The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-19
ANOTHER Drifting RACE
"AMERICA" CUP RACE is STILL
UNDECIDED.
Third Trial Like the First and Second.
Light Winds Prevented Sailing the
Course in Time Limit.

Course in Time Limit
NEW YORK, October 7.-Old Boreas
again today played battledore and
shuttlecock with the great single-stick-
ers, and the third attempt to sail the
first race of the Columbia Shamrock
series for the Americas cup ended in
! failure. The race was declared off fif-
| teen minutes before the time limit ex-
pired, with the yachts still five miles
| from the finish. But the vast throngs
who went down to the sea to witness
the battle royal were in a measure COM
pensated by seeing a magnificent light
weather duel. In the end the disap-
pointment of the patriots was sharp
ened perhaps by the fact that when the
race was abandoned the Columbia was
in the lead and improving her position,
and had it been finished today the
American champion might have had one
race to her credit
| After three trials the experts are
about as much mystified as they We're
at the beginning concerning the mer
| it's of the two boats. Nothing but
spanking whole-sail breeze will furnish
q true test. Today, as on the two pre-
Yious days, the course was laid fifteen
miles dead before the wind and return
So evenly matched were the beautiful
racers that they rounded the outer
mark like thoroughbreds almost neck
and neck, and finished after a three
hour thresh to windward with the Co
lumbia's white 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 loom
ing sails was silhouetted against the
Yankees snowy canvas.
TALENT AT SEA.
AS a result of today's struggle and
those of Tuesday and Thursday, the
talent are a good deal confounded.
Some of them differ as to the merits of
the two boats but they seem unani-
nous upon two things-that the Sham
rock is the ablest boat that ever crossed
the western ocean to lift the mug, and
hat is still more important she is
more ably handled than the defender
: The superior seamanship of Captain
| Hogarth and his crew was demon
strated at several critical points in the
, race today Though to Captain Barr
1 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 a
yacht race, it's recklessness caused a
I great deal of nervousness and anxiety
:, it's accomplishment, therefore, made the
! pulses of the Americans beat higher
p with pride. 1t was the spectacular fea.
/ ture of the day, and fortune favored
the brave.
d, The Irish boat did undeniably bette
d work to windward. She carved hel
|, way up into the wind in astonishing
style. But here again the Columbif
seemed to be able to more than max,
up in footing what she lost in pointing
= and as the ability of a sailing vesse
is determined by her power to max,
headway against an adverse wind. III
Il is the better boat by that test.
= THE START.
It NEW YORK, October There wa
II spanking breeze from the northeas
;, and a heavy swell from the eastwar
It when the yacht Columbia, under main
y sail and jib, filled away from a pOin
e off the southwest spit at 9:25 o'clock to
q day, with sheets eased a trihe, AM
e headed for the Sandy Hook lightshi
s at a twelve-knot clip.
If from Sandy Hook bay. She passed ou
by the point of the Hook at 9:O5 ocloc
carrying the same sail as the Columbif
arriving off the lightship a a few min
= utes before 10 o'clock.
n At l1:05 the preparatory signal wa
n !, given, at 1115 the warning signal, an
q at 11;20 the gun to start. When tn
d warning signal was given, both yacht
1t We're on the starboard tack east of tn
a committee boat the Columbia to wind
IS ward and both heading to the south
lie west. The wind was then light froT
a. the north northeast with little prOmis
al of freshening. The Columbia luffed frs
until she was close on the wind on tn
starboard tack, heading as if to eros
the committee boats bow. The Sham
y rock stood on a little longer, the
gybed and came up on the same tacI
setting her staysail as she did so. Car
tain Barr, to fill in the time, kept tn
E. Columbia off for about thirty seconds
E then luffing her sharp on the win
again. headed her to fetch close by tn
committees boat bow on the way t
NJ the line. Her staysail had not been ST
e. and the Shamrock was travelling wit
n better headway toward the same spo
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