The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-04

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-In a glorious
whole-sail breeze which heeled the big
cup contestants down until their lee rails
were awash in the foaming seas, Heres
hoff's white wonder, the Columbia, today
beat Watson's British creation over a
triangular course of thirty miles by two
minutes and fifty-two seconds, actual
time. With the forty-three seconds which
the Irish sloop must allow the American
boat on account of her larger sail plan,
the Columbia won the second race of the
series by three minutes thirty-five sec
onds. The fastest race ever sailed in a
cup contest, it was not only a royal
struggle from spectacular point of
view, but it was absolutely decisive as
to the merits of the two racing machines.
There is not a yachting sharp who wit
messed the race today who is not firmly
convinced that the defender is the abler
boat. blow high or blow low, beating,
reaching or running, and that Sir Thomas
and his merry British tars are doomed
to return home empty-handed.
Again the ancient piece of silverware
brought across the Western ocean fifty
years ago is safe. Again American su-
premacy in marine architecture has been
indicated,
JUST WHAT HE, WANTED.
Sir Thomas has been wishing for a
breeze that would bury Shamrock's lee
rail, and today he had it, just as he had
a similar breeze in the concluding race
two years ago, when Columbia, in a
driving finish, beat the first Shamrock
over six minutes.
The wind today was strong and true,
blowing around eighteen knots out of
the northwest, and at every point of sail
ing, except perhaps running before the
wind, in which the defender has already
take the measure of the challenger, the
Yankee Sloop proved herself abler than
the Watson model. From the time she
crossed the starting line, one minute
and thirty-four seconds behind the mug
hunter, until she picked up and passed
the Irish boat three miles after rounding
the second mark, Columbia's pace was
faster and she behaved better than her
rival.
Reaching for the first mark ten miles
down the Long island shore, with the
wind abaft the beam, she gained twenty
two seconds. In the close reach for the
second stake she gained thirty seconds,
and in the thresh to windward on the leg
home she gained exactly two minutes.
Not perhaps as thrilling as the remark
able contest of last Saturday, todays
race was nevertheless stirring from
start to finish and as marine spectacle
it could hardly have been surpassed. 1t
was an ideal October day at sea. There
was just enough froStiness to clear The
atmosphere and make the whole course
visible from ashore. The breeze from
the land piled up little swell, but it
was strong enough to whip the froth out
of the racing waves until it whitened
the face of the sea. It's claws caught
the black smoke from the stacks of the
excursion fleet, and the white steam from
their exhaust pipes and tore them into
fragments. The ensigns and flags with
which the vessels were dressed stood
out like painted boards.
LEE RAILS AWASH
The tall canvas-clouded racers heeled
as the wind smote them until their crew
could with difficulty keep their footing
on the slippery, sloping decks and the
squirting spray was tossed thirty feet
high as they shook their lean noses free
of the foaming crests. On the thresh to
windward their decks were a smother of
white and fountains of foam circled away
from their graceful bows.
The Yankee victory began with the
start when the crafty Barr by system