Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-29
AMERICAN BOAT LEADS
In Sight Of the Lizard, With
No Rivals.
FINS SHO R I'll 7
UNEXPECTED RECORD IN RACE
ACROSS SEA.
How the Boats Started and Continued
on Their Three-Thousand-
Mile Course.
2 mise SH0R I'll 7
Special Cablegram to The Star.

HllSn "A westerly WIND prevailed, Dut 1tS
velocity was about four knots an hour. This.
with strong ebb tide, retarded the speed
of the victorious yacht
The Atlantic is expected to finish by
o'clock She presented a beautiful sight
from here. All her lower and upper sails
were set. The American flag Is flying at
her mast and the yacht burgee from her
fore
Lord Lonsdale of the cup committee. on
board the steam yacht Norseman. left the
station to meet the Atlantic The German
gunboat Peril also steamed out to meet the
American yacht and to megaphone congrat-
ulatons to Capt. Barr and his lucky boat
Remarkable Average Speed.
The Atlantic has covered the distance
from Sandy Hook lightship to the Lizard
lightship. approximately 5000 miles, at the
remarkable average speed of 1913 knots an
hour, "a knot an hour better than the
record made by the Endymion in 1900.
The Atlantic. in winning the great race.
mas fulfilled the expeetations of thousands
of her admirers who had picked her to win
long before the race started. She had been
the prime favorite even over the Endymion,
the record holder the Hamburg. one of
Watson's fastest boats; the fleet yawl Ailsa
and the powerful ship-rigged yacht VAL
halla.
The Atlantic. when last reported, on May
~ at SO p. m. New York time). was in lat
itude 41.49. longitude As, 1905 miles from
New York. The Hamburg was at that time,
according to calculations from reports re-
ceived from passing steamships, forty or
nifty miles in the lead. She was closely
pressed by the Ailsa and the Endymion, the
Atlantic being accordingly in fourth place.
followed by the Fleur de Lys. Valhalla and
Sunbeam In the order named. The Apache
and the Utowana were trailing far behind.
yIrh hn hara I~c,,k A..
the Hildegarde were unknown. They had
probably taken the northern or great circle
route. They have not since been reported
1t Is evident that from May "a the At
lantic got strong winds from the south
She had at that time. when she was less
than half way over. averaged scarcely eight
knots an hour, and she must have bowled
along for the rest of the distance at fine
speed to bring her average up to ten
Second place, It Is believed now Is be-
tween the Hamburg. Ailse and the Endy-
mion with the chances favoring the HAM
burg. When the full story of the race is
told the yachting experts of the New York
Yacht Club and about the maritime ex-
change declare that it will be found that
Captain Barr executed somewhere during
the last week great nautical coup d'etat.
The Winning Boat.
The Atlantic is three-masted schooner
owned by Wilson Marshall and skippered
by Capt. Charlie Barr. who was confident
of winning the transatlantic race for the
S., COO gold cup offered by the German en-
perOr. The Atlantic has also broken all
records previously made by sailing vessels,
including that made by her competitor. the
Endymion in 1900. of thirteen days, twenty
hours and thirty-six minutes to the Needles
on the Isle of Wight. the best record ever
made before.
A cable came today from the Scilly Isles
which are seventy miles west of the finish
f,,,. % to- Ilnn1 hot az TOD,
Greenwich time) or about $50 am. New
York time, the Atlantic was sighted under
full sail and bearing nearly due east at
great speed. She was about ten miles off
shore to the southwest She had then been
out from Sandy Hook lightship II days Is
hours. AZ minutes. Giving her but aver
age OF eight knots an hour for the remain
ing distance, and she ought to cross the
finish line at about o'clock this afternoon
(New York time). IL days, hours approx
ma tely out from Sandy Hook.
Although the Endymion's record was
taken at the Needles, some 100 miles
further east II is apparent that should the
Atlantic continue to that point she would
even then have broken the Endymion's rec
ord by many hours.
The record made by the Atlantic comes
as a great surprise to the experts who have
followed the yachts across the ocean from
reports of passing steamships. and COM
pletely upsets all calculations. When last
heard from the German yacht Hamburg
was supposed to be in the lead. the Endy-
mion second and the yawl Ailsa third. This
was on Wednesday last May "A. Since
then no steamships have reported passing
any of the yachts.
1t Is evident that the old veteran sea dog
Capt Barr. the winner of SO many cup de-
fender races, and who has now won for
himself an undying reputation as the most
skillful skipper that ever sailed the main.
finding himself some murky morning trail
ing along behind several of his competitors,
set his sharp nautical wits to work and ac-
complished a nautical miracle. AT any rate
by some hook crook he sneaked by the
Hamburg. the Ailsa and the Endymion.
crowded on every inch of the Atlantic
1900 square feet of canvas and drove.
drove Keeling off the knots at WONDERFUL
speed
Very strong fair southwest winds have
favored her during the last four or five
days of the voyage.
Capt Bars Career.
NEW YORK. May 2a.-Captain Charles
Barr, the skipper OF the victorious Ameri-
can-bult yacht Atlantic. was born at
Gourock, Scotland, on July IL, 1854, and
spent his boyhood on the rocky coast of the
sea, where he learned. naturally enough.
the rudiments of seamanship.
There came out story In one or the Lon
don yachting journals little before the
international races in 1901. In which 1t was
prophesied that should the British cham
MON sail down to defeat again, some con-
ISOLATION would be found in the fact that
the successful defender would have been
sailed by zone who was raised by our
selyes-the bone of our bone and flesh OF
our flesh. This was Charles Barr. the vic
torlous skipper of the Columbia. who two
years later was destined to beat his old
command with the new national yacht Re-
lance. -
Since the early '90s Barr has been full
fedged citizen of the United States. and II
| Is as an American that he wishes to De
| considered, and 1t IS for America that he
| has won his great victories and this last
| greatest triumph.
Began May II.
The transatlantic yacht race for the
| cup offered by the German emperor, which
! finishes at the Lizard, was begun Off Sandy
Hook lightship at noon on Wednesday, May
| H. in thick fog. Eleven yachts started.
including eight American boats. two Eng
| lish and one German. They crossed the
| line IN approximately the following order.
| there being some differences Of opinion be-
| cause several OF the yachts were very close
| together: The Ailsa. .Hildegarde, Atlantic
| Endymion. Hamburg (German) Thistle
| Fleur de Lys, Sunbeam (Engl.sh), Apache
| Utowana and Vaihalla Ccngish).
| From time to time this or that yacht
was reported as having been seen by In