The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-20
YACHTS IN FINE CONTEST
RELIANCE OUTSAILS CONSTITU-
 TION BY SMALL MARGIN.

Old Boat May be the Winner On Time AIiowanee-Her Shilling Considered Remarkable and Formidabie-Co- Iumbia Again Outcfassed From tho start-A Great Battle of Captains.
 New York. June 1s.-If the Constitu- tion did not defeat the Reliance on time allowance in a 25-mile race over the course of the Indian Harbor Yacht club in Long Island sound to-day, she gave the admirers of the new boat bad scare. In more than four hours of sail ing the Reliance outsailed her by only one minue and 50 seconds, elapsed time. Experts estimate that the new boat will have to allow the Constitution two or three minutes in a S0-mile race, which if true might give to-day's race to the older boat as we'll as one of the earlier races when Reliance beat her by two minutes and a fraction.
 Columbia was again outclassed from the start. Her gain of about two min utes on the second leg of the race was time wasted by the other boats in a luf- fing match
 } Between the leaders the race was hot ly contested, first by one and then the other getting the better of it by sudden shifts of wind, which when it began to blow steadily left the Reliance about one minute ahead.
 The Constitutions fast sailing to-day was all the more remarkable and makes her all the more formidable from the fact that the race was sailed in light winds and smooth water, under which conditions the Reliance has often beat en her.
 The contest of the captains began at the starting line when Captain Barr of the Reliance robbed Captain Rhodes of the Constitution of an advantage elev- erly gained and forced the Constitution to give way to him to avoid, a collision. Rhodes had the Constitution at the windWard end os the line and would have forced the Reliance to take a lee ward position but for Barrs move in poking the Reliance between the Con- stitution and the mark. Constitution flew a protest flag, probably for that reason. It Is a question whether Barr. had esta blished the overlap required to give him the right of way. The course was an elongated triangle ten miles easterly and diagonally across the sound, five miles north straight across to the Connecticut shore and ten miles along that shore to the finish line. The start was in this order: Reliance, 12:46- :07; Constitution. 12:46:10: Columbia, 12:46:12. The first leg was ten mile beat easterly and across the sound. The wind was not more than four knots
 Once across the line the Constitution was fairly blanketed by the Reliance and forced to keep off while the Reli- ance quickly, worked a few hundred yards to windward of her.. Columbia split, tacks with the others and was never in company with them afterward. % SaltCE dii% AAOhil NtllCLl llEy Ilcu worked off into the middle of the sound the Reliance, having the right of way, essayed to cross the Constitutions bow but failed. An hour after the start she accomplished it, but few minutes later the wind backed to northeast and game the Constitution the lead.
 She held it more than half an hour and the boats were approaching the first turn when the Reliance caught a smart puff of wind from the south and sailed halffa circle around the Constitu- tion before the latter began to feel the new breeze. They turned the first mark almost side by side and the wind haul ing to the southwest started to reach five miles north and across the south to the next turn. A hot luffing match for the Windward position ensued in which the Constitution was handicapped by carrying ballooning jib topsail. Cap- tain Barr had no sooner luffed the Re- liance from under the Constitutions lee when the wind shifted and she had to do it all over again. They fought it out for half an hour and it carried them far off their course. but the Reliance finally shook off her rival and they filled away for the turn with the new boat leading by few hundred yards and more than minute and half at the turn.
 There had been just enough rain to thwart Mir. Iselin's effort to keep the Reliance's sails dry. A steady six-knot south wind sent them reeling off the ten miles of the last leg southwesterly to the finish line at a stiff clp. It was a procession interesting chiefly for the splendid marine picture when the sun broken through the clouds and hung a rainbow across the sound under the act of which the yachts with their tall spires of canvas, milky white under the rays of the setting sun, reached away for the finish line. The summary: .
 Elapsed
 Finish. Time Reliance .............. 4:50:24 4:04:17 Constitution. ........ 4:52!17 4:o6:07 Columbia, ............. 5:03:46 4:16:54
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