The age-herald., 1901-10-02
Yesterdays Trial in Light Winds a Victory for
 Shamrock Il
LUCK WITH THE FOREIGNER
British Yacht Was Nearly Half Mile In Lead When Regatta Commit tee Called Event Off-Next
 Race Thursday.


 tempt to sail the second of the pres eat series of international yacht races for the blue ribbon of the sea proved a dismal failure. Between 25,000 and 80,000 people, who crowded the pleas ure fleet off Sandy Hook lightship in the hope of seeing a repetition of the thrilling sport of Saturday last, wit messed instead more of drifting match than a race.
 The wind was exceedingly light and variable. at times falling so low that t4e gossamer wind pennants, which are as light as thistle down, hung limp against the masts of the big sin gle stickers. The wind, with crews lined up on the lee rails, was not suf- ficient at any time to make the racing machines heel in their lines.
 Atl the end of four and a half hours the yachts had covered less than one- half of the prescribed course of thirty miles, and as there was no possibility of their finishing within the time limit the regatta committee declared the race off. When the gun was fired announcing this decision the challen- ger was about half mile ahead of the defender, and to that extent todays trial was victory for Shamrock II. But the fuke today demonstrated lit tie as to the question of supremacy be- tween the two yachts, except, pe-ha ns. that Sir Thomas new chaDp pion is more dangerous in light airs than was supposed after her two former meet ings with the white flyer to which the patriots are pinning their faith.
 Luck Cuts Big Figl l'e.
 Tn fiuky winds of variable strength, shifting as they did today through six points of the compass, luck cuts al most as much figure as model and sea- menship, and today fortune was un- mistakably with the foreigner. The course was an equilateral triangle, ten miles to the leg, the first leg being a beat due east into the wind.
 The Yankee skipper, at the start, out generated his adversary in splendid piece of jockeying. crossing the line in the windward berth twelve seconds ahead of the Britisher. This advantage Co1um- bia held for two hours while both yachts steered off their course to the south and were looking for streak of wind that would profit them. Finally Barr declined to continue the vain quest. He put his helm down and headed in shore on the starboard tack. The Shamrock at this time. after both had been sailing in the same airs. was a beaten boat and her skipper could afford to take chance with fortune He held doggedly on and fortune smiled on him. Within five min utes he got a breeze out of the south which rufIied the crestless seas and wait ed him like ghost through the Colum- bias weather. But this was not his best piece of good fortune.
 Went Under Shamrock's Stern.
 After this reverse the Columbia, slip ping through the sea at an astonishing pace considering the lightness of the breeze, had worked out ahead of the Shamrock, but to leeward. When the two yachts were in this position about two miles from the first turn. a cant of the wind threatened to blanket Columbia and to avoid such possibility Barr went under Shamrock's stern. Just as he did so the wind hauled around more to the south, knocking the Columbia's head off until. to the astonished spectators. she seemed headed almost back LOT the light ship at the starting line. I .le golden boat favored by the same breeze was headed in exactly the opposite direction. Then the shifting wind backed again and Barr got the Columbia strengthened out as e was third of mile astern. In this position the two boats rounded the first mark, the Shamrock three minutes and eight sec onds before Columbia, or a gain for Shamrock in the beat to windward add ing the twelve seconds which Columbia beat her over the line, of three minutes and twenty seconds
 Dl ring the next hour. in a close race for the second mark. the yachts were able 10 cover about four or four and a half miles of the remaining twenty, and as only fifty minutes then remained before the expiration of the time limit. the race was declared of.
 Tonight both the Yankee and the for eigners are praying for good stiff breeze on Thursday, when today's race will bl 9resailed
 LIpton Is Still Optimistic.
 Always optimistic, Sir Thomas Lpton today after the race was in the best of spirits. He said:
 T really don't see anything yet on which to base a definite opinion regard
 
 leading when the race was called off, there is nothing to brag about. Today while the winds were very light, there was little fiuking, therein differing from