The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-17
SHAMROCK SHOWS SPEED
TRIAL RAGE WITH ERsTWHILE
 CHALLENGER YESTERDAY.
old Boat Beaten by Over sir Minutes in aEor,y -aIiie Leeward and windward contest-chnilspger Handicapped by Clear Fluke at One stage of the Race -spiendid lvindward Work.

! Atlantic Highlands. N. J., July 16.--
 After a forty-mile leeward and wind-
 ward race off Sandy Hook lightship to- Iday Shamrock III. led her trial horse to the finish line by six minutes and thirty
 seconds and won by only fifteen sec
 onds less. Tn the first half of the race the cup seeker dropped Shamrock I. at
 the rate of fifteen seconds and more to
 the mile, but in the second run off shore
 to the outer mark the old boat was the
 first to catch new breeze which set
 her off at q pace that sliced nearly
 three minutes off the challenger's lead.
 It was a clear fluke. which, as usual in
 a run before the wind, favored the
 stern boat. Shamrock III. had beaten
 the other boat by nearly two minutes
 in the first run to leeward. so that the
 challenger must have lost about five
 minutes by the luke Tn all she cover led twenty miles of windward work sev- len minutes and eighteen seconds faster than the erstwf1iie challenger. l The course was run under spinna-
 kers ten miles dead to leeward east Isoutheast from Sandy Hook iightship to
 the tug Cruizer and beat back to the
 starting line twice around.
 From a nine-knot breeze at the start 1 the wind dropped to three knots at the finish, but it held west-northwest all tday.
 I After pretty bit of jockeying the
 boats slipped across line between the lightship and the Erin, breaking out
 spinnakers as they got away. The start ling time was:
 Shamrock II................... 11:20:1S shamrock I..................... ll.20:33 The challenger immediately began to show her heels to the old boat and kept drawing away until the turn, where she led the other boat by more than two minutes.
 The new boats superior speed was
 more manifest as soon as she fiattened I in her sheets for the thresh to wind ward. She pointed no higher than the other, for Captain Bevis was nipping
 Shamrock l., but the new boat footed much faster. In two long legs and a flew short hitches they fetched the light | ship, and when they turned 1t for the second run off shore Shamrock III. had established q lead of five minutes and | forty-five seconds. At that rate she would have won by more than eleven minutes. & Half way off to the turn Shamrock I. had held her position, when her big spinnaker rounded out hard with new
 breeze and she forged up into the wake of the leader in alarming fashion and at one time threatened to cut off her lead entirely. Turning the outer mark she was only two minutes and forty-fve seconds behind. a., g *s No sooner had Captain Wringe trim |med in the sheets of Shamrock III. than she began to show what splendid boat she is going to windWard. Pointing higher and footing equally fast, she drew quickly out to windward of the old boat, and after forty-five minutes sailing on one tack had left her more than half mile to leeward It was a fine bit of work and showed Sir Thom- as new cup seeker has the speed when pushed to her limit. <52ss4-
 After that it was procession to the lightship and the finish in 8 softening wind, with Shamrock I. steadily drop ping astern.
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