Evening star., 1922-10-26
BLUE NOSE LEADS
| IN DECIDING RACE
Canadian Schooner Minute
! and Six Seconds Ahead
at First Mark.
BY the Associated Press.

when the schooners started the third
and deciding race today for the cham
pionship Of the Atlantic fishing Meet
Each boat has one official race to her
credit. Il
The forty-mile course selected was
the same as that sailed yesterday.
The Blue Nose ha da lead of one min
ute and six seconds at the hrst mark
wife's PIens Ignored.
Clayton Morrissey. skipper OF the
Henry Ford, which sailed out to de-
Ieat yesterday at the hands of the
Blue Nose. piloted his vessel against
the supplications Of his wife. When
Capt. Morrissey went aboard the Ford
Ills wife implored him not to sail.
For Gods sake, come ashore. she
pleaded Let some one else sail her.
You're sick: I'm sick: my boy Is
dying; let's get rid OF this miserable
But the skipper Of the Ford was
obdurate.
Il must 60" he said. Il can't quit.
We've got to win today. Gloucester
has put it up to us.
Rnce OF Thrills.
From the start in which collision
between the racing schooners was
avoided only by the Willingness or
Capt MorrIssey of the Ford TO waive
the rules OF the road at sea, which
gave him the right Of way AGAINST the
biuenose's booming encroschment. 10
the last leg. in which a man at the
masthead of the big Lunenburger, was
injured, IL WAS a race of thrills.
Ernest Hiltz one of the crack mem
bers of the Bluenose's crew. IS not
IN today's race Snarled In stay
sail halyard high in air. he hung sus-
pended yesterday by the left leg for
several minutes after a tack on the
beat home, until he had to be cut
down The staysail then went wing.
ing In the air. useless for the rest OF
the race. Hiltz was taken to nos
pital.
The men of the Ford had lot OF
hustling 70 do when. after they got
under way for the start. they discoV-
cred that the bolt ropes on the iore-
sail were partly severed In three
places. When spread the weakened
leach scalloped and spilled the vino.
hut with spun yarn and nails, lacking
sail needles and thread, the nsnermen
strengthened the edge and made
good Job of il. Gloucester was IN
censed by a rumored suggestion that
the sail had been cut. but Capt MOT
rissey himself indicated that he placed
no stock In IT,
Ballast Is Removed.
This needIework was only another
Of the extra racing activities OF the
F,ord's crew before the racs. They
had spent the hours almost from sun
up in takins out the ha,las put
Yesterday when they withdrew from
the races. which they held they hao
won by the victory Saturday that
was not allowed them. and that OF
Monday. The rules. which forbid bal
last additions while the series Is on,
and the considerations OF sport,
which called for a racing conclusion
- the series, were reconctIed oy
statement from Jonathan Raymond:
mar, owner of the Henry Ford and
prime mover in the negotiations
which nslde today's race possible, that
The entire amount of ballast put
aboard the Henry Ford on Tuesday
The race yesterday was sailed in
light to moderate airs with only
hit of a blow fer short spells. fester-
days was race that ran up TO the
scale from light airs at the start to
"a booming twenty-knot speed.
wind that was n smoky souwester
on the twenty-mile windward leg.
-rhe w'-.iwa-d stretch give the R'ue
Nose the lead OF 7is minutes that
was hers to the finish.
ORciaI Time Data.
Through the two reaches on the
other ten-nile legs. the Henry FoIo
was faster minutes seconds
faster on the broad reach. % seconds
better OF the close haul. In the Ave
nile starting leg the Blue Nose gained
the turn 60 seconds in the lead and
in the musseling beat on the last leg
the Canadian picked up minutes
second. virtually the equivalent
of the loss on broadreaching.
The official times for start. first.
second. third and fourth marks and
finish follow:
Blue Nose. 1.OO5s: 14s.1S: s.1s.l7:
301IO: $500: 457.01.
Henry Ford, 1I.00.5o: 1860:
$40 OF: a.soO7: 4.oo.3i; o.o5o4.
The competition. which had seemed
70 be softened as Il sporting PROPOSE
tion by all the preceding controversy.
seemed to stiffen when the Bluenose.
standing out from the harbor for the
start, and the Canadian destroyer
Patriot, official boat for the day. pass.
ing the United States cruiser Roches- '
ter. were greeted with the strains of
"God Save the King" from the Ro- !
rhesters ship band. while the blue /!
jackets manned the rail.
The start tlot followed marked a
sharp pickup in the sporting
spirit Only the forbearance OF the |!
iloucesterman, however. in the opin- |
ion of those familiar with the rules
of the seaways. gave Capt. Angus the
advantage Of position. as q continu-
ance of his course for the lire would
have brought about collision with the
Lunenburger, which came In with the
wind. but amidship Of tho Henry
Ford. which was shooting for the
line. with the right OF way.
Collision as climax to the series
that has had about everything else
was averted when Capt. Morrissey
hauled up.
ANGUS blufred him. He knew Clayt
would not be run down.. observers
exclaimed.
skipper Against Skipper.
The bluffing match was on with the
start. 1t was skipper against skipper,
erman was over first. nine seconds
ahead. But the Bluenose soon slipped |
in through her lee. laid a blanket and !
walked away. Up to this point. the |
situation was turning OF the tables. +.
as compared with Mondays race. Where |
Capt Angus failed then. however. Nor |
rissey succeeded today as he took q |,
luffing trick himself when he repeated
the passing manoeuver at the expense
of the BluenOse.
Followed then hull-to-hull fight that |
lasted four miles. A bit removed from |
time to time only. the boats fought al +,
most alongside each other constantly. !
Angus eventually sent up his staysail. |
folded in his foresail and went ahead !
beyond possibility Of stoppaEe. He was
turn. but never headed thereafter.
Through four bitches on the stiff ]
windward leg the Bluenose pointed \
higher and footed faster. The wind !
on this leg ran up from twelve to
knot velocity fairly constant. It was
the weather in which Bluenose was
at her best. and she responded as ex-
pected.
With the twenty-knot breeze bowl |
ing them along the boats raced over !!
the succeeding broad reach to the big
,ravt for Cslonco Of In