Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-09
BY nine SECONDS.
S|oop Effort Wins Kings
Cup by Close Margin.
Schooner Queen Leads But
Loses on Time Allowance.
Satinita Wins Emperor Williams Cup
in Race al C0Wes.

Newport. r. L. Aug. ST. NJ. Smiths
little @loop Effort won today's race for
the Kings cup.
The new schooner Queen, owned by
]. Rogers Maxwell. led the fleet at the
finish. but lost the race by nine sec
onds on time allowance.
The race was sailed in a fine club
topsail breeze from the east over n
81 y mile course. Il miles of which
was 4 beat To windward in Il smooth
sea.
The Queen led nearly the entire dis
tance but the Effort reached for the
finish very fast and just clinched the
race.
Nine yachts started, five schooncrs,
three sl0opS and a yawl and seven fin
iShcd, the sloop Rainbow ana tile
schooner Muricl meeting with acct
dents.
The name of the Effort and her own
er will be the first To be inscribed on
the trophy presents to the club by King
Edward VII.
The race from start to finish was a
lively contest, continually Interesting
ana always in doubt. At the first turn
at Chickens li&htShip the Queen WAS
nine minutes and 10 seconds ahead of
I he Effort ana as she was wen ahead
| of the others il looked as if she would
Win. AT Vineyard sound, 2l1a miles
from the start, she had Increased her
lead 10 nearly Is minutes ana on the
run home added eight minutes more.
That il lacked 10 seconds If being
enough to win Was not due to poor
hl nd for. lpiN
like the new Queen.
Three other boats followed her rot
long after, the slrop Yankee. the yawl
Vieilant The schooner tmina. but
they had all been beaten lnn3 before
Rut three miles a>teru was the Effort
with her spinnaker doomed far out To
starbnard and pulling ike q bull dog
straining at his utmost Of the yachts
knowing of the 70 odd Minutes Of tina
alloMan, due from the Queen to the FL
fort. hung about the finish line ana
waited to zee if the little sloop would
get there in time Minute by minute
the time licked off and still the Effort
came on with seemingly increasing
speed. A mile more and still there was
FIVE minutes left.
on the committee boat the seconds
were ttiil? counted OH ana WIFI Al
minute laas the Effort WAS atill few
hundred yards from The line. Then
came ihe final squirt and picking up her
heels :he tore through the water.
Squirting along the line the commit
teeman caught her mainmast as it
swung by the foremost Of the light
ship
Time" he yelled and snap went the
watches, lille the man who was count
ing stopped.
GlancinS down At their timepieces the
committee found that there was just
nine seconds to spare.
That nine seconds Will probably live
for many years IN the annals Of the
Yacht Club, while il will be parpetuat-
ed on the golden vase Of King Edward
VII.
The preliminary signal came ut 11.2O
with the entire fleet clustered to the lee
ward Of the line. In the fight for place
Harry Maxwell on the Yankee beat out
the redoubtable Charlie Barr on the Rain
bow and crossed th, line in the lead, 16
seconds after the starting signal was
sounded, at 11.30 o'clock.
The yachts crossed the starting line as
follows:
Yankee (slOop). 11.3o16.
Rainbow (sloop), 11.D26
Queen tschOOner), ll.1.35.
Effort fsloop), 1l.3031
Muriel (schooner), 11.305I
Armnrita (schooner). 11.3l15.
VigIlant (yawD, 1L51.5o.
Corona (schooner), 11.33.O5.
Elmina (schGoner), H3315.
Fifteen minutes after the start the
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