The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-07-21
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 The streaky winds which enabled | Shamrock to win yesterday vanished l entirely in the night. Smoke from the stack of Sir Thomas ipton's | steam yacht Victoria, rose straight to | the zenith. Resolute's sailors declare Sir Thomas | has had all the luck. They say in the l first race Shamrock was beaten W = an accident to R1esolute fonced her to withdraw, giving the race to the chal- l 1enger; that Shamrock was badly | beaten in the second race but Reso- lute could not win because the wind failed and she could not finish before the time limit, and that yesterday in the strealzy winds Shamrock caught all the favoring breezes and won on luck.
 The fisher folk hereabouts insist l today that Shamrock could never have beaten the American boat with out Captain Andrew Jackson Apple l gate of Seabright, N. J., who sailed l on the Lipton sloop- yesterday sand 1 gave Skipper Burton his knowledge of wind and tide conditions.
 Captain Applegate was ready to l board Shamrock again today. He 1 IidS d JSIS0y IepuldI1Ou oI knowing more. of the tricks of tide and weather than any sound fisher man in these parts.
 The race today if sailed, will be 15 l miles to windward or leeward and return. Racing conditions provide I that contest shall not be started later than six hours before sunset, which means that if the yachts are not sent away by 2:22 o'clock (day- light time the race will be called off. l Resolute also plans to take aboard a Jersey fisherman for his knowledge of local tide and wind conditions. It was said today that Red Bank skip per had been shipped.
 | Shamrock and ResoIute both took tow for the starting line.
 A southwestern wind blowing in the lower bay at 10:30 encouraged be- lief that start would be made on time.
 Postponement of today's interna- tional yacht race at fifteen minute intervals was ordered at 11:30 to- day.
 With scarcely a breath of air on New York bay, Shamrock and Reso- lute idled around the Ambrose Chan
 nel 1ightship awaiting a blow.
 Charles B. Nicholson, designer of
 Shamrock W, said today that if
 Resolute won today's race he would ask that the next contest be post
 poned until Friday. so that he might
 have the challenger drydocked and
 her underbody cleaned.
 At 12:32 the regatta committee
 hoisted signals for the course, a beat
 south by west to point about eight
 miles off Asbury Park, with a run back to the Ambrose Channel light
 ship. Each leg is fifteen miles, Two
 minutes before a new breeze from l tion of holding.
 l at 12:40 for a start at 1 o'clock. The
 wind was light but the yachts seemed to pick it up and moved fairly
 fast.
 The warning signal was blown at
 12:55 when both sloops were jockey ing for position.
 ! Just before the start of the race the
 two s1oops shifted head sails several times. When the warning signal came they were working back and forth to windward of the line. Resolute stood
 over toward the lightship but soon . came about and followed Shamrock
 toward the committee boat.
 Shamrock crossed the line 22 sec
 onds after the starting signal and
 Resolute followed Al seconds after the starting signal. Captain Adams | or fIeSOluIe IHaoG no eIlOTt, to gam
 the weather berth and let Shamrock
 cross the line first. Both yachts cross \ ed on the starboard tack within 50 < yards of each other. Both tackled a 3 few minutes after the start and at : 1:1o were holding away for the Jersey l shore. Resolute whipped out about 100 yards to windward but Sha mroeiz s was footing faster and was well ahead and looked as if Shamrock could :: cross the defenders bow. U CONGRATULATE UPTON Aboard Steam Yacht Victoria, July
 21-(By wireless to the A. P.)- Shamrock's victory yesterday brought Sir Thomas Lipton today more than | a hundred congratulation messages by cable, wireless and telegraph from ! all parts of the world.
 One from William F. Massey, Pre-. = mier of New Zealand said: "On behalf of New Zealand, send you heartiest congratulations or
 Shamrocks victory. Nothing sue ceeds like success and British tenac. | ity has at last come in for it's owr 1 reward
 Despite a calm sea and light airs x Sir Thomas today was optimistic, al : though admitting that he would like
 to see more wind.
 IN ABSOLUTE WEATHER. Liverpool, July 21-The Post saic
 today that Shamrock's second victory 1 was significant because the weather T was the sort for which ResoIute wal = l designed.
 1 we should now like to see how the a yachts behave in a good steady
 breeze,'' the Post continues. "Tha i would De a test of stability and geal Q such es would almost inevitably bt 2 imposed in the Irish waters if the cuI 2 has to be sailed for here.'' IT SALUTE FIRED.
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