Republican farmer., 1920-07-16
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0Continued from Page One) The American cook on Sir Thomas steam yacht Victoria wagered with Sir Thomas valet a five dollar bill against a, pair of the baronets cast off trousers. Captain Burton planned to carry a smaller club topsail today and reduce the heavy handicap which the Sham rock carries in allowing the Resolute g time allowance of seven minutes and one second in a 30-mile race. This smaller topsail was expected to reduce the allowance to six minutes and 46 seconds.
 Shamrock was the first to get up 1 her mainsail, which Tapped from side 1 to side in the freshening breeze. It seemed much larger than Reso1ute's
 mainsai1 which was noisted shortly | after.
 1 The defender kited her largest club topsail, while the Irish sloop l also sent up a club topsail of large area. The two racers swung un- willingly at their mooring buoys awaiting a tow to the starting line. The wind dropped out as the morn | ing advanced and came in f1tful puffs from the southwest about six knots
 in strength. Grey clouds came out
 from behind the Jersey headlands screening the sun and giving a con- stant threat of rain. Ofshore the 1 haze shut in thick and curtained the
 Ambrose light vessel from shore ob- ! servers.
 Resolute, disdaining tow, broke l ou ther headsails at 10:22 o'clock. l cast off from her mooring buoy and i headed away toward the Sandy Hook | spit, where she made a turn and | started to the eastward for the start ing line.
 Shamrock followed her within less 1 than minute, breaking out her head
 sails and standing away toward thA starting line, a half mile or more
 astern of the American sioop.
 The wind was still light from the l westward.
 1 The race committee boat the ocean | tug Harrington, came up to the Am ] prose lightship and took her position
 at the starting line at 10:45 o'clock.
 She was soon followed by a line of excursion craft crowded with passen- gers who lined the rails from stem to | stern watching the two racing sloops
 as they slid easily through the water | seaward in the light airs.
 The ocean was as smooth as a | mill pond. Here and there large soft l spots were observed evidence of the
 breeze that sometimes blew eight | knots in strength and then fell away to an Irishman's hurricane.
 Hunting for vagrant winds was ap- | parently none to the liking of Cap
 tain Burton for on the way to the | lightshfp he took a tow. while Reso- 1ute moved on under her own sail.
 At 11:30 a. m. the regatta commit tee hoisted the signal for a southwest
 by south course.
 The breeze was scarcely strong
 enough to stir the flags on thte racing
 craft. Resolute reached the start i 11:15, but Shamrock was nearly han
 an hour late.
 | Decision by the race committee
 on a course southwest by south would | carry the yachts from Ambrose Light |, ship to a turning point couple o1
 miles, off Asbury Park. With the
 hoistihg of the course signal the mark boat Aileen Morse under com. mand of Captain Blk, steamed away l to set the turning nark-a' white float carrying a red ball, off the prop CT position fifteen miles away.
 All seaplanes of the third maya district were forbidden to fly over the l yachts. The yachts moved at fair speed il } the mild airs as they jockeyed for DO 5 sitions behind the starting line. ) From the shore 1t was apparen : that the Shamrock had made a poo
 start, not crossing the line until aftel
 the handicap whistle had been blowl
 at 12:o2 o'clock. The yachts crossed r the line on the starboard tack. Shamrock was over the starting Iline at the starting signal and hel skipper, Captain William Barton, hat to recross. Meanwhile Resolut. slipped over in first place. Shamrocl
 recrossed about 40 seconds after thu
 Resolute and immediately stood afte . the America boat. but 200 yard astern. According to yachtsmer Shamrock's start today was the wors
 ever made by Lipton boat.
 The yachts carried mainsails, stay | sails, foresails and baby jib topsails Three minutes after crossing the lin.
 Resolute tackled to port and headed
 for the Jersey short.
 The official starting time givel } from the race committee boat were
 Resolute 12:o0:40; ShamrocI l 12:O1:38 3 It also was announced officially tha the time allowance would be six min , utes and 40 seconds due to a chang in figures obtained by remeasurinl
 the Shamrock's sails.
 3 Shamrock stood to seaward on thu 3 starboard tack.
 l The advantage of the start lay dis s tinctly with the American boat be
 I cause of faulty timing on the Lipto1
 craft, which resulted in her crossin,
 the line a few seconds before tn |. starting signal. Shamrock at 12:0 l was seemingly unable to catch Reso
 lute. At 12:10 rain squall drench ed both yachts and nearly killed thu 5 breeze. Resolute pointed higher bu f Shamrock footed a trif1e faster. Mrs. Burton, wife of the Sham rocks skipper. the first woman eve to sail on cup yacht, had been des ignated to hold the time watch on tn.
 Shannroc Whether she was on board to call the time of today's race wa not known when the yachts started. The rain squal1 hid the yachts iron f sight from the shore a few minute after the start the rain ceased fall