The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-23

Reward or the shamrock. 1ney were
southwest of the mark and heading
toward the JERSEY. coast when the wind
suddenly shifted from sOuth-Southwest
to south by west three points This
placed the Reliance in a WindWard pO-
sitiOn. It was clear luck and gave the
defender a distinct advantage. The
Shamrock III held on her course
toward the Jersey shore and the Re-
lance crossed her bow a quarter of a
mile 10 windward of her. Both boats
then made short bitches to the turning
mark, and when the Reliance rounded
il three minutes and twenty seconds in
advance of the challenger, the whistles
Of the fleet acknowledged her luck and
her lead. This. with the four seconds
loss at the start. gave the Reliance
three minutes and twenty-four seconds
clear gain.
Run Before the Wind.
once around the mark the Reliance
broke out her balloon jib topsail,
swung out her spinnaker pole and
broke out her spinnaker for a run dead
before the wind 10 the finish line.
Whether her spinnaker sheet parted or
slipped from it's fastening or the boom
lifted was not clear. but the pole swung
out ahead of her high into the air. and
the big sail hung in loose folds across
her jib tOpsail stay. For a minute it
looked as though she were in serious
difficulty. The poe was hauled aft to
its proper position and the spinnaker
began to do it's work.
The Reliance vas three-quarters OF
a mile away when the Shamrock III
turned the mark and broke out her
balloon jib tOpsail. The upper part Of
it refused to break out and still hung in
tops. but only for a few minutes. AS
with the Reliance. her spinnaker. too.
swung across her jib tOpsail stay and
hung empty Of wind for a minute or
more When it was sheeted back into
position there was a good sized rip i'm
the leach Of il near her masthead. and
during all the run home il bellied out
loosely, as though Captain Wringe
would not give It a good full for fear
that he might lose It altogether.
During all Of The fifteen-mile run.
which the yachts covered at a twelve
knot clip, the Reliance steadily and
persistently Crawled away from Jne
now hOpelessly beaten challenger. The
smoke Of the skuT-ying feet almost hid
them from the shore as the Reliance
swept across the line and into Tong.
line OF the faster boats who had got
there in time-tO see the finish and 10
acknowledge her victory Eight min
utes and ffty-siX seconds later the
plucky challenger followed her across
the line and received the salute of the
entire fleet.
Official Summary.
start. Turn. Finnish. Time.
Reliance .....ll:42:I $3.50 3:17:SS S:S2:l7
Shamrock ...u45I7 1880 3:26-9t 2-41 II
Giving Shamrock III an allowance
Of one minute and fifty-seven seconds,
according TO the measurement, ac-
knowledged to have been incorrect. Re
lance would have beaten her by seven
minutes and three seconds.
The net result of the race shows that
barring the fuke, Shamrock III had
held her own in the windward work
and had been beaten more than five
and half minutes to leeward.
1t is expected that the next race will
be sailed on Tuesday
Start Was Delayed.
AS the direction of the wind would
have carried a windward course from
Sandy Hook lightship into the Jersey
sh e, the committee was Obliged TO
set the mark seven miles further out.
This delayed the start about As min
utes and prevented the massing of the
excursion fleet. as usual in the form
of "A great marine amphitheatre back
of the starting line. Instead. kept back
by the revenue cutters, they formed
a column of hulls and stacks extend
ing three miles toward the Jersey shore
the yachts around the line completing
the shape of a fish hook. The course,
southwest, carried the yachts directly
into the eye of the wind TO a point off
Asbury Park
The honors of the start. as on Thurs
day, were captured by the American
skipper. Captain Wringe timed his ap-
proach to the line with the Shamrock
til the gun doomed he almost lost his
bowsprit as he iuffed up to cross. Barr.
as usual. went over in the windward
berth, four seconds behind his rival.
Both were closehauled on the starboard
tack.
Magnificent Sight.
It was a magnificent sight as they
plunged seward in the 12-knOt breeze,
pounding fountains of spray from their
bows and leaning to II until the wa
ter swirled and dubbed under their
lee rails. The crews were piled up
along the weather side to hold the
great racing machines up.
The first few minutes of the thresh
to windward were watched with in
tense interest. Both were footing like
mad. They showed yards Of Their I'M
der bodies and shipped a good deal of
spray and some solid water forward.
But after fifteen minutes of sailing
their positions had not varied percep-
tbly, and there was alarm among the
experts. Those who had expected 10
see the Reliance walk away from her
adversary as a result of last Thurs
days showing were disappointed.
Shamrock hung on and in tack after
tack she seemed to be holding her
own.
Round the Mark
For thirteen miles challenger and
fought out the magnificent
duel. sailing between two lines of ex-
cursion boats as free from interfer-
e1ce as II they had been in the middle
of the Atlantic. All the time the wind
was increasing and the whitecaps were
the waves. The critical
point in the race came at lao p. m, a
little less than two hours after the
start The mark was less than two
miles away and the relative positions
OF the boats were about the same.
Both were on the starbOard tack, the
Reliance ahead. but TO ieeward. Sud
denly the wind dropped and hauled a
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