The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-01
AN FRUSTRATING FLUKE
WIND FAILS WITH THE RE-
 LIANOE WAY AHEAD.
The Shamrock but Faint Blur on the
 Horizon When the Race is Declared
 OR-wsning Interest i'm the Contests . Av-Fexy Excursion Boats on the Course -wringe Rests Barr at the Start.

G-ECN EAACuN5hOh ooohe Sh AAAO ~Oohso 4 -wringe Bests Barr at the Start.
 New York, Aug. 31.-Again to-day the beautiful cup defender Reliance failed to register her third victory over. Lipton's challenger because the wind died to nothing and the time limit of five and a half hours expired before she could reach the finish line. Her mar gin was approximately the same >. as Thursday last. She was less than half a mile from the finish when the gun sounded. Tte poor old Shamrock was a faint blur on the horizon, fully two and half miles astern. Reliance's failure to score she race was the more exas- perating because her ultimate triumph is now conceded. even by Sir Thomas himself, to be simply a formality. The superiority of the Herreshoff boat in any kind of weather is acknowledged by the yachting critics of both sides of the Atlantic and to-day's f1uke only prolongs the agony of the contest that has already been decided.
 The waning interest in the cup races was strikingly illustrated by the, size of the observation fleet, if the ships which Went down to the ocean race course to- day could be dignified by such title. Outside of the revenue cutters, which patrolled the course, it consisted of half a iozen side wheelers with almost empty decks, a few sea going tugs and a score of steam yachts.
 The easterly wind and rain last night had served to knock down the sea somewhat, although it was enough during the first two hours of the race to make the excursion boats tumble about a good deal and the yachts to plunge and stagger on their way to the outer mark. But as the day wore on the wind hauled to the north and fell to mere zephyr, hardly strong enough to round out the enormous canvases of the sloops and the sea subsided to a smooth surface. The race was spirit less from the beginning. It was laid fifteen miles to windWard up the Long Island shore and return Its saving feature was the start, in which Captain Wringe, by a pretty piece of manoeuv- ering, neatly turned the tables on the Yankee skipper and captured the wind ward berth. Even so, the yachts cross ed the line abreast like harnessedt team of horses. But within fifteen min- uets the defender was showing her heels to the challenger and when the float at the outer mark was reached she rounded the mark twenty minutes and tweny-three seconds ahead of her rival. In the five times the boats have met this was by far the worst beating Shamrock III has had fin Windward work. The only interest which remain ed after that was as to whether Re liance would be able to reach the fiinsfl line in time to score the race. G
 The racers waited about Sandy Hook Iightship until 1O:45 when the Naviga-5 tor signalled that the starting line would be shifted and the race postponed until later in the day. After running five miles south from the lightship the Navigator signalled a windward and leeward course, east northeast, from which direction five knot wind was blowing. The easterly gale had left a long heavy sea running and as the yachts jockeyed about the starting line they lifted their long bows high out of the water. on top of the swell and pounded the sea into froth.
 E For the first time in the series Cap tain Wringe of Shamrock, III. cleverly outgeneralled the redoubtable Captain Barr in the preliminary jockeying. Un- til five minutes before the start, Cap tain Barr held the windward berth. y1,1... -4t 70 ', ox,,oxy frn,,, +J1o 1;ra tho Shamrock leading. Two minutes be- fore the staring gun the Shamrock head- ed up into the wind, tackled, forced Re- liance to do the same and both ran for the line. Reliance leading. They reach ed 1t before the starting gun and Re- liance had to run along the lee side of it to await the gun. Shamrock reached the line as the gun sounded and, not having to sheer off, secured the weath- CT position. It was trick which Cap tain Barr had worked often, but never with better finesse or more satisfactory results The official starting time of both yachts was 11:45:26.
 The first tack, five minutes after crossing the line, put Shamrock III. ahead, but under the lee bow of Reli- ance. Captain Wringe gave his boat a good full and the way she began to walk away from the defender made it look as though she had found herself at last. But this was for only few minutes. When he began to pinch her into the wind 1t was apparent that Re- liance was outpointing the challenger and altogether making better work of it. They held on one tack east south east for nearly an hour. During that time the defender worked up to wind- ward a good quarter of mile. When Reliance tackled Shamrock III. refused to follow so Barr put his craft on the port tack again. This placed Reliance a mile north of Shamrock III. Fifteen minutes later the wind suddenly shift ed to the northeast and placed the American boat that distance dead to windward, not half which she had ac- tually earned. From that time Reliance gained steadily. The yachts could head within two points of their course. They held the tack for twenty minutes and then made short hitches in which. Re- liance steadily got the better of it. When off Long Beach at 1:45 the defender was two miles ahead, having added the sec- ond mile by literally outpointing the challenger and at the same time main- taining equal speed. The mark was then in plain view and the wind was softening. After long board off shore