The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-02
BOB EVANS PLANS,
Boats Must Not
Delay Big Yacht Race
Tuesday.

New York, Oct, 1.-Beginning with
Tuesday, Admiral Dewey must divide
public attention with the race between
the Columbia and the Shamrock. With
the exception of the measuring of the
yachts. all of which will be done Mon
day, everything is ready for the first
race between the two yachts, and when
the signal gun for the start of the first
race is fired Tuesday, it will be ques-
ton of which is the best yacht. There
will be none to say that the race was
not all that it could be made, no mat
ter who loses. 1t is a certainty that
both yachts will be sailed. Capt.
Evans said tomorrow he would send a
copy of the yacht club rules as we'll as
the government regulations, to the mas
tiers of all the vessels.
Capt. Robley D. Evans, U. S. N, who
will be III charge of the course during
the yacht races the coming week, today
gave out a statement concerning the
fleet Of excursion boats that viii follow
the racers over the course.
Il nave gone to considerable trouble
in this matter, said Capt. Evans, 'anL
1 have received orders which 1 must
follow. ] appeal to the masters Of YES
sells not TO crowd ahead nor to run
ahead of the yachts. A swash from a
largo excursion boat will greatly en-
barrass the sailing of the yachts, and
1T is to this end that I hope to nave
the rules in detail followed 1 have
arranged for guide boats, and from
them they can get their course.
Il will regret very deeply the neces-
sity of enforcing my power in this re-
spect, but / now say most emphatically
that any boat that is run outside of the
lines established for them, will be i'm
mediately sent back to New York IL
charge of a revenue officer. This will
mean the .cancelling of any license that
that masters may have, and necessarily
will be great detriment to Them
The yachts will have an opportunity
Tuesday to prove which is the better in
windward work. The course will be laid
out some time before noon, as the start
must be made within a half-hour after
that time. 1t is to be Is knots to wind
ward and return, or is knots to leeward
and resurn. In the morning the stake
boats and the regatta committee will
go out past the Hook and on the direc-
ton of the wind win depend the placing
of the turning buoy The distance will
be measured and the work Of preparing
the course will begin. From 1t will be
driven all excursion craft and private
yachts and for the time being the gov
eminent will patrol the course.
1t has been agreed that any accident
that may happen to one of the yachts
must not affect the race and that the
other shall go on and finish. Both
agreed recently to abide by the conse-
Quences of any accident that might &C.
cur while the race was being sailed.
The condition calls for the best Bout
of 5 races. The race Tuesday will be
over the straightaway course,
TIE Columbia and Shamrock viii
meet IN the first race for the
Americas cup, Tuesday Inorning.
1t is expected that the fight will
prove a contest in earnest, wherein
skill and judgment will play as import
ant q part as the speed of the respect
i've boats.
The vessels will meet on Tuesday
over a course of 80 miles, starting from
Sandy Hook lightship to windward or
leeward, according to the direction of
the breeze. The second race will be
triangular, 10 miles to a leg, and will
be sailed on Thursday if no serious ac-
cident happens to the yachts Tuesday,
and so the contests will alternate in the
matter of courses, every other day un-
til one of the yachts has won three
races.
New York Yacht Club officials have
been striving for months to complete
arrangements, with a view to a salts
factory and pleasing termination of the
match. Everything possible has been
done to this end, and if the public as
sists, success must attend their efforts.
The one thing that has always proved
a source Of great trouble has been
the crowding of the course by excur-
sion steamers and other boats.
Under the direction of the United
States treasury officials, rules have
been agreed upon to insure an unin-
terrupted course, free from the inter-
| ference of outside vessels. Capt. Rob-
ley D. Evans of the United States navy
will have charge of the patrol fleet ar
ranged for the racing days.