The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-10-17

he course, Is miles dead into the eye
IF the wind to the eastward and return.
Both yachts set No 2 club topsails the
skippers evidently agreeing that u
w-uld not be wise to carry their large
sky scrapers in such a gale. Just as
the warning gun doomed 4 driving
mist swept in from the east beating
into the races of the patriots and add
ing to their discomfort There was some
lively jockeying behind the line before
the start The Columbia got the better
OF IL She clearly out-manoueve -eN her
rival eventually forcing her over the
line first by half a length but leaving
the Columbia in the weather position.
Close hauled on the starboard tack the
yachts plunged seaward. heeling to tho
12-knot hreeze. The first few minutes
OF the race were the most interesting.
They made beautiful picture as they
raced away like hounds. Their saile 10
the nautical eye. were perfection IN ht.
They looked as II they migns have been
carved out of alabaster. so firm and
faultless were the lines. II soon became
apparent that the white flyer was forg-
lnB Ancdn rSittt NaNti ftbhf w
show between them. The Columbia
not only seemed 10 outfoot the chal
Ienger, but the experts saw that she
pointed higher 1t was astonishing how
she sliced her way in the wind Within
Is minutes she had lead OF Ave good
lengths and from that time on the race
was hers. The patriots were jGbilant
and the bands which began playing,
never stopped until the race was over
The Columbia seemed more tender than
the foreigner, showing yards OF her
bronze underbody as she continued 10
draw ahead until within half an hour,
having unequivocally demonstrated her
superiority in windward work. II be-
came only a question OF how far the
white Aver would beat her rival TO the
outer mark. As the yachts got further
out the seas grew more turbulent and
the spray spurted higher from their
bows. Many exeursIonists came 10
grief and the tug boats plunged on
ward through the seas, sent the spray
aloft to their pilot houses and some OF
them were flooded from stem to stern.
The work OF the patrol boat was per-
| feet The revenue cutters line ahead 20
leeward and the torpedo boats line
bresst astern held the yachts In the
hollow of a moving right angle which
changed direction with each tack and
kept the yachts as free from interfer-
ence az II they had been sailing In the
middle OF the Atlantic.
| SHAMROCK NEVER IN IT
The Shamrock footed valiently but
neither in speed nor in pointing could
she compare with the Columbia Their
the three shippers on the challenger put
Their heads together and tried new tao
lucs. The Shamrock made a dozen short
bouts. Evidently her sk'ppers were un-
der the impression that she was quicke
on her heels and better at for-reachinl
than the Yankee boat, but the Colum
bia proved quite as nimble as IN
Shamrock.
ANT SHE A PEACH?"
, Timed by stop watch both boat
were is seconds in stays and when tn
. Britlshefs write home they Will te
their friends that the white beauty
, fully as clever as the challenger az foI
I reaching. When the Shamrock 50
; through with this line Of tactics, tn
Columbia had increased her lead uRt
she was about a mile ahead. At tn
end OF another half hour as t'le win
continued TO freshen the Shamrock to-
A in her baby jib topsail figuring ths
3 without his light head said she migi
be able 10 hug the wind a little close
> The Columbia held on to hers and
: the Shamrock did not improve her pos
A ton at the end OF ten minutes. h,
!, sklppers again set the sail BY o'clos
X the Shamrock was fully a mile and
A half astern the Columbia and the viii
n ship was a winner all over. As the A.
!. sociated Press boat on her way 10 a
\ outer mark, passed the Manning, Ca
q tain Evans, who was on the bridg
,e shouted ~Aint she peach"
IS SPLENDID sEAMANsHIP
D Moth ng could have been pretties IN,
the way the Columbia swept aroul
the outer mark. gnacefa"g as a sWl
IA Both boats had edged far TO the sOnt
X ward or thear courses. and a. the Tul
q required that the mark should be pas
:, ed on the starboard hand. Column
lacked 10 port and came over on I
=. starDoard tack as she approached >
float. as she neared ID her spn max
pole was like a knights lance IN re
~ As she swung around. she eased of
~ main boom. iet her spsnnaker pole df
o 10 port ana breaking out the cloud
Ut canvass. fled homeward like seaI
ne deer. Her big balloon jlb blossomed {
A. IS seconds later The fleet boats at
,et outer mark gave her q rousing rec
", tion. A quarter OF mile from the ms
az on the home run the colum9la crosl
led The path Of the Shamrock, still beat