New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-28

proved 70 be a sort of egg. on which the Re-
lance sat until she Matched out most liberal
brood OF minutes.
Both racers stood across the line on the port
tack headed almost directly for the French
bark Marechal de Gontaut which lay at anchor
near by in charge of a revenue official, who
had held her up pending the investigation Of
charges that her skipper had "shanghaied' an
American boy. wringe tackled the Shamrock
70 starboard two minutes and half later, and
Barr was only half minute in following his
lead. They held this tack out to sea for
about twenty minutes before standing back to
the jersey shore. the Reliance being the last TO
come ahout then and on the next tack, which
tire challenger made at 1884
The breeze had freshened then to about
seven-knot gait. and the prospects for a race
were most promising When the Reliance fol-
lowed the Shamrock about on the starboard tack
and stood out TO sea again she was fully half
2 mile to wnd%ard This she had SO increased
when the two yachts took TO the port tack
again that her windward advantage was fuzzy
three-quarters OF mile. and her actual lead
anywhere from mile 10 mile and a half.
From that tine on there was no question that
the American sIoop would finish FAR ahead of
the Irish boat.
The untrustworthy airs shifted so from point
20 point during the rest Of the beat TO the mark
that both racers put in numerous tacks The
defender especially was headed off so sharply
that she had 10 take an extra hitch "hen
scarcely q quarter Of q mile from the marx.
When she finally left II on her starboard side
che had 70 be pinched UP closely that the
great nlsinsail shivered oninously
The watches on the press boat made it l :oo:o4
when she finally squared away for home, and
moment later the great balloon jib slowly and
- e*O
about four minutes afterward by the spinnaker
On the Fort side The feet Law TO 20 wait for
the Shamrock which was timed around the
mark at 207 SO The crew of the Irish sloop
worked like lightning with the balloon jib. and
got il ahcat IN the breeze in the remarka bic
time Of q seconds. Then all hands settled down
idly 10 wait for the slow and vexatious drift
Cor the finish line fifteen miles away.
WIND FALLS FLAT ON WAY HOME.
There vas only one incident to mark the mo-
notony Of the homeward drift This occurred
q few minutes before 4 O'clock when the glasses
Of the feet had Just raised the lightship out OF
the haze. The ftful ami anamic breeze hauled
3 trife to the westward and Captain Barr, per-
ceiving it, took in his spinnaker and, putting
up his staysail and hattening his mainsheet aft,
Started 10 make II reach for the mark The
raw in the breeze didn't last long, however.
cut once more. and the defender finished the
with that sail.
Many were the prayers and objuTations from
the vessels OF the observation convoy, calling on
the wind gods 10 be a little generous Low
drifting clouds TO the northwest seemed 10
promise a shift and n increase in the breeze II
wishing could have done it, there would have
been half gale in no time at all. The facetious
even proposed towing the lghtship five or six
miles down the course. II is somewhat tedious
ToTk awaiting breeze when one knows, 10 all
inteuts and purposes which is the better boat.
But the wind stirred not and the big sails
wrinkled and Slated with painful emptiness
the huge sloops drifted laEily along, as If they
TreTe the observed of thousands of anxious and
impatient spectators.
Meantime the Shamrock appeared to fall grad
ually 10 the rear. The brief shift in the wind
did not appear TO strike her. for Captain Wringe
held TO the spinnaker all the time. But stead
fly if slowly, she lost distance. The ebb tide set
the racers back fully two knots an hour and
hut for its malign influence the Reliance might
have finished in time AS 1t was she drifted I'm
amid a below OF whistles at 1880, or min
Utes and 81 seconds too late.
While the feet awaited the finish the steam
chip Grand Republic, crowded with spectators.
drifted down on the committee boat Navigator
until II seemed certain that there would be
bump. but she managed 70 pull by just in time,
receiving a uiegap honic censure from the re-
Fatta. committee as she went
With a good breeze tomorrow, # seems like
II that the series will come to an end. for the
Reliance has apparently demonstrated conclu-
sively her superiority at the windward and lee
ward style Of which will be the order Of