Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-10-26
.COLUM MBIA WINS.
The Americas Cup Will Remain
in This Country.
For the Eleventh Time an English
man Has Sought TO Recover the
Trophy Captured rs Years Ago.
aud He Has EaiIed-Third
and Last Race Was
n Grand Contest.

tOnteAt.
New York, Oct. 17.-Fhe cnp which
the old schooner America won so cont
mandingly against all comers over the
course around the Isle of Wight in
1851 and brought back across the sea
will probably remain here another
year, a defiance to the world. In "a
glorious breeze over a windward and
lecward course of 80 miles the Colum-
bia yesterday scored against the
Shamrock in the first race of the 1890
series for the trophy. She bounded
across the finish line fully mile and
half ahead of the challenger, defeat
ing her by ten minutes and Ii seconds
actual time, or 10 minutes and s sec
onds corrected time, after allowing the
six seconds handicap which the CO.
lnmbia must concede to the challenger
on account of her longer water line.
1t was a decisive contest, magnifi~
cent race, magnificentlY sailed, and
magnificently won. Opinions as 10
the merits of the two boats had been
somewhat divided as result OF the
fukes during the past two weeks. Al
though the preponderance of expert
opinion never wayered in its loyalty to
the wonderful speed and ability of the
white flyer, no nautical sharp expect
ed the Shamrock would be so over
whclminrly vanquished as she was in
Mondays struggle The Yankee boat
| outgeneralled her at the start, beat
her hopelessly in windward work to
the outer mark and gained % seconds
-, Al, : nd
There was a strong ten to twelve knot
breeze, and it held throughout the
race.
New York. Oct. 1S.-The topmast of
the Shamrock was carried away rs
minutes after the big single sticker
had crossed the starting line yesterday
and her enormous club sail with its g.
00C feet of canvas came rattlinG down
on the deck, leaving her a helpless
cripple. No amount of pluck or cour-
age could face such a catastrophe and
Capt Hogarth Immediately abandoned
the race. towing back to the anchorage
after he had cleared away the wreck
age. The Columbia continued over
the course alone, placing to her credit
the second of the races for the Amer
icas cup.
New York, Oct. 21.-Through wild
high seas, in breeze that approached
the dignity of a gale, the gallant sloop
Columbia ON Friday vanquished the
British challenger Shamrock by six
minutes and IS seconds actual time
and six minutes and "a seconds cor
rected time, thus completing the series
for the Americas cup with magniti-
cent rough weather duel and a glori
Gus Yankee victory. For the eleventh
time the attempt of II foreigner to
wrest from America the yachting
supremacy of the world has failed. The
trophy won by the old schooner Amer
lea As years ago is still ours, a monu-
ment TO the superiority of American
scamanship and American naval archi-
lecture. and Il standing challenge to
the yachtsmen of all nations. Tn
beaten America again tastes the glory
of victory.
The intrinsic value of the reward
which hundreds of thousands of dol
lars were expended to secure is small
simply an antiquated piece of silver
ware which Queen Victoria offered to
the best sailing ship in the world in
Uile way VI hII iSIS rs Dlil 'il otlilNI
it cluster the precious memories OF
unbroken American triumph and the
honor of mastery in the noblest OF
sports. To Sir Thomas Upton,
whose name is now added to the list
of defeated aspirants for the honor
of carrying the cup back across the
Atlantic. failure was crushing blow.
His hope had been high. But like the
true sportsman that he is the sting
of defeat has left no bitterness. and
with undaunted courage he intimateS
that he may be back with a better
boat to try again.
Except for the fiulles and the un-
fortunate accident on Tuesday this
series of races has been unmarried by
n single untoward incident. The boats
have had two fair and square races,
one in light air and the other in a
heavy blow, and Sir Thomas Is perfect
~ satisfied that he was beaten by the
better boat. Yesterdays race was
q glorious test of the rough weather
qualities of the two yachts. There
was too much freshness in the air
for comfort, and it was far too rough
for Iandlubbers. The sky was over
cast with clouds and the fierce blows
of chilling blast out of the north
east whipped the foam out of the
waves until they whitened the face of
the sea. Outside the ocean was a riot