The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-03
Weather Bureau Promises Fresh
Breeze Throughout Day,
YACHTS WILL RACE EACH DAY
Unless One OF OTHER of Contestants 0bjec'
No Day Will Intervene Between Races
from Now on Until the Contest
Has Been Settled-i!r. Watson
May Take Some Ballast
from the Shamrock.
(Br Associated Press )


night expecting a most exciting race to-
morrow when the cup defender Columbia
and the challenger Shamrock II. meet
again. They base their high hopes on the
strong wind blowing tonight and which
the local weather prophets assert is like
ly to keep up for twenty-four hours or
more.
The Washington Weather Bureau adds
to the expectations which it is hoped will
be realized, by holding out a promise of
a strong breeze off Sandy Hook. The
Buraue asys:
Fresh northwest wind and fair weather
for tomorrow. The. winds ought to hold
good throughout the day
The contest between the two yachts to-
morrow will be over a thirty-mile tri-
angular course, the same as that attempt
ed on Tuesday. Under the conditions of
this, the second race, the yachts will be
sailed ten miles on each of the three
legs of the course. 1t is the intention OF
the committee tonight to sail the first
leg to windward, which will make the
other two a broad reach and a. close reach,
provided the wind does not shift.
EVERYTHING READY.
AT Sandy HOOK tonight everything is
ready for to-morrows race, and If the
weather predictions prove true the
yachts Will have plenty of wind-per-
haps more than they want At $50 to-
night the wind shifted suddenly in a
squall from south to northwest, and be
gan TO bow hard from that quarter. At
10 o'clock its velocity was thirty-six
miles an hour.
While it was quiet day with the
yachts lying at their moorings inside
Sandy Hook Bay, the officials d6 the
new York Yacht Club and ROYAL Ulster
Yacht Club had a busy time of it in COM
1zlying' with the request of Sir Thomas
Upton, backed by the assent of E. D.
Morgan, of the Columbia, that in future
the races should be held on consecutive
days, not counting Sunday. In addition,
there came the request from George L.
Watson, the designer of the Shamrock
IL, for a remea surement, because of his
intention to take out ballast beifore to-
morrow's race.
On the first proposition an agreement
was finally reached between the chal-
ienge committees of the two clubs for :,
race every day but on the second Mr..
Watson, after further considering the
matter, decided to let it drop and The
yacht will sail tomorrow with exactly
the same amount of ballast which she
has carried in previous races. This viii
not prevent Mr.. Watson taking out ball
last at any time he may wish which,
of course. the club is willing to have done
at any time If, however, after to-mor-
rows race Mr.. Watson decides to take
out ballast, it is probable that there will
be no race on Friday, as under the new
arrangement either yacht is at liberty to
decline to race on the next day.
RACE EVERY DAY
This will be seen in the agreement which
was drawn up and signed this afternoon,
which is as follows:
The following official statement was
given out to-day by the signers:
The agreement determining the con :
dit;ons and governing the races for 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 Sep
tember, 21st 19O1,' and substitute the fol-
lowing:
..Theraces shall be sailed ON tll.e follow
ing dates until the series be completed
September 26-2S, October 1st, and Octo-
f ber g. 1901 and each following day except
Sunday: iprovidled however, tl!-t inr-
medately on the conclusion of the race
& of October 5, and of each subsequent
race. the regatta committee shall inquire
of each contestant whether he is willing
to start the next day and should either
contestant reply in the negative. one
day shall Intervene before starting the
next race. Sunday will not count as such
intervening day
tSigned9
For the New York Yacht Club, Lewis
Cass Ledyard, chairman;
For the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, r. e.
shern'iI! Crawruttf hice-comnk1dcre.
MAY SHIP BALLAST.
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 measure
ment. Whether this plan of removing
ballast from the. challenger was made with
. a view of decreasing the stiffness of the
boat, or cutting the water line down a
matter of a few inches, so as to gain in
time allowance. could not be ascertained.
Under her present measurement Sham
rock allows the Columbia 4S seconds in a
sthirtN-mile race.
1t will be necessary for Mr.. Watson to
decrease the Shamrocll's water-line length
by 4 foot in order to gain fifteen seconds
in time allowance, and although the over
hang of the challenger, both fore and aft.
is very long, it is thought that consiler-
able ballast will have to be taken out in
order. to make a gain of even five or six
seconds. Still with races in which neither
boat seems to have The advantag ge of NO
than &. MINI utea or two the matter of seven
seconds nigh become very important.
The decision to have the yachts race
every day was received with GOOD grace
at the yacht club tonight, although the.
plan conflicted not q little with the ar;
grangements of the members for witness
ing future races.