New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-16

Toned. oceango!ng affair, with the waves combing
white, and holes between them that could take in
large tug and completely hide her from view.
A FIGHT FOR PLACE AT THE START.
The preparatory signal given at Il o'clock
and It then that only two Of the seventies
would contest. Mr. Duryea, OF the Yankee.
wanted at Newport. and his cO-owner. Harry
Payne Whitney, would undertake the sole
charge of the boat w. h. Vanderbtts Virginia
had also left for Newport. because the owner did
not think he had a chance with his and partly
unframed crew. Tho bright green underbody Of
the Rainbow, with its glossy piano finish was
almost wholly upturned to public view, for as the
boat passed the committee steamer she far
careened that part OF her fin could DO seen. As
the time for the start approached tho Rainbow
came along the starboard tack and passed 10
wtndward OF the Mlneola, which then gybed and
lufed hard round windward Of the Ra!nbow's
stern, Then the Rainbow gybed quickly and
up TO Windward Of the Mineola. which then bore
away for the line. She had been beaten in the
fight for place, and now placldy accepted the worse
position. This, as It turned out. governed the
chances OF the day.
Both broke out foresais and small jibtopsails as
they came for the line gathering a gait that was
almost terrific they tore past In acre Of foam
The Rainbow had her mast about twenty feet
ahead OF the Mneola's they crossed and the
latter boat soon lufred up get to windward of
the Vanderbilt boat She could point then but
she had not the legs for the work and when she
threatened. Parker lufred the Rainbow out till
they were heading almost into the Coney Island
piers. Both were far from their course Then
suddenly Wringe payed of and tried to pass to
leewaTd, but with success, and nee more he
tried passing to windward, without any result
The yachts paved of 10 their course for the Spit
about south by west. and lying sometimes till
a man could walk out their hattened sails from
the deck. AS they hit the incoming ocean seas
they were knocking the water off both bows TO a
great distance. and when the surface was smoother
they were peeltng IT out in sheets Of white like
m V1r,r
topmast rigging to give somewhere and the Rain
bows top stick had noticeable curve 10 It under
pressure, but the yachts showed In the severe
trial of the whole day that they were excellently
formed in their steel rigging and they carried away
nothing
THE ASTRILD GAINS AN ADVANTAGE
The 6O-foot cutters Isolde and Astrild got their
start at 12:15 o'clock and here the Hanans put the
Isolde In the same place to leeward the
as the Rainbow put the Mineoa. The Astrild
fought harder perhaps for best place. because she
had a large contract hand To beat the far
famed Isolde in heavy weather like this and in
seas in which her power would tell a task
for which the Astrlld required all the preliminary
advantages that could be gathered in. But
with the start just she wanted IT she did not
hold her lead The Isolde hoisted working jib
topsail, and at 1918 she tapping up
the weather quarter Of her foreign sister dan
gerous way. Before the Spit reached she
passed the Astrid to windward. empowering her
in carrying sail
The K class of cutters held the Uvira and the
Ondawa, and the Uvira got away fully minute
and half ahead Of the Ondawa, which seemed at
first to have mistaken her signal The Uvra
being sailed by the sailing master. r. P. Do
remus, her owner. sailing the Mineola.
The bad start OF the Ondawa hardly to be cal
culated in the twenty minutes by which
she finally defeated.
The Bermuda rig Akista went away first the
1925 o'clock gum followed by the Flosse. which
carried a single reef: the Narka. the Rhuhama and
the Sea Flower The Otibway and the Kittiwake
went up under Coney Island Point for calm water
after they got away at R:3S o'clock. After that
the Wrath, the Venture, the Pebble. the Bronco.
the Spots the Song and Dance and other small
craft went plunging out on their courses.
When OVertaken off the Hook after they had
beaten out from the Southwest Spit the 60-footers
were having a noble race OF 1t. and in their case
the question as to what the heavy sea could do to
a boat was forgotten. There wonder
as TO how the 70-foot "leakabouts' would pull
through, but had any fear that the Isolde
necks and the boats are greatly admired for their
stnnchness as well as speed. In fact, they supply
leaky baskets which have been turned out this
year into the American racing field The Isolde
quarter OF a mile ahead at 1:5O, but
the Astrild sailing a grand race and it was
The little tenders Scout and Mirage, the fast steam
companions of the Mineoa and the Rainbow,
seemed pretty easy and comfortable in the ocean
seas, though they would sometimes be wholly lost
sight in some hollow.
MINEOLA BEATEN IN WINDWARD WORK.
The seventies beating out to the Scot
land L4ghtship which the outer mark OF the
they were roughly timed with about minute diff