The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-15
Yachting.
THE COLUMBIA WINS AGAIN
TAKES A RACE EASILY FROM
THE DEFENDER.
Shows That She Is the Faster Boat
By Many Minutes-Was Splen-
did Race.

Newport. r. l., Aug. 1.-THE Column
bia added another victory to her al
ready splendid record today by defeat
ing the Defender by Is minutes,
seconds, over thirtv-eight- mile
course. The Amorita defeated Colonia
Quizetta and Ariel in the chooner class
finishing u seconds ahead of Colonia
and winning the race by l minute, IA
seconds, corrected time.
The prizes were two magnificent
cups valued at $500 and $1,000 each for
the sloop and schooner classes respect
lively, offered by John Jacob Aston
The Columbia sailed a splendid race
and showed that in light air she Is
many minutes faster than the Defend
er. On every leg of the course she
made gains over the Defender, and this
was more. noticeable on the first leg,
which was a spinnaker run of thirteen
and One-half miles. On the second leg
which, promised to be at the outset a
dead beat to windward of eighteen
miles. the Columbia showed again that
she could both outfoot and outpoint
the older boat.
The wind shifted several points at a
time until il had swung from north
west to almost southwest. This did
the racers, except on the windward
work, and then sudden change from
northeast to east illustrated what a
great difference a sudden shift will
make as regards the position OF the
leader. After rounding the Block IS
land mark boat, the Columbia started
to beat to West Island mark boat with
a lead of minutes and 40 seconds over
the Defender. The Columbia immed-
lately tackled to port and headed on
toward the point Judith shore. Tine
Defender tackled in the Columbia
wake and followed her for over hail
an hour In the meantime the four
schooners had rounded the leeWaro
mark ard stood out to sea on a. porl
tack.
The boats encountered a favorable
shift of wind after they had been sail
ing about 80 minutes on that hitch Inc
Defender was about minutes DehinC
the Columbia when she tackled under
the lee of the Columbia. But instead
of following her fast rival, Captair
Rhoades stood out to sea and founc
that there was some ADVANTAGE TO p'
gained by so doing.
When the Defender finally came abou
an the starboard tack it was seen tina
she had lessened the distance between
herself and the Columbia by about TIVE
minutes, and later. on this leg of tn
course she got another favorable Shift
which helped her immensely. The Co
lumbia made great speed with sheet
fiatened and the West island mark hat
had added three minutes, five second
to her lead.
On the run home the Defender triet
to carry a spinnaker, but when Captain
Rhoades found that in order to keep /
full he would have to head away of
the course, he dropped 1t below deck il
hurry. The Columbia, on rounding
the weather mark, set her big balloon
jib, and il pulled splendidly, but in ad
dition to this Captain Barr set bal
loon staysail, which helped wonderfully
Experts who figured out the Colum
bias time say that she had beaten thu
Defender at the rate of twenty seconds
for every mile of the course sailed. Th
Columbia gained on the first leg siI
minutes fifteen seconds; second leg
three minutes five seconds; third leg
three minutes forty-seven seconds. Tn
Columbia won by thirteen minutes sew
en- seconds.
Any yacht belonging to the clul
which has made any of the squadron
runs may sail in cruising trim for TIT
''wind-up cups" There will be . priz
in each class The Columbia and De
fender will sail in racing trim.
Summary of today's sloop race:
Columbia, start. lG:5s:49; finish, S:5!:
06: elapsed time. 4:jS:19.
Defender. start, 10:55:20; finish, 1905:
46; elapsed time. 5:11:26.