The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-04
CUPYACEs
 /'coMPlf1ED Rs mce Finishes Inside |> Time Limit. SHAMROCK IS 0UTCLASSED Not for a Moment Was
 Trophy in Danger. Through Blinding Fog Defende, scurried to Cross the Line Be-
 fore the Five and a Half
 Hours Expired.
SHAMROCK IS OUTCLASSED

l New York, Sept. S.-Reliance. the American cup defender. today won the third and final race and the series foi that famous sea trophy, the Americas | cup. | In a dense fog. which prevented vision beyond 200 yards, she finished the race at 5:3O:o2 amid the acclamations of the assembled fleet. Shamrock III, aftel | running for more than an hour in the fog, missed the finish line, passed by fl and then returned to 1t from the oppos- ite direction. As the Reliance was then being lowed through the fleet of yachts ensigns huttered from her truck ant 1 spreaders in celebration of her victory the Shamrock III. did not cross the fin ish line. As often said of the historic | race when the America won the cup | there was no second.
 1 This successful result was achieved only after four futile attempts to sail off the | final race and after the outcome had been admitted by even Sir Thomas Lipton to be a foregone conclusion. Todays was | the eighth attempt to sail a race. After one fuke Reliance won the two following | races, one by seven minutes and three seconds and the other by one minute and | nineteen seconds. A week ago the first ' l attempts have been made every day this week. On these occasions Reliance led | Shamrock to the finish line by two miles, but failed to reach 1t before the expira- | tion of the time limit of five and a half hours. Today's victory means that the | cup is destined to remain in America un- til England is able to produce genius l equal to Herreshoff in yacht designing. l A Spectacular Finish. ! spectacular finish than the Reliance's to- day. After racing for more than an hour | at terrific speed through 8 blinding fog, Reliance burst through the wall of mist | upon the vision of the spectators on the | Acct assembled at the finish line and | reeiing under a great bellying balloon jib topsail, until lee rail was awash flew l across the finish line almost before the | spectators could determine for a certainty that 1t was she.
 1 A fleet of fewer than thirty vessels | went down to the familiar waters of the | international course to witness this fifth l effort of the Reliance to cover the course of thirty miles within the time limit It | has become a race of the American boat | against time instead of a contest of two | well-matched craft. When they reached | the lightship a gentle southeast wind of | five knots that barely wrinkled the sur- | face of the sea gave but faint prom | ise that this was to be the final day, but a shift of the wind to the south shortly after noon revived the despairing hopes l of the yachtsmen.
 The regatta committee waited until the 1 last moment to send the boats away, at 1 o'clock, after which 1t had been agreed tfNt no race would be started. Signals | were displayed to indicate a windward and leeward course of thirty miles south | and back.
 Duel Between Shippers.
 The duel between tho shippers began at the sound of the preparatory gun and | continued through a series of brilliant manouvres in which Captain Barr again outgeneraled Captain Wringe. During the fifteen minutes between the starting gun Captain Barr held the British boat under his lee and for the most of the time blanketed. Two minutes after the starting gun, and at the sound of the gun indicating the expiration of the handicap, Captain wringe luffed the Shamrock across the stern of the Reliance and the | two boats went across the line together. | The official starting time was:
 Reliance, 1:01.56; Shamrock, 1:02:00. Shamrock III actually crossed the line at 1:o2:O8 and suffered a handicap of three seconds. Both were heading sea- ward. but as the Reliance from the lee bow of the Shamrock was backwinding her head sails, Shamrock promptly whirl- ed about and headed down the Jersey coast. The manouvre placed Reliance to windward but astern of the challenger. They went off at swift pace in a fresh- | ing breeze. Captain Wringe attempted to outsail the defender by giving his boat full head and let her romp away at a fast clip; while Captain Barr pinched Reliance close to the wind and cleverly nursed her toward the turning mark. Shamrock at first footed faster. but Re- liance more than made good by outpoint- ing her.
 For more than an hour they sailed on that tack down past the shore of Sandy
 Hook and the Highlands of Naveslnk to Seabright and during all that time Re- liance steadily worked up to windward of the beaten challenger outpointing and outfooting her at the same time and passing to windward of her. The Sham rock was a mile astern when the Reliance | whired about the mark and towering stretches of canvas broke and bellied out from her spinnaker pole and over her lee
 bow. The homeward stretch had begun. The boats were timed at the turn as fol- lows:
 Time at the Turn.
 Reliance. 3:4O:35: Shamrock III, 3:51:45.
 
 three seconds in the thresh to windward and barring accidents, the victory was hers.
 As the boats started the run homeward under spinnakers and balloon Jib topsai 8 split about three feet sNng appeared in the foot of Reliance's spinnaker. but as it drew well, Captain Barr continued to carry 1t. For three-quarters of an hour | the only variation was a slow gain by the leading boat.
 At 4:20 with almost half the course yet to be sailed thick bank of fog came rolling in before a southwest wind and snveloped the Shamrock III in a blind gray mist that shut her out of the vision of the fleet as though she had been wiped from the surface of the sea. The Reli- ance ran along for five minutes longer with the sun giinting upon her sails until the fog bank reached her and she, too disappeared from sight. One by one the