The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-27
THE TIME LIMIT EXPIRED
The Wind Diea 'ut and Race
 Declared off.
English Yacht Proved No Match for American Boat in Light Weath- er-Will Be Resailed
 Tomorrow.

New York, Sept. 26.-One of the biggest crowds that ever put to sea went down to the Sandy Hook lightship today to see Sir Thomas Lipte second challenger, Shamrock II, and the te flyer Colum- bia, which successfully Tended the old Americas cup against his first trophy hunter two years ago, struggle for the yachting supremacy of the world in the first of the cup races of 1901. But the ex- cursion fleet returned disappointed. The great single-stickers went out this morn ing fresh for the battle, but the sea refused them a field of conflict. The wind, never more than nine and some times as low as u. se knots, was too Night and shifty to carry the contestants over the thirty mile course in the time allotted by the rules. At the end of five and a half hours the prescribed time, the face was declared off with the American yacht five miles from the finish line. The Englishman was well astern of her.
 Americans will have reason to congratu- late themselves upon the result of the first trial. The Columbia was headed but once in the twenty-five miles covered and then the Englishman showed the way for only five mintes.
 In windward work the Columbia beat the foreigner seven minutes and fifteen se onds to the outer mark and increased her lead somewhat in the broad reach for home. Certainly Columbia's superiority in light airs appears to have been demon strated today. Shamrock II did not, in fact, make as good a showing as did Lip tons first challenger in the half dozen fukes that preceded the actual races two years ago. What Shamrock II may De able to do in heavy weather Is Sf course prElematical, but Columbia has been tri and all her admirers insist that she Is actively heavy weather boat.
 Ths ,g racers had already been lowed circaing and wheeling like great gulls about the lightship. The polished bronze hull of the Shamrock gleaming In fhe sunlight made her look like a yellow white revenue cutters and yachts of the patrol fleet each with the vertically striped revenue flag at the forepeak
 The Course Indicated.
 Shortly before Il o'clock big black kug flying the blue flag of the Regatta Committee puffed though the fleet. meas % Gred of the 200 yards starting line from the lightship, let go her anchor ana then hoisted the signal ID. B. V, indicating that the course would be east by north, wind and return Then another big tug started off straight out the Long Island shore to set the outer mark. The log over her taffrail. which measured .h +,dH tne which was running out so tnat tne @ ols- tance she covered before the noat was dropped overheard measured. oy the seventeen than fifteen nautical miles.
 With the firing of the preparatory slS- nal from the committee boat there ne. gan the jockeying behind the line, of which Charlie Barr the American skip Fer, had proved himself so many times a great master. And the skill he dis hearts of those who saw it. He got into the windward berth and try as the EnRlishman could he could not shake him off As the red ball which marKso ma Mo a,;ns tns skipper in despair put up his tiller, crossed the line and tackled about the Mghtship. but the Columbia hung to him as if one tiller were answering for both and when they again raced for the line 1t was like two thoroughbred horses, neck and neck But Barr was still to the line thirty seconds before the starting gun was fired.
 The two big canvas clouded racers wore around as If turning on on. tne1r ot hee1s as the gun fled away across the line both on the starboard tack. but Columbia half a length in the lead and a length to the main. club topsail, stay, jib and baby jib.
 Columbia Forges Ahead.
 For ten miles down the Long Island shore in plain view of the people there the big single stickers smashed into the cross-trees. cross Strain as Shamrock would she could not hold her white rival even Slowly but surely Columbia forged ahead, pointing higher and footing faster: shan lumbia went about with her each time and appeared to be the more nimble.
 Timed again and again by the experts. she was quicker in. stays by ten sec onds Over 190 feet above the water line, a height equal to a modern ten story building the slender topmast yard of the Shamrock lifted her pyramids of canvas. but her eighty-three square feet more of canvas than the Columbia carried could not make her overtake the white beauty.
 It was directly off Long Reach Hotel that the Shamrock showed in front for the first and only tim4 during the race. But the victory was short-hved. The and Captain Sycamore, in desperation. concluded to press on more canvass by trying a larger jib top sail. While the sailors were out on the bowsprit taking in the old and bending on the larger sails the Columbia went by the Sham rock as if she had been moored to the From that time to the outer mark the Columbia gained steadily. She rounded the turning point seven minutes and four seconds ahead or the SnamrocR. From that time on 1t was a procession, not a race. The wind gradually died down and an hour before the fme limit expired 1t was evident that yachts could not finish in time.
 The official time at the outer K fol- lows: Columbia 3:05:32; Shamf .A B. l2;H.
 Race Declared Of.
 The wind continued so light and with no signs of breeding up that 1t became clear that the race could not be conclu- Bed within the time limit of five and a Aalf hours.
 At 4:4O the regatta committee declared the race of. The Columbia was at this time about five miles distant from Sandy Hook lightship. The Shamrock was a good three-quarters of a mile astern.
 To sum up today's performance of the two yachts 1t may be said that in light weather such as prevailed today the eyhamrock nrovAd t0 he no match for fha