The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-04
TECHNICAL STORY OF RACE
GREAT SKIPPERS' RATTLE FROM
 BEGINNING TO END.

but Was Met With Counter Move-
 ments by the Colulnbia-A Great Luf-
 ling Match.
 New York, Oct. 3.-The Shamrock,
 lowed by the tug Lawrence, was the first of the yachts to leave Sandy Hook bay this morning. She arrived
 at the whistling buoy, off the east end
 of Gedney's channel at 9:45. The crew
 began at once to hoist the mainsall.
 They put two battens in the leach as
 it went up and at 10:05 a. m. the yacht I filed away on the starboard tack. or board the Shamrock. besides her cap
 tains, Hogerth and Wringe, there were
 Vice Commodore Sharman Crawford
 and Hugh McGilldowney of the Royal
 Ulster Yacht club. Sailnaker Ratsey, | Navigator Hamilton and Henry F.
 Lippitt, the last named representing the | New York Yacht club.
 | CoIumbiu at Work
 The Columbia. meanwhile, under jib | and mainsail on the port tack came reaching out for the lightship at ten knot clip. She passed close under the stern of the Shamrock at 10 o'clock
 and stood on to the eastward. On board
 the Columbia beside c. Oliver Iselin and Mrs. Isein, there were Captain Nat Herreshoff, William Butler Duncan, jr, Captain Woodbury Kane, Herbert Leeds, Newbury Thorne and Hugh Kenney, secretary of the Royal Ulster Yacht club. representing the club on board the Columbia. The wind at thls time was northeast by north blowing about twelve miles an hour. Both yachts set their club topsais at 1o:3O the Columbias men handling their sail more smartly than the others. At 10:45 the committee boat Walter Luck enbach, in charge of former Commo- dore s. Nicholson Kane. came to anchor cable length east of Sandy Hook lightship and immediately hoisted the compass signal D. F. J., signifying that the course would be s. S. w. Two minutes later the Shamrock's crew rgged their spinnaker boom out to port all ready to set that sail
 Preparatory signal.
 Promptly at Il o'clock the prepara- tory signal-a blue petrel-was set on board the committee boat and two red balls were hoisted on the triatic stay. At the same time tug started to log off the course of fifteen miles to lee ward. During the interval of fifteen minutes between the preparatory and the starting signals, the shippers of both yachts manoeuvred to the north ward of the starting line. Both stuck close to the lightship and five minutes before the starting signal the balloon jb topsail was sent up in stops on the Columbia's stay. The Shamrock sent up No. ? jb topsail about the same time. At one minute before the start the Shamrock was approaching the line from the eastward and the Columbia from the westward When thirty sec onds were left, the Shamrock. which had been coming for the line with boom to port, rounded the west end of the line and began easing sheets. Captain Hogarth, however, had his boat several lengths in the lead and just as the sig nal was given he gybed the Shamrock again, crossing the line thrty-seven sec- onds after the signal. The official time of start was: Shamrock, 11:15:37; Co., | lumbia, 11:1620.
 Shamrock Gets Better of stnrt.
 So the Shamrock had the better of | the start by forty-three seconds. As the Columbia crossed the line she broke | out her staysail and balloon jlb topsail.N The Shamrock broke out her No. 2 jib | topsail At 11:t7 the Columbia's spin maker blossomed out to port and she began at once to overhaul the Sham rock For some reason Captain Ho- garth did not see fit to set the Sham rocks spinnaker until four minutes af- ter Columbia had hers set, but as soon as it was set the Emerald-hued boat began to hold her own with the Colum- bia, the yachts being then not more than three lengths apart beam and beam. At 11:35 the Columbias bow spirit was just overlapping the Sham .ocks starboard bow, the latter hav- ing the off shore berth, but she was un- able to hold that position long.
 Shamrock in the Lend.
 Tn eight minutes the Shamrock, which seemed to hold the wind better, had pulled out fully five lengths ahead of the Columbia and seemed to be gaining every minute Both yachts were head ng considerably to the westward of heir courses and at 12 o'clock the shamrock, which had been steadily gaining, was quite an eighth of mile lhead of the Bristol boat.
 Columbia Leads.
 At 1915 the wind canted to the northwest The Columbia being inshore aught it fret. The crew took in the pinnaker smartly, Captain Barr gybed Ter to port, trimmed down staysail and ,alloon iibtopsail sheets and in just i've minutes the Columbia had walked ,ast the Shamrock and was the lead n9 boat. Captain Hogarth gybed the shamrock, after taking in the spinnak- f at 12:16 They set her spinnaker to tarboard at 12:30 but only for five ninutes Captain Hogarth finding he ras losing time, took the sail in smartly S nd luffed the green sloop across the wake, taking a position in CT starboard quarter. r
 Crosses Shamroek's Row. S The outer mark was obscured by S age so that it was not visible from r he yachts until 1 p. m. That did not | natter much to either Capain Hogarth V r Captain Barr fo1 they were indulg- V lg in q luffing match, closing in on the r ersey Beach, for more than half an c Our Finally Captain Barr havino