The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-08-29
THE FIRST BRUSH
FOR THE CUP
HOW THE DEFENDER AND CHAL-
LENGER SAILED THE FIRST OF
THIS YEARS SERIES.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-The Reliance
land Shamrock III attempted today to
sail the first race in the thirteenth Sc
ries of contests for the America Cup.
The Reliance was commanded by Cap
tain Charles Barr who sailed the Coz
umbia in 1899 and in 1901. The sham
rock is sailed by Captain Robert
Wringe who was second in command
of Shamrock L in 1885, and commanded
her in 1901 when she was a trial boat
for Shamrock II.
| The weather at dawn today was
warm and moist, and the breeze was
light from the southwest.
| At S:45 the wind shifted more to the
west and freshened a little and the
clouds gave some indications of more
breeze.
The day was a miserable one. The
breeze was not over six knots.
! The course was set Is miles southeast
turn.
| At the start, Captain Barr out-gener-
aled Captain Wringe, sending the Reli-
ance over the line 3S seconds behind
the challenger, but i'll me Windwarc
berth. In the first 20 minutes of sail
ing, the defender showed her windward
qualities, drawing up on even terms
with the challenger, besides taking
20U yards TO windward. Then the storm
broke, and for thirty minutes the rain
came down in torrents, the wind, mean
while, increasing to twelve knots.
| When the storm had passed, the de-
fender was seen to be firmly establish
ed on the weather bow of the Sham
rock, and she was never afterwards
headed. During the last two hours OF
the race, the Reliance steadily increas-
! ed her lead, rounding the turn mile
~, YSNf1y Iaol iN1C hD oil
for home, close-hauled, she had just
reached the Shamrock, still outward
bound, when, it being apparent that the
race could not be finished in the time
allowance, the Regatta Committee boat,
at 1895, fired the signal which called the
race off.
The New York Yacht Club Regatta
Committees tug established line be-
tween the Sandy Hook lightship and
herself at 1880 a. m, and signalled that
the race would be fifteen miles to wind
ward and return, the first leg south
southwest. The wind was then blow
ing about five knots. There was a mod
crate sea running in long ground swells
and the boats We're pitching rather
heavily. The preparatory signal was
fired at 1045, and ten seconds later
came the warning signal. When the
start was made, few seconds after the
warning signal the Shamrock led the
American boat across the line by about
fifty yards, but the Reliance had the
lwindward position.
Both boats sailed seward for an hour
and twenty minutes. The wind drop
ped to about four knots soon after the
start. Within rs minutes after the start
ing the Reliance had oVeThauled the
Shamrock and was abeam of her, and
m 20
had not only footed faster but pointed
higher than the challenger, and was
showing that under conditions suppos-
ed to be unfaVorable to her, she We
the better boat.
An hour after the start, when tnc
boats were about four miles from the
startling line, rain swept across che
course and Obscured the yachts from all
observers except those very close. The
shower brought a shift of wind to tie
westward, which enabled the racers to
lay a course direct to the mark. 1nF
robbed the Reliance of most of the al
,vantages of her windward position, and
put the boats on almost even telns
They had this relative position u,ltil
they had sailed eight miles, when the
wind backed to south by west again
making it a dead heat to the mark, and
restoring to the Reliance her former dd-
vantage in being to windward When
they made their first tack at 1920
Shamrock III was to leeward and as
tern a few hundred yards. The show I
had passed Then for the first time, the
British challenger gave the admirers OF
the defender a bad scare. Without APP
parent reason, she began to foot faster
than the Reliance, passed to leeward o
her and drew away ahead but still tC
Harvard
though she was going to show her hee's
to the Reliance, but when she camt
about and the two boats met, the adj
mirers of the Reliance discovered that
while the challenger had been outloot'