The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-09
Both Yachts ut the Hook.

factor in the matter of odds.
 l Both Yachts ut the Hook.
 Both yachts are still at the Hook to.
 night. It had been day of rest or the racers. MT. Iselin and his friends
 came to town, leaving Captain Charlie
 Barr on guard. Sir Thomas Lipton and
 his friends are near their boat on the
 Erin and there they will remain until
 the last race is over. Sir Thomas said
 to-day that under no conditions would he leave the Horseshoe until the con
 tests were over. He seems very much worried about the illness of MT. Fife
 and he insists that the Shamrock is
 under great disadvantage in not having
 him on board.
 | Great Interest.
 No race has ever attracted more in
 terest about the city. It is the one
 thing talked of night and day at the
 clubs at the hotels and on the streets. | Wherever you go it is the Columbia and Shamrock. All classes are interested and
 everybody has turned yachtsman. The
 excitement has grown because it is now
 well established fact that it is a
 close thing. The opinion was quite 1 general that there was something in
 yesterdays racing by which line could
 be drawn on the merits of the boats
 There was wind enough for a couple of
 hours to furnish a test, the first real | test of the week, and while it lasted | and the boats were under equal condi- tions the Shamrock did the better work. That is the reason for the rise in the Shamrock stock to-day. She is good in run before the wind. She is good in beat to windward. What she will do in a reach is undecided, but the inn pressions are against her on this point of sailing. There was another high northeaster to-day and Sandy Hook waters were churned up in fine style. On Tuesday the racing will be re- sumed.
 CoIumb.a's Sunday Trial Prevented.
 The Columbias sails were unbent on expected that one of the morning tasks would be to set them again. The Sun day trial has always been feature up to this time. The state of the weather to-day spoiled all hope along that line, and the men did not seem to mind the deprivation. Stripped of her canvas, the defender looked very bare. She was headed into the gale, or as much ot 1t as got into the Hook, and the man for ward on watch kept under the lee as we'll as he could. Captain Barr spent most of his time below. Altogether the day was a rather dreary one. In spite of all the past fizzles the sailors on the Columbia still feel confident of winning. The presence of the Shamrock near by still makes them more firm in their be- lief of victory when a real trial comes.
 Confidence in skipper Barr.
 The race of Saturday operated as tonic on them all. Up to that time they had heard so much about their skipper being outgeneralled that some of them may have begun, perhaps, to fear that there might be something in i@ The Saturday race, to their mind, however, showed them different phase, and one on board said they all felt they would show the English shippers yet what was possible. The men had no other com ment to make on the race. The policy of those in charge of the defender is not to talk at all, and the men follow the implied instructions to the letter. The for Monday is one of rest. The men will do some little work, but 1t is not expected that the Columbia will go out to sea at all and the energy will be reserved for Tuesdays race.
 Lipton Wants S rong Wind.
 Sir Thomas Lipton spent the greater part of to-day on board the old schoon- CT yacht America as the guest of Lieu tenant Colonel Butler Ames. To | press representative Sir Thomas said: | Isn't it singular that we always get | strong breeze after a race day?' He | also said he would like to have strong breeze for the contest for Tuesday, so that the two boats could finish a race, | for if they did not do so pretty soon he would have to build house on Sandy | Hook. He mentioned dispatch he had | received from St. Johns, N F., begging | lim to come down there and sail the aces where there were plenty of wind md lots of water"
 Generous Warning by LiptOn.
 despatch came to Sir Thomas Lip lon this afternoon from Weather Fore easter Williams of the weather bureau n Washington announcing that leavy northeast gale was moving slow y up the coast from off North Carolina 1 md that it would be dangerous for mal boats Lying under the lee of Sandy Hook the two racing yachts were well protected from the heavy sea unning outside, but still Sir Thomas leemed it advisable to take precau ions. His first move was to run over o the Columbia and notify Captain Barr of the warning that he had receiv- d from Washington. He also placed ug at Captain Barrs disposal, if he ared to tow up the harbor out of dan .er for the Irish knight does not want ,nythng to happen to the defender any nore than he does to his own boat 'hen he came back to the Erin and in- tructed Captain Matthews to keep team up all night in case of emer- ency. He also ordered everything nade snug on the Shamrock for the fight.
 Thorough SpOrtsman. The courtesy of Sir Thomas in noti- ying Captain Barr of the approaching torm and offering him the use of one the two tugs he had in the horseshoe !, i'll commend itself to all yachtsmen. t reveals once more what has marked is acts since coming to America that e is a thorough sportsman and a gen