Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-04
THE ROLL or VICTORY.
EngIand's Many Unsuccessful Attempts to
Win the Yacht Championship Trophy.

EngIand's Many Unsuccessful Attempts to
Win the Yacht Championship Trophy.
Great Britain has for centuries claim
ed to be the mistress of the seas, yet
for more than forty years she has COW
eted in vain the trophy OF the worlds
yachting championship. 1t was in the
summer OF 1851, when n OF the great
international expositions was in pro-
gress that the British offered a cup to be
sailed for by the yachts Of all nations.
A few Americans sailed the schooner
yacht America cross the ocean and
entered her. The course was around
the Isle of Wight, and the America de-
feated all her British competitors. Six
years later her owners presented their
trophy to the New York Yacht Club, to
be held as a perpetual international
challenge cup.
In 1870 James Ashburry challenged
for the cup, and on August s his
schooner Cambria sailed a race against
the whole feet of the New York Yacht
Club. The schooner Magic was the
winner, the Cambria coming tentn.
Liyonia was the name of the next
schooner built by Mr.. Ashburry, and
the following year he tried again with
this yacht. Columbia, Sappho, PalmeS
and Dauntless were chosen to SAL
against him. The Columbia won one
race and lost the other. The Sappno
sailed the next two. winning both.
In 1876 the Canadians tried 1t. Their
schooner Countess of DufIerin waS
beaten in two consecutive races by the
Madeleine. In 1881 they tried again
with a sloop called the ATLANTA. and
was beaten by the iron sloop Mischief.
In 1885 Sir Richard Sutton's cutter
Genesta was the challenger. The sloop
Puritan, designed by Edward Burgess,
defeated the Genesta in two races.
In 1886 came the Galasea, owned by
Lieut.. William HEM, Of the Royal Navy
Two new sloops, the Mayiower. by
Burgess, and the Atlantic, by Els
worth, were built, and these competed
in trial races with the Puritan and this
Priscilla. The Mayfiower was chosen
and defeated the Galatea in two consec-
utiye races
In 1893 came the first of the Earl Of
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new yachts were built to compete for
the honor of meeting her, and Of these
the Vigilant, by Herrshoff, was chosen
to defend the cup. The contest was
extended to three races out Of five, and
the Vigilant won the first three. Lord
Dunraven built a second Valkyrie, but
she was lost in a storm, and he had a
third Valkyrie built.
In 1895 J. Pierpont Morgan, w. X.
Vanderbilt and G. Oliver Iselin built
the Defender, by Herrshof. she was
tried against the Vigilant and proved
several minutes faster. She beat the
vaIkyrie in three straight races. Lord
Dunraven accused his opponents OF
foul play. but the accusation could not
be sustained
This unfortunate incident threatened
to put an end TO yacht racing between
this country and Great Britain. This
year. however, came the challenge of
Sir Thomas Upton, a self-made busi-
ness man. a wholesale grocer and tea
dealer. knighted by the queen In her
bountiful distribution Of jubilee honors.
which was accepted without much hesi-
tation. Messrs. Morgan, Vanderbilt
and Iselin asked Herrshon 10 design
them a yacht faster than the Defender.
She was launched on June 10th az
Bristol, r l.. and was christined Co
lnmbia by Mrs. Iselin. Several races
were sailed between the Columbia and
the Defender. In the me important OF
which the Columbia beat the Defender
by about three minutes, the distance
being 80 miles.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht was laun-
ched June rs and was christened sham
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