Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-03
DAILY RACES
Will Be Sailed Till the Cup
Series Is Decided.
Upton Asks fer Remeasurement
Hoping to Save Allowance.
Old frOb Promises Fresh Northwest inds
and Fair Weather, Today.

iaStS anu tne general puDllc 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
which the local weater prophets assert
| is likely to keep up for q hours o,
more. The Washington weather bureau
adds to the expectations by holding
| out promise of a strong breeze on
| Sandy Hook as follows:
Washington. Oct. 2-The weathe,
| bureau. tonight. issued the following
| forecast for tomorrow's yacht race al
| Sandy Hook: Fresh northwest winds
| and fair weather for tomorrow. The
| winds ought to hold good throughout
! the dav''
The contest between the two yachts
to morrow, will be over a Connie tri-
angular course. the same as that at
tempted. Tuesday. At $50. tonight the
wind shifted suddenly in squat from
south to northwest and began to blow
hard from that quarter At 10 o'clock
its velocity was sc miles an hour.
While it was quiet day, with the
yachts lying at their moorings inside
Sandy Hook bay. the officials of the
New York Yacht and Royal Ulster
Yacht Clubs had a busy time of it in
complying with the request of Sir
Thomas Upton. backed by the assent
OF T.. ID. Morgan Of the Columbia. that
in future the races be held on consecu-
tive DAYS. not counting Sunday. In ad-
dition there came the request from
George l.. Watson. the designer of the
Shamrock II, for a remeasurement. be
cause Of his intention to take out bal
last before tomorr0WS race. on the
first proposition an agreement was fin
oily reached between the challenge
committee Of the two clubs for a race
every day. but on the second Mr.. Wat
son, after further considering the mat
ter decided to let il drop and the yacht
viii sail. tomorrow. with exactly the
same amount of ballast which she has
carried in previous races. This Will
nat prevent Mr. Watson taking out
ballast at any time he may wish. If.
however. after tomorrows race Mr..
Watson decides to take out ballast. it
is proba bic that there will be no race.
Friday, for under the new arrang
ment either is at liberty to decline t.
race on the next day. This Will be $ en-
from the agreement which was drawn
up and signed. this afternoon. as fol-
lows:
THE agreement determining tie
conditions and governing the races foy
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. q. 1901 and substitute the fol
lowing:
The races shall be sailed on the
following dates until the series BE-
completed. namely. Sept. %. Sept. IS.
Oct. l and Oct. 8. 1901 ana each fol-
lowing day except Sunday; provided.
however, that Immediately on the con
clusion of the race of oct. 3 and of
each subsequent race. the regatta com
mittee shall inquire of each contestant
whether he is willing to start the next
day. and should either contestant re-
ply in the negative. one day shall in
tcrvene before starting the next race.
Sunday shall not count as such inter-
vening day.
tSigned For the New York Yacht
Club. Lewis Cass Ledyard. chairman:
for the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. r. G.
vice commodore.
The proposition for a race on con-
secutive days came from Sir Thomas
Upton, and as f. ID. Morgan at once
agreed. two representatives of the
Royal Ulster Yacht Club went UP to
the New York Yacht Club, this fore
noon, and had a conference with Com
modore Ledyard. The agreement of
two years ago was gone over and a
similar one finally drawn and signed.
Under the rules it was necessary for
the challenge committee of the two
clubs to make this agreement neither
Sir Thomas Upton nor +. d. Morgan |
being parties to it.
About noon it was learned at the club |
that those in charge of the Shamrock de-
sired to shift some ballast. which, OF |
course, necessitated plans for a re-meas-
urement.
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 a few inches-so as to gain time allow
,nce. could not be ascertaned. Mr.. Wat
son admitted that he proposed to take
out ballast from the Shamrock. Under
her present measurement the Shamrock
allows the Columbia 43 seconds in a 30
nile race. Much of this allowance was
lue to her great sail plan, for her water
inc measurement is already some inches =
shorter than the Columbia s.. 1t will be
necessary for Mr.. Watson to decrease
he Shamrock's water line by n foot in
rider to gam ID seconds in time allowance !
ma although the overhang of the chal-
engcr, both fore and aft, are very long, !
[ is thought that considerable ballast !
will have to be taken out in order to
make Il gain of even five or six seconds |
After q little telephonng, Mr.. Watson
nally decided not to make any altera- !
ions in the trim of the new boat al
east not until alter tomorrow race.
At TIE October session of the su-
,remc court at Dover. Tuesday, the