The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-08-26
Second Blow to Britain's
Hopes.
Continued from First Page.)

(CO0Ulnued from flFSL IdSe.J
cognized methods for reporting a yacht
race; the wireless telegraph system, the
fleet of small boats carrying the news from
the course to the shore and line OF shore
observers along the Jersey and Long Is
land coast This was a day on which all
three systems proved a failure. The ex-
perience of two days ago demonstrated
the comparative uncertainty OF all WIRE
less telegraphy, but no one was prepared
for the utter collapse of the system which
occurred today. There were four compet-
ing systems, -Aree of which were most
active. The atmosphere above the TRAN
gular course was beaten into hopeless
| confusion so that the Marconi system,
with all its careful preparation, was avail
able but for a single message throughout
| the entire day. 1t would not have been
so exasperating if the rival companies had
been honestly striving to send their own
bulletins. but much of the interference
was obviously malicious.
DETAILS OF THE RACE.
In the preliminary jockeying Captain
Barr, of the Reliance, got the windward
| position, banketing the Shamrock III,
and chung to it through various manoeuv-
ers until the warning gun had been fired
when Captain Wringe had got clear of the
| Reliance.
| At the sound of the gun Shamrock III
bore off to leeward and away from Re-
lance, while Captain Barr tackled under
the stern the Navigator as the starting
gun was fired, and crossed the line only
h,,,txy ha
Shamrock III kept away from the line
almost until the handicap gun, then tackled
and crossed it handicapped by 10 seconds,
J for which no allowance was made to her.
| The 10 seconds was dead loss.
The official starting time was:
Reliance 11:00:36.
Shamrock III 10000.
The actual starting time of Shamrock
was 11:02:19.
| Once fairly away Captain Wringe, of
! Shamrock III resumed his tactics of the
previous race gave his boat a good rap
| full and sailed through the Reliance's lee
and got under her lee bow. Captain
Wringe's Vancouver gave him a wind
clear of interference. and when once sat
isfied that Reliance could not blanket his
| boat, he fiattened in his sheets and began
! to point closer to the wind. Captain Barr,
however, was nursing Reliance up to wind
ward in mastery fashion.
Half an hour after the start the gap be-
tween the two boats had widened mate
| rally. Reliance was pointing higher and
the Shamrock footing faster. They were
half mile apart when they tackled off
Highland Beach, at 11:42. The Reliance
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yachts were filled away it was clear that
the Reliance was gaining. Shamrock III
was far astern and very little to windward
| of the Reliance's course. Meantime the
wind had been increasing and was now
| blowing at the rate of knots. The race
| was being fought out on the same lines
as the previous one. The Reliance sought
to make her gain by outpointing the Brit
| ish boat. while the latter endeavored to
make up for what she lost in pointing by
| footing faster with a rap full.
At noon the wind had increased to 10
knots and hauled about a point to west
ward, so that both yachts could lay
straight course to the turning mark, not
more than two miles distant. Without
making another tack both boats had made
the turn of the first mark as follows:
| Reliance 12:21:30.
Shamrock 12:24:45.
Though the Reliance had lead of three
minutes and fifteen seconds she still lacked
six seconds of making up the time allow
ance and the difference of one minute and
| twenty-four seconds at the start Both
captains broke out balloon jib topsalls
when they squared for the second turn.
The wind was so far aft that they quickly
discovered that instead of being broad
reach, as intended. the course to the turn
was a run. Spinnaker booms were guyed
out and the great sails added to the tall
reaches of canvas. Both yachts were head
ing off their course bit in order to make
their spnnakers draw well and they ran
that way for half an hour, when the Re
lance smothered her spinnaker and be-
gan to set her staysal Ten minutes at
ter Reliance the Shamrock also took in
her spinnaker. With the wind over their
quarters both yachts made fast time OF
it, but it was apparent that Reliance was
gaining. They made the second turn as
follows:
Reliance 1:17:50.
Shamrock 1:21:45.
The Reliance was leading by three min
utes, fifty-five seconds, having gained for
ty seconds in the run across from the first
to the second mark She had overcome
the time allowance, made good the differ
ence at the start and established mar
gin to her credit of thirty-four seconds.
With a close race still to be made there
was faint hope for the challenger
The Reliance whirled about the mark,
gybed over, trimmed in her sheets and
romped away on close reach towards
Sandy Hook lightship and the finish linen
She was three quarters of a mile away
before the Shamrock rounded the mark