The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-08-11
CADILLAC is WINNER
CANADA'S CUP DEFENDER TAKES
FIRST OF SERIES FROM THE
CANADIAN CHALLENGER
INVADER Is BEATEN A MILE
Detroit Boat Shows Better on All
Points of Sailing Than the Fin
Keel SIoop From
Canada.

CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-Cadnlac, the cup
defender, this afternoon won the first
of the international yacht races, beating
the Royal Canadian Yacht clubs chaI-
lenger, Invader, by eight and one-half
minutes.
The race was sailed around a triangu-
lar course of seven nautical miles to the
leg, and for two-thirds of the distance it
was excitingiy close.
A feature of the race was that, of the
three legs, none was beat to windward.
This was due to the wind shifting from
west of north to about three points east
of north before the end of the first leg
though it shifted back a point or so be-
fore the race was finished.
1t was planned that the third leg would
be beat to windward, but, as it hap
pened, the windward leg counted on by
the Judges as supreme test, was really
nothing more than a rather fine reach.
The first leg was fair reach at the
start, which became finer as the wind
hauled round, and finally developed into
a short beat to windward, each yacht
having to make one brief tack before
turning the buoy. This bit of windward
work was too scanty to allow of any pos
tive opinion being formed as to the reIa-
tive merits of the boats, which will be
more fully determined in the later races
The race was witnessed by a large num-
Der of spectators ashore and afoat, sail
ing and power craft of all kinds following
the racing yachts all the way round the
course.
Commander A. Il. Davis, United States
navy, acting under orders from Washing
ton, took out the revenue cutter Morrill,
as a police boat to patrol the course and
keep it clear But the naval officers
had little to do.
1t was quiet crowd during the first half
n hn xavJ,ay It,tro =
to have a small lead, beside being well to
weather of Cadillac, but when the boats
came together near the end of this leg
and Cadillac was just able to cross IN
vader's bows, hearty cheers went up on
every hand The great crowd of a thou
sand guests on the Goodrich liner In
diana went frantic with joy
Commodore George Warrington's steam
yacht Thistle was the official boat and
carried the judges and the cup committee
OF the Royal Canadian Yacht club. The
judges were o. E. Cromwell, of the Long
island Sound Yacht Racing association;
e. II. Ambrose, of the Royal Canadian
Yacht club; E. p. Warner, of Chicago
Yacht club
AT 1850 o'clock the first gun was fired
from the judges boat, but Invader al
ready was outside the harhOr and near
the starting buoy, and Gaelic was on
it's way out.
The preparatory gun was fred at 1850
a. m, and then began the iockeying for
position. Capt. Jarvis was the most art
full at this. which is almost always a
feature of sailing match, and he sue
ceeded in getting Cadillac to leeward and
keeping her there
A steady twe1ve-knot breeze was blow
ing when the starting gun was fired, at
IL o'clock, and Invader suddenly wiped
up on the wind and was over the line
very quickly with a small lead over
Cadillac. The first leg lay east-northeast
from the start, and both boats started
their sheets a Bit Invader having Sc
cured the weather berth as well as a
slight lead
There was some sea, just a bit lumpy,
but both boats found a fairly clean way
through it. The defender was under
working jib and single reefed mainsail.
Invaders malnsail had couple of tucks
In 1t, and at that the Canuck heeled I'M
til well over on its sailing lines
Capt. Jarvis continued to work further
up to weather of Cadillac Towards the
end Of the leg Cadillac had rather out
footed Invader, and fifty minutes after
the start the defender found itself about
300 yards off the chaIlenger's lee bow:
Cadillac weathered the mark at 11:55:fO.
With lead of fifty-five seconds The sec
ond leg now was a free run. II was APP
80 0ioS 1He't TIC defenders spread
OF hGht canvas was considerably greater
tnan Invaders; also it was drawing much
better and when they finished the leg
the leader had gained but little.
by this time the breeze had freshened
considerably and the sea had increased.
and they had not sailed far on the home
ward leg before it became apparent that.
barring accidents. it was all over but
the shouting. Cadillac steadily drew
away on this leg. which was another
close reach and finally finished mile
ahead of the challenger. The official time
was:
First Buoy. Second BUOY. Finish
Cadlilac 40 1851 80 1.46.S5
Invader ... II :56:35 12:52:43 5:10
Cadillac's elapsed time was . hours &c
minutes IS seconds. Invaders was hours
50 minutes 10 seconds.