New-York tribune., 1901-08-11
CADILLAC BEATS INVADER.
INTERNATIONAL LAKE CONTEST WON
BY AMERICAN Notwithstanding
DISH OUTsAII4s FIN KEEL.

| OUISAllAS
Chicago. Aug 1o-The Cadillac the cup de-
! fender. this afternoon won the first Of the in
| terpatonai yacht races, beating the Royal
! Canadian Yacht Clubs challenger, the Invader
| by minutes 80 seconds. The race was sailed
! around a triangular course Of seven nautical
miles to the leg, and for two-thirds Of the dis
| tance was exciting and close.
"It is anybody's race yet" remarked Vice
Commodore A. w. Masters. the veteran sailor
of the Chicago Yacht Club, as the rival yachts,
! scarcely more than two hundred yards apart
| finished the second leg after a free run before
| the wind. with all their light canvas set. But
! the wind had freshened considerably after the
start, almost two hours before. and the last leg
fairly close hauled reach. was sailed in
spanking twenty-knot breeze and a good lump
OF a sea-
Here was where the Detroit Boat Clubs cen
treboard yacht showed great sailing qualities,
gaining minutes and 20 seconds on the fin keel
from Canada. The sea appeared TO kill the
Invader, which frequently buried and appeared
to be a wet boat. The full bows Of the scow-
like Cadillac spanked the seas heartily and gave
the defender the appearance of carrying big
bone in her teeth, throwing a rifle of frothy
spray, but she invariably lifted and slid on and
on, instead of checking and shuddering like
her rival Both yachts carried single reefed
mainsails. The centreboard defender stood I'D
noticeably sitter than the fin keel Some critics
thought the Invader would have made better
weather Of the third leg with another reef, but
| both Captain Jarvis and Builder Andrews de-
J clare the challenger does her best when her lee
| rail is awash, being I'm keel
One Of the surprises Of the race was the wav
the fnkeel. with smaller balloon sails. held the
/ centreboard boat when they were running free
I on the second leg, The one had its heavy fn
! TO drag, while the other. of course had it's
board up; yet the latter gained only IS seconds
over this seven-knot run
feature of the race was that of the three
legs none was a beat to windward This was
| due 10 the wind shifting from west to north to
| about three points east of north before the end
| OF the first leg though it shifted back a point
or so before the race was finished
II was planned that the third leg would be a
beat TO windward," but as it happened, the
! windward leg counted on by the judges as a su-
Preme test was really nothing more than
rather fine reach
II was a somewhat quiet crowd during the
nrst half Of the first leg, when the Invader ap-
peared TO have slight lead besides being we'll
TO weather Of the Cadillac but when the boats
came together near the end of this leg and the
CaclHac was just able to cross the Invaders
DoWs, hearty cheers went up on every hand.
5 5ae great crowd OF thousand guests on the
O00urlch inner Indiana went frantic with joy.
The judges were o. E. Cromwell, Of the
Long island Sound Yacht Racing AssOcia tion;
T. n Ambrose, OF the Royal Canadian Yacht
Siub, and Z. p. Warner, of the Chicago Yacht
Gil b.
In the jockeying for position, which is almost
always feature of sailing match Captain
Jarvis was the more artful and succeeded in
getting the Cadillac to leeward and keeping
her there The Invader went over the line with
a email lead over the Cadillac. There was some
sea, but both boats found fairly clean way
InFough IL. Ihe defender was under working
jib and single reefed mainsaf The Invaders
mainsail had a couple of tucks in II and at that
the Canuck hecled until we'll over on its sailing
lines.
The Cadillac weathered the mark at 1l:55:4O.
with lead OF hfty-fve seconds The second
leg was a free run. II was apparent at once
that the defenders spread of light canvas was
considerably greater than the Invaders, also t
was drawing much better and when they fin
ished the leg the leader had gained but little
The breeze had freshened considerable and
the sea increased. The yachts had not sailed far
on the homeward leg before it became apparent
that. barring accident II was all over but the
this leg. which was another rather close reach.
and finally finished a mile ahead of the chaI-
lenger The official time
First buoy. Second buoy Finish
iaTadsf aalae SssS i25a9s i2S!ds iss5S ssS
The Cadlac's elapsed time 2:46.s5 The Invaders
was 2.55IO.
THE INDEPENDENCE Is ALSO EXPECTED
TO ENTER
The announcement made yesterday at the
Larchmont Yacht Club that the Columbia and the
The yachts viii compete for three cups which are
offered by Vice-Commodore Alfred Marshall a
steamship owner and the races will be open 10 all
yachts OK the large class II Is expected that the