The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-08

ANeW L Ofh, oct i.-Olu bOTeaS again
to-day played battledore and shuttle
cock with the great single -stickers.
and the third attempt to sail the first
race Of the Columbia Shamrock series
for the international trophy ended in
failure. The race was declared off Is
minutes before the time limit expired,
with the yachts still five miles from
the finish. But the vast throngs that
went down to see the battle royal were
in measure, compensated by seeing
magnificent light, weather duel. In the:
end the;dlsappSi ntment ,jof the patriots
was sharpened, perhaps by the fact
that when the race. was abandoned.
proving her position. and had 1t been
finished sto7d day the American Cham
pion might have had one race to her
credit. After three trials the experts
are about as much mystified as they
were at the beginning concerning the
merits Of the two boats. Nothing but
a spanking wholesale breeze will fur
nish true test. To-day. as on the
two previous days, the course was laid
Is miles dead before the wind and re-
turn. So evenly matched were the
beautiful clean-lirbed racers that
they rounded the outer mark like thor
oughbreds, almost neck and neck, and
finished after a three hour thresh to
Windward, with the Columbia's white
shark-like nose half a length in front
and in the weather position. but SO
close was her green rival that the black
shadow Of the Shamrock's looming sails
was leaning against the Columbias
snow canvas.
The superior seamanship of Captain
II ~ h ND r.,
ed at several critical points in the race
to-day, though to captain Barr and
the nervy managing owner of the
Yankee sloop belong the credit Of exc
cutting as brilliant and daring a piece
of seamanship as was ever witnessed
in yacht race. its recklessness caus-
ing a great deal of nervousness and
anxiety; it's accomplishment. therefore,
made the pulses of the Americans beat
higher with pride. 1t was the spec
tacular feature of the day and fortune
favored the brave.
Did Better Work.
The Irish boat did undeniably bet
ter work to windward. She carved
her way up into the wind in astonish-
ing style. But again the Columbia
seemed to be able to make up in foot
ing what she lost in pointing. and as
the ability of a sailing vessel is de-
termined by her power to make head
way against an adverse wind, she is the
better boat by that test.
Ihe early morning was full of prom
ises for a glorious, wholesale breeze.
The heart of the seafaring folk who
went down to the water front was
gladdened by a stiff 20 knot blast
straight out of the northeast that coy-
erel the upper and lower bay with
smear of white caps. And the excur-
sion fleet went up to the stake boat
with high hopes of splendid days
sport. But before the fleet had reach
ed the open the breeze began to moder-
ate and the tumbling seas to spill less
of their froth. Overhead the sky was
unflecked, and so clear was the at
mosphere that every foot of the course
was visible to the thousands who were
watching on the Jersey hills from
Navesink highlands to Long Branch
and Asbury Park. From the shore
every movement Of the race was fol-
lowed by the sharpers with glasses and
the result was known long before it
was flashed by wire from the cable
boats. Outside the long ground swell
rolling in from the Atlantic with its
tidings Of the gale that swept up the
coast yesterday piled up what the old
salts call a lump sea. 1t brought grief
to many of the sightseers afloat. Many
of them sought the seclusion of their
cabins before the vessels on which they
had embarked to witness the race had
weathered Sandy Hook. And all
through the afternoon a majority os
the remainder kept suspiciously near
the rails OF the steamers.
At the Start.
The Columbia had all the better Cf
the start She bounded across the lire
like race horse with mainsail club
topsail and staysail drawing, spinnakar
down to starboard ready for the race
before the wind, and 10 seconds after
ward her balloon broke out like a cloud
ourst. The Irish boat went over II
seconds later, with the same rig. The
patriots were mad with delight. But
their enthusiasm was short lived The
willy English skipper luffed to run
through the Yankees lee weather
gauge. Captain Barr tried to head off