The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-21
DRIFTING MATCH IN PARl
In This Contest the American Yacht
Nevertheless Proved Herself the
Better Boat, Both 0utfoot-
ing and 0utpointing
Her Rival.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York, Aug 20.-nOe OF the biggest
crowds of sight-seers and yachtsmeh 'ha'
ever sailed down Sandy Hook to witness
ann attempt of foreign cup hunter to
wrest from America the yachting supre-
macy of the world, returned to New YORK
tonight disappointed because the sea had
refused a field of combat to the racers,
but nevertheless jubilant in the con
yiction that Sir Thomas Lipton's latest
challenger, like the two Shamrocks which
had preceded her. was doomed to return
to England empty-handed.
OF course. the race TO-DAY was not abso-
lutely conclusive, owing to the hight and
shifting character of the airs, but III a
fifteen mile beat to the windward, por-
ton of which was sailed in driving ram,
the cup defender Reliance showed her
heels to Shamrock III in commanding
style. and in weather conditions which
weer supposed to be to the particular lik-
ing of the challenger.
The fifth latest creation has been her
aided as a veritable wizard in light breeze
in windward work especially with a
lumpv sea on, while the Reliance IN her
trials. had demonstrated best reaching and
running in a whole sail wind. Yet, today,
with breeze varying from one to twelve
knots and against 4 long groundsweil.
the defende routfooted and outpointed her.
The Shamrock did not turn the outer
mark, and there is, therefore, no way OF
knowing absolutely how badly she was
beaten. but it was estimated that she was
more than mile astern, or about sixteen
minutes in the existing strength of the
wind. when the Reliance rounded
AS result of the trial the experts be-
lieve. blow high or low, that the Reliance
will win this. the thirteenth series for the
Americas cup.
The day was miserable one for those
who went down to the ocean race course
off Sandy Hook A mist lay over the city
and bay in the morning, and when The
great fleet of excursion steamers, steam
yachts, tugs and sailing vessels reached
the starting line where the big single
stickers were already jockeying for a po-
siiton, black threatening clouds were gath
ering over the Jersey highlands. The
dark water reflected no shadow and the
mist all about shortened the observation
The breeze was not over six knots and
the murky waves spilled no white froth
from their crests. The course was set
fifteen miles southwest, straight down
the Jersey coast and return. At the very
start Captain Barr cleverly outgeneraled
Captain Wringe, sending the Reliance
over the lines thirty-three seconds behind
the challenger, but in the windward berth.
In the first twenty minutes of sailing
the defender showed her windward quail
titles, drawing upon even terms with teh
challenger, besides being about two hun
dred yards to windward Then the storm
broke and for thirty minutes the rain
came down in torrents, the wind increasing
to twelve knots
When the storm had passed, the defend
er was seen to be firmly established or
the weather bow of Shamrock III and she
was never afterward headed
The work of the patrol fleet was per-
feet Moving at right angles, line ahead
and line abreast, the revenue cutters kept
the yachts in the hollow of a moving