The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-10-27
A CRUSHER FOR SHAMROCK
The Americas Cup Will Re-
main in America.
THE COLUMBIA WINS LAST RACE
Spanking Breeze Makes Final Contest
Best of the Intcrnationa Series
Columbia Proves to be Gem
of the Ocean.

Through wind and hoary seas. in a
breeze that approached the dignity OF
a gale, the gallant sloop Columbia
vanquished the British challenger
Shamrock Friday by six minutes and
eighteen econds actual time and six
minutes and thirty-four seconds cor
rected time, thus completing the series
for the Americas cup with a magnitic-
cent rough weather duel Ind Il glorious
Yankee victory.
For the eleventh time the attempt of
Il foreigner to- wrest from America the
yachting supremacy Of the world has
failed. The trophy won by the old
schooner America forty-cight years
ago is still ours. a monument to the
superiority of American seamanship
and American naval architecture and
a standing challenge to the yachtsmen
of all nations.
The intrinsic value of the reward.
which hundreds of thousands of dol
lars were expended to secure, is small
simply an Anticipated piece of silver
ware, which Queen Victoria offered to
the best sailing ship of the world in
the early days of her reign, but around
it cluster the precious memories of un-
broken. American triumphs and the
honor Of mastery in the noblcst of
sports.
To Sir Thomas Upton, whose name
is now added to the list of defeated as
pirants for the honor of carrying the
cup back across the Atlantic. failure
was a crushing blow. His hope had
been high. But like the true sports
man that he is, the sting of defeat has
left no bitterness. and with undaunted
courage he intimates that he may be
back with a better boat to try again.
During his stay here Sir Thomas has
made himself more popular than any
previous challenger, and the yachtmen
of this country will be glad to welcome
him back. Except for the repeated
fulles and the unfortunate accident to
AiS SlliliSISSI o1 l. uCStldN llllS SCIlcS
of races has beer unmarried by IL single
untoward incident. The boats have
had two fair and square races. one in
light air and the other in a heavy
blow, and Sir Thomas is perfectly sat
isticd that he was beaten by the better
boat.
After the race was over Il grand spec
taclc followed. The victor. after
lowering her sails. set the stars and
stripes at her topmast truck at both
ends of her spreader and at the tatfrail.
o the whole feet blossomcd out in
American flags. The Corsair. the flag
ship of the New York yacht club. had
six flags tapping in the stiff breeze as
she went alongside the Columbia and
gave her three shrieking blasts. Then
her crew cheered and the hardy Deer
Islanders aboard Columbia responded
with barred heads.
Later the Erin. which had remained
behind for Il few minutes with the
Shamrock. steamed up to the Columbia.
the stars and stripes futtering from
main and miZZcn. The Corsair greeted
Hcr WITH cannon. "nlcn Sir i hOlnaS &C
knowledgcd by dipping the English
jack at the taffrail. Then. by Sir
Thomas orders. the crew of the Erin
lined up to the rail and gave three
good Anglo-Saxon cheers for the vic
tors. They were returned by the proud
crew of the Columbia.
Sir Thomas Upton went aboard the
Corsair. where he was joined by Oliver
Isclin, owner of the Columbia. where
toast were drunk to victor and van
quishcd. Good feeling prevailed
throughout.