New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-24
By w. O. Mcclellan

Boat for boat, captain for captain
and crew for crew, the cup defender
Resolute beat~the> challenger Sham
rock in fair wind and running
sea on the triangular course outside
Ambrose Channel yesterday.
The series for the Americas Cup
now stands two to two. but on the
showing of yesterday Sir Thomas
Upton is no nearer to winning the
cup than he was when he started,
thirteen years ago. The yachts will
meet in the deciding race to-day and,
barring accidents, the quest will be
halted.
Adams Challenges Storm
The drama of the race was staged
in black shadows with the lightning
for footlights on the slate-colored
seas, when Captain Charles Francis
Adams, the American skipper of
Resolute, refused to strike his top
sail to the challenge of a sullen
squall. Captain Adams slapped the
storm in the face with his slender,
tapering spars and his film of sails
Captain Burton of Shamrock low
cred his top and played safe. there
by losing his last and only chance in
the third leg.
1t was runaway race, from the
start off Ambrose Lightship, where
the defender danced away from the
snub-nosed, green boat at the start
and fitted into the face of the ten
knot wind. Not once during the
thirty miles did Shamrock seem to
have a chance. Resolute sailed
across the finish line three minutes
and eighteen seconds ahead of the
challenger on actual elapsed time,
with her balloon jib arched and the
remainder Of her canvas set as
gracefully as a gull's wings.
Counting the time allowance award
laboratory computations, she beat
Shamrock by nine minutes and fifty
eight seconds. Not once on the course
did she seem to need anything like
handicap. She skipped away like
a sea nymph leading slashing and
SOM hat aimless porpoise
Defender Skips Over Waves
The balloon jib on the defender was
set less than a quarter of an hour
before the finish, and Resolute was
challenger, with her ballooner and her
spinnaker Tapping, looking aloft for
all the world like a stout ola lady
with a crinoline skirt spread, painted
astern. But all the canvas that could
be stretched on a feet of Shamrocks
would have meant nothing at that
stage.
Sir Thomas Lipons power yacht
Victoria, was the first to greet
the victor, and even the whistle seemed
a trife hoarser from emotion.
Yesterday, according to all the com
putations of the experts, seemed to be
the last chance for Shamrock. They
agreed that if she were destined to
lift the cup at this trial she
would do it over the triangular course.
To-day's race is beat to the wind
ward and back to the mark, and Reso-
Lutte seems to have demonstrated that
with her time allowance she can hold
the big green challenger safe.
1t would seem then the cup will stay
unless the wind gods and the sea gods
as they sit at their green tables to-day
load the dice for Shamrock. Sir
Thomas has come nearer to the mark
that British yachtsmen have sailed for
for more than half century, but il.
looks as though the race of yesterday
had taken the wind from his sails and
left him blanketed again.
shamrock's Clubtopsail Amiss
The last chance of Shamrock was lost
in the third leg, the run for the finish
ike, when something went amiss with
her clubtopsail as black souall
rushed up. Up to this point In that
run Shamrock was making up dis
lance, not enough to overcome that
time allowance, even if she could main
tain her cain, but enough to make IL
look more like a race.
1t seemed that Captain Burton sen
It would be too great a chance To
carry the top as it was and Il cana
down. Captain Charles Francis Adams.
Of Resolute, gambled with his rigging
against the scuall and the defender
sped ahead into the black finn snd
through it. Perhaps IL wa, mt
gambling at all. Perhaps the Amsri-
can skippev felt that vi, TI