The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-07
She Defeats Defender by 3 Minutes
and 50 Seconds.
NOT A CONCLUSIVE TEST.
A Triangular Course in a Jumping
Sea, with PICKLE Winds

Defender-A Difference of Ono Minute
and Thirty-three Seconds in tho Now
Yachts Favor on tho Second LeE-Ths
Defender Gains Twenty-f Seconds in
tho Ten-Mlo Stretch of Closo-Haulcd
Work from the Second Mark to the
Finish-C olumbia Points Higher Than
the Defender-Oniy a Small Fleet 40.
companies the Racers-Leaden Skies and
Rain Mar the SpsctncIe-Many Invalids
Aboard All of the Attending Vessels.
The race yesterday between the new sloop
yacht Columbia and the Herreshofr marvel Of
| a past season. the Defender. was not altogether
| satisfactory because OF tickle weather condi-
tlons over a triangular course OF thirty
miles. ten with the wind ahead. ten with
| 1t on the sthrboard beam and quarter and
| ten with the wind over the port bow. the
| Columbia defeated the Defender by minutes
| 81 seconds. elapsed time. As the Columbia 10
| the allowing bont. the corrected time will
| somewhat reduce her glory. as expressed In
minutes apd seconds
The weather work OF the Columbia in
| breeze that varied IN foYre and occasionally
| shifted bit showed that she is able to point
| somewhat higher than the Defender. The race
| demonstrated that the Defender is still wor-
| thy ship. A contest in piping wind and
| white capped SEA will doubtless reveal larger
| knowledge Of the qualities OF the new yacht.
MIST ENyELors EARLY SCENES.
| sullen dawn ushered in the day OF the first
| official duel between the superb single stick
| ers Columbia and Defender. Everywhere
there was mist. The towers OF the tall stone
| buildings. climbing terrAceike from the
I,,,,. q Nat rt, nxunr HlnH
| as II their final stories had been moulded out
| OF vapor Smoke and steam rose indolently in
| almost perpendicular columns. contributing to
| the obscuration. II was the old familiar OPEN
| ing to a summer yachting day I'm this harbor.
| Nobody liked it. and everybod hoped that the
fog barriers might be burned away by an ar
| dent July sun. But they were not OF the eva-
nescent sort. and. although they vanished
finally. there was no time when the air was abb
solutsly cloar. from the time the sun was sched-
ulod to rise until 1t set.
| Tho aspect Of things anoat. which Is moro
essential IL yacht race than the landscape.
was dreary rs viewed from the upper bay at 3
| O'Clock The biggest telescope on the little
| feet that then began to move seward couldn't
| bore q vista through the gloom. When The
| SuN'stluu headed down the bay the wind. which
had boon gentle from about southwest. got
around to the south and sent some Of the mist
| flying before IT, IN" stately contestants wore
seen vt anchor of Tompkinsviilc. their lean
and clean-cut spars standing out pencil-like
| against tue Rray-Dlue background OF Staten
| Island. Presently the tug John A. Bouker
| hitcheh herself TO the gallant old Defender and
steered toward the Narrows. Later the Wal
lace Is. Flint performed Il similar service for
| the Columbia.
The floating accessories usual to the start for
| the battle-ground Of duellin1 slo"ps were Lack
| ing only few urWGpausr turs Upro In the
| wake Of the yachts. The twin screw steam
| boat Monmouth. coming ny from Sandy Hook.
| went To- port OK tn" Columbia, and gave her
series Of encouraging toots. Everybody on the
| SANDY Hook flyer crowded to th" port rails and
she listed until her guards almost touched
water. The siren u the transport kirkpatrick.
Just in from Cuba. greeted both Defender and
| Columbia screamiukly. and the rHsty old LAM
/ port 4 Holt liner Colerdge. from far away
Brazil. contributed II few appreriatiye bass
| notes.
OFT FOR SANDY HOOK.
| The yachts took IN" course Of the deepest
liners to tn" Hook, that l.. through the Ship
| Chanuel. Their sailing masters and managers
could not AFFORD to run tn" risk Of cut across
lots through ia" comparatively shallow Swash.
The Yachts draw about twenty feet. which 10
"a much a. some liners are immersed. and
that is why they -trcrrd the roundabout way
to the open. Going down. the air liGhtened .
BIT although 1t still dun overhead and
q hcccy rouutcrpnus - mist appeared to be
tucked in on every horizon. The yachts and
the tugs In their trail passed of Fynn's
Knoll near the Hook, the ruin of what was
once a racing craft the old clipper David
Crockett. until last winter In the pro-aic busi-
ness ot carrying conl FROM Newport News to
this harhor and ports to- the eastward She
was caught ia the lev while coming here, and
WA ahal jpurd by thc tug thai had hcr in tow