New-York tribune., 1901-07-23
CONSTITUTION WINS RACE.
Continued from First Page.

nailed at o:2J. when r. P CarroIrs big 90-foot
yawl the Navahoe. crossed at 2:26Ot. Henry
Redmond's imported Ailsa, of the same yawl
class following three seconds later. Then came,
at 2:2U11, the 1O-foot cutter Athene, owned
by W. o. Gay of Boston Although built by
IIerreshoff before he turned last years fleet
of seventies the Athene had never before raced
against the vessels of the one design IO-footer
class and there good deal of interest at
taching to the meet of the Athene with Cor
Helius Vanderbilts Rainbow. The Rainbow
came next at 2:26:39. Then came Mr. Dodge's
newly imported Eelin. and the 51-footer Car
mita, formerly owned by w. X. Vanderbilt jr,
and Anson Phelps Stokes's Mermaid and the old
cutter Bedouin.
After the handicap gun came the Maxwell
Humma and c. l.. F. f>obinson's Hester, and the
Affair. ownei by Cord Meyer This gun being
also the starting signal for the schooners the
Quisserta led the class, steered by II. l. Lippett
her official time being 2:32:2S. after which came
the schooner Katrina and the handicapped cut
ter Isolde followed by the schooner Murlel at
2:1} 81
The schooner Elmina gybed at the line. and
crossed at 2:34 A, her skipper, Dennis. wishing
to take most of the timed start on the watch
The handicap for schooners then sounded, and
the Ar9oIita passed a1terWaTd as dlo dlSo @ Ille
old and historic schooner Columbia, which was
better known in Cup defence circles of 1871,
just thirty years ago than she is now. Among
the also rams was the schooner America, the
vessel that made all the trouble; the schooner
Marguerite now painted black. and also a
schooner supposed to be the Wayward. Here
also passed the Herreshon effort. a long way
behind her class
While waiting for their start the Constitution
and Columbia made wide detour away TO the
northwest and then came sweeping down TO
the line at a great speed. the Columbia ahead
She hove up to the windward end of the line
and then lowered her spinnaker boom to star
board and broke out as she crossed at 24A:''s
The Constitution purposeiy delayed to get more
time the official watch and up inside the
line to the end of 1t before she timed at
46:35. 1t noticed that Captain Rhodes
was lowering his spinnaker boom, and he gybed
on the line and set his big wing 10 port This
suggested at once that the skipper who had
started with his mainboom the wrong side
would have 10 pay costs for his error. But II
not easy at first to ascertain which was in
the right The wind was about southwest by
west, that the compass course for the first
mark seemed about dead before it one cutter
had already winged herself with a spinnaker to
port and others now doing the same. All
those who did SO. including the sChooners Quis-
setta, Elnlina and Amorita, were hauling out a
good deal to the nOrthward of their course, and
there a wide lane Of water between
the fleets which agreed with Barr and those
which agreed with Rhodes. Some minutes after
the start it carefully counted that nine
racers had their big triangles TO port. and
fOrty-One racers and cruisers had their main
boom TO port. Barr's opinion was therefore in
dorsed by more than four times as many skip
pers that Of Rhodes. But that did not do
Barr any good. AS the boats drew away from
the land on the south side the wind direction
became pronounced and II plain to
every that the Constitution had the best Of
ii Her sails sat at rap fuIl all the time
Those on the Columbia. while not falling in
were getting the wind obllquely, and a little
the mainboom side of the wing and wing, and
-
At $50 the Columbia sybed her boom to star
board and set her spinnaker 10 port, while the
rortherly fleet which now heading back
toward It's course for the mark. were gybing
their mainhoons 10 port and setting the tri-
angles to starboard.
The VIgiant was here seen with her headsails
down she gybed her mainboom 10 starboard,
and at 325 the Constitution passed the yawls
Ailsa and Nigilant. At 34I the order was thus:
The NaVahoe. the Constitution. the Nigilant
the Rainbow the Ailsa the Columbia and the
Columbia here
gaining but the Constitution the
mark She took In her balloon lib at 3:4S. 20
and three minutes later passed the Navahoe
then dropping the splnnaker 10 take the mark.
She officially timed at 40O.52 the Co
difference between them OF 3 minutes so sec
oEds. Some fine Yachting views were had
all the leaders turned As unoficially timed.
the Navahoe rounded well at 1880, the Rain
| bow at i0iyo. the Nigilant at 4Hi:n The
Columbia cut into the small space between the
Ngiant and the mark The boats were un-
officially timed together az 4Ol:3O the two
Gtting exactly as they Tapped in the turn.
Then came the Asa. about 10000 The Co
lumbia went over with the Nigilant TO the
starhoard tack for the first time Of the five mile
heat 10 the second mark, and the way the 1899
defender Columbia looked up "A point higher
and sailed out from the Elgllants $ lee was
caution TO snakes. The Athene was here timed
at 40I.3o minutes 30 seconds behind the
Rainbow.
Among the schooners the Muriel was timed
INST and received hor defeat at about the same
moment The Quisctta and the Muriel were both
mis- swung the mark he Of the very
few who took the mark properly. He made his
curve at the right place and swung in between
the mark takinE IL by the wind and both the
other two, which were Tapped over each
other in just the right position FOR a double
slaughter Practically the of the Quissetta
and the Muriel ended at this point. The Ell
nina went out windjamming soon she
rounded, with her sheets fiat aft.
AS she rounded II noticed that
the Hester ran up protest flag, though the
cause OF ii not understood. The Navahoe
was here sailing great race. She up near
the Columbia and well ahead of the Ailsa and
the Vigilant She crossed the Rainbow's bows
well ahead. at 4;23
They were here officially timed: The Consttu-
ton. 4:4T:3O: the Columbia. d 90 difference
Of 3 minutes and 50 seconds.
Thence 10 the finish line the boats travelled on
a broad reach. the elapsed time Of the Constitu-
tion being 26 minutes and 20 seconds while
that Of the Columbia 26 minutes and 26 sec
onds. showing gain for the Constitution of
six seconds in the last leg. The finish times of
these two were: The Constitution J12:5O the
Columbia, 5:11:31
Mr. Duncan was asked for remeasurement
OF the Constitution. the bowsprit is
longer than the former one and increases the
base line
SHAMROCK'S SAILING POSTPONED.