Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-10

New York, Oct. 5.-Here is the official
leg of the second race between the sham
rock IL and the Columbia for the Ameri
ca : cup:
Start-Shamrock 11-oo-13 Columbia 11-o1.
A.
First mark-shamroc 1l-5l-1O. Column
bia 11-5222
Second mark-Sramroc 12-45-57 Col
umbia 12-ij-39.
Establishments 2-16-23. Columbia 2-15-
05.
Elapsed time-Shanrcck 3-1G-1o. Column
bia 3-l3-lS.
Corrected time-Shamroc ok 3-l6-10 Col
umbia 3-12-3j
Course-Triangular
First leg-East u south. N miles.
Second lcg-So ithwcst y south, 10 miles
Third leg-North northwest 1o miles to
finish.
Weather-F'resh breeze from north,
northwest which remained true and main
taired it's strength throughout the day.
In a glorious wholesail breeze which
hecled the big cup contestants down until
their lee rails We're awash in the foaming
seas Herreshom's white wonder the Col
umbia to-day heat Watsons British crca
ton over triangular course of thirty
miles by two minutes ana flty-two seconds
actual time. With the foIty-tEree seconds
which the Irish sloop must allow the
American boat on account of her larger
r"n, of ,bo ,oriae Nv tbroe minutes and
thirt,.-r,,', seconds nh, fastest race ever
sailed in a cum contest it vas not only a
royal struggle from spectacular point
of view but it was absolutely decisive as
to the merits of the two racing machines.
rhcra was not a Yachting sharl who wit =
messed the race to-day vino is mot firmly
Convinced that the defender is The ADLER
boat bIo,v high or low. beating. rcachin..
~, running and sir Thomas and his merry
british tars are doc med to return homo
,mntv handed again The ancient piece of
siIvorwaro brought across the Westcrn
OCEAN 6ftv yaars ago is safe. Again Amer
lean slIDromarv i'm marine architect nas
bcen vindicatcd Sir Thomas has hael1
wishing for a hreezc that would bury
Shnmrock's lee rail ana to-day he nad IT,
ius, as he had a similar bro eze In the con-
Guiding race two wears ago. when Colun.
hin i'm n driving finish beat the first sham.
rock over six minutes
The wind to-day was strong and true
blowing eighteen knots out of the north
,rest and AT every noint of sailing, except
n,rhans runiug before the wind the de
fender has already taken the measure OF
the CHALLENGER The Yankee sloop proved
herseIf ahlcr than the Watson's model
From the time she crossed the starting
line one minute and "a seconds behind tn,
,rug-hunter until she uicked up and pass.
od Tho Irish hoat three miles after round
ing the second mark Columbia pace was
r,etor and she behaved better than hel
rival
KeathnG ,"r .he lr sho r,'o Win IT. ,ho nl
a.a'' '.'' ] ra s,acord take sh,
oat,od % s.r,nde and in the throsh I,
,'i,d,,rd an NO loo home she gained ex
nrtiv two minutes Not perhaps as thrill
,t,,,, os IVA ro,,7arl,olle contest of last sat
'm1 1 A., da,.,, rnoa ,yoo ncv.rtbeless
.t,H ,',,, e..r, 60 G,IeI, and as a ma
rt., ' l,odtacIo i, co,,d hardly have hsc,
'''.' S Il ,,,oe a., ido.I Octnher ia,
,.' @ 1,,,,. ,,.,s t,,st oro,,rh fros,iuos
q. a,"ar w. ,trnnsnhcra and make In
W. ~ .', ,ie;h, From, shore IN,
"Holc luis i,1 i,eh -, i;tta su,oIi
,lt'Ht tto.' - M',,,,h tn u,I,ir ~,
nut II w"S Suns ,.,,,os ,,ntii !;
l"tn Wv, 20 Il ~ r.r n,ar,
NH',,,. t,, ,,a,,l fro,, tho e+acl-
| 'duE"' NV oih, ', 49,, .Iito 60,
81 nv vAI"' 81 ,'t', ,1 t,,,a ,bcr
-" ~ ny 'ia,.;,,ns ava n, :,
..t, MI 10 ,assols ,,,re dressed stoo
WIZ " ni,,.od I'D, III tau conyo
out iiNs p ''in aoj"d o., thn r,,,,d sr,nt
..oun'u VA, thoir croys wanna With dim
,,' , t,,otr faoti,,, az, tho siinnar
,to,-;,o Lac,,e and tho epurtirp snrav wa
,.n'a On Foot higb nc thev shook thei
ian,, ro.n. free Of thc foaminp crests. O
tho throsh r. windward their decks wer
- sr,otbor Of white and fountains of foam
.i, a,,,a, fron, tb.ir graceful bows
VICTORY FROM THE START.
The Yankee victory began with the start
when the crafty Barr, by system c
manoeuvcrlng convinced his adversar
that he was irving to cross the line frs
CAPTAIN Sycamore promptly took the bal
and rushing his boat into position sen
her away almost In the smoke of the gun
Theroupon Cautain Barr having accom-