The Savannah morning news., 1901-10-03
To RACE EVERY DAY
NEW AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO
BY YACHT CLUBS.
DAILY sAILINGS TO BEGIN.
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR TO-DAY's
CONTEST.

Fresh Northwest Winds and Fair
Weather That Ought to Hold for
the Day Predicted-The Triangular
to windward. FoIlpwed by "a
Broad Reach and N Close Reach.
Designer Watson Decided to Take
Out Some of the ShamrocIS's Ball
last, hut Changed His Mind.
New York. Oct. 2.-Yachting enthu-
siasts and the general public are to-
night expecting a most exciting race
tomorrow between the cup defender
Columbia, and the challenger Sham
rock ii. They base their high hopes
on the strong wind blowing tonight
and which the local weather prophets
assert is likely to keep up for twenty
four hours or more. The Washington
weather bureau adds to the expecta-
tions, which it is hoped will be realized.
by holding out promise of strong
breeze off Sandy Hook. The bureau
says:
Fresh northwest winds and fair
weather for tomorrow. The winds
ought to hold good throughout the
day"
The contest between the two yachts
tomorrow will be over SO-mile tri-
angular course, the same as that at
tempted on Tuesday. Under the condi-
tions of this the second race, the yachts
will be sailed ten miles on each of the
three legs of the course. 1t is the in
tention of the committee tonight to
sail the first leg to windward, which
will make the other two a broad reach
and a close reach, provided the wind
does not shift.
At Sandy Hook tonight everything
is ready for to-morrow's race, and if
the weather predictions prove true the
yachts will have plenty of wind per-
haps more than they want At $50
o'clock tonight the wind shifted sud-
denly in a squall from south to north
west and began to blow hard from
that quarter. At 10 O'Clock its velocity
was 36 miles an hour. While it was
quiet to-day with the yachts lying at
their moorings inside Sandy Hook, the
officials of the New York Yacht Club
and Royal Ulster Yacht Club had a
busy time of it in complying with the
request of Sir Thomas Upton, backed
by the assent of E. d. Morgan of the
Columbia, that in future the races
should be held on consecutive days, not
counting Sunday. In addition. there
came the request from George L. Wat
son, the designer of the Shamrock, for
a remeasurement, because of his in
tention to take out ballast before to-
morrows race.
To Let Ballast Alone.
On the first proposition an agreement
was finally reached between the chal-
lenge committees of the two clubs for
a race every day, but on the second Mr..
Wason, after further considering the
matter, decided to let it drop, and the
yacht will sail tomorrow with exact
ly the same amount of ballast which
she has carried in previous races. This
will not prevent Mr.. Watson taking out
ballast at any time he may wish,
which of course, the club is willing to
have done at any time. If, however,
after to-morrow's race. Mr.. Watson
decides to take out ballast, it is proba-
BILE that there will be no race on Fri
day, as under the new arrangement
either yacht is at liberty to decline to
race next day. This will be seen in
the agreement which was drawn up
and signed this afternoon, which is as
follows:
what Watson Was Up To.
About noon it was learned at the
club that those in charge of the Sham
rock desired to shift some ballast,
which. of course, necessitated plans
for a measurement. Whether this
plan of removing ballast from the
challenger was made with view of
decreasing the stiffness of the boat or
cutting the water line-a matter of
few inches-so as to gain in time al
lowance, could not be ascertained.
Under her present measurement Sham
rock allows the Columbia 43 seconds in
a 30-mile race. Tt will be necessary
for Mr. Watson to decrease the Sham
rocks water line length by a foot in
order to gain fifteen seconds in time
allowance, and although the over
hang of the challenger, both fore and
aft, is very long, it is thought that
considerable ballast will have to be
taken out in order to make a gain
of even five or six seconds. Still, with
races in which neither boat seems to
have the advantage of more than
minute or two the matter of seven sec
onds might become very important.
The decision to have the yachts race
every udy was received with good
grace at the yacht club tonight, al
though the plan conficted not a little
with the arrangements of the members
for witnessing future races.
The New Understanding.
'The agreement determining the
conditions and governing the races for
the Americas cup as agreed upon by
the committees of the New York Yacht
Club and the Royal Ulster Yacht Club
are hereby modified as follows:
Strike out clause beginning the first
race shall be sailed on Saturday Sept.
21, 1901 and substitute the following:
The races shall be sailed on the
following dates until the series be com
pleted, namely, Sept. 26, Sept 2S Oct.
1 and Oct. 8, 1901, and each following
day except Sunday; provided, however,
that Immediately on the concl usion of
the race of Oct. and Of each subse-
quent race, the Regatta Comi4ittee
shall inquire of each con testant wheth-
er he is willing to start the next day.
and should either conte slant reply in
the negative. one day shall intervene
before starting the next race. Sunday
shall not count as such Intervening
day.
"For the New York Yacht Club,
Lewis Cass Ledyard. Chairman.
FN~a "