The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-12
COLUMBIA 5 GREAT RAGE
SHE WON by NEARLY THREE
MINUTES.
Sailed the Course Two Minutes and
hifty-two Seconds Faster Than the
Shamrock, Elapsed Time.

sew YORK, October S.-In the most
superb contest ever sailed by single
stickers for the America cup the un-
lapproachablo white Yankee sloop Col
umbia vanquishsd in a piping breeze
today over triangular course off
Sandy Hook, Sir Thomas Llpton's chaI-
ienger Shamrock H. The wind, from
the northwest, held true from start to
finish, and at times had a force OF
about eighteen knots. The Shamrock
was beaten over the thirty-mile course
by two minutes and fifty two seconds,
actual time, and three minutes and
thrty-hve seconds, corrected time. IL
was the swftest sailing on record by
sloops or cutters i'm cup race on the
first ten-mile leg Of the tussle, with the
wind a few points abaft the port beam,
or when the yachts were sailing free
and readily able TO lay their course,
the Columbia beat the Shamrock by
Iwenty-seconds.
The tow-out of the racers from their
anchorage to the starting line was de-
VOID Of interest. There was no heavy
swell TO cause the shippers anxiety
hbyAA tItI DobSAhSS. mus IL WAS Indt
me Shamrock set the largest of her
club tOpsails and, nothing daunted, the
Columbia followed suit. When the pre-
paratOry gun was fired it was clearly
evident that the Columbia cared little
for the start, which was made to lee
ward on a close reach, the Triangular
course Offering no benefit to the craft
urst away. There was no true battle
for position.
AT 1890 o'clock, both yachts in tow
under bare poles headed up in the wind
ana hoisted their mainsais. Their
headsails We're already in stops The
shamrock was first TO cast loose from
her tug and a moment later her head
sails were broken out from their stops
and she made a clean run for the light
snip. The Columbia, which had been
nugging the easterly end of the line,
eased off sheets and stood for the mark.
signals We're hoisted from the commit
Tee boat that the course would be trian-
gular, which meant that there would be
Two close reaches and one dead beat 30
HindWard for home.
The yachts heeled to q scupper breeze
when the preparatory gun was fired at
lO:45 o'clock. The Columbia far TO the
eastward stood down before the wind
for the line, meanwhile the Shamrock
was circling around the lightship. Be
lOre the warning gun was hred, ten
minutes after the preparatory signal,
Columbia was ahead. and, not wanting
20 cross the line too early, lulfed up
with her headsai shaking until she al
most stood still. This put the Sham
rock i'm the better position, and, wear
lnr close around, she crossed the line
almost at the gun, while the Columbia
elected to cross considerably more than
one minute behind. Many experts
thought the Columbia would be handi-
capped, but Barr was on the alert and
sent her across the line in time to save
himself.
with the wind forward on the port
beam and with a tiny jib topsail set
on the Shamrock and a much larger
and better pulling sail on the Columbia,
the boats started out on the first leg
Of the triangle. During the first few
minutes It was impossible to say
whether the Columbia was gaining or
not. In the gusts of wind she seemed
to heel over less than the challenger
and also appeared to steer a slightly
higher course. The wind, though head
ing true from north-northwest, varied
in viD.auce. Occasionally a heavy
squat would strike one of the racers,
causin her to heel, but. taking the
mean cf the puffs neither could be
said 10 have been favored. 1t soon be-
came pparent that the race was to be
sailed in very quick time The gain
of The Columbia, which the turn OF
the first mark proved she had made,
was almost imperceptible. Toward the
mark the wind had changed. The Co
lumbia. with lesser sab spread, SEEM
ed TO stand sitter than her rival; but
! there was little to choose between
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