The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04

the unfortunate occurrences which
rnarFed. the races here before.t The
government was determined this year
that the course should be protected
against enthusiastic craft. On the way
down they maintained two parallel
lines, mile apart. two line fences,
through which not one of the pushing
erowding fleet of excursion vessels was
permitted to poke it's nose. The broad
expanse of sea. inside. without wave or
swell, was left clear and free for the
maneuvering of the racers, On the, way
back the patrol vessels we've, equally
effective. When the yachts. were on the
starboard tack the torpedo boats were
in column on the same course, and the
revenue cutters abreast behind the
yaches. thus forming a right and left
in the hollow OF which the yachts sail
ed without embarrassment When the
yachts changed course the patrol fleet
changed with them, simply altering the
direction of the moving and lee and
kept the boats fenced off. 1t was only
toward the close. when the hope of in
ishing the race was given up that the
excursion boats crowded about the ends
of the patrol lines many Of them max
ing straight for home.
The Course.
The course was laid Is miles dead be-
fore the wind and back again. The
direction of the wind carried this course
southwest from Sandy Hook light ship,
almost straight down the Jersey coast
to point off Asbury Park. The Co
lumbia was handsomely handled
throughout the race. Though the Sham
rock was first across the line by 43
seconds. the Columbia's Deer Island
crew Yankees, wearing their pictur-
esQue yacht caps in Iselin's colors, were
so much handler than their Scotch
rivals that they had the Columbia's S
spinnaker and balloon jb set first by
three minutes. The spectators mar
veled at the cloud of canvas the levia-
thans carried. Straight UP into the air
the slender yards carried the pyramids
of canvas It's feet. 1t is hard to real
ize that this means the hight of an
ordinary 12-story building, and that the
frail hulls We're bowling along under
the pressure Of 1900 feet of canvas.
The twin balloons lifted the Columbia
along like a great gull in the tenkuot
breeze, and carried her in 10 minutes
past the Shamrock. But when the wind
died to six knots, as it did within a few
minutes. the Shamrock forged steadily
ahead until at the end of 45 minutes
she led by 200 yards. Then sudden
haul of the wind to the north-north-
west reached the Columbia first.
Passed the Shamrock
The big bellied spinnaker was taken
in, her sail was slightly iibbed and she |
passed the Shamrock as if the latter |
had been moored TO her wharf Instead |
Oh run, the canting of the wind now |
made t reach for the outer marker, |
but the Columbia gradually edged over |
toward the Jersey coast with the inten-
tlon or getting the wind astern and |
running straight before it. The man
eaVer was successfully accomplished |
after crossing the Shamrock's bow, out |
Just as The spinnaker was set aboard |
me Columbia the wind canted back to
the northwest and left her with Il
cloud OF canvas sh.vering like a col
iapsed balloon. The Shamrock had
started to follow the Columbias 5 tactics.
Twice she lowered her spinnaker as if
10 break out the big sail but as the
wind held from the northwest qua. ter.
she sybed her main boom instead, and
reached Straight for the mark. Al
though the maneuver II the Colum5a
had been successful. it was costly
one, and she lost several minutes ny |
l1loits or to her immense canvas in
The vain hope that the wind would
shift Tack again Bu. when she did
change er sails. she made up for lost
time ny GCtfooting her antagonist. She
seemed 10 skim over the water, scarce