Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-17

nj 17.-Put a fat old man
4 on Man-o'-War and Earl
Sande on claiming platter
and the latter will probably win.
There you have the story on En-
terprise's two victories over Sham
rock v, Sir Thomas Lipton's fifth
challenger for the Americas Cup,
and there also is the reason vir-
tually every one who knows any
thing about racing yachts expects
Enterprise to take her third VIC
tory today.
1t is simply that Sir Thomas green
hulled challenger is carrying too much
weight. Her wooden mast is shorter
than that of Enterprise, but it weighs
ton and a quarter more than the
towering hollow metal spar OF Harold
Vanderbilt's Defender.
The Vanderbilt sloop carries a hol-
low boom, larger as dimensions go, but
it weighs 1900 pounds less than Sham
rocks. Shamrock was built to Lloyds
Scantlings and as a capable cruising
craft, for she had to be to cross the
ocean on her own bottom and under
her own sail to meet the conditions
of contest. Her interior fittings. berths.
galley and other crew equipment
weighed $500 pounds.
All that material was removed after
her arrival in these waters and she
was allowed to take aboard ballast
to correspond, but that ballast must be
carried in-board, whereas Enterprises
designer was in position to place
that tonnage some 10 feet lower. on
the defenders keel. where It is far
more efficient in maintaining stability
of sailing craft.
Needs Four wins.
To lift the cup. Shamrock v must
now take four out of five races and
Enterprise needs only two more victories
to retain for America the worlds sail
ing championship.
Shamrock's crew and her afterguard,
although none wish their names in the
public prints, now admit that condi-
tions prevailing on the open ocean cup
course are not those under which she
established a reputation for fast sailing
on the other side of the Atlantic. Over
there the breeze was steady and de-
pendable and the sea smooth.
The waters nine miles OF Brenton
Reef Lightship are disturbed by all
manner of tidal currents and ground
swslls, and the wind is frequently f1ukev
and not to be depended upon to blow
from any one quarter of the compass.
The unruly sea and the ground swell
has proved unpleasant to Shamrock.
Her bow has not fitted to the heave Of
the sea, but OWED through 1t, and when
a boat does that she loses way.
The crew of Shamrock have many
complimentary things to say for Harold
S. Vanderbilt, the defenders skipper,
For Mondays race, one of the after
guard said: He is a good sport. He
played the game and he never tried any
close-handed work" This yachtsman re-
ferred to the fact that, although VAN
derbilt took the weather berth away
from Shamrock, he did not bear down
on the challenger and deprive her CT
the breeze by intercepting it with his
own towering sails. In addition to the
advantage of lower center of tonnage,
Enterprise wears higher sail plan than
Shamrock V, something that often
counts tellingly when the breeze is light
and stronger aloft than over the surface
of the sea.
The race scheduled for TODAY was 80
miles northumberland or leeward-
windward. If the direction of the wind
permitted, a windward leg Of is miles
would be sailed first.
Yesterday a dense fog in the early
morning caused postponement of the
third contest OF the series, but a shift
in breeze gave promise Of better sailing
conditions today.