Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-07-14
First of Americas Cup
Contests Scheduled to
Start at II O'clock To-
mOrrow Morning

| A FTER a lapse of seventeen years
"A Americas Cup races are o'be re-
| sumed tomorrow over the historic
| yachting course off Sandy Hook, the
New York Yacht Clubs defender,
Resoute, meeting Sir Thomas Lipton's
fourth challenger. Shamrock ~. Three
races are scheduled. tomorrow, Satur-
| day and Tuesday. but in the event that
neither wins three races in succession
fourth will be held July %.
The starting and finishing line will
be between the Ambrose Light ship
and the race committee tug nearby. The
| first and third races are to be fifteen
miles to windward and return. and the
turning point has been designated as on
| the fifteen mile sector of the circle from
Ambrose Light. The second race. and
a fourth if necessary, will be sailed over
triangular course, and the turning
point will be on the ten mile sector
extending from Long Branch on the
Jersey, coast to the middle of Long
Beach on the Long Island shore. The
fifteen mile sector extends from Asbury
Park, New Jersey, to a point just be-
yond Jones Inlet, Long Island. To
witness the races from the shore the
best point is Navesink Highlands, on the
Jersey coast. ... . .....r
All of the races are scheduled to be-
gin at II o'clock in the morning,
standard time. The yachts will be
plainly visible with good field glasses
if the weather is clear, and they can
easily be distinguished because the
Shamrock " is painted green overall
and the American defender is white.
To see the start, spectators will have to
be at their positions at 10 40, when the
preparatory signal is set; the warning
signal follows in ten minutes, then the
starting signal on the stroke of the
hour. If either yacht fails to start
after two minutes it will be penalized.
The committee has fixed six hours as the
time in which one yacht must cross the
line to win q race.
As the yachts are to sail to wind
ward and then to leeward, some expla-
nation is necessary. Leeward simply
means with the wind and windward
against it. A sailing vessel cannot go
straight against the wind, so it sails
as closely as possible. which is about
four points or forty five degrees from
the direction Of the wind, and it sails
first on one tack and then on the other,
taking the wind first on one side of the
sail and then on the other until It has
worked exactly up to the turning mark.
To sail the fifteen miles to windward
the yachts consequently have to travel
about one third further than If they
sailed In a straight line. which makes
the distance sailed a fraction over
twenty miles.
Amateur Navigators
Both yachts are to be navigated by
amateur instead of professional sailors.
| The Resolute will be piloted by Charles
| Francis Adams, Boston, who is treas
| urer of Harvard University. Since
childhood his hobby has been yachting
and he is now, at the age of fifty four,
considered one Of the best helmsmen
living. With Adams will be Robert w.
Emmons, I'd, another Bostonian and
| Harvard man, who will act in the capac-
ity Of managing director. The navi-
gator will be Rear Commodore George
| Nichols, son in law of Commodore j.
p. Morgan. In the trial races he sailed
the Vanitie. Although a New Yorker,
| Nichols is also a Harvard graduate.
John p. Harkinson will assist Mr..
| Adams as helmsman. George A. Cor
mack, secretary of the New York Yacht
Club, will be the timer on the Reso-
CAPTAIN Girls Christensen the profess
sional master of the Resolute, who will
have charge of the crew, was mate to
the late Captain Charles Barr on the
Reliance.
| w. =. Burton. who has sailed more
than 1000 races and who is recognized
as Great Britain's leading helmsman,
will have charge OF the Shamrock ~.
Mrs. Burton. who has sailed in many
races with her. husband will act ,ri as
timer for Sir Thomas's yacht. The
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