Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-07-20
Shamrock
Leading In

1t 2:2S:2S followed at 2:32:41 b.
Res0lute.
The wind breezed up more to TIL
northwest. Resolute substituted ;
number jib top sail for her balloon
er while Shamrock clung to her mum
Der one until mile away from tht
mark, when she shifted to smaller
sail.
At 2:40 p. m. Shamrock was lead.
ing and had set a papy Jib topsail
After sailing half mile, Captain
Adams on the American sloop chang
4 ed to number one jb topsail and
\ hauled down his jib, sailing under
two headsails.
Resolute drew UP on Shamrock in
the first fifteen minutes after turn
ing the first mark.
AT o'clock the yachts had sail
ed about three miles Of the second
leg with Shamrock leading by full
~ half mile. Yachting experts con
ceded that at this time Shamrock
had a chance to win within the time
limit.
At 3:15 with half of the time limit
expired, the yachts had sailed half
the course and Shamrock was lead
ing by fully mile.
The race became exciting at $500
when Shamrock was ghosting along
picking UP favorable gusts and near
ing the second mark with two hours
and three quarters in which to FIN
ish the race.
Resoiute, about a mile astern, was
just moving.
Shortly after $3.50 observers
aboard destroyer following the
sloops reported Shamrock was a mile
and a half farther ahead of Resolute
Shamrock Takes Lead.
At 1925 p. m. with her little fisher
man sail ahead Of her mast going nice
ly. shamrock ran quarter of mile
ahead OF ResoIute. She picked up a
puff of air and sailed around Resolute
20 windward. luck being with the roy
al Ulster boat.
Resolute still clung to her balIooner
which semed to draw WE'LL but could
not apparently compete with Sham
rocks baby forestry sail
Two airplanes raced up and down
the course, coming closer to the cup
naval dirigible.
Both yachts had worked to the
windward of the course to the first
mark and at 1880 Shamrock bore away
for it with Resolute more than 300
yards astern. 1nshore a southwestern
seemed TO working out toward the
yachts.
Race Drifting Match.
,olx ha
breath OF the Southwestern at 1:45 and
Increased her lead to nearly half
mile, the first mark being at that time
about four miles to leeward.
The race. however. appeared from
shore, little more than a good drift,
In which, AS on Saturday, the sloop
getting the lucky puffs fair showed
to- the best advantage. Without n
Strengthening breeze, it semed doubt
lful whether the racers could finish
within the six hour time limit.
Spectators Leave.
Several excursion boats loaded with
spectators evidently concluded that
yachts could not finish within the time
limit for number of them put back
to New York.
The feature Of the second hour of
the race was the work Of Shamrock's
little forestay sail which hauled her
by Resolute and at one time gave her
ii lead Of more than half mile.
This triangular sail was set on n /
mainstay leading from the end OF the
bowsprit to q block about two-thirds
the distance to the cross tree.
Ii was full all the time and proved a
wonderful reaching sail, especially
with the number one jib toplsai out
ahead. Favored with y little luck in
picking up the breeze, Shamrock had
a good lead on near the first mark.
Resolute Grains.
AL z o'clock, with the mark to lee
ward, three miles away, Resolute jib-
bed to starboard and headed for It,
Shamrock had overlooked the mark in
an efofrt to pick up the new breeze,
but AS 1t failed she lost by the move.
The breeze came in again from the
west, driving Resolute along until less
than u quarter of a mile astern of
Shamrock. Shamrock jibbed two min
utes later, then headed for the mark
AT o'clock Shamrock was still
two miles from the mark and moving
very slowly. Resolute was more than
q mile astern. AS the wind had work
ed we'll into the northwest 1t looked
as II It would be difficult for the
yachts to lay. the third leg and this
would make 1t hard to finish The race
at gas, when the time limit expi"-
ed.
A, s:05 the wind sil ftei to south
ward which put Shamrock well to
weather and IN fine place TO make
the mark, while Resolute was to lee
ward and only able to reach 1t hadi
ON the port tack. Shamrock shifted
sails.
The shift Of the wind to The south
west improved Shamrock's chances
of finishing within the time limit as
the last leg would be a run down the
brecze.
The shift came whsn Shamrock
MAS about ritlc from the seaoad
alark and tes,.rts was mile 20 a
mile and a half aster,: and 90 .ce-
ward.
AT AIS p. m. with two hours TO
20. Shamrock was heading for the
mark on the port tack.
The breeze had not reached Reso-
ute.
Make Shamrock "F'iiver."
Sandy Hook. July 20--Sailing sharpsl
xpects that Shamrock will show un-
expected sailing speed when she car