The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-13

beat in two minutes and thirteen sec.
 onds better than the Columbia ant
 forty-seven seconds better than the | Constitution, while the new boat GOV
 cred it nj one minute and twenty six
 seconds faster than the Columbia.
 Both the Herreshoff yachts overstood
 their mark in their anxiety not to be
 luffed out, and came down on it, on the
 run with sheets well started. After
 rounding, the wind being little for
 ward of the beam not one jibtopsails
 was set by the Columbia and Consti-
 tuition and with a smother of foam un-
 der their bows the two headed straight
 for the finish. The poor crippled Inde-
 pendence had no topmast to carry any
 kind of jibtopsail yet she swung | jauntily round as if she did not need | the flimsy stuff and began the last leg
 of the long stern chase. It was not to | be supposed that the Boston boat would hold the two f1iers but she did not drop astern very fast, losing to the Columbia just twenty-eigh seconds in every mile, with two less sails After her excellent work on the, first | leg. the Columbia had no difficulty in holding her lead over the Constitution and on the run to the finish managed to gain fifty seconds on the new boat. The 1899 champion sailed the last ten miles in one second over forty-fou minutes, speed of 137 miles per hour. Hhe Constitutions speed was 13.5 miles per hour, while the Independence with three lower sails made it at a rate of 12.4 miles per hour.
 The Columbia fairly tore across the finish line at a few minutes after 2 o'clock, having made the thirty miles in two minutes less than three hours. The Constitution followed her one min Ute and forty-four seconds later, while the Independence was less than ten minutes astern of the Constitution
 Unfortunately there were few boats off Brentons Reef to salute the vic- torious Columbia, for if ever yacht deserved cheering it was the 1899 cham pion.
 It was a gallant race, gallantly sail ed, and in fresh breeze, the Columbia is a tip top craft.
 Among the regatta committee of to- days race there was the highest praise for the plucky performance of the Bos- ton boat in keeping on after the seri- our accident. When the Independence came up into the harbor after the race it was found that no one had been hurt by the accident. When asked how much time the accident cost the Inde- pendence, Captain Half said that 1t was certainly more than the margin by which she was beaten by the winning boat. The big clubtopsail was hanging and dragging in the water at least twenty minutes. And then for very nearly six minutes the Independence lay to in order to get clear of the rig ging. All this less of time, added to 1 the handicap caused by the absence of | the big topsail during nearly the entire l race, was more than enough to prevent | the Independence from winning. This | is the judgment of all on board The | upper sDreader on the port side was bent nearly double when the topmast was carried away.
 Captain Half said there was no ex- | citement on board when the accident There is another topmast on board the tender. but no one on board the Independence could say whether she would repair here or not
 There was complete feeling of sat