The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-29
EW YORK. Sept. 28.--In the closest
and most soul-stirriug race ever

and most sOul-stirriDg race ever
sailed for the Americas cup, the
white flyer Columbia today beat the
British challenger over a windward
and ieeward course of thirty nautical
miles. By the narrow Notwithstanding
margin Of thirty-seven seconds. As
Lipton's latest aspirant for cup honors
must allow the defender forty-tnree
seconds on account of the extra $50
square feet CT canvass in her sail area.
the official record under the rules gives
her the victory by one minute and
twenty-five seconds.
As n spectacle the contest was .si1ne,.b
From the time the two slxv-scra Ding
racers crossed che starting line until
they fed across the finish line four and
a half hours later. the result was in
doubt and the excitement aboard the
excursion fleet increased until men be-
came frenzied and women almost hys-
terical.
So evenly matched were these two
sclentinc racing machines that never
after they started We're the rival skip
pers out Of each others hail and more
than three-Guarters Of the time they
were so close that Charlie Barr. who
had the tilier aboard the Columbia
could have tossed a biscuit to Captain
Sycamore on the Shamrock For miles
as they beat their way 20 the outer
mark the black shadow of ShamrocLlts
huge club toDSail was painted or the
viz hldlllSdAll OF the Columbia and for
an hour on the run home with TIA
yachts hyl2R like scared deer before
the wind, they ran almost beam 10
Deam. as If they had been harnessed
together
The memory Of the races between tr,.
~e~arfsta aud tie Puritan in 1885 and
1spiE iunravens first Nalkyrie and the
igilant ~ 1893. which have- been treas.
ured by yachtsmen M to this time.
VIII be forgotten after lre MAGNIFICENT
Vvf
the memory of those who witnessed it.
In the years to come yachts7len of two
nations will recount the thrilling story
Of the celebrated first race between the
Columbia and the Shamrock II sailed
on New York harbOr in the first year of
the new century.
Shamrock Stock Rises.
AS a result of today's race. though
1aith IN the Columbia still remains in
the hearts of the patriots. all the ex-
perts admit that the British boat is
the ablest sloOp ever sent to these
waters 70 lift the 100 guinea cup. which
the Old schooner America brought
across the Atlantic fifty years ago and
the superiority of American seaman
snip and American naval architecture
as represented by the defender remains
TO be established.
The quality of a sailing snip is meas
ured by her ability to carve her way
INTO an adverse wind. and in the IF
the golden challenger gained thirty
nine seconds. while on the run Eone
her lead was eaten GD and the Column
oia rlSsed the finish iine exactly thir-
y-seVen seconds before Shamrock. 1t
must be remembered, however that
the Challenger had the weather guage
IN the beat to windWar1. no mean I'D
vantage. and the nautical experts said
after the race that during the outward
journey she had been sailed to absO-
lutte perfection, while before the wind
the American yacht not only showed
neeter pair Of heels but in the open
OF the sharDs. was better handled
Disappointed by the f1uke of Thurs
day the crowd which sailed down to
sandy Hook lghtship today was some
Wha& smaller than on the Cpenfnar dav.
nut even so. the colony of steamers.
steam yachts. tugboatS. sailing vessels
and excursion craft OF every descrip-
ton formed an angle at the starting
line miles long.
Was an Ideal Day.
It was an ideal day for the race
9he curtain of haze which had hung
over bay and shove in the early mcrr-
ing mad lifted, making the whole course
NlSlDle 20 the thousands along the Long
island coast. The sun blazed from a
speckiesS vault OF bite and the fresh
Dreeze, blowing straight in from the
&uanuc was strong enough to spfIf the
roam out OF the green sweIls and hurry
- sAbbpuS OF smoke SnOTeEwq RI
from the stacks of the excursion fisot
me old salts who shifted the air said
the WIND was the draught from, .ba
hiE HtoIih Which was reported 10 he
raging on the South Atlantic coast
Inc Dig single stickers behind rro1I51,,
puHnE tugs had preceded the e,sc,1rsioI,
meet 10 the stake boat and had bofsted
their largest light weather sails Cir
Thomas Lipton's private signal .
green shamrock in a yellow field Goet-
ed from the main truck of the f,rftist,
boat. and Mr.. MCrgaE's colors a NTal-
tese cross in a field Of black futtered
from the after leach of the CoIuu1bfa-e
sail Watson. the designer of the chal-
leHger. and Itatsey. who is reputed "a
be the hest sailmaker in the world
were aboard the gold boat Az the
yachts passed out from behind the
Hook, half d dozen ocean liners. inward
bound, saluted them with ensigns and
Whistles.
Again today the course. east by
south. carried the yachts along the
Long Island shore. straight out 10 sea
The start was thrilling The yachts
bounded away across the line like a
couple ot runaway horses. the chal-
lenger half a length ahead ana L
windward
Briton Outmaneuvrss Yankee.
In the n1aneuvering before the star
Captain Sycamore had given the yvily
yankee skipper a genuine surprise re-
turning a Roland for the oliver he re.
ceived on THURSDAY Just when Bar
thought he had him under his lee the
Engiishmnn deadened ms headwas
and then iufied under the Columbia =.
stern into the weather berth. Thi.
victory for Shamrock at the very frs
II the race, the Columbia could no