The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-02

seconds after the starting gun, Wnlcn
was fired at the dot of IL, she crossed
the line on the starboard tack ahead
and well to windward. The Shamrock
luffed over the line a few seconds be-
fore the gun was fired and was recalled
by the judges boat and had put back.
The official time of the start was;
Columbia 11:00:10
Shamrock 11:00:22.
Luck was with the American boat at
first for fortunate catspaw struck her
and enabled her to head up couple of
points higher than her opponent. This
gave her commanding lead, the Sham
rock meanwhile scarcely moving
through the water and appearing to be
dull and loggy
The Shamrock went on the port tack
Is minutes after the start, the Column
bia. following Immediately. Once again
the American boat showed her supe-
rior smartness in stays, coming about
much quicker than her rival and gath
ering was as soon as her head sheets
were trimmed down. At 11.30 both the
yachts were pretty near becalmed, the
Columbia having a lead of about a
quarter Of q mile. At 11.35 the Sham
rock went on the starboard tack the
Columbia following and then lucky
streak filed the Shamrock's sails and
gave her an appreciable lift.
At noon both yachts were on the port
tack almost becalmed. The club top
sails and lib topsails were the only
sails that pulled out responsive to the
stray streaks of air. The big main
sails tapped as the yachts rose and fell
| in the long easterly roll and the huff of
the headsails auivered The result was
that the yachts barely had steerage
way.
| Then the unexpected happened
| Waited along at fine clip by stray
puff the Shamrock, overhauled the Co
I! lunabia and at LIS she was so close thai
Captain Barr bore down on her in or.
der to Kill her wind as he had so offer
| killed the wind of the Constitution
The shamrock went on the port tacl
Immediately followed by Columbia ant
In another minute the Britisher wal
ahead and to windward. The wind nov
became more southerly Both yacht!
set reaching jib topsails and eased of
sheets, steering direct course for the
mark.
! Then the Shamrock forged ahead
! and got into the doldrums, while the
! Columbia got a slant of wind, and at
| IS passed the Shamrock. Then 1T
was Shamrock's turn to get the benefit
of a breeze, and she came along and
planted herself on the Columbia
weather quarter. crawling up on her
until at 0S they were neck and neck
with the British boat to windward,
blanketing her opponent. To escape
from this blanket Capt. Barr sent the
Columbia on the port tack at PIP, but
luck was against her and she lost
every breath of the tickle wind as we'll
as steerage way. and it was fully two
minutes before she got away and filled
on the starboard tack again, and by
that time the Shamrock was too far
ahead to be overtaken.
The first mark was then close at
hand and the yachts tackled around 1t
as follows:
Shamrock, 2.41:36.
Columbia, 244::44.
The Shamrock had beaten the de-
fender 8 minutes and 20 seconds in the
frs. 10 miles, and try as the Columbia
would, she was unable TO lessen the
wide gap that separated her from her
antagonist She held her huff, hunt
ing for wind, but failing to find 1t
dropped slowly astern until the gun
from the committee boat brought the
contest to an end, with nearly half a
mile cf blue water between her and
the golden boat of Upton.