New-York tribune., 1920-06-09
The ResOlute
Barely Drifts
To a Victory
Adams Pilots Sloop Across
Line Against Vanitie
Just Inside Time Limit
By Jack Lawrence

NEWPORT, R. L., June 8.-The
Resolute was credited with an official
victory over the Vanitie here this af-
ternoon in a fuke race that was a
drifting match from start to finish
That the Resolute won was due to
the fact that she managed to find a
breath of breeze tnat carried her
over the finish line just inside the
time limit of six hours. Her bronze
adversary couldn't coax tickle and
wandering wind into her sails and
spent most Of the afternoon in a mo-
tionless calm. She was unable to fin
ish within the prescribed time limit
The result of to-dey's race, if it
could be called that, gives the Reso-
Lutte two official victories to the Vani-
ties one. The contest tomorrow will
be triangular affair over a thirty
mile course. 1t was on this course
that the Vanitie won her sensational
victory.
The elapsed time for to-day's race
follows: The Resolutc, 5s:0s; the
Vanitie, 6:26:08
Not Expected to Finish
There was every indication that the
third race between the contenders ror
the honor of defending the Americas s
Cup would not be finished. When the
Resolute turned the outer mark it
seemed impossible for her to finish
within the limit Of six hours, but in
the beat to windward on the last leg
she nosed into a gentle breeze out Of
the northeast that seemed created for
her special benefit. With it's assistance
she managed to cross the line.
While this madeto-order breeze was
devoting its attention to the fortunate
Resolute the hapless Vanitie was wal
lowing in the doldrums, and at times
seemed to be going back, instead Of
forward.
The steam yacht Karifa, carrying
the race committee of the New York
Yacht Club, deserted the two yachts
when the race was half over, as did
the fleet Of pleasure craft that went
out from Newport to witness the con-
test. The committee did not believe
that either yacht had chance to
finish.
In perfectly fiat sea and with some
thing less than six knot breeze blow
ing fittfully out of the north, north
east. the two cup yachts crossed the
starting line at two minutes after II
o'clock this morning. The coursee was
fifteen miles to leeward and return.
Part Company for Day
They went across neck and neck,
then they parted company for the rest
OF the day. The Resolute swung off
on starboard tack while the Vanitie,
much to the surprise of spectators,
laid an opposite course. The Resolute,
heading for the Narragansett shore,
undoubtedly chose the wiser route to
the outer mark IS she not only availed
herself of a light land breeze, but ap-
peared to be helped by the setting Of
the tide. In this respect her skipper
Charles Francis Adams undoubtedly
out-generaled Commodore George
Nichols, the amateur helmsman of the
Vanitie.
The Vanitie on the port tack, stood
out to sea and was promptly deserted
by wind, luck and every other circum-
stance that could have helped her.
Both boats broke out ballooners i'm
mediately after crossing the line, but
during the most Of the time the big
sheets dropped in listless fashion and
refused to be of any assistance. The
turned the outer mark far ahead of the
becalmed Vanitie. She dropped her
balloon jib for the windward beat
home.
Although experts who witnessed the
event declared that it was no race and
Of practically no value in determining
the respective merits of the cup de-
tenders. it was generally admitted that
the Resolute made q good showing in
the exceedingly light airs that pre-
vailed. Some of the sharps are in
clned to attach consid rable signifi-
canoe to her work to-day because they
believe it highly probable that the
international contests against the
Shamrock " off Sandy Hook in July
will be sailed under rather similar
conditions.
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