Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-17

were the most interesting. The yachts made
a beautiful picture as they raced away like
hounds. The sails, to the nautical eye, were
perfection in fit. and looked as If they might
have been carved out of alabaster 50 fault
less were the lines. 1t was soon apparent
that She white flyer was forging ahead. The
clear water began to show between them
The Columbia not only seemed to outloat
the challenger but the experts saw that 1t
pointed higher. 1t was astonishing how 1t
sliced its way up into the wind. Within fif-
teen minutes 1t had lead of five lengths
and from that time on the race was won.
The patriots were jubilant and the bands,
which began playing. never stopped until
the race was over. Columbia seemed more
tender than the foreigner, showing yards of
its bronze underbody as it leaned away with
it's leeral almost awash. Steadily it con-
tinued to draw ahead until within half an
hour, having unequvocaly demon
strated its superiority in windward work, 1t
became only a question of how far the white
flyer would beat it to the outer mark.
AS the yachts got farther out the seas
grew more turbulent and the spray spurted
higher from the bows. Many excursionists
came to grief, and the tugs plunging through
the head seas sent the spray aloft to the
pilot house and some of them were flooded
from stem to stern. The work Of the patrol
fleet was perfect The revenue cutters line
ahead 10 leeward and the torpedo boats line
abreast astern held the yachts in the hollow
of a moving triangle. which changed direc-
tion with each tack and kept the yach'j as
free from interference as If they had been
sailing in the middle of the Atlantic.
English Try New Tactics.
Shamrock footed valiantly, but neither
in speed nor in pointing could it compare
with Columbia. Then the three skippers
on the challenger put their heads together
and tried new tactics. Shamrock made
a dozen short boards. Evidently it's skip
pers were under the impression that it was
quicker on its heel and better at forereach-
ing than the Yankee boat but Columbia
proved quite as nimble as Shamrock
Timed by a stop watch both boats were fiji.
teen seconds in stays, and when the British
ers write home they will tell their friends
that the white beauty was fully as clever
as the challenger at forereaching. Wher
Shamrock got through with this line of tao
tics Columbia had increased it's lead unit
it was half a mile ahead.
At the end of another half an hour, a
the wind continued to freshen, Sham
rock took in its baby jibtopsail, figuring
that without this light headsail 1t might b
able to hug the wind closer. Columb
held on to its and as Shamrock did not i'm
prove it's position at the end of ten minute
the shippers again set the sail. By l o'cloc
Shamrock was fully mile and hal
astern and Columbia was a winner al
over AS the Associated Press boat on it
way to the outer mark passed the Manning
Captain Evans, who was on the bridge
shouted "Ain't she a peach?"
Nothing could have been prettier tha
the way Columbia swept around tn
outer mark, graceful as a swan. Bot
boats had edged far to the southwark @
their course and as the rules required tina
the mark should be passed on the star
board hand Columbia tackled down t
port and came over on the starboard tao
as it approached the float. AS it neare
the float the spinnaker was like a knight