Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-22
RAIN BOW IN FIRST
MineoIa Easily Defeated in the Race
for Seawanhaka Cup.
CORBErT TO RETURN HOME
Gravesend Receipts Turned Over
to Galveston Sufferers.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS

Tripping over the finish line on the star
board tack yesterday. Cornelius Wander
bits Rainbow won the special cup offered
by the Seawanhaka COrinthian Yacht Club
from her rival August Belmonts Mineoia,
by five minutes and twenty-one seconds
over the New York Yacht Club course.
This was Rainbow's third consecutive VIC
tory over MineoIa within eight days, which
fact was duly relished by Skipper Parker
and his crew, as the plaudits of the yachts
men assembled at the line rang gratefully
in their ears.
Neither owner was aboard his craft.
Vice Commodore r. r. Doremus OF the At
lantic Yacht Club looked after the interests
of the Belmont boat. while Newbury Law
ton and Frederick NJ. Hoyt were on Ram
bow. The two seventies who mixed 1t up SO
on the starting line in Tuesdays race pre-
served a dignified distance at crl1icai
periods. and this last race. which yachtsmen
thought would prove q corker. passed OH as
peacefully as an infants baptism
At I2:iO o'clock the preliminary signal
was gwen and they Unanswered about pc
hind the line in a cautious manner. rive
minutes later the whistle sounded again
and Rainbow crossed with 1t at the extreme
wtndward end three seconds ahead Of Nine
ola, who had the leeward end of the propo-
sition. They proceeded with the precise de-
curum of two old maids starting out LOT tne
weekly sewing bee.
with the wind west it was a reach to the
first mark, four and three-quarter miles
distant northeast by north Both broke out
bottom jibtopsals as they crossed. and with
a fair breeze skipped along at rapid galt'
Rainbow gradually leaving Mineola. F.f seen
minutes after the start SIX pper Wringe
tried to work out TO W -ndward or RAINBOW
and possibly coax Capt. Parker into a
lutting match, but the latter was apparently
satisfied with his lead of three lengths, and
refused to swerye from the path of duty.
RAINBOW had worked her lead OF three
SECONDS UP to twenty-four when they turned
this mark, and Mineola thought it was high
time to get ahead of her somehow on the
next leg, a beat to windward of four miles
Rainbow after turning the first mark set
her small jbtopsail and staysail and headed
off on the port tack for the Connecticut
shore and MineOla rounded close to the
stakeboat and took the starboard tack to-
ward the south. Capt. Wringe had not been
on this more than three minutes when he
decided to follow RAINBOW, who was search
ing for an off shore wind.
Rainbow held her tack for fifteen minutes,
and then came about and imprudently
showed her length across Mlneolas bow
Then they made an impudently number OF
tacks, in which Rainbow got such lead
over Mineola that she stood no chance Of
overcoming 1t from the second mark on,
which was rounded as follows: Rainbow,
BOB ~: MIneola, POSED
Mineola picked up on her little In the
reach home. and touched her up little
more the run on the second leg, but
when the windward work began once more
Rainbow retrieved her slight losses with in
terest The table follows:
Yacht and Owner Start. Finish Elapsed
Rainbow c. Vanderbilt -. 1915 4:06:52 1851 80
MineoIa August Belmont. 1915 4:l2:l3 3:5I:13