The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-28
SHAMROCK'S FINE SHOWING
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 the American boat that beats her may
 well inspire pride in your people, A notable feature of the day was the constant saluting which the challenger received from ocean steamers down to the smallest of launches.
 Slipping her mooring and casting to starboard, the Shamrock, with Captain Edward Sycamore at her long tiller left Sandy Hook Bay at 11:11 in the morn ing. Wearing ship, the skipper brought
 her up close to the wind on the star
 board tack to round the point of Sandy
 Hook. Sails were trimmed down fiat
 to the fresh breeze, which was from
 about east-southeast and about ten
 knots strength. As soon as she passed
 out by the Hook she began to feel the | influence of the easterly swells. She
 took them nicely, making very little fuss and pointing wonderfully high.
 They never spared her, but gave her a good full it being the intention, as Sir
 Thomas said afterwards, to thoroughly test her spars and sails.
 | Off the bell buoy the baby jibtopsail
  was taken in. The yacht began at once 1 to point better and it was found that even in choppy seas the yacht was working within eight points from full to full-some of the watchers said in seven and half points.
 At 11:31 the yacht had reached the north end of Gedney's, where she tack ed to port The breeze had freshened considerably now, and some lively work was necessary in the short tacks across the channel She made six in all and few of them lasted more than two min utes. At 11:43 she fetched out by the last buoy just as the big liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, bound out, saluted with her deep whistle. Her captain slowed down and allowed the Shamrock to cross her bow, while the passengers crowded to the rail to get glimpse of the handsome green yacht.
 At 12 o'clock the Shamrock went about to starboard. Four minutes lat CT sheets were eased for the run in, and the way she ran for Sandy Hook rather astonished those who were try ing to follow her. At the outer edge of Gedney's she gybed to starboard and stood over for the channel. By p. m. she had reached the Southwest Spirit buoy, and then, instead of hauling up for her mooring, as expected, she start ed for Staten Island on the starboard tack, with the wind about point for ward of the beam.
 There was a strong ebb tide, about three knots, it was said, but the chal- lenger stemmed it easily in the strong breeze and kept the Erin going thir- teen knots to keep up with her. The wind frightened bit as the yacht pass ed through the Narrows and on to q | point off Owls Head where she round- | ed to at ? D. m.
 Coming to the port tack, close hauled, | she now began the windward work, | back to Sandy Hook. It took six tacks to bring her out through the Narrows and close up to Coney Island Point. From there she was able to point so high that she skinned by all the West Bank buoys and fetched the Southwest Spirit without another tack. Then low ering her big club topsail and mainsail she picked up her moorings and made fast to the buoy.
 The Shamrock covered the nine miles from the Southwest Spirit to Owls Head nine minutes. The run back, over the ,ame course, including six tacks was lone in fifty-seven minutes.