The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-22
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SAVES RESOLUTE
Shamrock Loses Fourth Race
BY Amount of Her Time Ad-
ditiOn of 00:07:0I
FRESHMAN SAILED WELL
Sir Thomas Lipton's Boat Came
From Behind in Last Lap and
Passed Defender

New York, July 21-in one OF ths
most spectacular yacht races ever held
off the Hook, the Resolute TODAY
scored her first victory over sham
rock " in the contest for the. Amer
ica's cup.
For the first time in the seventy
years Of racing for the trophy the
thirty miles windward and lcewa ri
battle ended in what, so far as con-
cerned actual time, was a dead heat
between the competing yachts. In
other words, the Resolute won nv pre-
clsely the amount of her tme allow
ance under the measurement rules
which was minutes and I second
each craft having covered the course
IN the identical elapsed time of 4 hours.
B minutes and seconds.
That the finish dId not quite afford
the marvellous spectacle of the race-s
running across the line literally necl,
and neck was due solely to the fact
that at the start of the race Shamrock
mad gone over the same line nineteen
seconds in advance of her rival. Al
the finish she crossed it with exactly
the same slight lead and that advan-
tage was won in the last half mile
Many spectators, because of the
angle Of vision by which they beheld
the memorable finish, thought Resolute
and Shamrock were actually side bv
side as they dashed across between
the committee boat and the light ves-
sell AS matter of cold statistics
Shamrock was about two boat lengths
in the lead.
Since the first race for the Amer
ica's cup was sailed in 1851 there has
been no parallel. The nearest an
proximate to a dead heat occurred in
one Of the 1901 contests between
Columbia and Shamrock II, when theh
American won by Al seconds. The
Irish yacht on that occasion actually
had finished two seconds ahead OF the
Columbia. but as she had been com
PEELED to give the latter a time allow
ance of 43 seconds, the defender won
the race by Al seconds.
In 1893, when Valkyrie III had to al
low TO Vigilant l minute and 80 sec
onds, Vigilant in one of the contests
won by 40 seconds of that handicap,
the British boat leading her over the
finish line. The Defender, tn 1885, won
one of her bouts with Valkyrie III by
the scant margin of Al seconds.
The series stands now Shamrock 2.
Resolute 1. There is to 1e no race to-.
morrow. Immediately after the finish
this afternoon Resolute sent aloft the
code flag signifying that she was ready
for another trial tomorrow morning
however. displayed the
negative pennant. 1t was explained
that the green sloOp is TO go into dry
dock tomorrow to have her underbody
scraped and cleaned by
order of her owner, Sir Thomas Lip
ton.
This leaves the next race TO be
sailed Friday unless there should be
later a further postpone
ment 1t will be over the triangular
course, a type of contest in which
Shamrock on Tuesday won her clean
cut victory. 1t will be also a vital one.
If the challenger should win 1t. the cup
goes to the Royal Ulster Yacht club
and stays there until the Americans
win it back. while, If the Resolute
should score again 1t will be two
victories apiece. leaving the deciding
race to be sailed either on Saturday
or later.