The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-22
RELIANCE
WINS FROM
COLUMBIA
Beat OIdBOat 14Minutes
on 25-Mile Course.
NOT ALL GLORY
FAIRLY EARNED 1
But the New Yacht Clearly
Showed Herself Superior.
LED ALL THE WAY
FROM START TO FINISH
Had it Not Been for the Element of
Luck in the Victory There Would
No Longer Be Any Doubt Of
Reliance Being Selected
as the Cup De-
fender.
But the New Yacht Clearly
Showed Herself Superior.
LED ALL THE WAY
FROM START TO FINISH
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INV Associated preaa,

u (By Associated press.)
E NEW YORK, May 21-By a combinal
ton of good luck and splendid sailing NJ
qualities, the new cup yacht Reliance to-3
day inflicted such q defeat upon the for
mer cup defender Columbia as she had
never before suffered, leading her over
the finish line of q twenty-five mile course
off Glen Cove by fourteen minutes and
forty-three seconds official time.
Not ell tho glory of that rosy victory
was fairly earned by the new boat. IL
the Reliance would be the next cup de-
fender. But despite tho Columbias III
luck, the Reliance. convincingly showed
herself to be the better boat. She had
beaten the Columbia nearly eight mn-
utes in broad reach of eleven miles in
fluky zephyrs, beaten her one minute and
fifteen seconds, running free, for three
miles in steady thirteen-knot breeze,
and beaten her four minutes and fifteen
seconds in an eleven mile thresh to wind
ward, close-hauled. in q tlfteen-knot
Southwestern. This timing is unofficial,
and allows for the Reliance $ ffty-flve sec x
ends advantage at the start. When the
Reliance crossed tho finish line the Co
lymbia was miles astern and hopelessly
beaten. But the victory was not SO {
great as the result might Indicate. The
Columbia's Ill luck in .tiuky winds In the
three hours necessary to cover the firsc
eleven miles had contributed to her de-
feat That first leg was not a fair test
Of the merits OF the two boats, but i ~
sufIiced to develop surprising drifting
abilities in the Reliance supposed until
to-day to be n heavy weather boat.
The Columbia missed the fayoring
zephyrs that had helped the Reliance to
beat her eight minutes in q drift OF three
hours In the first eleven miles, and In y
the wlndward work had been hampered BY
an accident to her baby jb topsail. Only
once In the Whole race uld slle gam on
80 i DREW STEADILY AHEAD.
The Reliance led the Columbia across
the line IS seconds. She was not more
than 800 yards ahead Fifteen minutes
afterward the Reliance began to draw
slowly away from the Columbia and
steadily Increased her lead during ths
hour and a half Her sails seemed tn
catch every breath of air. When half q
of this leg had been sailed. and two hours
after the start. Reliance caught a Light
air and moved quickly away. while Co.
lumbin stlll drifted and gradually dropped
astern till Reliance was leading her by
nearly three miles. The breeze freshened
and the Reliance romped away for the
first turn at an eight knot clip. but Cos
llmbia did not feel the Increased wind
until fifteen minutes later Then she be.
gan to gain, and in half an hour sailing,
had cut the Reliance load to a little morS
than a mile. Designer Nat Herreschofk
took the wheel on Reliance as the boat
approached the first turn. She was then
heeling to freshening breeze and wax
beginning to kick up little whitecaps. :
and there was a white feather of foam
under her lee bow. Columbia was coming
foot by foot.
Reliance took the turn. going like bird.
Once filed away on the three mile run
across the sound she caught stir puff
from the southwest and put her rail down
into the smother. rolled out her polished
bronze bilge and drove away for the turn
which She made nine minutes ahead OF
her rival.
WELCOMING WHISTLES.
Reliance was half way across the next
turn before Columbia had clrced about
the FIRST. Columbia was dropping asterli
again, not having carried SO good vino
on the short leg.
Reliance was outsailing her nearly 80
seconds to the mile. and that In rat
Ting breeze, At the second turn
Reliance was 10 minutes and Is seconds
ahead of Columbia
Reliance was steadily leaving her
astern sailing at a ten-knot clip within
three and n half points OF the wind. Shs
fetched half q mile to the ieeward OF tho
finish line anG altar two short tacks
swent across 1t and tl9ough a lane of
welcoming steam yachts that greeted her
and acknowledged her victory with ear
splitting sirens,
Columbia was good three miles to lee-
ward
Tho official time is as follows: Relianc>
start l5T, finish, 6;l4:S6; elapsed tlm1,
4;17:S6 Columbia start, l57; finish. 6;s9:ls:
elapsed time, 4:32:le