The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-27
FIRST RACE | FlUKE
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 pinion spread. The white revenue cut ters and yachts of the patrol fleet, each with the vertically striped revenue nag at the forepeak, marshalled the eXcur- sion fleet behind the line. Shortly pe- fore ii o'clock big black tug flying the blue flag of the regatta committee puffed through the fleet, measured OH the 200 yards starting line from the lightship, let go her anchor and then hoisted he signal ID. B. w." indicating that the course would be east by north fifteen miles straight into the eye of the wind and return. Then another DE tug started off straight out the Long lslaho shore to set tke outer mark. The los off her taff- which measured the distance took no account or the tue which was running out so that the dls- tance she covered before the float was dropped overheard measured by the bottom of the sea was probably nearer seventeen than fifteen nautical miles,
 Five minutes before il o'clock puff Of smoke burst from the committee boat. The blue peter went up and the preparatory signal of the race had been given. Then began the jockeying be- yond the line of which Charlie Barr' the American skipper, has proved hlm- self so many times grand master. Ana the skill he displayed to-day was enough to warm the cookies of Ameri- can hearts He got into the weather X berth and try as the Englishman would he could not shake him off, As the req z hail which marked the warning signal was hoisted ten minutes later the Eng fish skipper in despair put up his tiller, crossed the line and tackled about the lfghtship, but the Columbia hung to him as if one tiller were answering TOT hotr1 and when they again raced for the line it was like two thoroughbred horses neck and neck. But Barr was still to windward. The fascinating game the Two shippers were fighting was so ln- tense that both miscalculated the time and crossed the line thirty seconds De- fore the starting gun was fred Ihree blasts of the whistle sounded the recall The two big canvas clouded racers wore X around as if turning on their heels ana coming up again in the smoke or the gun fled away across the line, both on the starboard tack, but Columbia half @ a length in the lead and length to windward. Both carried the same sails, main. club topsail, stay, jib and baby X ifb The sight made the pulses of the natriots jingle with delight. Then for \ ten miles down the Long Island shore In plain view of the people there the
 two big single stickers smashed into the head seas, sending spray smoking < t1 the cross treees. Strain as Shamrock would she could not hold her white rival x even Slowly but surely Columbia forged ahead, pointing higher and foot ing faster. Shamrock tackled and tack < ed again, but Columbia went about
 with her each time and appeared to be < the more nimble. Timed by the eX- perts she was quicker in stays by ten \ seconds. The beat down the Long Island coast made a beautiful marine srectacle. the patrol fleet under the di- < rection of Captain Walker of the reVe- 1i,Ie cutter service maintained per
 fectly clear field. Half a mile of reVe- hue cutters and yachts at an angle oi & four points from each side of the course formed a right angle changing direction as the yachts tackled
 Tn the hollow of this angle as if in tence corner there was no more inter ference with the yachts than if they
 had been sailing In the middle of the Atlantic while behind the fence or Neither side were the floating stacks < making black wall above them. Or into the bucking seas the yachts went
 suprting geysers from their shark like
 bows. The American was undoubtedly
 the prettier boat. Her sky scrapine ciup topsail was not so high by elgh rect as that of her rival, but she ap
 Deared more steady and graceful. Sh'
 seemed a thing of life, lifting to tho < seas and with less effort of piercing
 them with less fuss, while the heavier breasted Shamrock pointed and shiv
 cred them with the force of her i'm % Anact. The slender hulls of the racing v machines looked too frail to carry th'
 canvas which lowered above them
 Over 190 feet above the water line, ;
 height equal to a modern ten-stor! building, the slender topmast yard o
 the Shamrock lifted her pyramid o
 canvas but her S33 square feet more o
 canvas than the Columbia carried < could hot make her overtake the whit ( beauty. It was directly off Long Beacl < hotel with its crowded. piazzas that tn
 Shamrock showed in front for the frs
 and only time during the race as tn
 wind had hauled more to the south
 ward and had died down somewha
 Charlie Barr headed the Columbia of < shore in the hope of meeting it. In a stead he poked his nose into a dea
 calm for some minutes and the Colum x bia lay with her sails Tapping while tn Shamrock catching a slant of win ' nearer shore, drew rapidly ahead. Bu Z the victory was short lived. The sian
 of the wind to the southward held an freshened to about six knots, makin ,'ssss 1t from this point a close hauled reac to the mark. The Columbia rapidl
 overlook her adversary and Captai
 Sycamore in desperation concluded < put on more canvas by putting on large jib-topsail. While the sailor were out on the bowsprit taking in tn
 old and bending on the larger sails tn
 Columbia went by the Shamrock as
 she had been moored to the dock mak
 ing two feet to her one From tha 5 time to the outer mark the Columbi gained steadily. As she approached tn
 turning point the excursion fleet goin
 at full speed circled out and massed be yond the mark to witness the turn. A
 she came alongside leaving the mar xHo cforhoor6 Ian6 Ror,- r11f hi