The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
SECOND RACE 1 F|llLE
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 l the largest one she has yet carried. l Captain Charlie Barr steered the yacht and the crew wore white work | ing suits with watch case bearing the ! Iselin colors.
 l Columbia Has Better of start. l The committees tug, the Walter l Luckenbach, established the start
 ing line at 1O:4o. The preparing gun was fired at 10:45. Columbia had the better of the start. The official time was: Columbia, 11:OO:53, Shamrock
 11.o1:O5, The first ten minutes after the start were anxious ones for l those directly interested in the boats. From the Associated Press tug located abeam of the two racers, it was
 noted that in two minutes Columbia's 8
 bowsprit began to creep past Sham rocks bow and in ten minutes Coum- hia was clear out ahead of the sham
 rock. Both took in their staysails and
 jibs so as to give the immense balloon
 sails plenty of drift.
 Sheets Hang Slack,
 So light was the wind at this time l that only the balloon sails seemed to be doing service for either yacht, the main 1 sheets hung slack in bights between the boats and the booms and the great | mainsails hung fiat as boards far over | the starboard of each yacht. Mile after
 mile the yachts travelled slowly to the l southeast, the Columbia gaining slowly but steadily all the time. At five min- I utes to twelve the wind freshened bit, canting at the same time a couple of l points to the eastward. Captain Ho- garth saw it first and his crew took in I the splnnaker smartly Columbia's men, I following suit minute later and set | ing their forestaysail at the same time. | Captains Resort to LutfiMg. l Fearing that the Shamrock would try I to Huff out and pass him to windward, | Captain Barr began to Huff the Colum
 bfa Both kept it up for fully ten min
 utes, until they were both heading east. Captain Hogarth kept the Shamrocks l spinnaker mastheaded, with a couple of 1 men holding it half way down the mast ! ready to be sheeted out at a moments | notice, until 12:02, when he lit it run l down. Finally at 12:05 the Columbia, still being 800 yards ahead kept broad
 off for her course again, the Shamrock | immediately following suit The wind 1 held in the same quarter until 12:40, I the Columbia meanwhile gaining on her | rival At that time the wind backed | around to the northward the Columbia l gybed the Shamrock following two min | uates later.
 Wind Drops Almost Entirely. At 1:1S the Columbia's s crew sent her I spinnaker out to starboard, and two 1.4 sl ay.,. | Far away in the blue haze the outer | mark was sighted at 1:15 With the weather prevailing at that time there was little chance of finishing the race within the prescribed time of five and one-half hours. During the next half hour the wind dropped out almost en tirely. At 1:50 the spinnakers came in
 on both yachts. At 2:10 the Columbia set her spinnaker to port, taking it in again five minutes later. Both ,gybed to port at 2:20 and few minutes later
 a light breeze came from the south
 ward Sheets were trimmed down and both yachts were soon cose-hauled on the starboard tack. The Shamrock set
 her baby jbtopsail at once, but the Co., lumbia's was held for some five minutes before being set
 Shamrock Has Advantage.
 At 2:3S:s0 Shamrock went about to port, the Columbia following suit twen- ty seconds later The Shamrock then appeared to have slight advantage. The wind was very light and the Shamrock in this smooth water seemed to be doing very we'll, her larger sail plan proving a little too much for the Columbia, When the latter went about to starboard at 3 o'clock and the Sham rock three minutes later, the latter had increased her windward advantage by a few lengths. Both went about again al 3;12 on the port tack and in ten min utes the wind from the south having increased trifle, the Columbia seemed to be walking out from under the Shamrock's lee.
 CoIumbaa Forced About.
 Their positions at 3:39 when the Co., lumbia tackled to port were as follows. The Columbia about an eighth of a mile on the Shamrock's lee bow, both heading about east southeast, the wind having canted to about to south south east. This last tack of the Columbias was about the most interesting feature
  question was whether she could cross the Shamrock's bow or not, the latter being on the starboard tack, had the right of way. It took just eighty sec- onds to decide which boat was ahead; the Columbia was forced about by the Shamrock at 3:41:30. She tackled close under the green boats lee bow and two minutes later, the signal being read | from the committee boat declaring the | race off both yachts wore around haul ed down their staysais and headed for | home, the great excursion fleet preced- | ing them.
 Unsatisfactory Ending.
 Thus ended another unsatisfactory ef- | fort to finish the thirty miles within | the time limit Nothing more was l proven to-day regarding the merits of | the yachts than on Tuesday. It is | simply known that both boats are good | drifters with the balance in favor of | the Columbia The Columbia and | Shamrock both in tow passed in and | a n ol,nra1 in Sandy Hao1k at 6.30