The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-10
COLUMBIA THE BEST |
NEW CUP DEFENDER AGAIN DEM
ONSTRATES HER SUPERIORITY
OVER ALL OTHERS
TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES AHEAD
Distanced Her Rivals in a Run of
FOrty-Three Miles and Easily
CIinched Claim to the Title of
Queen of the Wave - Shamrock
Must Be Fast to Hope to Win
From the American Yacht.

Must Be Fast to Hope to- Win
From the American Yacht.
NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 9.-The run of
the New York Yacht club from Gar.
diners Bay to this port today, distance
of forty-three miles, wasTfull of interest
ing brushes. The yachts ran the last
half of the forty-three miles in a con-
stantly increasing southwest breeze the
first half of the day was fluky.
1t is no disparagement to Columbia to
say that her defeat of the Defender by
over twenty-five minutes was due more
to bad Judgment and hard luck of the
latter boat, which left her in a soft SPOT.
than to actual superiority. Still, the
new boat showed herself very able in a
broad reach, with a constantly increas-
| ing breeze, and it is not too much to saw
that she made an average of fully thir-
teen knots in the run along shore from
Watch Hill to Point Judith, so rapidly
dropping the Defender that when she
gibed round the whistling buoy off
Point Judith her rival was hull down
to the westward over five miles astern,
On the run up from Point Judith, dead
before the wind, Columbia gained a min
| ute or two more, so that at the finish
! the old Defender had received the worst
beating in her history.
There was never a moment during thA
| day when there was not wind enough to
! fill the sails while the last fifteen miIea
were sailed in good breeze from the
! southeast that gave each boat a great
move. The day itself was perfect, for
| the sky was cloudless and the air was
| full of life and vigor A huge fleet
of steam yachts watched the sailing
craft start and accompanied them over
the most of The course, and all Newport
saw the finish at Brenton's reef light
ship, the cup defender Of 1888, Vieilant
! leading the fleet over the line after q
warm contest with the schooner Colonia
of fifteen miles or more At the finish
there were fifty-f1ve seconds between
the boats, but as Vigilant started six
minutes ahead the Colonia beat her easily
on the run, although of course, the boats
sailed in different classes. &o
The yachts started at half past 10. in a
fairly strong westerly breeze, all breaking
| out sp1nnakers on crossing the line. The
/ first three or four miles were ouiclxIv
sailed, but an hour after the start the
wind began to slacken and soon some
were almost becalmed
COLUMBIA FAVORED.
All during this soft spell of two hours
Columbia was specially favored, for she
carried breeze right through and gain
ed rapidly on Defender The latter, too
made a mistake in going too near tho
Flsher island shore, SO that when the
wind did come around Columbia. cauph+
1t half an hour ahead. 1t was at this
! time, as the boats passed the entrance to
FISHER Island sound, that Columbia made
the great gain that gave her such a lead
From Watch Hill to Point judith She
fairly flew over the water, with her boom
wen OIL to port, and her big balloon
Jlb topsail drawing like steam engine.
All the boats went well on this reach
along shore, and, looking back, every
yacht seemed fairly buried in canvas
Ihe home stretch of seven miles from
Fort Judith to Brentens- reef lightship
/ was made dead before the wind, In q
treshening breeze, and the way the boats
Jumped along was a caution
Inc race was a grand one from 2:3o
o'clock on. At that time Defender tool.
In her spinnaker, Columbia soon follow
ing suit. Away ahead, more than five
miles In the lead, were VigiIant and
Colonla' The sioop and schooner were
making the hottest fight of their career
Ior the honor of finishing first. For
several miles they sailed closed together
=. 0NiAi " OedHl. Both rounded the whist
ing buoy off Point Judith at 3:34 lead
ing the fleet. Ariel came next at 3:43.
CoIumbla swept grandly around the buov
at 5:4S:3O, and Navahoe at the same
time. Columbia could not overhaul ans
pass Vlg1Iant in the seven miles run To
the finish. Even Colonia was unable ~
90 It, The latter yacht gibed to star.
BOARD off Narragansett. and dropped as.
tern Just as they both passed the old
cup defender Volunteer, which, with
HANK Half at the wheel, had come out
to meet the fleet
Smartly the crew of the vigilant tool.
IN her sptnnaker just before reaching
the, the hghtship. Then they gibed her. and
IKE an arrow she shot around Colonia's
BOWS. She crossed the finish line inst
seconds ahead of the. schooner, and f1ne
isnea hrst of the fleet. Columbia swept
across the finish line at 1920 taIfne
IN her spinmaker a few seconds before
reaching it. She was just u twentv-one
er. VI DeAeHu-
Accorolng to the official figures the Col
uhlola wins by % minutes % seconds