Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-29
HOW ABOUT the AMERICAN
SPORTSMAN BEHIND RELIANCE?
(contiuued iron. page twelye)

float In the cove. and ollie was alone
In the midst OF his opponents there
They closed IN on him. mob fashion
but the shlndy that followed was
beautiful" according to the old salt
who told me the story For he was
as handy with his dukes as ever he
was with q tlller," and he stood his
ground until he saw his crew GO lusty
sailors) coming to take hand I'm IT,
when, to avoid row that did not
square with his ideas, he plunged over
board and swan to his boat, bearing
the prize with him. though he had lost
a watch costing $3.50 meantime
This little fracas occurred when lse-
| lin owned the Dare Devil, sloop q
feet long on the water line, that was
built to his order. One gets a reallz-
ing sense OF the daredevil character
OF the racing In those days when II Is
told that this boat not only carried 10
men in her crew, but she was ballasted
with from 60 TO so bags of sand. each
as big as strong man could toss
across the boat The man who has
sailed on a sand dagger with her lee
rigging blowing a foot under the brine
or when the skipper watches the swell
In order 10 jump over a reef--he knows
what life is.
II was because OF his record for cour'
age and SKILL gained I'm the sand-bag-
gers, that the New York Yacht club
was glad to see Capt. Iseln as man
aging owner of Vigllant How ne Jus
tilted their confidence in the races with
Valkyrie II has already been told.
Because OF his success on the Vigil
liant he was again found on the quar-
terdeck Of the Yankee ship Defender
when In 1895 Lord Dunraven came a
second time with Yalkyrie Ill for the
Americas cup.
c, oliver Iselln. William IL. Wander
bit and T.. y. Morgan employed Her
reshon to design and build the Defend
er to hold the cup. Iselln was man
aging owner, and Capt Hank" the
best man Of his day at the Wheel was
| sailing master
When Valkyrie III came trouble was
soon developed. The race OF Sept. I,
| 1895, was won comfortably by Defend
| err, but when the two were coming 10
| the line on the 9Th there was coll
| llsion, AS they had their booms to
! port. and Nalkyrie was running free,
! while Defender was close hauled, De-
fender had the right of way Valkyrie,
however, bore down on Defender so
close that when she luffed TO cross the
| line the shackle on the end OF her
boom fouled the starboard topmast
shroud on Defender and carried II
| away.
DEFENDER THE VICTOR.
They we're carrying clubtopsails aloft
and there was a fine breeze blowing,
The unsupported topmast bent away
| TO leeward as Defender kept off, but
the good pine stick held. And the pluck
on deck was equal to the toughness OF
fiber aloft. Coming to the port tack,
Iseln sent the Defender IN chase OF
the valkyrie, although handicapped by
one minute and Is seconds and a top
mast unsupported to starboard. No
jibtopsail could be carried.
In the windward leg Valkyrie gained
two minutes 10 seconds, but In the next
leg (when reaching) Defender gained
II seconds, and on the leg home. which
by shift OF the wind was dead before
It, Defender gained one minute and
II seconds, Though Defender finished
last, the excellent record OF the wound
ed ship showed conolusively that De-
fender was sure TO win out In the end,
The fouling OF Defender created still
greater excitement than the lame-duck
race. Dunraven declared that Defend
er had purposely luffed into Valkyrie,
but unfortunately the tugboat OF which
had charge happened to be directly
ahead Of Though at q safe distance
from) the two racers, and a London
| photographer who was with me took
several snap shots at them. including
i t.tfa
photographs proved concluslvely what
every spectator ahead OF the racers
saw clearly-that Valkyrie was In the
wrong. Necessarily the committee
gave the race to Defender,
Then another characteristic trait OF
Iselin as a sportsman appeared. He Of
fered to sail the race over but this
Dunraven declined to do
| DUNRAvEN WAS soURED.
| In fact, Dunraven was soured by de-
feat. He saw Defender lying alongside
OF her tender one night, He imagined
that Capt. Han was taking ballast IN
10 the racer, and that the ballast was
returned to the tender after the race
was over. He abandoned the next race,
allowing Defender to sail II alone, ana
finally formulated the charge that the
ballast had been changed 10 meet the
conditions Of the race. the iormai
charge was equivalent TO saying that
Iseln and Han were deliberate theVes.
need not dwell on this unpleasant
enisode but II is worth telling that
whom Iselln heard the charge he SAID
with Characteristic impetuousity that
whoever made the charge was ia'
and BLACKBOARD"
In The trial that followed II is worth
remembering that capt A. Y, Mahan,
whose naval histories won him an OK
ford degree. was among the judges, ana
Capt. Iselin was unanimously and en-
tirely sustained.
international yachting failed. there
after until 1895 when Sir Thomas LIP
ton came with his Shamrock j.
The New Yoii, Yacht club called for
a new ship 10 defend the cupand Com
nodore J. Pierpont Morgan, with capt.
Iselln as manager. had Columbia bullt
AZ the Herreshoff works, while De-
fender was refltted for use as trial
/ mate.
BARR WAS SAILING MASTER.
Cant. Charles Barr was the sailing
master OF the Columbia, while capt.
Rhoades OF Bay Shore. L. l., was sall-
ing master OF Defender under Capt
w. Butler Duncan. When sailing Win
free hand land the trial mate skipper
always has freer hand than the one
ON the new ship. Capt khoades IS one
M the most aggressive men at the
wheel IN the world, and there are but
Tow men who equal him In skill. He
, certainly kept Iseln on the jump IN the
trial races. a.
Columbia having won out finally, tn
work of racing for the cup came on
, And II WAS real work, too, In one way
Tor the racers went to the line day ar
: Ter day. and were sent away on thell
Z route. only 20 have the wind fail. suci
a succession OF days with light ant
! shifting airs as then came on nave new
/. or been seen by cup racers
! During this weary work all but TIVE
-. thee az the newspaper men though