The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-26
The CUP QUITE SAFE.
RELIANCE DEFEATED SHAMROCK
IN SECOND RACE.
OVER TRIANGULAR COURSE
THE DEFENDER OUTsAILED VISIT
OR AT ALL POINTS.

Race Won by Narrow Margin of 1
Minute and 10 SecOnds-Reliance
Nearly EqunlIed Record for the
COurse-Wringe BungIed at Start
Handicapping Himself 10 Seconds.
ReIiance's Superiority Shown at
Every Part of Race-LiptOn still
Has Faith.
New York, Aug. 25.-In a glorious
wholesale breeze, over a triangular
course, ten miles to a leg, the fleet
footed cup defender Reliance again to-
day showed her heels to Sir Thomas
IIptons challenger, taking the sec
ond race of the cup series of 1908 by
the narrow margin of one minute and
nineteen seconds.
1t was as pretty and as hard a
fought contest as has ever been sail
ed off Sandy Hook, and had the wind
not fallen during the last ten minutes,
the record for the course. three hours,
twelve minutes and fifteen seconds,
made by Columbia two years ago in
H., would have been broken.
AS it was Reliance sailed the thirty
miles within two minutes and thirty
nine seconds of the record which speaks
wonders for her speed in the wind
that was blowing. Reliance's victory
narrow as it was, would have beeen
ever smaller had not Capt. Wringe
~ ooI.N
led at the start, sending his craft over
the line nineteen seconds after the last
gun and handicapping her to that ex-
tent.
At every point of sailing the defen-
ders superiority was demonstrated.
She gained one minute and fifty-one
seconds in windward work, forty Sec
onds on the run to the second mark,
and forty-five seconds on the close
reach for home.
Weather HAY and Wind Light.
An assemblage of excursion vessels
almost as large as that of last Sat-
urday poured down through the Mar
rows, and out into the broad Atlantic
to-day to witness the vanishing glory
of the challenger. The early morning
had held out but little hope of race
A smoky haze hung over the sea, and
the wind was very light from the
south, but as the day wore on the
curtain lifted slightly, and the wind
blew strong and clear out Of the south.
The spectators watched the jockeying
for the start with eager interest. To
the uninitiated, it was hair raising to
see what close company the giant sin
gle stickers kept. 1t seemed momen-
tarily as if their spars and hulls would
clash but they wheeled and circled
like gulls, lacking, gybing and putting
about with wonderful ease and grace.
Wringe Outgeneraled.
At last when they bounded across
the line, close hauled, for the thresh
to windward it was seen that the
American skipper by his extremely
clever work had again outgeneraled
his rival and secured the weather
gauge.
Not only was the challenger's cap
tain defeated in his efforts to secure
the windward berth but he actually
failed to cross in time to save handi-
cap, an almost objectionable sin in a
cup contest. Barr never relinquished
his advantage after the start, holding
way to the first mark.
Slowly but surely the thousands
aboard the observation boats saw that
the Reliance was gaining, opening a
wider and wider stretch of water be-
tween her and the challenger. The
excursion fleet did not go to the mark
In obedience to the regulations to gov
ern its movements.
AS soon as the Reliance rounded the
patrol fleet blew their whistles and
Changing bells in the engine rooms sent
the whole fleet at full speed to lee
ward of the last leg of the course.
There the vast concourSe of steam
craft lay wallowing in the trough OF
the sea until the yachts, bowling along
at a terrific pace, turned the second
magk
Reliance sailed this leg of ten miles
IN f1fty-six minutes and twenty sec
onds. Then the fleet started for the
finish line, steaming a course parallel
with that of the flying yachts. This
last leg was covered at roaring speed,
Reliance still increasing her lead her
wake streaming a path of dancing
white on the sparkling sea.
Sailed Past Guide Boat.
The guide boat sent ahead to show
the course was too slow, although
everything aboard of her was wide
"AAQ INS1lduCS pdoSCu I'LL OCAOA .
the line was reached. All the ocean
going tugs and many of the steam
yachts were left astern in the mad
race
Just before the finish the wind died
down, but Reliance went across in
ample time to win, having covered the
Ten miles in 81 minutes 40 seconds.
Ihen followed the usual riot of whistles,
mlngling the wall of sirens, the clamor
OF bells. the exultant shouts of pa
ulots and the booming of cannon.
shamrock was about a mile astern
ana crossed four minutes and forty
seconds later, to a repetition of the riot
winch had welcomed Reliance's victory.
men the great observation fleet head
eu pack to New York at top speed. not
waiting to follow the racers in.
IL was a hard day for the overwork-
90 newspaper reporters. There are
enree recognized methods for reporting
q yacht race; the wireless telegraph
ssystem, the fleet of small boats carry
ing the news from the course to The
snore, and a line of shore observers