New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-07-03
SAILOR DROWNED In RACE
RELIANCE ENDS 4LONE
NeSc Yacht Dents Plate-C0nStitu-
TONS Gdf Broken.
ley TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE


spirit and drowned. the CONSTITUTIONS gaff was
broken eight minutes after the start, and the
Reliance. which sailed the course, had bow
plate stove in while thrasaing to windward be
tween the start and the outer mark. The
sailor lost was Carl b Olsen. Of Hanefoss, Nor
way. The yacht was four miles southeast from
Point Judith. and within two minutes of the
first turning mark. when Olsen and TWO others,
known bowsprit men. were carrying jib
topsaH out on the bowsprit TO snap it the
stay. Suddenly the yacht plunged into OF
the big seas. The bowsprit with the men
It, went clear under the wave When 1t came
up Olsen missing and the sail drag
gfng under the yachts bow she tore along
a speed OF not less than twelve knots hour.
Man overheard" was the cry. f D. Nor
gan. who was steering, lufed the yacht in the
wind at once and ordered the small boat low
cred. Two men jumped into her. and for half an
hour they looked for Olsen. but he never ap-
pea-ed again The martingale hit him when he
fell Captain Miller said and he was probably
killed by the blow. The Columbia was then
Surned back TO Newport by her tender, the Park
City. Mr.. Morgan said that he should not race
any more this week
NEWPORT SERIES ENDED.
C. Oliver Iselin. the manager of the Reliance.
said tonight that he was so we'll satisfied with
the performance of that yacht that he would
--oh 10SC 4lCA any more until the cruise OF the
New-York Yacht Club. which begins on July 49,
The regatta committee formally announced to-
might that the Newport series of races was
ended
The bow plate Of the Reliance stove in to-day
is on the port side about a foot above the water
lime and about ten feet abaft the stem The
dent runs Iengthwise of the plate It is about
1Ve feet long and a foot wide, and perhaps four
inches deep. The yacht will be taken to the
HerTesllof works at vrba-.
viii be Strengthened out
Captain Nat Herreshof was on board +ha
Reliance to-day. Both Mr.. IseIin and Mr. Nor
gan say II is the first time that a 9O-footer put
her bowsprit under in a race
Ihere was southwest breeze Of from TWEEN
y TO twenty-five miles hour. and nasty
sea was running when the committee Yacht Ri
Tiera anchored this morning about three miles
on ochre Point The course was an equiIateraI
triangle ten miles TO a leg. the first leg being
southwest by west, dead TO windward the sec
ono southeast by east one-half east a reach.
then another reach north one-half west, to the
finish
The Reliance and Columbia came out from
Newport at 11:30, Juggling small club topsaiIs
and bury1ng their lee rails they travelled
out TO the start. They soon found it would be
folly TO carry anything more than three lower
sails. the club topsails were quickly low
cred and dashed securely on deck arnidships
Captain Rhodes Of the Constitution followed
the others lead when that sloop came out half
an hour later. and all three made things snug
about decks for the ten-nile thrash to wind
ward which they knew was to be a wet one
and il proved 10 be the hardest bit OF work
they had vet encountered.
START IN HEAVY BREEZE.
No more exciting start was ever seen than
this one. In such a breeze, with the yachts
~1a
vas. there was danger every moment Of an &C
cident- Between the warning signal at 1925
and the TO start five minutes later the Re-
liance and the Constitution ran off to the west
ward OF the line. The Constitution tackled first
and headed for the line the starboard tack
Captain Barr put the Reliance about, placing
that yacht a few lengths out on the weather
bow Of the Belmont yacht This was only thirty
seconds before gunfre for the start and they
were more than two minutes away from the
line. Barr kept the Reliance of. forcing Rhodes
OF too. The latter tried 10 iurf across the new
boats wake and gain the weather berth, but
Ithe new boat was going too fast for him. so they
crossed the line with g. small handicap, with the
PConsttution under the lee beam of the Re-
flience.
CONSTITUTIONS GAFF BREAKS
The Columbia on the same tack had crossed
ahead Of both. She went about Just as the
Handicap gun was fred. The Reliance made
iher first tack to port at 1926. the Constitution
coming around so seconds later, and the Co
flurnbia TO the sta-board tack at 12:36:4O A
minute later the old boat crossed the bow OF
the Reliance by few lengths. Barr tackled on
the Columbia's weather at once. All were
ION the port tack now, when suddenly the Con-
tstitution's gaf broke at q point in the wake
OF the inner bride Of the peak halyard. The
broken end Of the gaH IN falling tore a big
ihole IN the mainssiL Captain Rhodes kept the
yacht of before the wind for fifteen minutes
when she was towed By her tender, the Satel-
Elite. 70 Newport, and later on to Bristol.
This left the race to the Reliance and the
columbia. and a right brave fight the old boat
made against the new one IN that ten mile
Thrash 10 windward IN ugly ever
two yachts raced. The Reliance had started
something like a minute and a half astern Of
1.-THE Columbia, but they had travelled quite
lseven miles TO windward before the Reliance
was able TO cross her bow and weather her.
She did II at ia o'clock after the two had
made six tacks apiece. IN which the Columbia
ion the starboard tack crossed the Reliance
three times.
In the next fifteen minutes they made three
l4zcks the last one carrying them close IN TO
kJoint jude from which point they able
10 fetch the first mark about four miles to the
southeast AS they approached the mark It was
noted that they had both overstood e little on
account Of the haze They came down for the
mark with 2 good hard full. the Reliance lead
ing by bout two minutes. She had Just round
ed the mark at 1920 when the Columbia lost