Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1901-10-10
COLUMBIA WINS CUP
SHAMROCK N CROSSES FINISH
LINE TWO SECONDS AHEAD.

LINE WV OESONDS AHEE-Ds
American Boat Saves the Race in Beat
to Windward on Its Time Allow
ance-Shamrock Turns Outer Mark
With One Minute in Lead.
New York, Oct. with victory
flags flowing from her towering mast
heads and the ends of her spreaders
in honor of her concluding triumph in
the cup races of 1901, the gallant sloop
Columbia returned to her anchorage
last night under the escort OF the en-
tire excursion fleet. She yesterday
completed her defense of the honored
trophy in another stirring race with
the Shamrock II over leeward and
windward race of 80 miles, crossing
the finish line two seconds behind her
antagonist, but winning on the time
allowance conceded by Lipton's boat
by A seconds.
For the second time she has now
successfully foiled the attempt of the
Irish knight to wrest from our posses
sion the cup that means the yachting
supremacy of the world. And plucky
Sir Thomas Upton, standing on the
bridge OF the Erin, led his guests In
three hearty huzzahs for the success
full defender.
''She is the better boat" he said
and she deserves to be cheered."
Closest Race Ever Sailed.
The series of races just closed will
always be memorable as the closest
ever sailed for the cup and Sir Thorn
as, although defeated, will go home
with the satisfaction of knowing that
his golden yacht is the ablest foreign
boat that ever crossed the western
ocean.
During both series of races not an
untoward incident has occurred and
Sir Thomas will return to England far
the most popular of all the foreigners
who have challenged for the Americas S
trophy.
Yesterdays race, on paper, was the
closest of the series, but because of
the tlukiness of the wind on the beat
home, as contest of the relative mer-
it's of the yachts, it is not to be com
pared with the magnificent, truly run
and royalty fought battles of Saturday
and Thursday. The conditions of the
race at the start were very similar to
those of Thursday. The wind was
strong and from the shore, embroider-
ing the sea with foam and piling up
no swell-ideal conditions for the cha.-
lenger.
The racers were sent away before
the wind, each carrying penalty for
crossing the line after the handicap
gun. No official record is kept of the
time after that gun is fired, but the
experts with stop watches estimated
Columbia's handicap at Is seconds and
Shamrock's at 80 seconds. The con-
test of the yachts fleeing before the
following wind was picturesque. but
not exciting. The big racers, like
gulls with outstretched pinions, had
every inch of canvas spread. Their
crews were gathered aft to keep
the heads of the boats up and there
after until the outer mark was reached,
it was merely question of holding
wind do the rest.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Columbia beat the Shamrock befor
the wind last Saturday the challenger
yesterday gained slowly, but steadily,
all the way out and rounded 40 seconds
before the defender, having actually
gained one minute and four seconds.
plpHjaTc1v of II
their noses into the wind for the beat
home the breeze moderated and turned
tiulEy. The shippers split tacks, each
searching for wind, with the result
that first one would get lift and then
the other. At one time Columbia
seemed mile ahead, when a sudden
cant of the wind allowed the Sham
mile from home the challenger ap-
peared to be leading by fully half
mile. The talent began to feel nervous,
but as the yachts approached the fin
ish the Yankee skipper by some mirac-
ulous legerdemain showed his boat
into the light air, like a phantom ship
and 100 yards from home the two rae.
was pretty sight and one seldom
witnessed, when they crossed rail to
rail, the white yachts bowsprit just
tapping the golden boats stern. The
usual pandemonium that attends the
final Yankee victory in a cup contest
followed. Whistles, sirens, bells,
bands and cheers united in a grand
chorus of jubilation. In turn tre
crowded steamers ran alongside the
Shamrock and Erin and the van.
quished received almost as much honor
as the victor, and thus with felicita-
tions all around the 18th series of
races for the old cup which the schoop
er America brought over so years ago
ended with the best of feeling.
Costly Blaze at Pittsburq.
Pittsburg, Oct. Fire in the Pitts.
burg Clay Pot works, in Allegheny
damaged the plant to the extent of
$2S0,OO0. injured six men and en-.