New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-09
KINGS CUP TO EFFORT.
RainbOzo Smashes Into Rock off
Hen and Chickens.
IBy Telegraph to The tribune. ]


Newport. r. l.. Aug S.-Frank NJ. Smiths new
65-foot sloOp Effort. designed by Henry G.. Glow.
Of New York, and sailed by Captain Howell her
sailing master won the Kings Cup to-day by
the small margin of nine seconds from ]. Rogers
MaxwelIs schooner Queen
The Queen was designed by HerreshOff, and
both were built for the express purpose of
winning the splendid trophy offered this year
by King Edward for competition by any Yacht
belonging to any yacht club In the United States
II was one Of the best races from start TO
finish ever seen off Newport. The total distance
was thirty-seven and One-half miles, over six
teen of which the yachts had a dead beat to
windward, adding some five miles or so to the
distance.
The Queen took the lead soon after the start.
AT the windward mark she led the next yacht.
the Yankee by minutes "a seconds She was
the first yacht across the finish line and her
actual time is said TO be the best ever made over
the course under similar conditions of wind
and sea- 1t was hours 81 minutes AZ seconds.
The Queens time allowance 70 the Effort was
20 minutes AZ seconds. the latter's elapsed time
being 4:52:20. On elapsed time the Queen de-
feated the Yankee by 10 minutes % seconds. the
Elmina 12 minutes 70 seconds and the Corona %
minutes 29 seconds.
EFFORT WINS BY CLOSE MARGIN.
Although the Yankee. handled by Harry L.
Maxwell. her owner sailed splendid race. she
defeated the Effort. boat for boat. by only 10
minutes and seconds.
An unfortunate accident to Cornelius Wander
bilt's sloop Rainbow put her out of the race at
/: :;53 o. M, when she had covered about ten miles
of the course. She and the Yankee. after an ex-
citing start, in which the Rainbow protested the
Yankee for crowding her at the line had been
6ol,s nar6 in JyiO6
hours and twenty minutes they had battled for
the weather position and the Yankee had been
the better every tack.
They passed West Island with the Yankee
nearly three minutes in the lead. When they
about midway between that point and the
first turning point in the course. Hen and Chick
light vessel, the Rainbow while on the port
tack, struck on Schuyler's Ledge. The shock
threw Captain Barr. who at the wheel, viO-
lently to the deck. and badly injured his right
leg at the thigh Five or six of the sailors also
were thrown down and more or less bruised.
Some of the yachts planks were stove in and
she began to leak. so George Cormack, secre-
tary of the New York Yacht Club, who was
Commander Vanderbilt's representative on
board. ordered the yacht back TO Newport at
once. The crew pumped all the way while the
Rainbow ran before the wind to the harbOr
Upon her arrival. after the mems injuries had
been attended to by the fleet surgeon. she was
tOwed to Bristol for repairs. She will not sail In
tO-mOrrOws race.
LARGE FLEET ACCOMPANIES YACHTS.
The fleet of steam yachts that accompanied the
contestants around the course was larger even
than on AstOr Cup day. They included COmmaIs-
der Cornelius Vanderbit's North Star Vice-Com-
mander Henry NJ Walters Narada Arthur E.
Austin's Coranto Walter FergusOn's Christabei
Harry f. COnverses Parthenia, Fred Gallatins
Riviera. F. NJ. Smiths HauoH Robert N Cor
sens Marietta Julius Fleischmanns Hiawatha
w. L. Harkness's Gunhilda Jesse III. Metcalfs
Felicia, Thomas W. SlOcums Cayuga. ]. e.
Rogers Maxwell's Celt. A. Dewitt COchranes
Alvina, Walter Jennngs's TUscarOra, F. C.
BOurness Colonia, Morton F. Plants venetia
John B. HerreshOffs Eugenia. Nathaniel Her
reshors Roamer. Charles F1etcher's Carnina. H.
H. Rogers's Kanawha Fl. A. c. Taylor's Wan
derer. j. p Morgan's Corsar. f. c. Benedct's
Oneida and r. Nj. ThOmpsOn's Invincible.
From soon after daybreak until it was time 70
leave the harbor the crews of the yachts that
we're to start were busy removing cabin furni-
ture slylishts. chain cables and all superfuous
weight for all were to sail in racing trim. ON
account of a heavy rain sQuaH between $50
and o'clock sails not hOisted until 5
o'clock. Then there was some lively work done.
setting clubtopsafs and lower sails.
CORONA FIRST YACHT OUT.
The first yacht out of the harbor was A. F.
Lukes schooner Corona; she was followed by the
Queen. the Vigilant. the AmOrita the Rainbow
and the Yankee. The committee yacht CoIonia
which had been placed at the disposal of the re-
gatta committee by her owner. ex-COmmodore
F.. q. Bourne, was found anchored north oe
Brenton's Reef LishtshiP, where she marked the
starting line From her triatic stay the course
signals were flying in the fresh easterly breeze
They told the racing shippers that the 37Is-miIe
course around the Vineyard Sound and Hen and
Chickens Light vessels had been reversed. so
that the first leg of the triangular course would
he dead beat To windward Of sixteen miles.
the second leg close reach OF four and One-half
Continued On nf,h puxr.