The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1903-08-27
A SPLENDID RACE
Reliance Beat Shamrock Badly in the
Saturday Event
VICTORY WAS OVERWHELMING
Conditions Were Favorable For Fine
Racing and the American Yacht
Showed High Qualities.

New York, Specialize internation-
al yacht races hove occupied great
deal OF public attention. The first days
work, on Thursday was complete
failure, owing to the dense fog and
lack OF breeze However the American
craft showed its ability to distance the
challenger.
The conditions on Saturday were
highly favorable for fine work and the
racing is thus given by the Associate
Press correspondent:
In a splendid IL to Is knot breeze,
| over a windward and leeward course OF
so miles, the gallant sloop Reliance
Saturday beat Shamrock III in COM
manding style, in exacting nine min
utes, actual time, or seven minutes and
three seconds after deducting the one
minute and ffty-seven seconds which
the defender comedies 10 Sir Thomas
Lipton's third challenger, on account
OF the sailing plan Of the measure
ments.
The natical sharps, who had already
made up their minds on Thursday that
the Reliance could take the measure OF
the challenger in any kind OF weather
regard the days test as conclusive, al
though they hardly anticipated sc
overwhelming a victory. The race even
dampened the ardor of Sir Thomas
who insisted, after Thursdays f1uke
) that his confidence in the beautiful
craft designed by Fife was greater thar
ever. Still, like a true sportsman, h
does not acknowledge defeat, ant
hopes for better luck next time. Th
signal criticism he and his friends
make of Saturdays race is that tn
only shift of the wind which occurre'
was to the advantage of the defending
yacht AS this shift of the wind occur
red on the windward beat, even grant
ing that it accounted for Reliance
lead at the turn, the time the Defende
made on the run home was more tina
ample to have given her the race.
must be conceded, however, that tn
Shamrock showed herself wonderfr
boat in beating to windward, perhap
the ablest craft in this respect tha
was ever sent across the Wester
ocean on cup-hunting expedition. FC
12 miles the single-stickers raced llk
a team Of horses, and during that POI
ton of the duel the patriots made
attempt to conceal their nervousness
The racing conditions were ideal.
thin haze hung over the Jersey shor
ohstructing the view of the spectator
= gathered there, but out on the ocea
. race-course the sea was flooded wit
= sunshine from a vault of fleckless blu
u A long ocean swell heaved up from II
T. south, and a 12-knot breeze, fresh al
u strengthening, blew out of the soutl
e west, throwing up f1eeting white ca
on the sparkling bosom OF the ocea
e. The marine picture was superb.
le AS the direction of the wind Won
Is have carried a windward course tro
Is Sandy Hook lightship into the Jers
K shore, the committee was obliged
e set the mark seven miles furtner o.
81 This delayed the start about thre
quarters of an hour, and prevented
massing of the excursion fleet, as us
al, in the form of great marine al
rhitheatre back Of the starting line.
stead of being kept back by the rev
nue. cutters, they formed a column
hulls and stacks, extending three mi
toward the Jersey shore, the yacf
around the line completing the sha
of a fish hook. The course, southwe
carried the yachts directly into the
of the wind, 10 point off Asbr
Park.
From start to finish the defent
had the best of the situation and
close was marked by much enthusla
on the part of the immense throng
spectators.