The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-09
LITTLE SLOOP EFFORT
 CAPTURES KINGS CUP
NEW SCHOONER QUEEN LOSES COVETED PRIZE BY NINE
 SECONDS

Victorious Boat Nearly Twenty Minutes
 Behind the Queen in Crossing the
 Finish Line but Wins on Time Allow ance-Owner's Name and That of the
 Yacht Will be the First to be In-
 scribed on the Trophy Presented by
 British Ruler -- Brewster's EImina
 Third.
 Newport, Aug. S.-F. M. Faiths little sloop Effort won to-day's race for the Kings cup. The new schooner Queen, owned by J. Rogers Maxwell, led the fleet at the finish, but lost the race by nine seconds on time allowance.
 The race was sailed in a fine clubtop- sail breeze from the east over thirty seven-and-one-half- course, seven- teen miles of which was beat to wind ward in a smooth sea. The Queen led nearly the entire distance, but the Eff fort reached for the finish very fast and just clinched the race.
 Nine yachts started-f1ye schooners, three sloops and yawl-and seven fin ished, the sloop Rainbow and the schooner Muriel meeting with accidents.
 The name of the Effort and her own CT will be the first to be inscribed on the trophy presented to the club by King Edward VII,
 p,,e,>. l,+, n4 lively contest, continually interesting and always in doubt. The large yachts tried hard to get away from the small ones, while the latter clung tenaciously to the heels of their big sisters. At the first turn, Hen and Chickens lightship, the Queen was nine minutes and ten seconds ahead of the Effort, and as she was well ahead of the others 1t looked as if she would win. At Vineyard Sound, twenty-one and one-half miles from the start, she had increased her lead to nearly thirteen minutes, and on the run home added eight minutes more. That 1t lacked nine seconds of being enough to win was not due to poor handling.
 Three other boats followed the Queen not long after-the sloop Yankee, the yawl Vigilant, the schooner EImina- but they had been beaten long before. But three miles astern was the Effort, with her spinnaker boomed far out to starboard and pulling like a bulldog straining at his leash. Most of the yachts. aware of the twenty-odd min utes of time allowance due from the Queen to the Effort, hung about the finish line and waited to see if the little sloop would get there in time Minute by minute the time ticked off, and still the Effort came on with seemingly in- creasing speed, A mile more and five minutes remained. Then came the final spurt, and, picking up her heels, the Effort tore through the water and the line.
 Glanoing down at their timepieces, the found that there was just nine seconds to spare.
 Soon after the second turn the Elmina overhauled the Effort and took third place. One by one the yachts swept over the line with the water boiling un- der their bows and the sails stretched to their utmost. Each was beautiful picture, and the hundreds afoat and ashore who saw the spectacle were we'll although few knew that the | little Effort, twenty minutes late, had won the Kings cup.
 On coming ashore Commodore Van | derbilt sent dispatch to King Edward | the Effort as the winner of the race and thanking his majesty for his generosity.
 The sloop Effort was built this year for Mir. Smith from designs by H. J. Tielow, of New York, and has won quite number of minor events this season. MT. Smith lives in New York and San Francisco
 The cruise of the New York Yacht ,lub will continue tomorrow to Vine yard Haven. The summary:
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