Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-27
and COLUMBIA
FAILED TO MAKE A RACE.
-r,SD roo LIGHT TO DRIVE THEM
axtR THE COURSE ~ THE
PRESCRIBED TINE.
CAUSE FOR ENCOURAGEMENT
rot Nd ~ THE CONTEST BY THE
ARTISANS OF THE AMERI
CAN DEFENDER.


Int down to the Sandy Hook
-#!p to-day to witness Sir Thomas
second challenger, Shamrock
and the white flyer Columbia,
successfully defended the old
a as cup against his first trophy
esa-er two years ago, struggle for the
=H4g supremacy of the world in the
d. the cup races OF 1901.
81 The excursion fleet returned dis
lH.1Hted. The great single stiekers
F,af oat this morning fresh for the
se. but the sea refused them field
Of 5ahiet.
Fae wind, never more than nine, and
.5metimes as low as three knots, was
80 light and shlfty to carry the con-
sfaHts over the thirty mile course in
ss time allotted by the rules.
II The end of five and a half hours,
tte prescribed time, the race was Off
a.iy declared off and the yachts were
lowed back to their berths inside Sandy
Hook
hen the gun aboard the committee
boat was fired TO call attention to the
aa! declaring the race off, the Amer
n yacht was still seven miles from
finish line The Englishman was
If down astern of her, the experts
matinv her distance behind the Co
a5Ia at over three-quarters of a
me.
americans will have reason
TO CONGRATULATE Themselves
non the result of the first trial. The
rsb hit wnicn carried the Morgan pri-
f.tp signal. black pennant with a yell
low maltese cross, to victory two years
a-o. was headed but once in the 70
miles covered, and then the English
man showed the way for only five min
ltes.
In windvard work the Columbia beat
Tie foreigner seven minutes and fifteen
seconds to the outer mark and increas-
T. her lead somewhat in the broad
reach for home. While the test vas
satisfactory, the yachting sharps
10 have been skeptical up to this
me as to the ability OF the Columbia
successfully defend the cup are more
6deat tonight that it will remain
y this SIDE of the Atlantic yet a While
niger. Certainly Columbia's superior
t. in light airs appears to have been
& monstrated to-day Shamrock II did
not in fact make as good a showing as
I'D Lipton's first challenger in the half
zen fukes that preceded the actual
aces two years ago What Shamrock
a8y be able to do in heavy weather Is
course problematical but Columbia
been tried and all her admirers in
t that she is dstinctively a heavy
Weather boat
TWO years ago Sir Thomas's prayers
WIS for wind but when he got smash
% knot bale in the last race CO.
mbas victory was even more decis-
.lf taan in the first. Since then Co
uba's ability in heavy weather has
been proven again and again.
The Harder it Blows the Faster She
Goes
and the better she behaves. 1t is not
range therefore that the patriotic
s ppers and spectators who went down
TO sandy Hook this morning with mis-
E.ngs, returned tonight treasured
and strongly disposed to wager that the
feetty wreath of Shamrock and white
heather from the oldest yacht club in
tie world, which Sir Thomas is treas
ng in the cabin of his champion, will
frove no mascot after all
ne day had promised we'll at first
a strong northeast wind had been blow
for two days and the weather pro-
paets had offered assurance that il
would hold.
IL had piled up what sailormc1 called
nasty Jump of sea outside and before
-a race began was whipping the foam
I'll the crests of the waves. A heavy
4t1e which hung over the bay mad
own away, the bright sunlight gid
he erink.ing water into glory.
be procession that sailed out OF
York harbor, anticipated a fine
GAYS sport, So numerous were tbs
various kinds of craft that they seemed
'' TN the broad expanse of ocean be-
wren the Long Island and Jersey
sores as with countless feet. Mag
aeent and palatial steam yachts
Amers and excursion boats filled tiei
love tier with peopIe, snub-nosed
KS, picnic barges and skiing craft
slthered about the o1o yellow hull
ch for years has
furnished n Guide for Shipping
ana in front of which the start was tc
be made.
Inc big racers had already been tow.
"a out and when the feet arrived they
"'re circling and wheeling like great
s1iIs about the lightshIp. The polish
all yI Ill