The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-15
SPORTS.
SHAMROCKS in PORT
Lipton's Yachts Reach New York
After Stormy Voyage Of
Sixteen Days.
New Boat Is Far Handsomer Craft
Than Was the Sham
rock I.

Safe and sound after rough passage
from Gourock, Scotland, Of sixteen days |
and twenty-five hours, Sir Thomas Lip |
tons latest challenger for the Americas
cup, the Shamrock Ill. is now lying at |
anchor off Tompkinsville, Staten Island, |
New York, where she arrived at 1920 |
yesterday morning in company with the |
steam yacht Erin that had lowed her
most Of the way across the Atlantic, and !
the Shamrock I. towed by the British tug
Cruiser.
The 1855 men which manned the yachts
and their conveys are all we'll, and there
were no accidents to mar the passage.
Between Gourock and Fayal, Azores,
where the steamers stopped for coal,
Gains and squally weather were en-
countered. The Erin and her tow became
separated from the cruiser and the Sham
rock I. before reaching Fayal, but they
never lost sight of each other after leav-
ing there
On June IL the yachts were caught in a
gale from the southeast, and while it
blew very hard and a heavy sea was run
ming, very little water was shipped and
no damage was done. The tug Charles e.
Matthews, in charge of H. H. Davies,
met the yachts at daylight yesterday,
twenty miles east of Sandy Hook light
ship. Pilots were put on board the Erin
at sea and the Matthews towed the
Shamrock ILL., to quarantine, the Sham
rock I. being toWed by the Cruiser.
The yachts passed Sandy Hook light
ship soon after 6 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. They We're saluted by every vessel
that passed them, all the way to quaran-
tine. 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.
hTe new challenger Is far handsomer
craft than either the Shamrock I. or II.
1n nIc ,ot tho 4l~@
the water line and her beam seems great
er than either of those yachts. She
lows easily, making very little broken
water at the bow, and leaving clean
wake. +E
Her captain, Robert Wringe, says she
behaved splendidly under all conditions Of
weather during the passage across the
Atlantic. She is rugged as a sloop with
| a short bowsprit and a topmast over a
short, stout lower mast. The Shamrock
|. has the same rig with the addition Of a
jigger mast aft. The latter steers with
a tiller and the former with a. small wheel.
At 1890 o'clock yesterday morning,
| when the Erin was 100 miles east off
Sandy Hook, the operator of the wireless
| telegraph system on board the Erin sue
| ceeded in raising the Coney Island sta
| ton and Captain Matthews sent the fol-
lowing message to be cabled to Sir Thorn
as Lipton
| Fleet arrived safely Sandy Hook Ex-
perienced rough weather during voyage.
| Shamrock all right. Wireless working
| well 100 miles. Matthew'S
! The reply to the message was received
on board the Erin by wireless from Coney
| Island at 1926 a. M:
| ''Delighted to receive good news. Con-
| vey to all officers and men my best wish
es. I hope they are all well and fit as
| f1ddles. -Lipton."
Commodore Robert E. Tod of the At
lantic Yacht club met the yachts in his
schooner yacht Thistle at Sandy Hook
| lightship. st
| President Roosevelt denies that the
yacht Mayf1ower is being overhauled and
soon will be sent to her summer station
off Oyster Bay, along Long Island sound.
| The president expects to make extern
slve use Of this ship this summer. Among
other excursions planned is one to the
international yacht races. He will be the
| first president to ever attend one of these
sailing events ~ ..f=
He is not specially fond Of yachting. but
a good game fight always interests him.