The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-15
SPORTING NEWS.
Sir Thomas Lipton's Fleet
Reaches New York.
The ShamrOcks Have a Stormy
Passage En- Route.
YACHTS TOWED OVER.
The Challenger Is by Far the
Best Looking Boat.
Wireless Telegraphy Told News
of Their Coming.
YACHTS TOWED OVER.

New York. June 15.-Safe and sound
after a rough passage from Gourock,
Scotland, of sixteen days and twenty
two hours. Sir Thomas Lipton's latest
challenger for the Americas cup, the
Shamrock III. is now lying at anchor
off Tomplxinsville, Staten Island, where
she arrived at 1920 o'clock Sunday in
company with the steam yacht Erin,
that had towed her most of the way
across the Atlantic, and by the Sham
rock l.. towed by the British tug
Cruiser. The 1856 men which manned the
yachts and their conveys are all well
and there were no accidents to mar the
passage.
Between Gourock and Fayal, Azores,
where the steamers stopped for coal.
Gains and squany weather were en-
countered. The Erin and her tow be-
came separated from the Cruiser and the
Shamrock l.. before reaching Fayal, but
they never lost sight of each other after
leaving there. On June Il the yachts
were caught in a gale from the southeast
and while it blew very hard and heavy
sea was running, very little water was
shipped and no damage was done.
The tug Charles E. Matthews, in
charge of II. H Davies, met the yachts
at daylight twenty miles east of Sandy
Hook lightship. Pilots were put on
board the Erin at sea and the Matthews
towed the Shamrock III. to quarantine,
the Shamrock 1. being towed by the
Cruiser.
The yachts passed Sandy Hook light
ship soon after o'clock They were
saluted by every vessel that passed them
all the way to quarantine When they
arrived there the crews of the yachts
gave three cheers for each other as they
stood lined up on deck. Both yachts
flew the pennant of the Royal Ulster
Yacht club.
The new challenger is a far hand
somer craft than either the Shamrock I
or II. She looks not unlike the Column
bia above the water line and her beam
seems greater than either of those
yachts. She lows easily, making very
little broken water at the bow, and
leaving a clean wake. Her captain.
Robert Wringle, says she behaved
splendidly under all conditions OF
weather during the passage across the
Atlantic She is rugged as a slOop with
a short bowsDrit and a topmast over q
short. stout lower mast. The sham
rock has the same rig, with the addi =
ton of a jigger mast aft. The latter
steers with a tiller and the former with
a small wheel.
Following is the log of the Erin for
the passage.
Steam yacht Erin. abstract of voyage.
Sailed from Gourock p. m, Thurs
day. May IS. 1903.
May %. noon. distance 200 miles.
May 80. noon. distance 200 miles.
May 81, noon, distance 2S5 miles.
June 1. noon, distance $50 miles.
June 2. noon, distance 2S4 miles.
June 3. arrived at Fayal, Azores, Z n.
M 23s miles
June 4, sailed from Fayal at 4 p. m.
June ., noon, distance 1874 miles.
June 6. noon, distance 234 miles.
June Z. noon distance 23S miles.
June g, noon. distance 223 miles.
June 8, noon distance 229 miles.
June 10 noon distance 233 miles.
June IL, noon distance 1913 miles.
June y. noon. distance 225 miles.
June 10. noon. distance 1876 miles.
June IA, arrived at Sandy Hook a.
m, distance 1s5 miles.
Total distance. 3.644 miles.
At l.2O O'Clock when the Erin was 10l
miles east Of Sandy Hook the operator
( Of the wireless telegraph system on board
the Erin succeeded in raising the Coney
Island station Captain Matthews Their
sending the following message to be ca
bled to Sir Thomas LiptOn.
Fleet arrived safely Sandy Hook Elk
perienced rough weather during voyage
/ Shamrocks all right. Wireless working
well 100 miles MATTHEW'S -
The reply to this message was received
on board the Erin by wireless Telegram Il
from the Coney Island station at So
a m:
Delighted receive good news Convex
/ I hope they are all well and fit as hddles
Upton
Commodore Robert E Tod Of the Allan.
tic Yacht club met the yachts in hi.
( schooner yacht, Thistle, at Sandy Hool
/ lightship.