The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-27

how fast the Shamrock foted when kept off the wind with a clean full At HAS both yachts went on the star boar dtack. The little extra puff only lasted q few minutes and then 1t be- gan to die away At 1915 the yachts went on the port tack which they held until 12:93, at which time the Columbia was almost becalmed, her mainsail slatting as she rolled in the lumpy sea- Strange to say while this was happen ing the Shamrock seemed to have nice little breeze of her own. Both yachts then tackled and here it may be said that when one boat went about the other followed her example, except at 12:47 when the Shamrock went on the starboard tack and Columbia failed to follow her. Captain Barr probably dld this in the, expectation that the breeze might come in more from the south ward, as is quite frequently the case in the afternoon in this vicinity. But instead ofa breeze the Columbia fell into the flattest of flat calms while the Shamrock was enjoying the advantage of a gentle air which had a good deal of propulsive power. Thus far the 11rst and only time In the race the shamrock was the leading boat.
 | At 1 o'clock both yachts were agaln on the port tack with Columbia a good eighth of mile to leeward. About this time the breeze piped up little mer- Tier and under it's influence the Column i bia crawled up on her rival and aftre a few more tacks was once more ahead | of the Scotch built boat with the lrlsh l name. It was a great piece or sea | iockeying on the part of Barr to make up this leeway and it was generally re- garded as being admirably done, About 1 20 the wind shifted from east by north to east southeast which enabled the yachts to point up pretty nearly | their due course to the outer marx, which was anchored about five miles south of Jones Inlet near East Rock away. At 1:23 both craft took hitch to starboard; at 1:31 they went on the port tack and again on the starboard tack at :37, standing on this leg about twenty minutes, when they went about until they made sure of fetching the mark on the starboard tack.
 At 2 o'clock the Shamrock took in her lib topsail and set one slightly larger and of more stylish cut. It was acuse of wonder to the yachting experts why the splendid sails of the Shamrock with their greater area of surface were not more effective The canvas set on the Columbia had considerably less spread but it did excellent work. At 2:45 the mark was In plain sight of the naked eye and the Columbia, increasing her lead every minute, was heading straight for it. When close to it the little 1ib topsail was hauled down and big bal looner sent up in stops to replace it,
 At 3:05:32 the Columbia tackled around the stakeboat and, easing away her main sheet and breaking out her balloon jibtopsail, was steadied on her homeward course for Sandy Hook lightship. She made the best of the scanty wind, and with sails perfectly trimmed, steered for the goal.
 The Shamrock made a very good turn but was quite slow in setting her jib- topsail which was one of the variety known as reaching sails and not ballooner. It was excellent Judgmen' on the part of the experts for the sham rock to set this sail for the wind head- ed the Columbia soon after, making I rather close reach to the home marF and rendering 1t necessary to take 1T the ballooner and replace it with onf similar to that on the Shamrock.
 The official time at the outer mari follows:
 Columbia ..................... 3:O5: $
 Shamrock ...............a.... ..''' 'IA''
 The wind continued so light and n' signs of breezing up that it became clear that the race could not be con
 cluded within the time limit of five ant one-half hours. No incident was worti recording until 4:40, when the regatt' committee declared the race off, I'm Columbia was at this time about fiv'
 miles distant from Sandy Hook light ship. The Shamrock was a good three , quarters of mile astern.
 To sum up to-day's performance o , the two yachts, it may be said that Il , light weather such as prevailed to-da.
 the Shamrock proved to be no mattel , for the Columbia. What she may ac
 complish with good wind remains t be seen.