Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-29
american Boat Wins One of the
Closest and Most Exciting Con-
tests In the History Of Americas
Cup Races.

.--p- WORK. September 2S.-In the
and most soul-stirring ra
..fed for the old Americas cup,
.ra flyer. Columbia to-day beat
.r.sh challenger over a wlndward
ward course of thirty nautical
bv the narrow heartbreaking
I'm Of 80 seconds. AS Upton
-.-. aspirant for cup nonors must
low the defender 43 seconds on ac-
III Of the extra 1913 square feet of
.r las in her sail area, the official rec
toy by one minute and % seconds.
AS a spectacle the contest was SUI
ysb From the time the two sky
sraring racers crossed the starting
rr. until they crossed the finish line
- and a half hours later the result
Was a doubt and the excitement
u-t men became frenzied and women
s~st hysterical.
- evenly matched were these two
tic racing machines that never
an they started were the rivel skip
out of ecn others hail, and more
tan three-quarters of the time were
lose that Charlie Barr, who had
iller aboard the American, could
s'. tossed a biscuit to Captain Syca-
ae on the Shamrock. For miles as
beat their way to the outer mark,
black shadow of Shamrock's huge
Cga topsail was painted on the big
nsail of the Columbia, and for an
hour in the run home. with the yachts
Flying Like Scared Deer
tfore the wind, they ran almost beam
70 liam as If they had been harnessed
togcther.
The memory of the races between the
Genesta and the Puritan, in 1885, and
Lord Dunravens first Valkyrie and the
N.gilant, in 1893, which have been
treas lred by yachtsmen up to this time,
will be forgotten after the magnificent
duel of to-day. 1t will live forever in
the memory of those who witnessed it.
In the years to come yachtsmen of two
nations will recount the thrilling story
OF the celebrated first race between the
Columbia and the Shamrock H., sailed
y New York in the first year of the
q. century.
a result of to-day's race, though
faith in the Columbia still remains in
tire hearts of the patriots, all the ex-
perts admit that the British boat is
Tile ablest sloop ever sent to these
waters to lift the 100 guinea cup which
the old schooner America brought
across the Atlantic fifty years ago, and
that the superiority of American sea-
manship, and American naval archl-
lecture, as represented by the defender
Remain to be Established.
The quality of sailing ship is meas
ured by her ability to carve her way
into an adverse wind, and in the If
zen mile thresh to windward to-day
the golden challenger gained 80 sec
onds, while on the run home, her lead
was eaten up and the Columbia crossed
the finish line exactly 81 seconds before
the Shamrock 1t must be remember
CO. however, that the challenger had
the weather gauge in the beat to wind
ward no mean advantage, and the
nautical experts said after the race
that during the outward journey sh'
had been sailed to absolute perfection,
WHO before the wind, the American
yacht only showed a fleeter pair of
heels, but in the opinion of the sharps
was better handled.
Disappointed by the fluke OF Thurs
day the crowd which sailed down to
Sandy Hook lightship to-day was some
what smaller than on the opening day,
but even so, the colony of steamers,
steam yachts, tug boats, sailing YES
seis, and excursion craft of every de-
scr'Dtion, formed an angle at the start
Ing line miles long.
Il was an ideal day fo- race. The
curtain of haze which had hung over
the bay and shore in the early morn
Ing had lifted, making the whole course
visible to the thousands along the Long
Island coast. The sun blazed from
speckless vault of blue and the fresh
breeze, blowing
Straight in From the Atlantic
was strong enough to spill the foam
out Of the green swells and hurry long
PACK ribbons of smoke shoreward
lIQm the stacks of the excursion fleet
IAe Old salts who shifted the air, said
vas the draught from the big storm
% vac lCpOi leu W NC ld6lhS oi NV
south Atlantic coast.
The big single stickers behind proud
Hpiting tugs had preceded the excur-
ZION fleet to the stake boat and had
ho.5ted their largest light weather
sans Sir Thomas Lipton's private
s,-aaI a green shamrock in yellow
few from the main truck of the
DIT boat, and Mr.. Morgan's colors,
maltese cross in field Of black, fiut-
from the after leach of Column
oa mainsail. Watson, the designer
VI me challenger, and Ratsey, who is
'p'sed to be the best sail maker in
Lla on, were aboard the golden boat
=, 1he yachts passed out from behind
ne ! ook, half dozen ocean liners In
war ma5a bound saluted them with ensign
and whistle.
- men the two yachts were towed out
" sandy Hook lightship there was
l, Fine Sailing Breeze
ewing nine knots from little south