New Britain herald., 1920-11-01
DELAWANA LEADING
 GLOUCESTER CRAFT
Canadian Schooner, With Less
 Ballast, Gets Early Advantage QUARTER MILE TO THE GOOD
Wind Conditions Are Not Best For Fast Time, But Shippers of Both Boats Make Best of Circum-

Fast Time, But Shippers of Both
 Boats Make Best of Circum-
 stances.
 Halifax. Nov. 1.-Esperanto and Delawana, American and Canadian contestants for the racing cham rfonship of the international fishing
 1eets romper off in rhe start of their second race today. Esperanto crossed at e:02 a. m. (unofiicialJ about hatf a .eng.h ahead and slightly to lee ward of - e Delaware. At SOS a. m. Dslavana had caught and passed Esperanto and was leading by 50 yards. Both vessels were footing at a moderate pace. Official starting times were: Esperanto 9:O1:04h, Delawana 9:01:O1h. Delawana eased Esperanto by blanketing her about five minutes after the start.
 Esperanto First Across.
 Five. minu,es before the prepara- tory gun Esperanto had little more than steerage way What little wind there was came from the west A dredge which was put to sea in the early morning was observed to be making port again indicating heavier weather conditions outside. The IS minute preparatory gun, found both schooners on the starting line. Cap- tain Marty Welch of the Esperanto on the stroke ot the five .rsnue gun jibed over and headed out of the har- bor on the starboard tack. Captain to windword followed suit. It looked for a time as though Esperanto would be ahead of the gun but Captain Welch had judged his distance nicely and led Delawana to windward of him and over the line on the flash of the gun. Delawana with about 40 tons less ballast in her hold than in Saturdays race. easily pulled away from Esperanto. Both schooners were getting 2 better breeze and every inch of sail was 1rawing we'll.
 Delawana Takes Lead.
 At s:3o Delawana had passed Sandwich Point and was getting a ,tiffer breeze outside. gaining another advantage over Esperanto which still was inside the point. The wind st this time was about due west. At 1885 Delawana was an estimated Iuarter of a mile in the lead Es- peranto was holding her own when ! .he wind hauled a little to south and 1 Captain Himmelman edged up to Delawana turned the ' first mark at 10:1S:30 and Esperanto 1 four and a quarter minutes later.
 Today's Course.
 The schooners travel today over the same course as Saturday-a close l hauled reach from Point Pleasant | breakwater to the inner automatic { buoy 6h miles; a broader reach to | the outer automatic buoy six miles: l a ten mile run to the bell buoy off | shut-in Island: an eleven mile beat | back to the inner automatic buoy, | and the fifth leg the same as the first. ! back to the breakwater.
 The wind fell after the schooners had begun their second leg and the | feeble breeze. hauling around toward | he north, made it a very broad | reach. At 10:47 a. m. with the first | mark two miles behind the leading | craft, there was no marked change l in the position of the schooners, both | kept their stay sails set although | stray puffs never really filled them. At 11:25. Delawana was a mile from | the second mark and the schooners their relative positions. Both 1 were shrouded in mist.