Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-26
ResoIute Wins
 a Close Race
BOTH HER RIVALS PUSHED HER
 ALL THE WAY.
DEFIANCE SHOWS CLASS
Half the Course Had Been Sailed Be.
 fore ResoIute Assumed Leadership 7 Time Allowance Cost vanitie seo-
 ond Place-Are to Race Gaain Today.


 ond Plaee-Are to Race Aaain Today.
 Glen Cove, N. T.. June 25.-Resolute had to fight for her yachting honers today for her cup class divals, Defiance and Vanitie, gave her a merry tussle over the greater part of the 8 3-4 miles course in upper Long Island sound. It was not until more than half the course had been sailed that the Herreshoff production assumed the leadership and even then she was forced to fairly fly over the last ten miles in order to overcome four min ute time allowance which she conced- ed to the Defiance. Time allowance cost the Vanitie second place after leading the Defiance at the finish by one minute and AT seconds.
 The Resolute defeated the Defiance by 8 minutes and If seconds and, the Vanitie minutes and three seconds in corrected time.
 Defiance Shows Improvement.
 The improvement in the Defiance was the most encouraging feature of the race and keen yachtsmen pre- dicted that the tri-city boat would yet prove formidable contender for cup defending honorS.
 The yacht was well handled today
 
 reaches and ability to keep somewhere near the Resolute in beat to the wipdward in moderate airs. The Van itie also seemed to cling to the ReS- olute a little better than in Tues days contest, although the Herreshoff yacht dropped both her rivals rapidly when the wind breezed up late in the afternoon.
 Race Sailed in Light Breeze.
 rrf and not altogether satisfactory airs, but the yachts finished with scup- pers boiling.
 The three cup yachts formed class today in the annual regatta of the New York Yacht club and a squadron of power and sail yachts assembled off the fifty year old club house at Glen Cove to see the start. A dozen smaller boats hovered about waiting for the committee to send the big fel- lows away fin order and clear the track for their sport.
 A moderate breeze was dTffting across the sound from the Connecticut shore when the starting signal was given at 12.15. All three of the cup yachts had been circling about near the line with big reaching sails in stops, as the first leg was down the
 Resoiute First Across.
 The Reseiute was the first aefess, with tine Vanitie a cables length as- tern, while the Defiance held off sh order to get the benefit of the time and keep clear of the leaders. The Reso1ute and VaHitie, ignoring the tri- city yacht started eH a luffing match that not only carried them well out into the sound but allowed the De- fanee to slip into the lead. The nine mile reach was slow work, but when vn s-- from off shore neared for the mark, they found that the Defiance had pull ed out a nice lead.
 Was Real Race.
 For the first time since the series started, a real race between the three cup aspirants was on, The Defiance despite her smaller head rig, climb ed up to windward fully as fast as the Resolute during the first four of the six mile beat across the sound and at one time had lead of nearly half a mile over the Herreshoff yacht while the Vanitie chung tenaciously to the stern of the flag officers boat. This second leg of the course brought out the best sport of the day, for near the second turn off Great Captains Is- land it was seen that all three yachts were very close and that 1t was any body's race. The Resolute picked ur
 
 in the last mile of the leg overhauied the Defiance but could not quite catch her. The Owen boat luffed around the | mark one minute and forty seconds in the lead over the Resolute with the Vanitie close astern of the latter Defiance Unable to Maintain Lead. It was a run down the wind to Lloyd's Neck and with her half-a- spinmaker and smaller reaching sails the Defiance proved unequal to the task of maintaining the lead. Still ii was not until the turn was nearly reached and IS miles of the course had been sailed. that she fell back into second place and the Resolute head ed the procession again. The Vanitie seemed unusually sluggish in this spin 1 maker run and lost more than two minutes to the leaders.
 Gybing around the 1eeward mark for the second time, the yachts start ed another six miles beat back tc Great Captains Island. The Reso- lute, picking up the freshening breeze first, drew rapidly away from the oth- CT yachts and had the race we'll IT hand with the time allowance elimin- ated when she wore around the last buoy and started on her romp home Astern, the Defiance and Vanitie mixed it up tack for tack, until the 1 latter finally nosed out ahead meeting til6 Deuahce coming III on tn6 por' | tack and forcing her about. The Cochran yacht, rounding the buoy. was 1 26 seconds ahead of the Defiance, ana with the breeze hitting up a ten knot gait, the three f1iers headed across the sound to a relliC king finish under the green clad hills Of Glen Cove. The trio will race tomorrow and | Saturday off Oyster bay under the auspices of the Eeawanhaka-Ce Cerin- l thian Yacht elaf fer trophy offered by Commodore H, s. Vanderbilt ei | fhaf