The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-10-04
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gest crowds that ever put to sea went
dowi, 70 the Sandy Hook lightshlpS yes
iterday to- witness Sir Thomas Isipton.s
second challenger. Shamrock ii. 4. and
the white hyer Columbia, which suc-
cessfully defended the old Americas
cup against his first trophy hunter two
years ago. struggle for the yachting
supremacy Of the world in The first OF
the cup races OF 1901. But the ex-
cursion fleet returned disappointed.
The great single strikers went out yes
terday morning fresh for the battle
but the sea refused them field OF con-
iict. The wind. never more than nine
and sometimes as low as three knots.
was too light and shifty to carry the
contestants over the ID thirty-mile
course in the time allotted by the rules.
At the end of five and one.half hours.
the prescribed time; the race was Of
ficially declared off and the yachts
We're towed back to their berths inside
Sandy Hook. When the gun aboard
the committee boat was fired to call at =
tention to the signal declaring the race
of the American yacht was still five
miles from the finish line. The
Englishman Was Hull Down
astern of her the experts estimating
her distance behind the, Columbia at
over three-quarters of a mile.
Americans will nave reason to con-
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the first trial: The yacht which carried
j. +. Morgan's private signal, a black
pennant with yellow maltese cross, to
victory two years ago, was headed but
once in the twenty-five miles covered,
and then the Englishman showed the
way only five minutes. In windward
work the Columbia beat the foreigner
seven minutes and fifteen seconds to
the outer mark and increased her lead
somewhat in the broad reach for home.
While the test was unsatisfactory the
yachting sharps who have been skepti-
cal up to this time as to the ability Of
the Columbia to successfully defend
the cup are more confident now that it
will remain on this side of the Atlantic
yet while longer. Certainly Column
bias superiority in light airs appears
II. did not in fact make as good O
showing as did Lipton's first challenger
In the half-dozen f1ukes that preceded
the actual races two years ago. What
Shamrock may be able to do in heavy
weather is, Of course, problematical,
but
Columbia Has Been Tried
and all her admirers insist that she Is
distinctively a heavy weather boat.
Two years ago Sir Thomas prayer was
for wind, but when he got smashing
twenty-five knot gale in the last race
Colambia's victory was even more de-
cisive than in the first. Since then
Columbia's ability in heavy weather
has been proved again and again. The
harder it blows the faster she goes and
the better she behaves. 1t is not
strange, therefore that the patriotic
shippers and spectators who went
down to Sandy Hook yesterday morn.
night treasured and strongly disposed
to wager that the pretty wreath Of
Shamrcclks and white heathers from
the oldest yacht club in the world.
which Sir Thomas is treasuring in the
cabin Of his champion, will prove no
mascot after ALL
In the jockeying for a start Charlie
Burr of the Columbia gave another ex-
hibition of his remarkable Skill at that
game. He got into the windward berth
and try rs the Englishman would, he
could not shake him off.
The course was fifteen miles straight
into the eye of the wind and return.