The age-herald., 1901-07-12
COLUMBIA BEATS
 THE CONSTITUTION
Independence Finished a Re-
 markedly Good Third
IT WAS A BEAU TIFUL RACE
While the Constitution and Independ- ence Were Fighting 1t Out the Columbia Saw Her Chance
 and Flew to Windward.

Newport, K. l., July n.-Columbia won today's race in fine shape with the Con- stitution second and the Independence a remarkably good third. The Boston boat sailed an exceedingly good race with the two Hershoff creation and lead the Con- stitution at the outer mark, only to be beaten by her a little over two minutes on the run to the finish before the wind.
 The breeze today was much stronger than on previous days. The result of to- days race leaves the question of su- premacy of the three ninety Hooters un- certain. the Independence being not so slow after all, while the Constitution has yet to prove her unquestioned superiority to the other two yachts in anything ex- cept very light airs. The hopes of the Boston contingent have therefore gone upward with a bound, and tonight the ex- perts are trying to figure what the Inde- pendence will do when 1t blows still a little harder.
 The race itself was very exciting es- pecially when little less than an hour after the start the Independence by keep ing near the Narragansett shore forced
  minutes was the leading boat in the race.
 From that point to the turning buoy the fight between the two yachts was one of the closets contests seen here for many years.
 With the wind about eight miles dead to windward, the two boats battled for the lead. Three times did the Hershon yacht attempt to cross the bow of the Crowninshield boat only to be beaten back and forced about.
 A Hard Fight.
 Captain Half kept the Constitution right under his lee and was able to maintain that commanding through the speed and pointing ability of the boat, even with less sail, the Herreshoff boat carrying a Sis usual, her baby jib topsail. While they battled, however, Captain Barhoff Of the Columbia saw his chance and took advan- tage of this contest between the other two yachts to slip on to windward and he thus reached the mark nearly four minutes ahead.
 Astern of him were the Independence and Constitution, each striving for the buoy, the Boston boat giving blow foI blow and Huff for Huff in every case and finally swinging around Wltn the Cohsti' tution's bowsprit right over her taffrail.
 Two seconds afterwards the Constitu' tion also turned.
 Last Saturday the Consultation beat the Independence nearly an hour to the outei mark On Monday the Herreshoff yacht was forty minutes ahead in the ten mile beat to windward. On the run home botf the Herreshoff boats pulled away from the Independence, but the gain was com paratively small and not alt all discourag ing to the followers of the Boston yacht
 Shrouded in a dense fog, the Columbia swept across the finish line three min. utes and forty-two seconds ahead of tht Constitution and right astern by less thar half a mile sailed the Independence, de- feated, but not humiliated. The three crews cheered each other. the Indepen' dence tars being particularly demonstra' tive.
 The Columbia, on corrected time, beat the Constitution four minutes and thir. ty-seven seconds, and the Independence six minutes and f1ftyltwo seconds, cor rected time.
 The Constitution beat the Independence over the same course two minutes and if teen seconds, corrected time.