The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-12
THEIR RELATIVE SPEED STILL
UNDETERMINED.
Twice Light Winds Prevented Their
Sailing the Course Within the Time
Limit-Both Splendid Yachts.

ueSudN race anu lOudy lne Wlnu uleu
down so that neither the Shamrock nor
the Columbia could sail the course
within the time limit of five and a half
hours. Consequently, there has been
no race yet. Conclusions will be tried
again Saturday.
In Tuesdays race the day promised
well at first. a fairly fresh breeze blew
out of the northeast, but after the CO.
umbia and Shamrock had crossed the
line the wind turned tluky, and the
race was a fizzle almost from the start.
But the lluke gave the yachting sharps
and spectators much to think about,
and some surprises.
Thc Columbia is undoubtedly the
prettier boat. She is tail and stately,
with graceful and towering lines. The
Irish boat, with her broader beam and
| longer base line, looked slower and
heavier Perhaps her green color makes
her look Clumsier, as if she We're forced
through the water, while the slim CO.
lumba pierCes it like a rapier. Though
| indecisive in every respect as to the
abilities of the great rival single-stick-
erS, tOday's race indicates that the
Irish boat, with her English skipper
and her Scotch crew, is the ablest sloop
ever sent across the Atlantic in the
hope of lifting the 1O0-guinea cup which
| the America brought back forty-eight
! years ago, and which has since been
successfully defended against the
world.
| During the five and a half hours sail
| the Shamrock was thrice ahead and
twice the Yankee boat showed the way.
| For the first ten minutes the Shamrock
| led, then for five the COlumbia's grace
! full bow showed ahead of the green
boat; for forty-five minutes the Sham
rock, then for three hours the Column
| bia, and for the last hour and a half l.
J was the Shamrock that led the way.
| The breeze blew as high as twelve
knots an hour and as low as three, ana
shifted about through eight points of
| the compass.
Each in turn beat the other running
before the wind and was in turn beat
en-, beating against the wind at various
stages of the race. so that many of the
| experts who saw the two boats sail to-
day are disinclined to believe that there
is a pin to choose between them, but
when the race is closely analyzed it is
absolutely proved that the Columbia
showed superiority at every point OF
sailing, running, reaching and beating
whenever the wind freshened and that
ii was only in the lightest air that the
Shamrock could make headway against
her. Both had their share of good and
bad luck. The Columbia had the bet
ter of the shifting wind on tn" run
down to the mark and beat the Sham
rock two minutes and four seconds
while on the way home, increasing her
lead to over a mile at one time. The
Shamrock overhauled the Yankee and
was a quarter of n mile ahead when
the time allowance expired.
The course was laid fifteen miles
dead before the wind and back again.
The direction of the wind carried this
course south-southwest from the Sandy
Hook lightship almost straight down
the Jersey coast to a point off Asbury
Park. The Columbia was admirably
handled throughout the race.
The Columbia was the first to reach
ed the stakeboat. The Shamrock swept
around, two minutes and one second
later On the beat home against a
headwind the Columbia showed her
heels to the Irish boat Enthusiastically
while the wind held.
After the Columbia had gotten a
mile ahead and the yachts were away
over under the Jersey shore, the breeze
again failed. and the Shamrock drew
gradually ahead. After that the Sham
rock was never headed, but from that
time to the finish the Columbia had
nothing but bad luck.
The official time of the start was:
Shamrock 11:15:S7; Columbia 11:16:2O
The time taken at the outer marks as
each yacht luffed around it was: Col.
umbia 1.37:57; Shamrock 1:39:5S.
So it will be seen by the official fig
ures that in the run of fifteen miles
from the start to the outer mark the
Columbia outsailed the Shamrock two
minutes and forty-four seconds. Hel
elapsed time to this point was 2:2l:3T
Shamrock 2:24:21.
5 When the Shamrock, at 3:11, went
> about on the Columbias lee bow, she
was well ahead; that is to say, if she
had gone about she could have crossed
the Columbia's bow.
AS it was necessary, according to tht
rules, to finish the race before A;
, O'Clock, it soon became evident, as the
boats, at 4 o'clock, We're some five
, miles to leeward of the finish, that tn,
' race would have to be declared off
This was done at the time named
while the boats were still four miles
away from the finish.
The official time and reports Of to-
? days race have not yet been received
Hence the reports which are from tn,
/, Associated Press, Mackay Bennett anC
; Western Union boats and from sta
tions along the coast are only approx
, innate.
The Shamrock crossed the line a
11:Ol:10 and the Columbia at 11:0l :45
= The wind was very light The sham
, rock increased her lead to 400 yards
I but the Columbia came up even very
soon. At 1850 the Columbia was near
4 ly a mile in the lead. At 1:55 botl
: were practically becalmed The Col
> umbia led by a considerable distanc,
around the stakeboat. But on tn,
homeward course the Shamrock lessen
ed the distance.
The race was declared off at All
: when both boats had a considerabl,
; distance 10 go. The Columbia was n
: the lead a the time
o Although the San Francisco Bulletin
| says the Columbia was i'm the lea,
Y when the race was declared off, pas
= sengers by the Mariposa say the Cal
| bulletins put the Shamrock in the lea
t when the two sailed over the fnisl
line. 1t is possible that both state
ments are true, that the Columbia wa
in the lead when the race was declare
= off but that in continuing to sail dow
: the course, though not racing, tn
Shamrock forged a head