The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-21

NEW YORK, Oct 2O.-Through wild and
heavy seas, in a breeze that approached
the dignity of a gale, the gallant sloop
Columbia today vapquished the British
challenger Shamrock, by six minutes and
eighteen seconds actual time and six min
uses and thirty-four seconds corrected
time. thus completing the series for the
Americas cup with magnificent rough
weather duel and glorious Yankee VIC
tory.
For the eleventh time the attempt of a
foreigner 10 wrest from America the
yachting supremacy Of the world has
failed. The trophy won by the old schoon-
er America forty-eight years ago is still
ours a monument to the superiority of
American seamanship and American
architecture, and a standing challenge to
the yachtsmen of all nations Unbeaten
America again tastes the glory of vic
tory.
The intrinsic value of the reward which
hundreds of thousands OF dollars We're
eNpended to secure is small-simply an
antiquated piece of siIverware, which
Queen Victoria offered to the best sailing
ship in the world in the early days of
her reign-but around it cluster the pre-
cious memories of unbroken American tri-
unph and the honor of mastery in the
noblest of sports.
To Sir Thomas Upton, whose name is
now added to the list of defeated aspi-
rants 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. During his stay here Sir
Thomas has made himself more popular
than any previous challenger, and yachts
men of this country will be glad to wei
come him back.
Except for the repeated fukes and the
unfortunate accident 10 the challenger
on Tuesday, this series of races has been
unmarried by a single untoward accident.
The boats have had two fair and squs
races one in light airs and the other
In a heavy blow, and Sir Thomas is per-
fectIv satisfied that he was beaten by the
better boat.
ROUGH WEATHER TEST.
Today's race was 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
landlubbbars. The sky was overcast with
cold gray clouds, and the fierce flaws Of
a chilling blast out of the northeast whip
ped the foam out of the racing waves
until they whitened the face of the sea.
Outside the ocean was a riot of white
caps. Some of the holiday fleet declined
to brave the perils Of the harpieS riding
on the northeaster, and those that did
rolled and plunged in The tumbling bill
lows sending all but the Aold salts below.
The prayer of Sir Thomas for wind was
answered. 1t was blowing twenty-five
miles an hour at the lightship-enough
wind and enough sea to make any racing
machine stagger Even the pilot boats
that can sweatherGany gale. were under
shortened sail, and the wind fairly tore
the steam from the exhaust and the
smoke from the stack into shreds.
The course fifteen miles before the
wind, south by west, carried the yachts
straight down the Jersey coast to a point
eff Long Branch, so that the race was sail
ed in plain view of the thousands perched
upon the heights of Navesink and stretch
ed along the shore from Seabright to AS
bury Park
The crew of the Columbia were pre-
pared for the fray in yellow oilskins and
sou westers, and those of the Shamrock
in white canvas It was blowing too
hard for club top sails, and both skip
pers contented themselves with hois ing
small working top sails Both yachts
fled across the starting line before the
, twenty-five knot breeze wing and wing
their spinnakers breaking out like puifs
of white smoke and setting hard as plas-
ter The Shamrock was. over minute
and one second before the defender. But
this was not due to superior seamanshfp
Capt Barr held off for that length Of
time after the green boat crossed In or.
der that he might get the position as
tern where he could have an opportunity
to blanket his rival
PRETTY PICTURE.
The yachts made a beautiful picture
as they sped away with outstretched
pinions. The Columbia carried her spin
maker boom at an angle of almost forty
five degrees. This allowed the big sail
to belly far out forward and draw like a
locomotive. But it was rather dangerous
and twice an extra puff of wind carried
the sail forward and up until it tumhIed
over the stay. But the Deer Isle sail
crs each time had it back in place in a
jiffy. The Shamrock had no such mis-
hap, as Hogarth carried his boom much