The San Francisco call., 1899-08-15
One More Victory for
the New Yacht.
WINS IN DECISIVE MANNER
oUTFOoTS AND OUTPoINTS THE
RIVAL CRAFT.
Queen of the Fleet" Gains Twenty
Seconds on Each Mile Of
Thirty-Eight Mile
Course.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEWPORT, R. L, Aug. 14.-The
yacht Columbia added another victory
to her already splendid record to-day
by defeating Defender 13 minutes and
Z seconds over a thirty-eight-mile
course. Amorita defeated Colonia,
Quizetta and Ariel in the schooner
class, finishing u seconds ahead OF the
Colonia and winning the race by min
ute IA seconds, corrected time. The
prizes were two magnificent cups, val
ued at $500 and $1,000 each for the sloOp
and schooner classes respectively, Of
fered by John Jacob AStOr.
Columbia sailed a splendid race and
showed that in light air she is many
minutes faster than Defender on
every leg Of the course she made gains
over Defender, and this was more no
ticeable on the first leg, which was a
spinnaker run of 1872 miles On the
second leg, which promised to be at the
outset a dead beat to WindWard of Is
miles, Columbia showed again that she
could both OutfoOt and Outpoint the
older boat The wind shifted several
points at d time until it had swung
from northwest to almost southeast.
This did not materially affect the posi-
.TiOnS of the racers, except on the wind
ward work, and then a sudden change
from. about northeast to east illustrated
what a great difference a sudden Shift
will make as regards the position of
the leader.
After rounding the Block Island mark
boat, the Columbia started TO beat to
West Island mark boat, with a lead of
two minutes and forty seconds over the
Defender. The Columbia Immediately
~ tackled to port and headed on toward
the Point Judith shore The Defender
tackled in Columbia's wake, and follow
ed her for over a half hour.
In the meantime the four schoOners
had rounded the leeward mark and
stood out to sea on port tack. The
boats encountered a favorable shift of
wind after they had been sailing about
thirty minutes on that tack.
The Defender was about six minutes
behind the Columbia when she tackled
under the lee of the Columbia. But in
stead of following her fast rival, Cap
tain Rhoades stood out to sea and
found that there was some advantage
TO be gained by so doing.
When the Defender finally came
about on the starbGard tack it was seen.
that she had lessened the distance be
tween herself and the Columbia by
about two minutes, and later, on this
leg Of the course, she got another favor
able shift, which helped her immensely.
The Columbia made great speed with
sheets fiattened and at the West Island
mark had added three minutes five
seconds to her lead.
carry a spinnaker. but when Captain
Rhoades found that in order to keep
it full he. would have to head away off
the course he dropped it below deck
in A hurry. Columbia, on rounding the
weather mark, set her big balloon jib
and: it pulled splendidly, but in addi-
.tion. to this Captain Barr set a balloon
stay sail, which helped wonderfully.
Experts who figured out Columbia's
time say that she had beaten Defender
at the rate of 20 seconds for every mile
of the course sailed. Columbia gained
on the first leg minutes Is seconds; on
the second leg, 8 minutes 5 seconds; on
the third leg 3 minutes At seconds. Co
lumbia won by 13 minutes seconds.
Any yacht belonging to the club
which had made any of the squadron
runs may sail in cruising trim for the
"wind-up cups" There viii be a prize
in each class. Columbia and Defender
viii sail in racing trim.
Summary Of to-day's sloop race:
Columbia Start, 1o:5S:49; finish, 8:57:O8;
elapsed time. 4:5S19
- Defender-Start 10:55:2O; finish, 4:O6:46
elapsed time, 5:11:26.