
The Corsair, the flagship of the New
York Yacht club, gave her three
shrieking blasts, all the ships in the
excursion fleet following. turning
loose their whistles in a maddening
chorus. The Erin. which had remained
behind for a few minutes with the
Shamrock, steamed up to the Colum-
0ia, the Stars and Stripes futtering
rom main and mizzen. The COrsair
greeted her with cannon. which Sir
Thomas acknowledged by dipping the
english Jack at the taffrail. Then by
Sir Thomas orders the crew of the
erin lined the rail and gave three good
cheers for the victor