The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-21
THE CUP WILL STAY AT HOME.
COLUMBIA SAVES AMERICAS TRO-
PLY FROM SHAMROCK.

befeHteu the CnaileuEer tor the
Third Time Yesterday, winning
the Series-It Was the Finest Race
of the Three-Wind Blew Almost "a
Gale-GaIIunt Fight the Racers
Madc-How the Victory Was Re
/ ceivcd.
| New York. Oct. 2O.-Through wild and
| hoary seas, in a breeze that approached
| the dignity Of a gale, the gallant sloop
/ Columbia to-day vanqushed the British
/ challenger Shamrock by six minutes and
eighteen seconds actual time and SIX min
utes 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
| foreigner to wrest the American yachting
supremacy of the world has failed The
! intrinsic value of the reward which hun
dreds of thousands of dollars have been
expended to secure is small-simpIy an
antiquated piece of silverware which Queen
| Victoria offered TO the best sailing ship
in the world in the early days of her
reign, but around it cluster the precious
memories Of unbroken American triumph
and the honor of mastery in the noblest
of sports.
Upton May Come Again.
To Sir Thomas Upton. whose name is
row added to the list of defeated aspirants
for the honor OF carrying the cup back
across the Atlantic, the failure was a
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 20
| try again. During his stay here Sir Thom-
as has made himself more popular than
| any previous challenger, and the yachts
men of this country will be glad to well
come him back.
Except for the repeated flukes and the
| unfortunate accident 10 the challenger on
| Tuesday, this series of races has been un-
| marred by single untoward incident. The
boats have had two fair and square races
one in light airs and the other in d heavy
bow, and Sir Thomas is perfectly satisfied
that he was beaten by the better boat.
Wind Twenty-Five Knots.
To-day's race was a glorious lest of the
| rough weather qualities of the two yachts
| 1HtIc was 100 HtuCD ItoSlUtSS IN Inc AIR
for comfort and it was far TOO rough for
landiubbers. 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 tne racing waves until
il whtened the face of he sea Outside
the ocean was riot of white caps.
! Some of the holiday fleet declined to
brave the perils riding down on the north
| easter, and those that did rolled and
plunged in the tumbling billows, sending
all but the old 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.
The course, fifteen miles before the
wind, south by west, carried the yachts
straight down the Jersey coast to a point
off Long Branch, so that the race was
sailed in plain view of the thousands
perched upon the Heights of Navesink
and stretched along the shore from Sea-
bright TO Asbury Park.
The crew of the Columbia were prepared
for the fray in yellow oskins and south
westers, and those of the Shamrock in
white canvas. 1t was blowing too hard
for club topsails, and both shippers con-
tented themselves with hosting small
working topsails.
Shamrock Took the Lead.
Both yachts fed across the starting line
before the 25-knot breeze, wing and wing.
their spinnakers breaking out like puffs of
white smoke and setting hard as plaster
The Shamrock was over minute and one
second before the defender. But this was
not due to superior seamanship. Capt
Barr held off for that length of time after
the green boat crossed, in order that he
might get the position astern, where he
could have an opportunity to blanket his
/ rival.
The yachts made a beautiful picture as
The Columbia carried her spinnaker boom
at an angle Of almost 45 degrees. This al
lowed the big sail TO belly far out forward
and draw like a locomotive. But il was
rather dangerous and twice an extra puff
of wind carried the sail forward and Up
until il tumbled over the stay. But the
Deer Isle sailors each time had it back in
place in a jiffy. The Shamrock had no
! such mishap, as Hogarth carried his boom
much lower The Yankee trick, however,
did its work, lifting the head OF Column
ba out of the water until she seemed to
be skimming over the surface.
How Columbia Gained.
The excursion feet trailing down on
either side was chasing after the yachts
| as fast as steam would carry them. But
the big racers set so hot a pace that they
left half the tug boats and some of the
steam yachts astern. They were going At
a 13-knot clip, the Yankee slowly but sure
! ", lncn by men, oVeFnaulmg her adVer-
sary Closer and closer she drew, dead
after The challenger hoping with her
mountains of canvas to shut off her rivals
wind.
When Columbia had caught up to within
striking distance, The green boat crowded
on a little more canvas, Getting a baby
iib topsan and for ten minutes she seemed
to hold the American even. Both were
going like scared deers. A stern chase is
a long one, but as the yachts approached
the outer mark the patriots, with high
bounding pulses, saw that Columbia was
again picking up on the enemy.
Al 1910 O'Clock half mile from the
mark the Bristol boat got alongside the
challenger. and, neck and neck, ike a span
of race horses, they bowled down for the
hoat. Three minutes later. when they
took in their spinnakeTs preparatory 10
gybing, Columbia was a length in the lead
and footng like mad The yachts swept
around the mark, Columbia seventeen sec