New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-11
Bronze Sloop Beats RiraI
By Margin Of 81 Seconds
Victory Boosts Stock of
Gardner Yacht, HERES.
hof Camp in Gloom
By Jack Lawrence

NEWPORT, R. l., juno 10.-The Van.
Tile to-day took another reef in tho
Resclute's chances Of becoming tn.
Americas Cup defender.
IN a slashing fo%urteen-knot breeze
she decisively defeated her old rival
crossing the finish line of Brenton'.
Reef Light Vessel with a lead Of 2
minutes and 30 seconds. Deductins
from this the Resolute's time allow
ance Of 1 minute and AZ seconds. the
Vanitie won by 81 seconds.
The corrected time, as given out To-
night by tho race committee at tho
local station Of tho New York Yacht
Club, was:
Vanitie, 3 hours ~ minutes SO Sec
onds.
Resolute, 3 hours 4s minutes IT sec
onds.
The score in tho official elimination
trials being held here to decide
whether the Resolute or Vanitie will
defend the Americas Cup against tho
challenging Shamrock Nv now stands
three victories for the HerreshoR sloop
and W. for the Vanities. Figuring in
the fuke race of Tuesday, when tho
Vanitie became becalmed and the Reso-
Lutte drifted in a winner just inside the
time limit Of six hours, the bronze
candidate has won three of the five
races on a boat-for-boat basis and has
lost one through the handicap she con-
cedes to the Resolute.
There was gloom in the HerreshofF
camp tonight and a council Of wa
was held on board the Montauk, the
R~esolute tender, to figure out how to
bolster up the Bristol boats fading
prestige.
The loss Of to-day's race was a
heavy blow to Resolute rooters, as the
weather and type Of race sailed were
exactly to her liking and rather to the
disadvantage Of the Gardner sloop.
The course was q ifteen-mile beat to
and return, and as the yachts
shot over the starting line there were
lew who believed that the Vanitie had
anything better than a slim fighting
chance.
In the beat for the weather mark the
Two sioops engaged in a number Of
short bitches of about fifteen minutes
each. and in all Of these the Vanitie
pointed higher and sailed better than
her white rival. 1t was obvious that
the Resolute was not herself, and many
yachting sharps were inclined to at
tribute this to her new steel mast.
This spar is still stiff and does not
seem to carry her huge wings as easily
as her former stick. 1t was noticeable
that in some Of the tacks she made
decidedly bad weather of it and de-
veloped a habit Of paying off that lost
much ground for her.
The Vanitie's sails, on the contrary,
never seemed to sit better and her
crew appeared to be strictly on the
alert and imbued with the old never
say-die spirit. The bronze boat
rounded the outer mark with a lead Of
2 minutes and 50 seconds. showing
that she had overcome her handicap
and had gathered winning time to
spare in the windward beat alone.
The Vanitie would have won to-day
by a much wider margin had it not
been for an accident to her rigging
that occurred just as she was making
the turn. At this point her spinnaker
halyard fouled and 1t was necessary to
send a man into the rigging to olsen
tangle it, before the sheet could DO
broken out. 1t took the Vanitie 8
minutes and 13 seconds to set her
%spinnaker for the run down the wind,
while the Resolute accomplished the
same maneuver in 2 minutes and IS
seconds.
The two defenders will meet again
thirty miles.
Tho summary Of to-day's race:
Start. Finish. Time,