The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-22
CHALLENGER SAILS FINELY.
BEATS OLD BOAT OYER HALF
 HOUR IN TWENTY MILES.
Is Aided, However, by a Fiuke-En- abied to Cover Miles of Water While shamrock I is Practically Becaimsd-- A Remarkable Performance in the Ten Miles or Sailing.
Ten Miles or Sailing.

Atlantic Highlands, N. J., July H.-. After her narrow margin of victory yesterday Sir Thomas Lipton's new challenger for the nautical blue ribbon was again in racing form to-day and trimmed her trial horse by thirty three minutes and seventeen seconds in a twenty-mile race Much of her big vic-a tory was due to tiule in which she covered miles of water while Shamrock I. hung idle in calm. Another thing which the sailors say brought good 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 declares that he rarely fails to bring good luck.
 The race was to have been fof forty miles. but shift of wind spoiled the. plan and the boats sailed a close reach east southeast from Scotland nghtship and back. the last five miles about dead to windward.
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 A smart southwest wind was blowing when the captains quit jockeying and headed for the line, which the boats crossed as follows:
 shamrock I..... ll:4z:aos Shamrock Ill.,. ......5......... ll:43:OT
 The yachts broke out spinnakers as they crossed the line, but had not run one hundred yards before the wind dropped to a flat calm, and then a gen tie air came from the south. Spinna- kers were quickly smothered and sheets trimmed in to catch the new breeze They hung there for several minutes. Then the new boats sails filled and she drew away, finally going off at a fast clip, while Captain Bevis, of Shamrock \. tackled about, vainly trying to get the wind.
 The challenger put miles of water be- tween herself and the other boat before the latter fairly caught the wind, and began to move off at racing clip at 12.45. After about an hours sailing Shamrock |. looked like ghost in the haze, more than three miles astern of the flying cup seeker. Even after she. caught the wind the old boat was sinl-# ply outclassed by the new one, which continued to add to her lead steadily to the turn. At the turn the challenger was nineteen minutes and fifty-two seconds ahead and gaining as fast as eyer
 < Half way to the finish line the chal-8 lenger held a fair wind from vest southwest, giving her close reach and sending her along at a stiff pace. Then the wind suddenly shifted to the west and she had a dead beat for tine rest off the way. Shamrock I. suffered no loss by that fiuke, for she held the favoring wind half an hour longer than did the leader and it carried her about as far on her course. yet the challenger out sailed her by twelve minutes and fifty three seconds in the hour and a quar-. ter, sailing from the outer mark to the finish line.
 x It was a remarkable thing in ten miles Of sailing. yet it was not apparent that the old boat suffered any by the fuke. Shamrock IT. certainly had the luck as well as the speed. Shamrock I. was just passing Sandy Hook lightship, four miles away, when the challenger rounded Scotland lightship and fin-5 ished.
 The summary:
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