The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-08-13
SHAMROCK L
is WELCOMED
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION OF
NEW CHALLENGER.
mo Time Will Be LOST
In Putting the Green Racer in Trim
for the Contest-Looks
Fast.

New York, Aug. 12-The new Ameri-
cas- cup challenger, Shamrock II, lay
at anchor off Sandy Hook light ship
last night and today was towed up the
bay to Tompkinsville, Station island.
| She will be taken at once to Erie
basin, where she will be stripped and
her racing mast stepped. Her spars
are ready and there will be no delay
er she will go into dry dock to have
her underbody cleaned before her
trials outside is not yet known.
The challenger Of 1901 received a
lively and enthusiastic welcome from
every craft in the harbor as she came
up the bay in tow of the tug Robert
Harden. She had her first taste of
the enthusiastic reception with which
she was to be greeted when two tugs,
filled with newspaper men, and the
steam pilot boat New York reached
! her anchorage near Sandy Hook light
ship at daylight. The shippers of the
/ tugs loosed their whistles and New
/ York walled salute with her siren.
The Erin acknowledged the salute
with three deep blasts.
/ 1t was at her anchorage over look
ing the field where she is to give bat
tie in September to the defender of
4 the cup that the yachting sharps had
their first glimpse of the new chal-
lenger by daylight. The grace and
beauty of the lines Of her slender
body were nlarred by her cumbrous
cruising rig and the litter and con
fusion on her deck as ner crew were
preparing to weigh anchor. But one
glance was sufficient to convince ex-
perts that Watson had built much
handsomer boat than the old Sham
rock.
+ She looks the fastest boat ever turn
ed out in British waters. One of her
bauties is Watson's peculiar tilt OF
contour. There is no fatness or tum-
BILE home along top or sides and her
great overhanging gives her the ap
pearance of speed. She was painted
green like the Irish knights first chal
lenger, but the paint on the sides OF
her upper works had been scraped
off in many places by the seas she had
encountered and these spots showed
the manganese bronze of which SIZE
is constructed.
AS she came up the bay the crew OF
Shamrock II in dark blue sweaters
along he deck disdaining oil skins to
protect them from the dashes of rain
that fell at intervals. After leaving
quarantine the noise of saluting
whistles became louder. Every ship
steamed as closely as possible to ge,
better view of the boat upon which
British hopes are centered and tugs
and small craft putting out from shore
swarmed about her. Hardly had hel
anchor hit bottom at Tompkinsville
before throngs appeared on the hill
anu p0lT u0du W SCuuy uCI lilies Will
their glasses.
Captain Hamilton, navigating officer
of Shamrock, stated to an Associated
Press representative that the ckallen
ger had been towed two-thirds Of the
way from Azors.
The prevailing winds were from the
south-southeast and gave them a fail
wind all the way. They got into the
tail end of an easterly gale August
which carried away two topsail sheets
That was the only mishap Of the voy
age. The total length Of the voyage
was 3,769 miles and the actual run
ming time Ia days, hours and As min
utes. Captain Sycamore, who is tt
have absolute charge of Shamrock
in the races, gave it as his opinion tha
Columbia is better boat than Con
stitution.
Captain VIM. Mathers. commando
of Erin, said
1--WE fear Columbia more than w
do CONSTITUTION -