The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-26
RELIANCE AGAIN WINNER.
DEFEATS SHAMROCK BY MINUTE
 AND NINETEEN SECONDS.

One of the PrettIest and Hardest Fought
 Contests Ever Sailed on sa ndy Hook
 Record for Course Would Have Been
 Broken but for Falling of Wind iD
 Last Ten Minutes-wringe Bungied
 at start.
 New York, Aug. 25-In a glorious whole sail breeze, over a triangular course, ten miles to a leg, the fleet footed cup defender Reliance again to- day showed her heels to Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger. taking the second race of the cup series of 1903 by the narrow margin of one minute and nine- teen seconds. It was as pretty and as hard fought contest as has ever been sailed off Sandy Hook, and had the wind not fallen during the last ten min utes the record for the course, three hours, twelve minutes and fifteen sec- onds. made by Columbia two years ago in her memorable race against Shamrock IT., would have been broken. As it was, Reliance sailed the thirty miles within two minutes and thirty nine seconds of the record, which speaks wonders for her speed in the wind that was blowing. Reliance's victory, nar- row, as it was, would have been even smaller had not Captain Wringe, the skipper of the British ship, bungled the start, sending his craft over the line nineteen seconds after the last gun and handicapping her to that extent At every point of sailing the defender s superiority was demonstrated. She gained one minute and fifty-one sec onds in Windward work, forty seconds on the run to the second mark and for> ty-five seconds on the close reach for home. Based upon the magnificent showing she has made in the two races already sailed, it is the belief of many experts that the cup is. safe and that it will take something better than Flies latest creation to even budge it.
 An assemblage of excursion vessels almost as large as that of last Satur- day poured down through the Narrows and out into the broad Atlantic to-day to witness the vanishing glory of the challenger. The early morning had held out but little hope of race. A smoky atmosphere hung over the sea and the wind was very light from the south. But as the day wore on the cur tain lifted slightly, the wind blew strong and clear out of the south and the dancing swell sparkled under the radiance of an August sun. Off to the west and north the low ramparts of the Jersey and Long Island shores could just be discerned through the thinning curtain. The excursion fleet, like a floating city built upon the floor of the ocean, lined up rail to rail in a great senli-circle to witness the start. The course, a beat due south into the wind for ten miles, then broad reach or run as the case might be off toward the Cholera banks and thence home againt to the old red-hulled lightship, had been set.
 The spectators watched the jockeying for the start with eager interest. To the uninitiated it was hair-raising to see what close company the giant sim gle-stickers kept. It seemed momen- tarily as if their spars and hulls would clash but they wheeled and circled like gulls, tacking, gybing and putting about with wonderful ease and grace. At last when they bounded across the line, closed hauled, for the thresh to windWard. it was seen that the Ameri- can skipper by his extremely clever work had again outgeneralled his rival and secured the weather gauge. Not only was the challenger's captain de- feated in his effort to secure the wind ward berth, but he actually failed to cross on time to save a handicap, an almost objectionable sin in a cup con- test. Barr never relinquished his ad- vantage after the start, holding the challenger under his lee all the way to the first mark. '}5 ..u