The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-25
SECOND CUP RACE.
WILL DE SAILED TODAY OVER
TRIANGULAR COURSE,
SHAMROCK WAS REMEASURED.
RESULT WILL MAKE NO CHANGE IN
HER TINE ALLOWANCE.

Challenges viii Use New Mainsail
To-day-Was Made by Ratsey and
Is Specially Fitted for Kind of
Racing Expected To-day Sir
Thomas Considers Remeasurement
Mere Matter of FOrm-WiI Not
COncede Reliance Is a Winner.
Reliance VIII Use New Jib-Wind
and Variable.
New York, Aug. 24.-After having re-
moved / 100 pounds of ballast and TAX
en- on board a cable and anchor weigh
ing that much, the Shamrock III was
remeasured in a dry dock in Erie Ba-
sin to-day. The net result was that
there was no change in the time al
lowance of one minute and fifty-seven
seconds, which the Reliance is COM
PEELED to give her.
The challenger was just three one
hundredths of a foot shorter than be-
fore the change, and that difference
was not sufficient to make a seconds
increase or decrease in her time al
lowance Her load water line length
is now 1918 feet and her racing length
1O4,375. new main boom measured
to-day was no longer than the old
one.
Will Use New MainsaiI.
In to-morrow's race Shamrock III
will carry a new mainsail The, new
sail was bent on to tpe spars to-day.
after the challenger had reached her
anchorage.
The new sail is a Ratsey and Sir
Thomas Upton and Capt. Wringe assert
that change is made not because the
other mainsail was considered made
quate, but that the new sail, which
good one, may be better in the style
of racing to be followed tomorrow. The
new mainsail, when fully stretched,
was a much better fit that the old
one.
To an Associated Press correspond
ent, Sir Thomas Upton said THE
remeasurement was simply a matter
of form, so that every portion of the
conditions under which the race is
made would be complied with. 1t was
the simplest thing in the world to add
the anchor and chain and take out
the same amount of lead ballast, or
to leave on the lead and remove the
anchor and chain. Tell me what diff
ference it is, will you? Mind you. I'm
not finding any fault, but simply MAX
ing "a query as to what was gained by
the remeasurement."
Sir Thomas Not DespOndent.
Then with a smile and pointing to a
bunch of kilograms on the table, he
said: 81 see 1 am accredited with be-
ing respondent and unhappy over
Saturdays result. Well, I'm neither.
/ wish we might have won, it is true,
but L am not at all willing to concede
that the Reliance is a winner. MY
boat will make a good showing yet l
also want it understood that l have
not criticised Capt. Wringe's sailing OF
the Shamrock III on Saturday"
Reliance will go out tomorrow with
new jib but otherwise in the same
trim as the first day Mr. lselln ana
Capt. Barr declined to talk OF Ike
lance's ability in triangular race or
why they had changed their jib.
weather bad for Racing.
New York, Aug. 24.-The local wealth
err bureau is in receipt of the following
from Washington:
ITO Observer, New York:
The wind Tuesday over the interna-
tional yacht race course will be hgnt
to fresh and variable though mostly
from some easterly point. Unsettled
weather, possibly showers.
(Signed) "Frankennelo.
Five Miles at sandy Hook.
At midnight the wind at Sandy HOOK
was blowing five miles an hour. The
weather was pIaar e