The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-09-18
BRITISH WIN j.
FIRST RACE
Spectacular Event Staged
Yesterday as Yanks,
British Compete
By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE

NEWPORT, K. l., Sept. *. =
| UP)-Thomas 0. NJ. Sopwith's
slim blue sloop, Endeavour, riding
| heavy seas like a jockey. raced
home yesterday ahead of Harold
! s. Vanderbilt's white ship, Rain
bow, and took to herself the honor
of being the first challenger for
the Americas cup to win match
since 1920.
She cut across the finish line
two minutes and nine seconds
ahead of the American ship, to re-
ceive the widest acclaim ever Civ
en- a winner. Vita, her mother ship
first to signal her victory, led the
bedlam of whistles, horns, bombs
and bells that saluted her. Sailors
on battleships stood at attention
and cheered. Her own crew, mad
with delight, danced around their
skipper and the white-costumed
Mrs. Sopwith, working member
of the afterguard and embraced
the happy pair with crazy joy.
She made, the finest marine pic
ture ever seen in the history of
modern yachting as she bounded
home. Her great parachute spinna
ker-the "Annie Oakley" with
which the sporting writer's have
had so much fun-billowed out in
front of her like a gigantic mush-
room. 1t was drawing perfectly,
without a wrinkle in it. And when,
in the final phase of the race, she
brought down her parachute and
set her reaching jib, the crew
worked like inspired men. 1t was
a vastly different ship from that
which lolled around the course two
days ago.
The race was finished under
perfect conditions, and brought
glorious end to what had promis-
ed to be a dismal, damp, and doior-
Gus day. The spanking 16-knot
breeze that sent them out and
back along the 30-mile southeast
course finally drove away the rain
clouds, lifted the mist, and gave
brilliant sun to the hundreds of
craft who went to sea with the
ravoys.
The two big sloops went across
the line on almost even terms, but
in the. first jockeying Sopwith
seemed TO have lost some weight,
and Vanderbilt took the better
berth. For Is miles out they foot
ed it, bound for a little buoy
three miles this side of an island
appropriately named No Mans
Land. @.''' lie . 81
There was the usual lacking
duel. Vanderbilt, who sails a ship
as coldly and efficiently as he
plays bridge, tried out every trick
in his bag, but Sopwith hung on.
Ten minutes before they reached
the, half way mark, Rainbow APP
parently was leading Endeabour
BY from eight to 10 lengths. The
yachting experts sat back, as COM
fortably as possible in the tum-
bling sea, and gravely considered
the race almost over. n'' 49,. ~.
Then Endeavour began to pick
up. She closed in on her towering
rival and when they rounded the
mark there was, only 26 seconds
difference between them. H|'' -
:, In addition to gaining, the hon
or OF being the first challenger to
win a race for the Americas cup,
Endeavour rolled up the first score
for the Royal Yacht Squadron
since 1871, when Lavonia defeated
Columbia. But on that occasion,
Columbia was disabled, and the
race was not a real test of ability,
There was no question in the
minds of observers, but that En-
deavour has now demonstrated
her superiority when running
down wind. If she loses the other
races and doesn't fulfill Sopwith's
ambition to ,wrest the cup from
the Yankee hands that have chung
on to it for 83 years, it will be
because Of other conditions-pos-
slbty her enthusiastic but amateur
crew, who are willing, able and
efficient, but not drilled to the.
minute perfection required by the
American master Of, his profess
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