The age-herald., 1901-09-27
American Yacht Again Demon strates Superiority Over the
 English Challenger
COLUMBIA HEADED BUT ONCE
Llpton's Boat Showed Way for Five Minutes, When She Was Over hauled-The Race Will Be
 ResaiIed on Saturday.

the biggest crowds that ever put to lightship today to see Sir Thomas Lip tons second challenger, Shamrock H., and the white flyer Columbia, which successfully defended the old Ameri- cas cup against his first trophy hunter two years ago, struggle for the yacht ing supremacy of the world in the first of the cup races of 1901. But the ex- cursion fleet returned disappointed.
 The great single stickers went out this morning fresh for the battle, but the sea refused them a field conflict. The wind, never nine, and some times as low as three knots, was too light and shifty to carry the contestants over the thirty-mile course in the time allotted by the rules.
 At the end of five and half hours, the prescribed time, the race was de- clared off with the American yacht nve miles from the finish line. The Shamrock was astern of her. Ameri- cans will have reason to congratulate themselves upon the result of the first trlal. The Columbia was headed but once in the twenty-five miles covered, and then the Englishman showed the way for only five minutes.
 Excelled in Windward Work.
 The windward work of the Columbia beat the foreigner seven minutes to the outer marx and increased her lead somewhat in the broad reach for home. Certainly Columbia's superi- ority in light airs appears to have been demonstrated today. Shamrock II did not, in fact, make as good a showing as Llpton's first challenger in the half dozen fiukes that preceded the actual races two years ago. What Shamrock II may be able to do in heavy weather is of course problematical, but Colum- bia has been tried, and all her ad- mirers insist that she is distinctively a neavy weather boat.
 The big racers had already been lowed out and when the fleet arrived they were circling and wheeling like great gulls about the lightship. The polished bronze hull of the Shamrock geaming in the sunlight made her look like a yellow breasted gull with white pinions. The white revenue cutters and yachts of the patrol fleet, each with the vertically-striped revenue flag at the forepeak, marshalled the excursion fleet behind the line. Shortly before Il o'clock a big black tug flying the blue flag of the ad fleet, measured off the 200 yards starting line from the lightship, let go her anchor and then hoisted the signal ID V," in- dicating that the course would be east by north fifteen miles straight into the eye of the wind and return. Then an- other big tug started out to the Long Island shore to set the outer mark. The log over her taffrail which measured the distance took no account of the tide which was running out so that the dis tance she covered before the float was dropped overheard measured, by the bot tom of the sea, was probably nearer sev- enteen than fifteen nautical miles.
 Jockeying for Position.
 ~. -th the firing of the preparatory sig nal from the committee boat there began the jockeying behind the line. of which Charlie Barr, the American skipper has proved himself so many times a grand master. And the skill he displayed today was enough to warm the hearts of those who saw it. He got into the windward berth, and, try as the Englishman would, he could not shake him off. As the red ball which marked the warning signal was hoisted the English skipper in de- spair, put up his tiller, crossed the line and tackled about the lightship, but the Columbia hung to him as If one tiller were answering for both, and when they again raced for the line it was like two thoroughbred horses neck and neck But Barr was still to the windward The two shippers crossed the line 30 seconds be- fore l..e starting gun was fired.
 The two big canvas-covered racers wore around as if turning on their heels, and coming up again in the smoke of the gun, fled away across the line, both on the starboard tack, but Columbia half A length in the lead and a length to the windward. Both carried the same sails. main, club topsail, stay, jib and baby jib. For ten miles down the Long Island shore, in plain view of the people there. the big single-stickers smashed into the head seas, sending spray smoking to the cross trees. Strain as Shamrock would. she could not hold her white rival even Slowly but surely Columbia forged ahead pointing higher and footing faster. Sham- rock tackled and tackled again, but Colum- bia went about with her each time and appeared to be the more nimble. Time and time again by the experts she was quicker in stays by seconds.
 Carried More Canvas.
 Over 190 feet above the water line. height equal to a modern ten-story build ing, the slender topmast yard of the Shamrock lifted her pyramid of canvas but her eighty-three square feet more of canvas than the Columbia carried could not make her overtake the white beauty
 It was directly off Long Beach Hotel that the Shamrock showed in front for the first and only time during the race.