Arizona republican., 1903-08-26

when once satisfied that the Reliance ,, could not blanket his boat he fiattened in his sheets and began to point closer to the wind.
 Captain Barr, however, was nursing the Reliance up to windward in a mas terly fashion.
 Half an hour after the start, the i distance between the two boats had
 widened materially, the Reliance
 pointing higher and the Shamrock footing faster. They were half a mile apart when they tackled off Highland beach at 11:42. The Reliance was the
 first to go about. When both yachts
 were filled away it was clear that the | Reliance was gaining. The Shamrock
 III was far astern and very little to
 windward of the Reliance's course. Meantime the wind had been increasing and was now blowing at the rate of seven knots. Capt. Barr was pinching the Reliance into the wind until her little baby jib topsail fluttered. The race was being fought out on the same lines as the previous race. The Re liance sought to make her gain by out ! pointing the British boat while the lat ter endeavored to make up for what
 she lost in pointing by footing faster with rap full.
 At noon the wind had increased to ten knots and hauled about a point to westward so that both yachts could
 lay a straight course to the turning mark not more than two miles distant. Without making another tack both boats made the turn of the first mark as follows:
 Reliance 12.21:30.
 Shamrock IT,, 12:24:45.
 Though the Reliance had lead of three minutes and 15 seconds she still ; lacked six seconds of making up the time allowance and the difference of
 one minute and twenty-four seconds at the start.
 Officially, the Shamrock was still six second ahead of the slippery Yam
 kee craft, but it was evident that the latter had won the race barring acci- dents. In breeze varying from four to ten knots an hour she had made I good the time allowance in ten mile l thresh to windaa,I and there was every reason to believe that in reaching and running, which are her two strong I est points of sailing she would quickly | overcome that official six seconds. , Both captains broke out the balloon 1 jib topsails when they squared for the ! second turn. The wind was so far | aft that they quickly decided that in- | stead of it being a broad reach, as in 1 tended, the course to the turn was a ! run. Spinnaker booms were guyed out 1 and the great sails added to the tail reaches of the canvass. Stay sails were ] taken in and, with spinnaker booms | guyed well forward. the yachts ran ! away for the turn. Both were heading i off their course a bit in order to make i their SpnnakerS draw well, and they ran that way for half an hour, when
 the Reliance smothered her spinnaker and began to set her stay sail Dur ! ing that time she did not appear to i have gained an inch, but immediately on laying her true course she began
 to get away. Ten minutes after the Reliance. the Shamrock also took in
 her spinnaker. set her staysail and ! headed for the mark. With the wind
 over their quarter both yachts made fast time of it but it was apparent that l the Reliance was gaining.
 They made the second turn as fol- ! lows:
 Reliance 1:17:50.
 | Shamrock 1:21: :45.
 The Reliance was leading by three minutes and fifty seconds, having gain l cd forty seconds in the run across from | the first to the second mark. She had overcome the time allowance. made i good the difference at the start and es- tablished a margin to her credit oi
 thirty four seconds. With a close ! reach still to be made there was faint f hope for the challenger.
 The Reliance whirled about the i mark, guyed over, trimmed in her
 sheets and romped away on close reach toward Sandy Hook lightship and
 the finish line. She was threequarters of 8 mile away before the Shamrock rounded the mark. Both yachts were heeling before a twelve knot wind from south by west and were sailing at
 lease one mile an hour faster than the
 wind was blowing. Their sheets were