New-York tribune., 1906-08-07
QUEENS CLOSE VICTORY
THE ELMIN4 rs SECOND
Vaas on Time 1Uoscance IN FortY-
Nile Race off Newport.

| spinnakers bellying far out 70 port and balloon
JiD topsails to starboad the big schooner
| yachts Elrnina and Queen, crossed the finishing
line this afternoon off Old Brenton's Reef Light
ship only 1 minute and seconds apart after
a race of forty miles from New London to this
/ port. both having started on even terms.
Although il had bene fair wind all the way
the race was one of the best that these two
| crack racing craft have ever engaged in. Each
owner thought his boat had until the fig
ures We're made known. Then il was found that
| the Queen had on time allowance by only
10 seconds She was allowed ] minute and %
seconds by the EImna. Close astern of these
two came the big yawls Vigilant and Sybarta
The latter won by Z minutes 81 seconds. Cor
nelius Vanderbilt's Rainbow was the winner in
the lO-foot class by IS minutes II seconds. but
the Yankee when she was within six miles of
the finish carried away her topmast and was
then less than three minutes astern OF the Rain
bow Harry L. Maxwell her owner, hopes TO
have new spar in place in time to sail in the
Astor Cup race. for which his boat is entered.
i. M. Smiths sloop Effort was defeated by 5
minutes and a. seconds by II. 2. Lippitt's Wee
tamoe and the Humma won from the Affair
by minutes and 10 seconds. The Humma also
won one Of the COmmodore's cups for the rum.
the other going TO the little SO-footer Nicola II,
owned by G. NJ. Pynchon
The winners OF the Commodore's cups in the
schooner class are Charles Smitherss schooner
Muriel and the little venona, owned by Robert
Olyphant jr
Fog SO thick that TO use the sailors express
Sion, "you could cut 1t with knife" enveloped
New London Harbor from view. soon after mid |
night until nearly noon. It gave signs of clear
ing before southwest breeze at 10 o'clock |
when the signal was made from the flagship
North Star for the fleet TO get under way |
Many of those that did were soon forced to |
anchor again on account Of the fog. The pre- |
paratory signal was finally made from the COM |
mittee tug Catherine Moran; she was anchored
half mile east OF Sarah's Ledge in order to
give the yachts a clear starting line The dis |
abled Fall River liner Puritan with a broken
shaft, lay almost on the regular starting line.
Nine of the thrty-foot one-design yachts, led
by A. III. and j. w. Alkers's the Alera, began
the forty. mile race at 1910 in a light air from
the southwark. which gave little promise of
freshening at that time The feet started on
the Starboard tack, with sheets eased off a trihe
Eleven sloops crossed the line the next signal,
1915. led by Robert Emmons's the Humma |
The Pellegrina, the ROsalie, the Doris, the /
Isolde, the Atari, Mimosa ILL., the Gardenia
the Janet and the Phantom got away in
that order this signal, all on a one gun
start. Then came the Irolita at 12:21:24, the
Effort at 12:21:46, the Weetamoe at 12:21:57
The Nicola was handicapped nine minutes and
the Hester sixteen minutes on account OF the
light airs.
Parallel to the line the big yawls vigilant and
Sybarita, less than length apart, made a sem
sational part; Just when the vigilants bow
spirit would clear the committee boat at the |
lee end Of the line her skipper luffed her to
cross It. the Sybarita lufflng at the same moment
as the Vigilant. Every one watching them was
certain that the latter yacht would cross too |
soon. but by good judgment her helmsnan saved
her, for she was timed as crossing two seconds |
after the whistle at 12:25:O2: the Sybarita
Cornelius vanderbilt's Rainbow in the wealth
er berth led the Yankee over the line by So Sec
onds.
Starting the schooners was little better than
drifting match. They got away in this order:
The Katrina. the Venona, the Crusader, the
Simitar and the Andorneda were all handicapped
at 1872, the Muriels time was 12:36:31, the
Elmina, the Queen, the Corona the Seneca,
the Ariel and the Endymion were all handi-
capped at 1237. the latter being handicapped
some 10 IN, on aGSo9n[ OF me cam
at 12:41::11 and these others, all handicapped:
the Vencedor, the Lasca q minutes) the Tekla,
the Emerald and the Idler
Just as the leaders were approaching Race
Rock, the first turning point in the course,
fine breeze from the southwest came to send
them flying eastward; they were timed at this
point as follows: The Humma. 1:20; the Weeta
moe 1:26; the Isolde, 1:26:02: the Rainbow.
1:27:20; the Sybartta. 1:29:22; the Pellegrina,
1:31O2: AImosa H. 1:31:10; the Yankee, 1922;
the Elmina 1924 the Vigilant, 1920; the
Queen, 134:3O; the Rosalie. 1:345O; the Doris.
Travelling at speed of more than ten knots
at times, the big schOOners and slOOps made fast
time 10 the eastward, with bOOms eased we'll off
TO port and the wind a trife aft OF the beam. so
they could carry their balloon jib tOpsailS and
main topmast staysails.
AT the whisting buoy, off Point Judith. at $50
O'clock the Elmina was the leader. The Vigilant
was next. then the Queen, the Sybarita, the
Corona, the Rainbow, the Muriel the Weetamoe
the Affair, the Humma. the Invader the Effort,
the Nicola and the Yankee, in that order, all car
ried SpinnakerS TO StarbOard from Point Judith
70 the finish. At 35S o'clock three minutes after
setting hers, the Yankee carried away her top
mast. She continued on to the finish under
niainsail and headsails. The accident was
caused by the carrying away of her topmast
backstay.
Four schOoners and twenty-one sloops are en-
tered for the race for the AstOr cups to-day; the
cup at $500. The course will be signalled before
the start, and it will depend the direction of
the wind If it is from the southwest, they will
be sent TO the Block Island mark. and if to the
around the Vineyard Sound and Hen |
and Chickens lightshps.
Sir Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador |
and the charge d'affaires of the French Embassy
are to view the race for the Kings Cup from the
deck of ex-Commodore E. T. Gerrys steam yacht
Electra.
The schooners entered for the Astor Guns arc
the Tavemina, the Elmina, the Queen and the
Corona.
The yawls are the Vigil and the Sybarita: the
sloopS the Rainbow, the Yankee the Weetarnoa | ,
the Effort, the Neola the Hester the Irolita the |
Eiumma, the Doris, the Isolde, the Gardenia |
the Alera, the Dahinda, the Atari the Nicola III |
the Banzai the Mink and the Phryne
The summaries follow:
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