Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-17
New York Harbor Puts
on Its Best Dress for
Second Event of Classic

FROM A SEAPLANE OVER RAG
ING COURSE. July II tby the As
| harbor put on it's best holiday suit
of sunshine and favorable weather
early today and waited for the signal
which was to start the second event
OF the classic contest for interna-
, tional yachting supremacy between
the British challenger Shamrock w
and Resolute, the American cup de-
fender
Across the vast stage already set
with sharp drawn lines dividing land
lodged in and out among their neigh
bors. streamers and flags afioat.
! making ready to assist or watch the
spectacle.
| mere miniature in the scene, although
| cast as a principal in the play, rose
| in the center Of the great fan-shape
stage.
To the north. in the front tier, lay
Coney Island and Rockaway Beach
Beyond Long Island stretched its
tenuous fingers into the Atlantic.
Westwai the highland coast of New
Jersey was already being dotted with
trains. motor cars and groups of spec
tators. early corners who sought the
choicest points of vantage overlook
ing the wide, marine amphitheater.
DestrOyers ON Police Duty.
In the distance. veering on tip-toe
| from its standing room in the apex Of
the triangle. heads disappearing in
the smoky, overhanging mist. doomed
the angular multitude of buildings
! called New York city.
Before 10 o'clock vessels Of every
Observation-Disclosures to congregate,
keeping respectful distance from
| the light vessel out of difference to a
| as traffic police. The majority of these
sightseers. brilliant with new white
paint, were private or club yachts and
steamed with show of ostentation
from the mouth of the Hudson.
From the decks Of one the suns
! rays flashed on the instrument of a
brass band: Others. with remnants
af1utter. sailed in from the direction
OF the Connecticut shore.
IDLY, like truant schoolboy lin
gsring TO watch the bright parade, a
liner flying white star in a red field
and the flag of Great Britain. loafed
across the harbor. waiting for a view
OF the racers, which had not vet an
peared A series of rapid white puffs
from alongside her funnel told the
aerla! observers she was footing a
greeting to her luckier sisters not
enslaved by the laws of commerce
FROM the aerial perch of the Asso-
Grated Press observer the two rival
yachts could be seen lying at anchor
in the sheltered horseshoe behind
oaHuy --I1ooh. separated only by a
couple of hundred yards blue water
they tugged on their moorings under
the impetus of a light breeze
Sails Begin to Go Up.
At 10 o'clock the Resolute had hoist
ed her mainsail and jib, while a pair
or sailormen were busy with the top
sail aloft. The Shamrock displayed
her full spread of dangling canvass
including a staysail and with her
club topsail towering above the Sham
rocks pennant at her masthead.
Two hours before the race began
the committee boat carrying race of
ficials and school of tugs and de-
stroyers arrived at the basin to es-
cort the contestants to the starting
point.
The spectators gathered for the
second race included many more sma II
craft than braved the squalls of rain
and electrical storms on Thursday. A
score of sailing yachts emerged from
the Hudson for the East river and
stood off and on in the neighborhood
of Ambrose light. Between the start
ing point and the Long Island shore
hundred launches and other small
vessels formed a great semi-circle
and waited for the sport to begin. On
some of these passengers rugged up
fishing tackle and made a show of
keeping busy. some possibly with the
idea of justifying their presence near
er to the light vessel than regula-
tons allowed.