The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-22
SHAMROCK III WINS
 WITHOUT TROUBLE
AFTER HER NARROW MARGIN OF THE PREVIOUS DAY SIR THOMAS UPTON GETS ABOARD AND THE VICTORY IS EASY.

Atlantic Highlands, N. J.. July 21-Af-
 ter her narrow margin of victory yes- terday, Sir Thomas Lipton's new chal-
 lenger for the nautical blue ribbon was again in racing form today and trimmed 1 Ter trial horse by thlrty-three minutes, seventeen seconds. in a twenty mile race. 1 Much of her big victory was due to a fiuke in which she covered miles of water while Shamrock I. hung idle in a calm. 1 Another thing which the sailors say
 brought luck to the new boat was that Sir Thomas, after watching the race from the Erin for several days, sailed to- day on the challenger. Her crew de- clare that for several days he rarely fails to bring good luck.
 The race was to have been for forty miles but shift of wind spoiled the
 plan and the boats sailed a close reach east-southeast from Scotland lightship and back, the last five miles about dead
 to windward. Shamrock l. was just pass
 ing Sandy Hook lightship. four miles away, when the challenger rounded Scotland lightship and finished. Sum-
 mary:
 Elapsed Start. Finish. Time. Shamrock III......11 :43:07 211:45 2:2S:SS
 D The boats then took a broad reach of
 six miles south along the Jersey coast in
 ten knot wind. Shamrock III. ran away from the old boat about an eighth of a mile on the way out, beating her by a
 few hundred yards back to the light ship and clinched her victory by outsail- ing her by several minutes in a thresh
 up through Gedney's channel and the ship channel to their moorings in the Horse Shoe basin. The victory was de-, cisive on every point of sailing Sir 1 Thomas was highly pleased.
 American Boats in a Calm. Vineyard Haven. Mass, July 21.-The New York Yacht club attempted to carry out its programme by a thirty-seVen
 mile run from Newport to this port to-
 day, but up to o'clock not single yacht had shown up at the finish. The Columbia
 was last seen at 5:3O p. m. leading the fleet, at which time she was off Cutty- hunk. Soon afterwards a thick fog
 set in and the wind dropped. leaving the yachts Tapping about the entrance of Vineyard Sound. Within fifteen minutes
 after the start, the wind died away al- most completely leaving the boats almost motionless. The Reliance and Constitu- ton managed to pick up faint breeze | by heading in toward the mouth of &c., comet river, while the Columbia went
 wind hunting off shore For three hours the boats had breezes from all directions but very light. The Reliance and Consti- tut1on managed to work down nearly to Buzzards Bay, where they were becalmed for an hour Meantime, the Columbia, followed by the Yigilant, picked up southerly breeze and slipped out aread
 The Columbia rounded Vino,-. I'd Sound lightship, eighteen miles from the start at 51S, the Vigilant at 5:o5 The Reliance
 managed to get out of the calm at the i entrance at Buzzards' Bay and timed around the lightship at 5:2S At that time
 the Constitution was lying absolutely mo- tionless, two miles astern. At 5:30 o'clock
 fog came up and shut the sterns from i sight At o'clock tonight the regatta :, made preparations to return up the har- ] bor.