New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-24

boats were thoroughly drencbsd0 0ta
the spray that kept raking a. y
decks 'neip
At 2:34, with the mark one bn,d
yards away, Resolute doused her Su is
-jib topsail and set reaching lin ' seJ
rounded the stake one minufa sns
forty seven seconds ahead Of tbs p ana
ish boat. 1t was necessary for D. ~
challenger to take several short bi..t sne
in order to make the mark. ana .sus
cost her time and headway. 'Aess
About 800 yards separated the vs...
as they nlled away for the close rs snS
10 the second turn. Both boats vi
footing fast and the time for " ~
course promised 20 be the best wa va
made in the cup series. ' ses
Breeze at Fourteen Knots
The breeze had increased to for..
knots by the time the boats wer rs1 rs,
ing off the second leg, and sns,t ,sei-
whitecaps were breaking ali ar a,,as
them. Resolute showed q naryn Jula
burst Of speed in the early part of 's sSs
close reach, and with her sails drsn.: .ne
full she seemed to be walking zig
from the challenger. Those who bad ..5
pected that the Upton clipper wonis
overhaul the American with ease vs.a
disappointed when she failed IN W.
lster the slightest gain.
Half way to the second mark Can..;.
Burton broke out his reaching iii 81.
the crew appeared 20 bungle The ~
and several minutes passed before 80. ~
canvas was set. At this stage of .le
race the defender seemed certsi, - .ns
feat her green-hulled rival. boat s ~.
boat. 1t was the Britisher who LODI
as though she needed time allowa..sa
AS the wind increased it brougbt
smoky haze out Of the southwest srs
the huge-sparred yachts had phos.ir
spectral look as they doomed aIons.'
with a white smother of foam a. tha;5s'
bows and their towering club tonss;is
almost obscured in d layer Of fog TaS
drive for the second mark saw bo-b
s,oops footing along at sensat;onsi
speed, and 1t was impossible 10 taij
which was moving the taster. Measrrsd
by the speed of the destroyer Semmes
| which kept abeam of Resolute. the b;s
single sticker was going at the rate n
IA z knots an hour.
1t was in the latter part of the Ear.
ond leg that Shamrock began to piek
up on the flying Resolute. She seemsS
to be getting a better wind and was
cutting down the distance between
them rapidly when Resolute jibeS
around the stake forty-three seconds
in the lead. They had averaged twelvs
knots an hour for the ten-mile rescS
and had come within few seconds ~
breaking the record.
Britisher Pursues ResoIute
The last leg, which was to the finish
Inc, started as reach, but finished
with the wind dead astern. A sudden
squall doomed out of the southwest
when the boats were within sight Of
the ightship and for a quarter of an
! hour added real thrill to the con-
test. This squall also played an i'm
portant part in the FINAL result. Just
before 1t reached the racers it seemed
certain that the challenger would over
haul Resolute, but Captain Burton
evidently did not care to take a chance
, on the black clouds ahead and ordered
his club topsail lowered.
For half an hour the Britisher pur-
sued ResolUte with no topsail at all.
To onlookers it seemed as though the
replacing of the club with working
topsail would have been the work Of
only a few minutes, but Shamrock's
men appeared fustered and their slow
work would have counted heavily
/ against the craft had it not been for
the oncoming squall. When this broke
both yachts received some exceedingly
out topsail set the challenger
was able TO navigate the blow better
than the defender and despite the
young gale that was bowling she held
to her course, while Adams, IN order
to save his rig, had to luff IN into the
wind.
It was no child's play fo- either
yacht and it cost Resolute the lead she
had won over Shamrock At the same
time it gave the latter wonderful op-
pcrtunity to go to the front and begin
the work of cutting down the time
allowance she comedies the American
boat.
The squat, however, passed with the
suddenness with which it had come
and when the wind began to abate q
little Adams put his boat back on hel
course. The challenger had slight
lead at this time, but Resolute cut il
down quickly and was soon out in from.
once more
Burton finally broke out a working
! topsall and running considerably to
weather of Resolute found breeze
that enabled him TO make one more
bid for the lead. Foot By foot be
overhauled the Yankee flyer until, 8
mile from the finish, ne was abeam Of
her. This was Shamrock's dying effort
but 1t might have given her the salts.
faction of a boat for boat victory had
it not been for bungling work with hei
! headsails. This sail handling maneuvei
was started by Shamrock and Resoluts
took advantage OF II TO win q sensa
tional victory.
Burton Drops His lib Topsail
Burton dropped his jib topsail will
! the apparent intention Of setting
/ ballooner. A few seconds later Adams
let his jib topsail go. and, although
first, had his balloon jib set long be-
fore the challenger had made any move
to break out a sail. Adams not only
! guessed him, for he set & 5alloonel
while Shamrock was given the benefit
/ Of only a reaching lib.
The Englishmen were so slow in do
: ing this that the big balloon on thu
American boat was pulling her fal
/ into the lead before the challenger
smaller sail was even set. This incl
dent effectually killed any chance Bur
ton had Of crossing the line ahead o.
Resolute. When Shamrock's headsal'
were finally drawing again the boat wal
400 yards in Resolute's wake.
A half-mile from the hnish Burton
set his spinnaker on the star0oard side
: but this canvas appeared to do he
little good and it was long TIME be
fore it actually flied. When Resolut
crossed the line Shamrock ~as two
ffths of mile astern.