Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-28
WORST DRUBB|NG
OF THE REGATTA
| FOR SHAMR0CK|V.
Defender Victor 'sBoat by
Boat by IL Minutes
5 Seconds.
Upton PROVES HIMSELF
GOOD, GAME SPORTSMAN
Sir Thomas Speeds to Finish
Line and Leads Cheering
for Resolute.
TO TRY AGAIN IN 1922
Experts Agrcc That in Her Thrce
Victories Resolute Showed De-
cisive Superiority.
Upton PROVES HIMSELF
GOOD, GAME SPORTSMAN
TO TRY AGAIN IN 1922
Experts Agree That in Her Thrcc
Victories Resolute Showed De-
cisive Superiority.
IRy Associated press1

tBy Associated Prcss1
SANDY HOOK, n. J., July 27.-Dc.
fender Resolute gave tho British
challenger. Shamrock ", the worst
drubb!ng of the 1920 regatta in tn.
final race of the series today, win
ming boat for boat by thirteen min
utes and five seSonds. in thirty
mile windward and leeward race
and the Americas famous yachting
cup remains American property.
Shamrock was moro than mile
and half behind when the race was
over.
The finishing times were:
Resolute .........7:52:l5
shamrock ........8:05:20
overcoming forty-second lead
and tho advantage Of a windward
berth. which Shamrock Nv. had taken
at the start. the feet defender held.
lead of four minutes and eight.
seconds at the halfway stake OF tho
tthirty-mile course. and crossed the
finish line thirteen minutes and nvd
seconds ahead. Including her han-
dicap of six minutes and forty
seconds. which she did not need.
fesolute won by nineteen minutes
and forty-fivc seconds.
After having been led by the chal-
lenger two-thirds Of the distance
to the first mark. windward ler
Resolute crossed her bows ton miles
from tho start and breezed into a
lead, which she maintained, and
steadily increased to tho finish line,
Three Straight, Impressive Victories,
In capturing the series and retain
ing possession OF the Americas
| 1.,fa
aNer Shamrock had taken two races
and won out by registering three
straight and impressive victories.
Shamrock ". won the initial rae,
when tho defender was forced out
py an accident to her rigging, and
captured the second in n iickle wind
that left Resolute becalmed most OF
the way. Resolute won tho third by
her time allowance OF seven minutes
ana one second. running dead heat
with the challenger. Her other two
victories were won boat for boat.
Sir Thomas Upton. owner OF tho
green challenger. voiced what ap-
peared to be the unanimous verdict
or yachtsmen who had seen the five
races, when he declared tonight that
tho best boat won."
nature provided a rare setting for
today's historic finish. The sun-a
great fiery ball-was fast dropping
through red and purple haze over
tha point OF Sandy Hook, when Reso-
lute. clipping swiftly through tho
deep green water, with billowy whito
sails. silhouetted against tho haze,
bore down on the mark
Flashes Over Golden Finish Line
y moment later. she dashed across
the golden finish 81
sun had laid down on tho ripplinc
water between squat Ambrose Chan
mel Lightship and the committee boat,
Barryton
n mile or more behind, her own
great sails bellying broadly. Sham
rock Nv. was coming about for tho
run to the mark after reach out
from tho Jersey coast when tho
white signal ball OF the Barryton
dropped and the shricking of whistle
and sirens from the little fleet of
spectator craft proclaimed Resolute.s
victory.
The beaten challenger swept quick
ly down tho course, striving to short
en- the intervening gap and salve as
much as she could tho bitterness of
her defeat.
But as IL to emphasize tho great
difference in time between the two
finishes, the flaming sun dropped like
n plummet into the deepening haze,
and pale moon. which had been but
dimly traced against the sky when
Resolutc finished. stood out with In
creasing radiance.
When Shamrock finally got over
the line, the sun was but a shadowy
circiet on the horizon beyond tho
haze, and the simmer on tho wa.er
had turned from gold to silver.
Three British Cheers for Victor,
Resolute. by this time, had de-
scribed n great circle, and had iona
back to the mark to see her rival
finish. AS the challenger crossed tho
mark her British crew let out three
ringing cheers for the victor. and the
conIuerors responded. with lusty.
cheers for Shamrock Nv. and her crew
Sir Thomas Upton, who built tao
challenger in his fourth effort to lie,
tho bottomless old pewter mug that
is tho Americas Cup and take It back.
to It's original homo in England
turned away form his humbted sai,,
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