Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-25
BIG YACHTS SAILED FIRST
Had Clear Sailing and no Inter-
 ference To-day.

Reliance Got Over Line First-CoIum
 bta and Constitution Went Over To
 gether-Reliance Led the Two Older
 Boats and Turned the First Corner Ahead. |..
 Newport, R. T., July 25-Under clear skies and with a fine westerly breeze blowing across the harbor,l a score of racing yachts, including the three cup defenders, prepared this morning for days regatta held under the aus pices of the Eastern Yacht club of Marblehead, Mass. The event was ar ranged by the club In recognition of courtesies extended by the New York Yacht club during the recent cruise, money prizes being offered in all the different classes.
 It was especially gratifying to the Massachusetts club that the three cup yachts entered, the Constitution being in excellent shape after Wednesday s accident. Besides the cup yachts there were also entered for the day s events the schooners Ingomar, Chan ticleer, Resolute, Puritan, Fleur de Lis, Hope Leslie and Rondina, and the sloops Neola, Weetamoe, Isolde, Senta, Challenge, Chispa, sCossack, Katona, Isolt Louise and Me6mer, all divided into half dozen different classes.
 Before the yachts left the harbor the wind shifted into the southwest and began to increase so that when the Reliance, which was the first to get NrVN Jo,, IHnI Nr hfSn bay, it was blowing nearly ten knots an hour. The Constitution followed soon after, with the Columbia just astern.
 The regatta committee had arranged two triangular courses for the yachts thirty mile triangular of ten niles on side for the large boats and a twenty-one mile triangle of seven miles on side for the smaller ones
 Half an hour before the time set for the start it looked as If the Committee would send the boats on a beat down the Narragansett shore by Point Jul dit.h for the first leg, followed by a reach off shore to the second mark and another reach for the finish back to the Hghtshipa
 Contrary to the usual method of the New York Yacht club it was decided by the Eastern Yacht club regatta committee to send the three cup yachts ahead of the small boats so as to give them clear course from start to in ish.
 The starting time of the yachts was as follows: Reliance 11:40;50, Colum- bia and Constitution 11:42:O0. The two latter were handicapped. After a beat to windward they were timed on the first turn as follows: Reliance, 12:55:20, Columbia 12:5s:50, Constitu- ton 12:59:55.
 On the run to the second mark the wind increased and the Reliance gain ed Constitution overlook the old boat as the Columbia reached the sec .ond mark When the latter yacht hauled in her sheet, as she was jibing around the mark, the strain on the big clubtopsail was so great that it snap ped off the top one. The boat headed to the wind and the wreckage was cleared away.
 Newport, R. l., July 25.-Commodore F. D. Morgan, manager of the Column bia. was asked by an Associated Press representative this morning about the reported arrangement for a race be- tween the Columbia and the Shamrock I. MT Morgan stated that he had been informed of the report but that he himself had made no agreement nor had there been any talk of such a race with his consent. What MT Nor gan would ibe willing to do in case the matter were properly advanced he was unprepared to state, There is a strong belief here that such a race will not be arranged.