The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-09
Wins by 3 Minutes and Is Seconds
on a 3O.KnOt Course.
FAIR TEST IN A SMOOTH SEA.
The Boats Collide After the Race and
Defenders Boom Is Smashed.

beE-ln tne "fNther "Orh INC Sohu"s
bia Show. Her superiority Good JudE-
ment and Stewardship Help tho 100
Champion-The Course Curtniled About
Eight Knots Because of tho Yachts Mis-
taking tho First Mark-Coiumbin'sG Gaia
in Windward Work 4 Minutes IL Seconds.
In q race Of thirty nautical miles. twice over
u triangular course in the Sound of Larch. ,
mont yesterday. for n cup given bv Commodore
Clarence A. Postley Of the Larchmont Yacht
club the new sloop Columbia defeated thea
glorious old sinRlc-stckrr Defender by three
minutes and thirteen seconds. elapsed
time. 1t was intended originally that the
mighty duelliSts should sail over o.,
course of thirty-eight knots. The sailing
masters mistook mark Of the Riverside Yacht
Club (which had a regatta yesterday about sig
knots from the starting point for the mark in-
dicating the first elsht-knot leg OF the Larch-.
mont course. and the race was therefore cut
of about eight knots.
The weather conditions throughout the con.
test were about the same for each racer There
was light breeze at the start. and good
club topsa wind that moulded snowy frills on
the wave "rcstS. marked the finish Of the spec
taculnr baltic. The Columbia gained two
seconds on the first leg. when the yachts
esting luilng match: on the second leg.
II hix-knot beat. the Columbia got
the better of the Defender 10y two minutes and
two seconds. In tn" windwarh work the CO.
umbia revealed greater tenderness than the
Defender but she persistenty climbed to
windward Of her. In the three-knot run home
under spinnakers on tho first round, the Co.
umbia gained five seconds. She made the leg
in the rapid timo of 10 minutes and SO Sec
onds.
The Defender covered the first leg OF the tri.
angle in the second round with the wind just
abaft the beam in ! minute and Z seconds
| faster than the Columbia. The Defender thus
appears 10 he better in smooth wnter and with
| the wind between the beam and quarter than
| the new boat slight shift in tho wind
| enabled tho yachts TO make tho sec
ond leg OF the course on the second
| round without lacking. 1t was . reach
| close-hanled. and the Columbia gained 2 min
utes and 1} seconds. On the final three-knot
leg home the Defender gained 3 seconds. This
was due to the bungling way in which tho Coz
umbia set her enormous spinnaker. It hung
in stops too tightly tied about quarter way
| down the stay and resisted all efforts to break
II out.
The race NAV be considered to prove that the
Columbia ia a better boat on the wind than the
Defender in n smooth sea, and that. otherwise.
she is not much the superior OF the yacht OF
1885. The Defenders sailors arc somewhat
c!everer than COlumbia's Yankee tnrs who
will doubtless do better when they arc moro
familiar with their ship.
After the race both Yachts stood across tho
Sound and took in their sails. They ran 10
their mornings Off New Rochelle under ibis
only. The Defender picked up her moor
inEs and then the Columbia came on
for hers Somehow or other misca-
culatiun was made and she missed the
moorng and before her Roadway could be
stOppcd she struck tn" Defender n RlancinR
blow with her howrprit on tho hoom. Tho
new bont does not appear to he injured at
all. but the boom of the Defender Ia
split to pieces and she will go TO Bristol
early tomorrow morning TO get the damage
repaired No one connected with either yacht
would talk about the mishap. 1t is probable
that the Columbia will accompany tho De-
fender to Bristol and get ready to receive her
new steel mast.
The steel boom Of the Defender was made
by the Herreshors in 1890. II is round
in shape and is riveicd the in
side. 1t stood the strain OF the trial races
and cup races in that year but was always
looked on with som" distruSt. and many
thought that it would not take much to wreck
1t and that it might go during one OF tho races
and kill some Of the sailors.
Gray Is apparently tho fashionable July tint
for yachting this year. The mists hung allow
and aloft at larchmont when the morning
made faint, opalesrent effort TO show that IL
had really arrived. Iarchmont harbor Is too
picturesque to look dreary even on day that
is chocrless in prosaic places and the members
OF the Larchmont Yacht Club. with the buoyant
optimism Of true sportsmen are proof against
the influence OF fogs even opaque those that
loaf in the iceberg season of the GrandSBanks.
Emerald mounds and bits OF JuttinR rocks
adorned with pagodas give hint OF the orien-
tai to the clubs delightful grounds and that
helped to sooth the impatient spirits OF visitors
who couldnt get any consolation out OF the
lsadcn skies and foggy horizons.
When the folks from New York interested In
the race between the giant sloops got to the
Larchmont Clubs house. after n drive over
smooth roads. through pleasant wooded places
past handsome homes. they almost forgot the
mornings disappointing hue trying to do JUS
tice to the generous and ingenious hospitality
OF the club. They had lots to hook at beside
tho scene from the broad and cool verandas.
Larchmont Is far enough from the mad-
ding port to make It Improbable for
big excursion craft hercabouts to venture
taking crowds to see the races there. Business
and pleasure craft OF big dimensions were not
on hand. but that contributed, rather than de-
tracted. from the glory Of the race. Tho feet
that was seen dimly at first of the cove was
not large. but it was select. The owners OF
nearly all the sailing yachts around are true
Corinthians and had the helm themselves.
The water space before the clubhouse. when
tn" Manhattan contingent got there. was rip
pciess. and the wind was aim ost too faint to be
registered. The Larehmdnt experts OF tho
Hooking Chair Fleet said there was gentle
hreezo from the west. Nothing was visible
more than half mile out from their cheerful
point OF vantage.
But the undaunted tars NJ Larchmont saw
hope in everything. FIX Com modore Gus Mon.
/ roe. otherwise known as the Proprietor"
| wouldn't let anybody say that the prospect waA.
gloomy. He fosters the tradition that Larchsi
| mont never has had failure on race dag. 1iAi