The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-08-29
WON SECOND RACE
SHAMROCK LOSES BY ONE
MINUTE, NINETEEN
SECONDS.
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Skipper Makes Bad Bungle-
Wind Light at Frst but Stead
lily 1ncreases-Great Ex-
cursion FIeet-Jocky.
ing for the Start.

ing for the Start.
/ New York, Aug. 25.-In glori.
Gus Wholesale breeze over triang-
ular course, ten miles to leg. the
feet-footed cup defender Reliance,
again showed her heels to Sir
Thomas Upton : challenger, taking
i the second race of the cup series of
1908 by the narrow margin of one
minute and 19 seconds. It was as
pretty and hard.fenght contest. as
4 has ever been called off Sandy
Hook, aud had the wind not fallen
during the last ten min utes, the re-
cord for the course, three hours IL
minutes and Is seconds, made by
the Coium bia two years ago, in her
memorial BILE race against the Sham
rock IL, would have been beaten. AS
it was, the Reliance sailed the 80
miles within two minutes and SO
seconds of the record, which tpeeks
wonderfully of her speed in the
wind that was blowing.
The Rellance's victory, narrow
as it was, would have been small
er had rot Captain Wringe, the
skipper OF the British ship, bung-
led at the start, sending his craft
over the line 19 seconds after the
last gun, and handicapping her to
that extent.
At every point Of sailing, the de-
/ tenders superiority was demon-
strated. She gained one minute 55
seconds in windward work, ~ sec
lends on the run to the second mark
/ and 45 seconds on the close reach
! fer home. Based on the magnifi-
cent showing she has made in the
1.-TWO races already sailed, it is the
belief of many experts that the cup
is safe, and it will take something
better than Flies latest creation to
bulge it's e...F - :gss 4
An asse,nblages Of excursion yes
sells almost as large as that of last
Saturday poured down through the
narrows aud out iato the broad At
lantic today to witness the vanish.
ling glory Of the challenger. The
early morning had held out little
hope ofa race. A smoky haze hung
over the sea, and the wind was very
light from the south. But as the
day wore on, the curtain lifted
slightly, the wind blew strong and
clean out of the south and the dane
| ing swell sparkIed under the radi-
anee of 8 n August sun.
The excursion feet, like float
| ing city built on the fcor of the
ocean, lined up rail to rail in a
great semi-circle to witness the
start. The course was beat due
south into the wind for ten miles,
then a broad reach or run,r as the
case might be. off toward the Cho-
terra banks a, d thence home again
to the old red hulled l.ghtship.
The Spectators watched the jock
eying for the start with eager inter.
est. Il was hair raising to see what
close company the giant single
sfickers kept. 1t seemed momen-
tarily as if the spars and bulls
| would clash, but they wheeled and
circled like gulls, tacking, gybing
and putting about, across the line,
close hauled for the thresh to wind
| ward. 1t was seen that the Amer.
ican skipper, by his extreemly clev-
er work, had again outgeneraied his
rival and securad The weather
gauge.
Not only was the challenger's
captain defeated in his effort to Sc
cure the wind dward berth, but he ac-
tually failed to cross in time to save
a handicap, an almost unpardona-
BILE ofense ina cup CONTEXT. Barr
never relinquished his advantage
after the start, holding the challen-
ger under his lee all the way to the
first mark.
AS the clean-limbed racers got
farther out, the weight of the wind
steadily Increased and the waves
began to spill froth from their
green crests. Both boats, with ev-
cry stitch of canvas set, smashed
into the seas, healing down in the
puffs under the press of thousands
of yards of light canvas until their
lee rails were awash in the flaming
brine. Their crews, piled up to
weather, were repeatedly deluged
with the showers Of the spray sent
aloft by their shark-like bows.
Slowly, but surely, the thousands
aboard the observation feet saw
THAT the Reliance was gaining, op-