The New York herald., 1921-10-25

up past the Elsie's quarter, he wanted
desperately to turn that outward buoy
first-but the Elsie would not let him.
She surged up. too. and when the buoy
bobbed up 1t was the Elsie who frs.
tucked 1t under her port rail. Her crew
had been squatting down in her quarter
gangway with the long mainsheet hold
ing only n single turn around the butt
for full two minutes before that. AS
she heaved around the buoy twenty-six
men pressed their rubber soled boots
into the deck and away they went on the
dead run forward with the long MAIN
sheet All that men could do Marty
Welchand that smart crew of the Elsie
did to-day to win. They got everything
that was in her out. but when she
rounded that twenty-seven mile buoy %
seconds in the lead 1t was our last
chance to cheer.
There is no overcoming by the wind
greater length and depth in a vessel.
The Elsie sagged away from the buoy
and off for the eastern shore. Around
heaved the Bluenose and off for the east
ern shore, but not quite so ar off. 1t
takes legs to go to windward. and it was
to windward all the rest of the way,
it'll the long Bluenose having the legs.
She ate into the Elsie's wind. And the
Elsie had to let her have it. She COB
bled 1t up.
BluenOse Squeezes BY.
The Elsie went faster through the
water perhaps, but the Bluenose was
sailing nearer the next mark. There
might not have been so much difference
at that, but the wind took slant of a
full point in the Bluenose's favor, which
enabled her to hold her wIndward gauge,
he ip,n ea; MI
sheet. Away she went to it. The wind
freshened. 1t freshened yet more after
she tackled, and headed for the inner
automatic. the old six mile buoy and
the turning point for home. 1t was
here that the Bluenose got IL hard
enough to shove her rail under. Look
at her roll down." you could hear all
over the boat. But she was only getting
down to her bearings.
The Elsie tackled. The Bluenose stood
past the buoy and clear in. jam up to
the rocks on the high western shore
The Elsie stood past the buoy, tackled
when half way in and headed up for the
breakwater finish. A slant of wind
broke in her favor. She ate up the
space between herself and the big one.
The gobs in the bow of the Bushnell
broke into loud cheers. But 1t did not
last. There is no getting the better of
these Nova Scotia fishermen, who have
been born and brought up on these rocky
stretches. They know every little kinlx
and curl, every flaw and eddy in wind
and tide here about. The wind broke
again and the Bluenose got her average
back.
The race was over. The Bluenose laid
one long leg for the breakwater, and just
squeezed by. The Elsie tackled again.
laid one long leg for the breakwater. and
just squeezed by.
Up through the steam and smoke and
all the whistles of the Halifax water
front, the champion Bluenose sailed. In
her wake came the little Elsie, getting
whistles. too. The Bluenose beat her by
9 minutes and 81 seconds. and all OF it
in windward work.
"Only for that slant of wind on the
first inward tack!' say some of the El-
sizes crew. But the Bluenose was bigger
and ADLER. according to the cold, expert
verdict of the Gloucester shippers here.
1t was a slashing race. superbly sailed
on both sides, and it will take a good
vessel to beat the Bluenose next year.