Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-14
NEWPORT HOODOO
AGAIN HALTS RACE
Light Winds Cause Committee
to Call Off Meeting of
Cup Yachts.
REsoLUTE IN THE LEAD

NLOOLOlL HN I'LL ALfAD
Americas cup defense yachts. the
Resolute. Vanitie and Defiance, were
doomed to another disappointment
at Newport, R. l., yesterday, for,
after sailing over two legs of
thirty mile triangular course, the race
was called off because Of the light
winds.
At the end of the twenty miles
Resolute had a lead of five minutes
and fifty-seven seconds. She covered
the distance somehow in four hours,
ffty-four minutes and twenty-five
seconds. It was Resolute's race up to
the time the committee called it off.
Defiance. after drifting stubbornly
alongside of the Cochran sloop and
leading her at times, ran into dead
calm near the second turn and was
wallowing there when the committee
arrived ON r. p. Perkins yacht TUNA
and flashed the welcome news. This
was at 5:19 p. m. The tri-eity yacht
caught sight of the signal first and
promptly withdrew, the others fol-
lowing suit to go back to Newport
for the night.
This was the third race that has
been spoiled since the yachts got at
Newport. Gales, fogs and no wind at
all have played havoc with the reg
ular schedule. On Thursday, Friday
and Saturday the yachts will race
under the direction of the Newport
Yacht Racing Association.
All three yachts had on new main
sails, Resolute also carrying her So
"a aerf 4rarafI
Vanitie using her new shell gaff for
the first time. They got away to a
good start, Yanitie crossing the line
first at 12:15:10. Resolute following
two seconds later and the Defiance
at 12:15:39. There was half an hour
of exciting manoeuvering Resolute
stole into the lead five minutes after
the start, Vanitie took it back FIVE
minutes later and Defiance forged
ahead of both five minutes after that.
Finally, Vanitie and Defiance forged
off and Rugged the shore, while Reso-
lutte, with Designer Nat Herreshoff
aboard, stood out to sea.
There she was becalmed for half an
hour and the others seemed to be
leaving her but she got little
breeze after awhile and when the
three drew together at the first turn,
Resolute led by one quarter of a mile.
The times here were: Resoluee,
2:06.3S; Vanitie, 2:12:42 Defiance,
2:16:51. Resolute had gained six min
utes and six seconds on Vanitie, and
the later gained three minutes and
forty seconds on Defiance. The reach
to the second mark was farce. They
were in the doldrums most of the
time, and it took them more than
three hours to cover the ten miles.
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with every shift of the wind. The
crews were on the jump every min
ute, but they could not make the
boats go. Defiance did the best wgrk
in the faint southwest air. and at one
time passed Yanitie. But toward the
end the Cochran sloop picked up a
zepher and got back into second
place.
Resolute turned the second mark at
5:09:40, Vanitie at 5.15:35. vanitie
had managed to pick up just nine
seconds in this leg. They had their
ballooners out and were crossing
slowly for home when the committee
called the race off -
Samuri Best In Light Breeze.
w. e. Dodge's Samuri sailed best
among the fifty-footers in the second
days races of the Larchmont Yacht
Club, in Long Island Sound, yester-
day afternoon. In light breeze she
defeated five other fifty-footers in
fine style. At the end she was one
minute ahead of r. Randolph's Spar
tan. Carolina II. finished third, close
behind the Spartan, Harry Payne
Whitney's Barbara was fourth, ]. r.
Morgan's Crawling fifth and Pleione,
owned by Rumrill and Irwin, last.
Venona won a special schooner class
The first of the thirty-footers of the
New York Yacht Club to finish was
Oriole. The Larchmont inter-clup
class was taken by Lewanna. Cyric,
lower bay S boat. won special
race against the Jewels. Other win
ners included Avis, Twinkle, Dart,
Virginia and Margaret.
Rain Interferes.
Rain fnterfered with the afternoon
play in the fifth annual tennis tour
nament for the clay court champion
ship of the United States at Cincin-
natl, o., yesterday. Several matches
had to be postponed until today. The
st. Louis champion, Roland Hoerr,
won his match with A. T. Redway in
easy fashion. He started to play r. A.
Holder, jr., of Cincinnati in the sec-
ond round, but rain interfered
William Smith, of Louisville, was
defeated by Middleton Decamp, Of
Cincinnati. Robert L. Cowen, "
Knoxville, Tenn, won his match with
Benjamin Decamp, of Cincinnati