The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-22
NEW BOA IS IA TER.
Luck and Legs Enable Reliance to
Defeat Columbia by Fourteen
Minutes. /.
Old Defender Missed Winds Which
Helped Her Rival to De
feat Her.

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BY combination of good luck and
splendid sailing qualities. the new yacht
Reliance yesterday inflicted such defeat
upon the former cup defender, Columbia
as she never had suffered, leading hel
over the finish line of a twenty five-mile
course OF Glen Cove, u. l., by fourteen
minutes and forty three seconds. officia
time.
Not all Of the glory OF the. victory was
fairly earned by the new boat If it had
been, there would besno doubt that the Re-
lance would be the next cup defender
But despite the Columbia's i'll luck, the
Reliance convincingly showed herself tc
be the better boat.
She had beaten the Columbia nearly
eight minutes in a broad reach Of eleven
miles in tiuky zephyrs, beaten her enc
minute and ~flfteen seconds running free
for three miles in a steady twelve knot
breeze and beaten her four minutes and
fifteen seconds in an eleven-rlile thresh to
windward, close hauled In a fifteen knot
Southwestern.
This timing is unofficial and allows for
Reliance's ffty-five seconds advantage at
the start. When the Reliance crossed the
finish line the Columbia was miles astern
hopelessly beaten.
The rst leg of the race was not q fair
test OF the merits Of the two boats, but it
sufflced to develop surprising drifting
qualities in the Reliance, supposed. until
yesterday, to be a heavy wea ther boat.
The Columbia missed the favoring zeph-
yrs that had helped the Reliance to beat
her eight minutes In a drift of three hours
in the first eleven miles, and in the wind
ward work had been hampered by an ac-
cident to her<jib topsail.
:Therrace was ar exasperatine start and
a flying finish The course was triangu-
lar, eleven miles along the Long island
shore, three miles across the sound and
eleven miles to the finish line
There was not more than a two knot
breeze when the starting gun was fred al
1:55 p. M Both boats exceeded the two
minute handicap, the Reliance leading the
Columbia across the line by fifty five sec
onds.
When half Of the leg had been sailed
and two hours after the start, the Reliance
caught a light air and moved away quick
~, while Columbit still drifted and gradu-
ally dropped astern till Reliance was lead
ing her by nearly three miles,. The breeze
freshened and the Reliance romped away
from the first turn at an eight-knot clip
but the Columbia did not feel in the in
creased wind until fifteen minutes later.
Then she began Ito gain and in half ali
hour cut down the Reliance lead to a lit
tie more than a miles Il,
Reliance took the turn going like a bird
She was half across to the next turn be-
Reliance covered the. three miles in thir-
teeen minutes and fifty seconds; Columbia
in fifteen minutes and five seconds, having
lost one minute and fifteen seconds in the
three miles. Reliance was outsailine her
nearly thirty seconds to the mile, and that
In rafting breeze.
With lee rail aWash andupointing high
into the wind, she stretched away for the
nish line at a splendid clip.sarAt the 4nish
Columbia was a good three miles to lee
ward but hanging on gamely. E
The official time is as follows:
Reliance 1:s s1ss5; s F1a;se 4 E17p s{
Columbia j NIB -. = 40 1:5s:oo e:2e:1e s2 IS
Constitutions out Of the dry dock in time
If not, the Reliance and Columbia will sal
the race. s.
Instead of Saturday Of next week, Sir
Thomas. Upton hopes that the Erin, the
Shamrock Ill, the tug Cruiser and the
Shamrock I. will be able to leave the
self will sail with Mr.: Fife on the Cam
pania, June 49, or. the Oceanic, June II.
Whether the Shamrock III. lifts the cur
or not, there IS on the Clyde a, feeling OF
general dissatisfaction that the challenger
Is not going to meet boat which they
think can be called a thoroly American
craft from keel to topmast.
According to published reports the sails
Of the Reliance will be made by Ratsey
who made those Of the Shamrock III Il
is understood here that the Columbia
has new suit Of canvas by the same
maker. A1tho these sails were made ir
America by Ratsey's new establishment
on Long Island, they were designed by
Englishmen and believed to have been
made by English hands.