The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-01
SHAMROCK III. NILES BEHIND.
WaN HEIis\sg IEtDS, avn
tGts\ IRIS Va RttT.
sankec E"ai HaiI q Mile FROM the ainr
when she ssmr pimsI Expired -S',ar-
reeh Almost 0w at sight In the Hssr
Worst beating n s,ccp Ever Go,
on the Course Another TT, ve-da,
With BETTER Prospects Tor q Race


Under canopy Of drah and through
dist urhing roll Of n sea, a crestless relic
of tho tempest Of Saturday, the Cup de-
fender Reliance ou,sailrd and oiitdfift.d
Sir Thomas birton's challenger, sham
rock Ill B., Yesterday, in an ineffect ual effort
to finish third race fifteen miles to wind
ward and return
Never in the hist orv Of Cup races has a
British singic-stiCkcr received 70 sound a
walloping
Again II was race against the clock
10y IN Yankee clipper. When the lime
limit gun doomed he Reliance was within
half mile Of the finish and the Shamrock
was nearly three miles astern. invisible
As TO huh and merely misty Pyramid
al to SAT-
No striden, argosy was II the howard
mark TO applaud the sleek combatants
Perhaps dozen whistles footed and few
guns barkcd but there were no cheers
The excursion feet was not more han an
eighth as larg" as il had been on the DAY Of
the first race, and there were only few
thousand folks Interested enough in the
contest TO risk going seward under 4
lowering sky It looked as if the populace
had decided that the Cup was safe
The patrol squadron Of revenue cutters
had little TO do except look immaculate
and pretty, as the attending fleet was hardly
big enough TO gct in 'hc way if it had wantol
to, 30 the racers practically had the whole
Atlantic for their arena
The r 'gatta Committee, aboard the tug
Navigator, made out the wind, which had
a force estimated at from eight to twelve
miles, to be from east northeast. To
make a windward course the starting line
was shifted about four miles south of Sandy
Hook lghtship.
The tide was flowing in and the yachts
bucked it in the course, about parable
with the Long Island coast, to point of
Joness Inlet
The starting gun, fired at ll45 found
the ships back of the line Capt. Wringe
Of Shamrock redeemed his reputation as a
masterfu skipper by outman9uvrng Capt
Barr and sending the Briton over the line
on the starboard tack about a hundred
yards to windward Of the defender, which
was exactly abeam of Shamrock, and was
timed simultaneously, at 1869, only
twenty-six seconds after the starting gun.
They held this board only five minutes,
when Shamrock whirled on the port tack.
Reliance was not slow in following her.
1t was head to swell on this tack, and
there was picturesque battering of sp
as the racers plunged into it, bury
three-quarters Of their bowsprits at Il
and covering the men forward with shower'
The next tack showed that the Var sec
boat had worked out Of her rivals lee
was gripping the wind with more firm
and footing faster. II was the same
yarn, only somewhat more so.
Reliance gained on her way to the outer
mark at the rate Of more than a minute
in a mile. 1t soon became the longest
stern chase on record for the course, Pinch
as she would, the Briton couldn't aim near
the course of the Reliance. Whether with
the rollers ahead or on the beam, as the
yachts received them when on the star
board tack, the Yankee flyer moved more
readily and swiftly than the Shamrock.
On one OF the attending vessels Just after
the race started pool was made on the
minutes Reliance would be ahead at the
windward mark. One optimistic person
with prismatic fancy went into the pool
on condition that he might put his money
on Shamrock to turn minute and 81 sec
onds ahead of Reliance. The most enthI-
siastic hacker of Reliance gave her a lead
Of "A minutes. Her actual advantage at
the windward mark was 10 minutes and
% seconds.
She rounded and headed for the finish
before gentle breeze, probably not more
than five miles at 3OO:35 She wss unable
to set her spnnaker, as the breeze had
shifted 20 northeast, until she was seven
minutes on her homeward way. Then the
breeze got back again 10 its original direc-
ton, and il was procession after that
The only interest manifested by specta-
tors was in their watches and the proha
bity of Reliance getting in before bl6 %,
the time limit get for the race Az she
didn't make il she will try conclusions with
the challenger again to-day, over wind
ward and leewarl course.
J.. b. Dunn, tie former forecaster here,
said yesterday that there should be enough
wind for the race to-day.