The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-21

preparatory signal at 10:45 the two rac- CTS were crossing tie line for little
 brush out to the windward of it. but as
 the warning signal was fired at 10:55
 they whirled about and ran back to-
 ward the line. Shamrock III. whirled on her heel just to leeward of the line and recrossed it. The Reliance prompt ly followed. Shamrock III. led the American boat across by about fifty wards. but the Reliance held the wind- ward position. s
 The official starting time was:
 Shamrock H.. 11:01:H Reliance ....................... l:Ol:A
 Both boats sailed seaward for an hour
 and twenty minutes. The wind drop
 ned to about four knots soon after the start svaE. .- ..ss-.4,.~axss~ Within twenty-five minutes after starting the Reliance had overhauled Shamrock II. and was abeam of her and two hundred yards to windward. The
 Reliance had not only footed faster, but
 pointed higher than the challenger and
 was showing that under conditions sup
 posed to be the most unfavorable she
 was a better boat. ...z, Half an hour after the start, when l the boats were about four miles from | the starting line, rain shower swept | across the course and obscured the yachts from all observers except those very close. The shower brought shift of wind to the westward, which enabled
 the racers to lay course direct to the.
 mark. This robbed the Reliance of
 most of the advantage of her windward | position and put the boats on almost even terms They held that relative
 position until they had sailed eight
 miles. when the wind backed to south by west, again making it dead beat to
 the mark and restoring to the Reliance her former advantage in being to the Windward of Shamrock III
 When they made their first tack-at l 1920 Shamrock III. was to leeWard
 and astern few hundred yards.
 I The shower had passed. Then for the l first time the British challenger gave the admirers of the defender bad
 scare Without apparent reason she
 began to foot faster than the Reliance,
 passed to leeWard of her and drew
 away ahead, but still to leeWard It
 looked for moment as if she was go-
 ing to show her heels to the slick craft l which was carrying the hopes of all 1 Americans. but when she came about
 and the two boats met the admirers of l the Reliance discovered that, while the
 challenger had been outfooting her the l American craft had been outpointing
 the challenger and had even increased her lead.
 The boats were nine miles from the starting line and the Reliance had a I lead of a quarter of mile In a drop
 ping wind the British boat twice re-
 peated her performance of slipping past the Reliance to IeeWard, but she was l losing ground in the WindWard thresh bvs reason of the Reliance sailing closer l to the wind. X #s a I When four miles from the turning \ mark. at 1:25. they started on long leg #I out to sea As they came about it was
 apparent that the Reliance was a mile
 ahead. The wind had dropped little EI better than a fiat calm and the racers
 were moving very slowly Tn vain l effort to woo the fieSle airs the yachts
 changed their headsails but the race
 had degenerated into drifting match. .l Fluky streaks of gentle air drifted
 across the course One of these fiukes, l when the Reliance was more than two 3l miles from the mark, sent her off at a good gait, while Shamrock III was II headed off by an unfavorable slant un- til she pointed two points further off 4 the actual course than did the Reliance .| Three and a half hours after the start I 1t was evident that the race could not It be finished within the time limit. The
 Reliance had steadily gained and was ,i then good two miles dead ahead of .t her rival, when observers noted that Shamrock III. had caught a little slant
 of wind from the west and was cutting
 down the lead
 \ The Reliance promptly went about I when a mile away from the turn, and,
 catching the westerly wind, scurried away for the mark at almost racing
 nace. The wind continued to freshen I until she swept around the mark at i 3:37:20. heeling to smart northwest 'I breeze and giving the first real exhibi- II ton of her speed.
 I The defender hauled on the wind for a close reach back to the finish line, 5 sa1uted by the whistles of the big fleet. Shamrock III. was coming on at a fast !, clip to meet the returning defender, but N sha had been so far astern that it was | eight minutes after the Reliance turned ,, the mark before the racers met going :, in opposite directions. indicating that | the Reliance's actual lead was sixteen N minutes. sf \ Just at that moment the regatta com
 mittee tug displayed the signal "The :. race is off" and. Shamrock III. came ], about and followed the Reliance a short distance. Shamrock III. never turned i, the mark. They were aken in tow o1 !. tugs. and the fleet hurrying homeward quickly dropped them. --.- ..
 The admirers of the Reliance are jul. bilant because the American yacht
 demonstrated that in extremely light
 airs and unusually rough water she | could show her heels to the British
 lchallengers, and those were the condi-
 tions believed to be the severest test of . the Herreshoff boat. ..@. LTPTON NOT DISAPPoINTED. Fl