The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-23
TWO OCEAN RACERS SIGHTED
ATLANTIC AND THISTLE SEEN
 ON SATURDAY.

DIE lMcOlhthS LiueTs SeHu IHIOFinatiON
 by Wireless Te1egraphy-Atlantic Apparently in the Lead--Making q
 Fine showing-No Word of Any of the Other Yachts.
 1 New York, May 22--Atlantic and
 Thistle are the only yachts racing for the German emperor's s cup which have been sighted since Friday night. The former. of which Charles Barr is the skipper. was seen by the Cedric, Min netonka and Noordam, on a southerly course, on Saturday. Thistle was re- ported the same day seven hours and fifteen minutes earlier and was then about 200 miles behind Atlantic, having | taken a more northerly course The Cedric was first to see Atlantic, soon
 after she was seen by the Minnetonka, and at 9:45 p. in. by the Noordam.
 When seen by the latter vessel she
 was in latitude 4O:53 north and longi- tude 58 west, heading east with a fresh and increasing west-southWest wind. l Wilson Marshall's three-masted schooner had been out eight-one hours
 and thirty minutes and had travelled
 about 720 miles, making her average ES.S knots an hour on her course since the start. When she was seen by the Cedric she was sailing at an average lspeed of 7.54 knots, according to the es- ltlmate of the navigator of the Cedric. This is particularly good going when lit is considered that for the first day
 and half of the race Atlantic had
 head winds, which would make her sail about one-half more than the casting
 she made on her cruise, during the time
 she was beating to Windward. The dis lpatches from the steamships were sent to the Associated Press via Nantucket by wireless, and were as follows : l "SS. Cedric via Noordam and Marco \ nj station, Siasconset, Mass, 22-Asso- aciated New York-May 20, Atlantic
 sighted latitude 40, longitude 60, head ling east, fresh West-southWest winds, 1weather fine, clear cloudy. sea moder- < "SS. Minnetonka via Marconi station, ISagaponack, N. Y, 22-Associated, New
 York. yacht Atlantic Saturday, latitude 40.49 north, longitude 59 west; l lfresh West-southWest winds, increas- ling" "SS. Noordam via Marconi station, l lSiasconset, Mass, May 22.-Associated, New York. k.-May 20, passed yacht pre-
 stunned Atlantic 9:45 D. nl., latitude 40.53
 north, 5S west, heading east, burned red lwhite, red coston light, having fair
 west-southwest wind.
 I Boston, May Captain Walker, of Ithe British steamer Gorsemore which
 arrived here to-day from Antwerp re- ports that at 2:30 p. m. on May 20 in latitude 41.8 north and longitude GA
 west he passed close to the topsail Eschooner yacht Thistle one of the con- ltestants in the transatlantic race. A
 breeze from the west-northWest prevail led at the time and the yact with all
 sails set was making speed of about l 5B knots an hour. Robert E. Tod, owner and captain of the Thistle, reported to Captain Walk Ter that on Friday last, in latitude 41.17 north, longitude 67.30 west, he passed a lderelict brigantine, and the spars of an-
 other large vessel near by indicated that collision had occurred. MT. Tod thought that the second vessel had been
 sunk and that the other one had been
 abandoned. Captain Walker had no further particulars. The brigantine was probably the British vessel Acacia, pre- l yiously reported derelict