The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-21
FIRST YACHT RAGE A FIZzLE
THE BOATS UNABLE TO FINISH
 WITHIN TIME LIMIT.

ReIisnce Deoisively OutsnIIs the Sham rack and Is Far in ihe Lead When k Race is Declared OR-Every Indiou- lion That the Cup is safe-ChaIIenger Ontfooted and outpoin ted in Her Own
 Weather. New York. Aug. 2O.-One of the big gest crowds of sightseers and yachts men that ever sailed down Sandy Hook to witness an attempt of foreign mug-hunter to wrest from Amreica the yachting supremacy of the world re- turned to New York tonight disap- pointed because the sea has refused a field of combat to the racers, but, nevertheless, jubilant in the conviction that Sir Thomas Liptons latest chal- lenger, like the two, shamrocks which had preceded her, was doomed to re turn to England empty -handed. Of course, the race to-day was not abso- lutely conclusive owing to the light and shifting character of the airs, but in a fifteen mile beat to WindWard, a por- ton of which was sailed in driving rain, the cup defender. Reliance, showed her heels to Shamrock III in com manding style and in weather condi- tions which were supposed to be to the particular liking of the challenger Fife's latest creation has been hera1ded as a veritable wizard in light breezes in windward work, especially with 3 jump sea on while the bigger and more powerful defender, the Reliance, in he1 trials had showed best reaching and running in whole sail wind. Yet to day, with a breeze varying from one te twelve knots and against a long ground swell the defender outfooted and out pointed her. The Shamrock did not ] turn the outer mark and there Is there fore no way of knowing absolutely how badly she was beaten, btu it was esti, mated that she was more than mile astern, or about sixteen minutes in thu existing strength of the wind, when the Reliance rounded. As a result of ths trial the experts believe, blow high ol low, that the Reliance will win this the thirteenth series for the Americas cup
 The day was a miserable one fol those who went down to the ocean ract course. A mist lay over the city ant < bay in the morning and when the start. ing line was reached black threatening clouds were gathering over the Jersey highlands. The breeze was not over six knots and the murky waves spilled ne white freth from their crests.
 The course was set fifteen miles soutf southwest, straight down the Jersey < coast and return At the very star sCharlie''' Barr, the Yankee skipper who has twice piloted cup defenders t victory, cleverly outgeneraled Captail Wringe, the boasted best English cap tain af1oat, sending the Reliance owe the line thirty three seconds behind the challenger but in the WirliWart x berth. In the first twenty minutes Q safloing the defender showed her wind ward qualities drawing up on ever terms with the challenger, besides be ing about 200 yards to Windward. The1 the storm broke, plotting out the racer and making the excursion fleet look Iik line of phantom ships. For thfrt. minutes the rain came down in tor rents, drenehing the thousands of peo pie on the steamers who were unable t find shelter in the crowded cabins While the storm lasted the wind in creased to twelve knots and thos aboard the press boats, who caught oc easional glinpses of the yachts as the. smashed into the seas, saw that tn Reliance, with great geysers gushin, from her bow, was footing faster an, pointing higher, heeIing less to tn puffs than her more tender adversary When the storm had passed the excur sionists came out on deck to find the de \ fender firmly established on the Weath CT bow Of Shamrock IT. She was neve afterward headed
 During the last two hours of the rae when the wind had backed around t the west and was blowing straight ot the land a bout four miles an hour, tn Reliance steadily increased her leae rounding the turn to the stentoria $8 aCuOTUS OI #tliG EG-ACui oiUli a3EllSGl q lHlt ahead of Shamrock. Heading back flo S home close hauled she had just reacIle the Shamrock, still outward bound when the race was officially declare < off.
 The work of the patrol fleet was per feet. Moving at right angles, lin ahead and line abreast, the revenue cut ters kept the yachts in the hollow of moving angle, as free from interference X as if they had been sailing in mid ocean. Y:
 Under the rules, the first race, fftee miles to leeward or windWard and re K turn, is now postponed until Saturda,
 Race In Detail. s New York. Aug. 2o.-The Relianc