New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-23

e 4oueh 10 constitute a considerable advantage
I'd the yachts been sailing true course AS
TIE Shamrocks evil genius had decreed. how
ever. oyershooting the mark lost the challenger
Ell this advantage, and both boats headeo on
the wind for The mark
Once again the breeze proved flckle. for a few
minutes later it veered to west-southwest and
loaded the racers of their course so that they
had to make another tack to fetch the mark
hut the damage had been done, and the Reliance
vas first around the beacon by minutes and
Il seconds
EooDOo SEEMS TO PURSUE SHAMROCK.
But the ShaTnrocks hcOdOo had not yet finished
SIS days work. When Captain Wringe tried to
break his balloon jib it discovered thai
tsere was a hard stop which would not break
OFT The big sail only half filled away, the lower
part hanging limp and useless and almost drag
GINS. IA the water. What sulphurous language
srnote the air that whistled through the chal-
IengeT's rigging at this time is known only to
those aboard the yacht. and they will never ten
IL took the mere than i've minutes to
straighten out the tangIe and get the big sail
10 drawing This accident probably cost the
Shamrock considerable time. Experts estimate
& all the way from thirty seconds to minute
and a half Meantime the Reliance was speed
Ing on her way with every stitch drawing On
tie run home she made minutes AZ seconds
on her rival and travelled at the rate of a mile
fl 8 minutes and a half, triae better thar
u knots an hour.
Fut while the shamrock's hard luck Is con-
Ceded it can scarcely be held to affect the re-
suit Had both vessels rounded the outer mark
at the same time the Reliance would undoubt-
edly have beaten the Irish boat badly on the
run home certainly more than enough to offset
tie time allowance of ! minute 81 seconds. 1t
ought 10 be borne in mind, too that the sham
rock is 10 be reneasured Monday. and the
rerneasurement may reduce her time allowance
somewhat it appears that VIXEN the yachts
were measured by the New-York Yacht Clubs
Cficial neasurer the Shamrock did not have on
hoard an anchor and cable. the rules pre-
sribe.
From the point of view OF the thousands Of
spectators who poured out through the Mar
rows from o'clock on board every kind OF a
c-aft that ever went to sea- il ideal day
for a yacht race. There was never any question
about there being wind enough The breeze
was fresh from the southwest when the first Of
the huge feet reached the Hook and it never
fel below seven or eight knots all day, while 1t
averaged eleven twelve, and sometimes
reached fifteen sixteen. The skies were clear
and cioudless, and although the Southwestern
brought haze from the sea, it never obscured
The racers from view.
The thrcng Of vessels exceeded in numbers
that Of Thursday. and oIdtmers who have been
going TO Cup races since the days of the Gala
tea declared that never before had such a no
BILE feet assembled about the racers. AS usual
The revenue cutters policed the course and they
did their work with machineke regularity and
the efficiency which has put an end to the COM
plants about interference which were so rife
and well founded six or eight years ago
All the floating castles and palaces in these
waters were on hand. The Corsair, with ex-
Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan on the bridge;
tae Josephine, with p A. B. Widener; the
Niagara, with Howard Gould; the Mohican. the
Peerless, the Tuscarora, the Delaware bearing
Commodore Bourne OF the New-York Yacht
Club: ". K. Vanderbilt. jr.'s. Tarantula. the
turbine boat, which is the fastest thing in Amer
lean waters; the Kanawha. probably second only
IA point of speed to the Tarantula; the Noma
rival OF the Kanawha-aII these and many more
luxurious and swift craft came down the Bay
The huge Sound steamers Plymouth and Rich
ard Peck, the Monmouth the City of Sa-
vannah, huge of bulk, and scores of river
and harbor boats were all festooned with
humanity like swar;ning bees.
Every launch capable of getting outside the
NsTrows. every tugboat that was seaworthy
and probably some that were not-not to men
ton countless sloops, schOoners and launches
. al converged upon the Sandy Hook Lightship
n
Red d. liner Caracas. which sailed for Venez-
uela yesterday morning. got the fever
Everybody aboard wanted TO the race, so
her skipper put her about and joined the OBJ
EerVatioa feet. After the race was over she
headed her Ong course Tor the Caribbean.
The Regatta Committee aboard the Navigator.
after looking about a bit saw that it would be
impossible TO lay q course of fifteen miles to
Nindward from the lightship Consequently
1T 1920 the signal CO. futtered from her peak
'1lis meant that the start would be shifted
from the nghtship. and a minute later the
Navigator headed offshore, followed by both
rs GERS which under nainsail, clubtopsail and
two headsails, had been standing on and off
about the mark ia readiness for the days
work. The observation multitudes had not yet
arrlred, bat their thousand tunnels were smudg-
ing the sky up to the north, and they all put
n in pursuit Of the yachts If under the i'm
ression that the race had begun. The Reliance
yas bit ahead. end both yachts were eagerly
serutinized through q thousand glasses. They
l9afed easily along until the Navigator slowed
. Gown about five miles from the lightship, just
s. the Long Beach Hotel began to loom up on
HE hazy Long Island shore. Then Captain
1-ringe took the Shamrocks wheel for the first
Inc that day.
He was dressed in state raiment for the &C.
casion. the suspenders of Thursday being hidden
~ a blue REFER. Captain Barr had been at the
1.eliance's wheel all along. a few minutes after
: I the course. fifteen miles to windward and re-
turn. was sgnalled from the Navigator the
wind being at that time southwest AS soon as
the Unique and the Navigator had established
starting line the fast tug John Scully started
OF 10 log the course and lay the outer mark
followed by the guide boat Coastwise. The wind