The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-20
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square-rigged ships bound for the In
dies or the China seas which had beef
harbor-bound for two weeks, were. TAX
ing advantage of the favoring breeze
and like a flock of wild gulls, were
speeding seward with their spreading
pinions cleaning in the sun.
The Course Laid Out.
The course today was laid fifteen
miles before the wind southeast by
south, straight out To sea. After som9
pretty maneuveE-ins behind the Inc.
Captain Barr, on the Columbia. beSted
the talent aboard the challenger, SENDS
ing the Columbia flying across the line
twenty-seven seconds ahead OF his ad-
versary So badly had the Shamrock
miscalculated that the handicap gun
doomed two seconds before the green
beat crossed, and she sailed away with
that penalty, in addition to the sixteen
seconds she allows the white wonder
now under the new measurements.
The race to the outer mark was nor
exciting. Both yachts crossed with
bulging balloons, mainsaiis and Their
largest club topsails drawing. But, as
the wind had pulled q little to the
southwark after the course had been
set, instead of keeping away from the
mark, they made almost a triangular
race of it. Without setting their spin
makers, they luffed sharply to star
board, each striving for the weather
game.
The Columbia showed her rival a
fleet pair of heels, gaining gradually
from the start. For almost an hour
the luffing continued, carrying the
sa11,t ~,
Squared Away For the Mark.
The Shamrock having been baby
beaten in her attempt to get to wind
ward, both squared away for the mark,
breaking out their big spinnakers TO
the wind. After watching the yachts
run before the wind for an hour, DUR
ing which the breeze gradually died
down to about five knots or less, the
excursion fleet. turned ahead and gath
cred about the float to witness the
turn.
BY the time they had lined up the
big yachts could hardly be seen.
Through the haze across the water
they looked like phantom pyramids.
The wind kept failing, and there was
a long wait. The excursion boats be-
came impatient as they lay wallowing
in the swell, and they shifted their po-
ping their engines.
The balloons of the big Scoops bellied
in and out, shivered, collapsed, and
the race was degenerating into a drift
ing match as they approached the
mark The challenger was directly
astern of the Columbia, trying with her
mountains of canvas to blanket the
towering sails of the Yankee.
The Columbia a Wizard.
But Columbia was a wizard. Some
how she managed to get wind enough
from somewhere to keep her slipping
through the water, and in vain THE
Shamrock strained to overtake her.
The yachts were half an hour cover
ing the last mile. Slowly but stately
as a queen the white Leviatian went
around the mark and filled away. Pass
ing the Shamrock, still outward bound,
close aboard on her'weather, she ROBBED
her of the light breeze and left her
with dropping wings, utterly becalmed
fer a full minute.
It must have been a minute OF IN
tense ehagrin aboard the challenger.
and the patriots could not but feel a
SENSE of pity for the loser. A brass
throated chorus had greeted the Co
lumbia as she turned, and the salute
was repeated with added vigor When
the Shamrock went around SIX MINUTES
and eighteen seconds later
The Columbia's Gain.
The Columbia had gained five min
utes and fifty-one seconds in the nj
teen miles to leeN'ard. About three and
q. half hours had been consumed, ana
there appeared no chance for either
yacht to get home, but as the breeze
continued to haul it to the southwark
it made a fair wind for the return
Journey, and as it freshened to ten
knots soon afterwards, a faint hope on
finishing within the time limit arose.
The Yankee sailed away from her
rival like a ghost ship, leaving her far
astern, increasing the distance between
Them so rapidly that when the race
was declared off at 4;19 she was lead
ing by three miles.