The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-10
TEUTOEIC BEAT CARONlA IN
BUT CARONIA DOCKED FIRST
AFTER $500 NILE RACE.

All the way Across Passengers were JSsh-
lng Each Other by wireless and Each
ship Could See the other on Fair Days
-MldWeek steamers Out for Business.
That the swift steamships deteriorate in
their strenuous efforts to win and keep the
glory Of being the best ever was illustrated
yesterday In the victory Of the White Star
liner Teutonic over the comparatively new
Cunarder Caronia in a race from Queens
town. during which there was no moment
when the racers were not In wireless touch.
At all times when there was no fog II was
possible for passengers OF each ship to see
the other without the use Of marine glasses.
The Teutonic beat the Caronia by the narrow
margin OF 1 hour and 20 minutes, covering
the course from Daunt's Rock, outside
Queenstown, to the Sandy Hook lightship
Of 1881 miles, only one mile less than that
logged by the Caronia,
Before the days Of the wireless when IL
was a rare thing for the liners to keep in
touch all the way across the racing lane the
Teutonic was acclaimed as the fastest OF the
fastest. That was AWAY back In August,
1890, She had as a competitor the lnman
liner City Of New York, now the American
liner New York, and she beat her and created
a new record Of 8 days " hours and S min
utes. And the shippers Of both ships said
they were not racing, They did not say
that yesterday aboard the CarOnia and the
Teutonio because the evidence TO the on
trary was overwhelmingly against them.
In that old record race the average Of the
Teutonic was 2O.lS knots and her best days
run was 5i2 miles. On this last trip her
best days run was Az miles, That was on
the nautical day ending ON Wednesday,
when the Caronia logged only two miles less,
beating her W best daily record by nine
miles.
The race differed from the old time con-
tests largely because il was considered
a race by everybody aboard the racers.
The skippers we're interested mostly be-
cause the two lines have only recently
entered into competition OF the Queens
town route as midweek ships, The word
to the commanders IL bring her up on
Wednesdays If you can That means
a larger expenditure of coal, but it means
also the prestige Of landing passengers
early On Wednesdays,
The passengers we're able 10 jeer each
other by wireless, naturally paying for
the messages, when they were not near
enough to wiggle their fingers. Alfred
C.. Stock, a California ranohman, got up
a pool Of 5000 and offered to wager It
against a similar pool raised on the Caronia
that the White Star would be first TO pass
the Sandy Hook lightship. The purser
Of the Cunarder wired back after receiving
the message that there seemed to be NJ
sporting blood on his ship.
The stOkers became 40 much Interested
in the battle that they came up on deck
to note its progress when II was their
watch below" And they worked hard
Oh both racers. Purser Shepherd OF the
Teutonic ond Purser McCubbin Of the
Caronia kept up o game Of tauntng after
the fog swallowed the ships. The leu
tonic got the submarine bell Of Nantucket
lightshlp while the mist was thiokest and
laid a course for Sandy Hook from this
assured position. The Caronia was still
cropping for the submarine signal and de-
cided to ask the Teutonio whether she had
picked it up. The Teutonic answered
that she had indeed. with a wireless grin.
and kept right on. That is the reason,
the Caronia's men say. that the White Star
beat her TO the Sandy Hook beacon.
But the Caronia had the satisfaction Of
docking lrst, which u the passengers Of
any liner Whathar gla has or haa NOT won
a race. IL very satisfying. 1t is not UNI
likely that the White Star liner Adriatic
and the Cunarder Etruria. which sailed
from Queenstown yesterday, may also On
gage In a tussle TO get here first. The
Etruriu also once sported a broom at
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