Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-04

ors. were so much handler than their
Scotch rivals, that they had the Column
bia $ SpiEnaker ana balloon Jill set first
by Three minutes. The spectators mar
yelled 1T the cloud of canvas the l-e
v;athianS carried. Straight up into the
air the slender yards carried the point
OF the pyramids of canvas for one
hundred and Seventy-tive feet. 1t is
hard To realize that this means the
height Of an ordinary twelve story
building. and that the frail hulls were
bowling along under the pressure OF
fourteen thousand feet of canvas. Tie
twin balloons With their following wind
lifted tn" Columbia along like I, s'rr.,
gull in the ten knot breeze and carried
her in ten minutes past the Shamrock
But when the wind died to six knots
as it did within 4 few minutes. the
Shamrock forged steadily ahead. until
ut the end of a. minutes she led by 20l
yards \ sudden haul Of the wind TO
the north northwest reached the CO.
lumha first The big bellied spinn:,her
was taken in. her mainsail was Snlartly
2Sbed. and she passed the Shamrock as
ii the latter had been moored to her
wharf.
COLUMBIA M.ANOEUVRI1S
Instead OF a run. the canting of the
wind now made it L reach for the outer
mark. but the Columbia gradually edg-
ed over toward the Jersey coast with
IL
and running straight before it. The
mlnoeuvre was successfully urcomp-
lished, after crossing the Shamrock'S
bow, but just as the Spinnaker was sat
aboard the Columbia the wind cantcu
back to the north north west and left
her with Il cloud of canvas shiverinH
like collapsed balloon. The sham
rock had started to follow the Column
bias tactics Twice she lowered her
spinnaker boom as if to break out the
big sail. but as the wind held from the
new quarter she gybed her main boom
instad and reached straight tor the
mark. Although the manoeuvre Of tie
Columbia had been successful. it was q,
costly one. and she lost several minutes
10y holding on to her immense canvas
i'll the vain hope that the wind would
shift back again. But when she did
| change her sails. Sc made up for lost
time Ivy out-footing her antagonist
She seemed to skim over the water,
| scarcely making :Aripple where she en-
| tered il. and leaving Il wake OF foam
behind her.
H.. SHAMROCK PUSSY. M.#
The Shamrock made more fuss for
ward and dragged a wave aft. The
Columbia was the first to TIE mark,
and AS she reached the stake boat. the
excursion fleet gathered there to greet
| her. unbottled their enthusiasm and
gave her an ovation from a thousand
| "
! lutcd the Shamrock as she swept around
two minutes and one second later On
| the beat home against q head wind the
| Columbia showed her heels TO the Irish
boat Enthusiastically While the wind held
Time after time the Shamrock tried for
| the weather gauge. luffing. squeezing
and pnchinE until her head sails trem-
bled hut without avail. The Columbia
| not Only neld as high. but out-fDotetl
her tack after tack. The yachts made
beautiful spectacle as they beat 10
windwlrd. heeinS over to the breeze,
| their sharklike bows. Whcnevc,
ti."y smashed into an unusually large
sea the spray Spurted from either Sid :
% feet into the air.
| BREEZE FAILS AGAIN
| After the Columbia had gotten 4 nile
ahead and the yachts We're way over
under the jersey shore the breeze again
half failed and the Shamrock drew
| gradually ahead. 1t was marvellous
that in SO light a breeze, :, boat could
| slip SO swiftly through the sea After
| that the Shamrock was never headed
but from that time To the finish the CO.
| lumhia had nothing but bad luck In
addition to her faster footing powers il,
! the extremely light air. every puff OF
| the rapricious wind seemed to strike
the Shamrock and leave the Yankee
| hnat practically becalmed. Edge as
sic would toward every streak OF wind
! she seemed unable to find it, The
Shamrock gained foot by foot unit, she
nuerhauled the Yankee crossed he,
bows and when the time Emit was up
was fully a quarter Of a mile ahead
Taken altogether, there could not
have been more unsatisfactory race
anG vet, rs a result of ii, the friends OF
the cup defender seem proud of the
showing she made and confident that
| the cup is safe
| The official time of the start was:
| shamrock l155:37: Colum;ia. l1:16 20
| The Shamrock had the best or the
| best OF the start by AZ seconds.