Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-14
INVADER AND CADILLAC.
Fourth Race of Canadian Cup Series
Started Today.

INVADER AND CADILLAC.
Fourth Race of Canadian Cup Series
Started Today.
Chlcago, Aug. 14.-The fourth race
Il Tor the Canadian cup was started in
calm weather. at eleven this morning.
me wind was SO light it was almost
impossible to determine it's direction.
1t was about three miles an hour from
the southwest. Cadillac beat Invader
over the line about two hundred yards.
taking northeasterly course. To-
days race will be nine miles to wind
ward and return. Unless the wind in
creases it is not believed the race will
be finished within the allotted time.
About Shamrock 10.
New York. Aug. 14.-The appearance
Of the new Shamrock as she rides the
water at the Erie basin is most disauiet-
ing. In nothing that was written on the
other side was she adequately described
ana nearly every description of her that
was sent here was seriously misleading
For, without any exception, the model
OF the new Shamrock above water is the
most beautiful and the cleanest and
swiftest of any that ever sought for or
uSisuueu tHe cup.
Let it be fully understood that these
adjectives are applied only TO what can
be seen above water. Her lines under
water may be wrong in various respects,
tho that is scarcely possible.
In all the reports sent from England,
Shamrock III. has been described as hav-
| ing her greatest breadth of beam car
ried we'll forward into her bow. 1t was
even asserted that she is broadest
abreast If not forward of her mast The
story was simply untrue. Her greatest
breadth Of beam is within five feet of
the frame that lies halfway between
her stern and her taffrai. So beautiful
is the curve of her rail- that nothing but
a tape line can tell where the greatest
beam is found (unless, of course. those
in her will telD, but after long and care
full observation from both ends of her.
and from point thirty feet
in the middle and tapers with equal
grace fore and aft.
One writer called her "pollywog"
model. If he ever saw her his eyes and
judgment were inferior to those of a
bullfrog. Each rail is perfectly regu-
lar curve from one end to the other.
the fact that when the original America
was modelled the discovery which her
designers had made and used in her was
the placing of the greatest width in the
middle of a ships length and tapering
both ends very nearly alike. This is not
said to detract at all from the honor of
Mr.. Watson as designer. for Shamrock
H. is not copy of anything, but the
fof has Fan pct, tod
to be good fifty years ago is to be con-
sidered in weighing the chances of the
new boat. In short. in this feature in
her proportion of boat to stern, Sham
rock IL is perfect. according to the best
American ideas. as well as the best in
Europe, and che is the only challenger
that has ever shown perfection in this
matter.
If the reader would like to make an
outline of the deck plan of Shamrock III.
he can draw straight line 1871 inches
long. and at the middle of it draw a line
"a inches long at right angles, placing
half of the short line on each side of the
long one. Then sweep the arc of a cir
Gle from one end of the long line thru
| each end of the short one to the other
| end of the long one. That will not be a
| perfect plan. but it will give an ade-
quate idea of one feature of this beauti-
| full hull. She is said to be 1877 feet long
| and a trif1e over twenty-four feet broad
say, twenty-four feet two inches, the
breadth Of the Columbia.
| She is a low-lying craft. and yet has
an elevation of bow and stern that in
stantly catches the eye. She will meet
and pass over heavy head sea far more
easily than the old Shamrock did. One
| would say that for a ninety-foot racer
| she would shed and part water with re-
markable ease. Above water her bow
is much finer than that on either of this
Bristol boats.
| The most conspicuous feature of a
| broadside view. however, is the ex-
| traordinary length of overhang at each
| side. Here is ship 1877 feet long OVER
| all and yet but eighty-nine feet and a
few inches on the water line. Her bow
/ seems to reach out about twenty-five
feet over the water. Her stern about
twenty-six. The advantages of long
| overhangs are we'll known to sailors.
They give much longer and cleaner Cor
sharper) form to the hull for one thing.
| For another, the oyerhangs are pressed
into the water as the ship heels. Thus
| they lengthen out rapidly the extent of
| hull that is in the water and so serve to
bold her upright against the pressure of
the wind.
| II Herreshoff had the planning of an
other defender he would give her an
overall length as great as this one and
very likely greater.
The stern overhang is doubtless the
most observed feature Of the hull, be-
cause of the striking difference between
it and the stern Of Shamrock I. So fine
are the lines there, In fact, that one able
critic has suggested that she may lack
power. She may not be able to stand up
as we'll as she should tho we shall have
to see her under sail In twelve-knot
breeze before the matter can be deter
mined. But an end view Of the hull
seems to show that eile will stand up
like an ice house and frost the patriotic
barnacles. too. For there is an ample
flare in the hull above water.
Upton Starts for United States.
J London. Aug. 14.-sir Thomas Upton