The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-16
SPORTING NEWS.
BelmOnt'S MineOlaWOn the AstOr
Cup.
Seventy Foot Schooner Sails
Away From Virginia.
RACED IN A HEAVY SEA
MiIlionires Yacht Was Strong
All the Way.
COrbett Now Sleeping in Open
Air by the Sea.

Newport, r. I, Aug. 16.-August Bel
mont's fleet Mineola, fresh from her vic
tories of last week, captured the Aston
cup in the 70-foot class, after a most
spirited and exciting race with her sister
boats. Commodore Lewis Cass Ledyards
Corona won the $1,000 trophy for the fast
est schooner and +. NJ. Hoyts Isolde, be-
sides taking the Aston cup, got another
offered by II. 5 Redmond. owner of the
Syce- The Hester, which sailed in the
same class, carried away her tOpmaSt
Shark won the special cup offered by Rear
Commodore Robinson in the 51-fOot class.
from the east-southeast was piping, kick
ing up quite an ugly sea, when the fleet
of racing yachts. steam and sailing craft
Brenton Reef light ship. White caps COW
cred the old Atlantic as far as the eye
could reach, and there was promise OF
more wind and no Gains for the day
sport. The course chosen was from
Brenton Reet light snip 70 ana around ths
Vineyard Sound light ship, thence around
the Hen and Chicken light ship, and from
there to the hnish-3S miles in all
The preparatory signal was given at
1880 and the one for sloops to start ten
minutes later. They We're ready by that
time, and all came for the line the
smother of foam. First away at the
then the Rainbow just under the others
lee quarter: the Mineola next, then Vir-
With their decks wet clear up to the
skylights. the schooners Corona and
Quisetta crossed the line almost beam
and beam, with the latter to windward.
While the sloops We're changing club
foretOpmast and secured every thing
about decks for the seventeen-mile
An hour after the start, the NIineola
was leading. with the Virginia about
Rainbow about a dozen lengths off her
weather quarter, and the Yankee about
a quarter of mile astern. the Rainbow
almost in her wake Captain Wrlnge, at
the helm Of the Mineola, watched his boat
very closely. and it soon developed into
a fight between the Mineola and the Rain
bow. The latter was carrying the larger
elub-topsall OF the Two ana captain far-
ker evidently meant to make her do her
SO keen was the racing between these
soon left to fight it out alone. At II 40
the Minneola, after number of tacks,
succeeded in altering the Rainbow
by a few lengths Five minutes later she
again crossed her bow. The next time
herself nearer than an eighth of mile
the Rainbow's starboard beam, both be
ing on the staboard tack
At 11:56 the Virginia crossed the bow
of the Yankee and came quite close to
the sterns of the Mineola and Rainbow
The Yankee had almost gained the time
fair way to become third boat. At 12:45
the Virginia and Yankee set baby jib-
tOpsails and soon all four SlOOpS were on
the starboard tack being then able to
fetch the VINEYARD Sound light ship. the
wind having canted little to the south
ward and grown lighter The Yankee
Overhauled the Virginia two miles from
the light ship, and there was a pretty race
between them from this mark.
Easing sheets and setting No 2 jib
topsails the four laid their. courses with
freshening breeze for the Hen and
miles to the northward- The Yankee jib-
topsail split on the way over. and they
few lengths by the accident.
Between the light ships the Hester lost
her topmast in one of the squalls that
came hopping out of Buzzards bay.
Spinnakers and balloon jib-topsails were
got ready on this four-mile run, to be
set after they had gybed around the Hen
and Chickens mark
Splendid time was made by the yachts
in the sixteen-mile run from here up to
the finish. Spinnakers were set to port
as soon as they would draw. The
breeze freshened considerably. but there
was very little change in their positions