Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-17
COLUMBIA WINS EASILY.
Continued from First Page.

The official time of the start was:
Shamrock 11:01:03; Columbia 11:O1:O6.
Both yachts were now close hauled
on the starboard tack and were carry
ing exactly the same sail-main sail,
club top sail, jib. fore sail and baby
lib top SAIL As soon as sheets were
trimmed, all hands, except the men
stationed at the head sheets, jumped
for the weather side and huddled close
down to the starboard rail, while the
shippers watched each other like
hawks.
There were not many yachts or ex-
cursion steamers out in time to see the
start. Those on board the small fleet
had
A SPLENDID VIEW
of the start and the first ten minutes
after it were anxious ones for the
friends of both yachts. After that time
It was all over, but the shouting. In
five minutes the Columbia had widened
the distance to windward between her
self and the Shamrock fully length.
She heeled more than the latter boat,
but her sails were all full, and she was
pointing higher from the moment she
started. Captain Hogarth, thinking MS
boat would be able to outfoot Columbia
sufficiently to tack across her bow, a
little later gave her a good rap full.
The green boat responded nobly and to
some it appeared that she was passing
the Columbia very fast. So she was,
but she was losing outward ground
every minute.
When the Shamrock tackled to port
at Ills and the Columbia 80 seconds
later. it was seen that Barr had SO
placed his boat on the weather of the
Shamrock as to spill the back wind in
to Shamrock's sails. Hogarth was
Obliged to keep broad off for about
thirty seconds to get out from under
the Columbias lee. By 11:20 the Br1s-
toll boat was quite an eighth or mile
to windward and outfooting and out
pointing her rival all the time. Captain
Hogarth, finding that the Shamrock
would not point as high as Columbia,
dattened down his sheets as hard as he
dared and had to be contented with
giving her a good full and letting her
80 at that. The shamrock went about
to starboard at 1888: 80 and Columbia
five seconds later.
At11:45:SO. when the Shamrock again
tackled to port, Columbia was fully
a quarter Of a mile to windward of her.
The latter tackled five seconds later.
Captain Hogarth was getting desperate
now and he resorted to his short tack
ing tactics, in the hope that his boat
would fore reach sufficiently to make
material gain to windward. At the
conclusion OF the marine duel between
the two yachts Hogarth found himself
farther 10 leeward than ever, Columbia
having been, if am thing, Quicker IN
STAYS and bettt- .ore reacher. At
12:50:15 when the Shamrock
SETTLED DOWN TO BUSINESS.
again on the port tack and Columbia
after standing on two minutes longer,
came about to the same tack it was
found that the Bristol boat was half
nile dead to the windward Of her rival.
The Shamrock people at 1925 took in
her baby jib top sail, hoping that she
might point higher, but it was in vain,
for in ten minutes they set the sail
again. 1t was taken in twenty min
utes later for a few minutes.
Each yacht maze % tacks in the
windward work and in all these the
Shamrock took the initiative Cap
tain Barr waited for Hegarth TO tack
and with but one or two exceptions he
put Clumbia about within thirty sec
onds of the other boat.
The last half dozen lacks made were
longer than the Others. The outer mark
which had been obscured by fog was
visible from the yachts soon after 80.
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preached it, but it increased a little in
force as Columbia made her last tack.
She looked very handsome as she ap-
preached the mark on the port tack.
Smartly the crew launched her SPIN
maker boom cut to port before she had
fairly made the turn and squared away
on her homeward course and the great
Z sail was broken out from steps the same
moment the main boom swung far off
TO starboard. They were exactly So
seconds setting the spinnaker. Sham
rocks men beat them only FIVE seconds
in this work. The official time at the
turn was: Columbia 1:4S:1s; Sham
rock 1:5S:OS.
This shows that the Columbia was 9
minutes 40 seconds ahead. The elapsed
time of the Columbia for the fifteen
miles was hours Al minutes and 10
seconds; of the Shamrock ? hours 81
minutes and 5 seconds, showing Co
lumbia's gain from the actual start had
been 9 minutes and 50 seconds. This
was