Evening star., 1937-08-01
STUNNING DEFEAT
DEALT BY RANGER
TO ENDEAv0UR /
Two-Mi|e Victory Margin
Most Decisive in Races
History.
FOUR STRAIGHT SEEN
LIKELY FOR AMERICAN
Vanderbilt Negotiates Course in
4 Hours and Al Minutes-Next
Vanderbilt Negotiates Course in
4 Hours and Al Minutes-Next
Test Set Tomorrow.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor,


NEWPORT, r. l., July SIT
was Ranger by the proverbial mile
today, and just about double that
distance by nautical measurement as
the first race for the Americas Gun
Unexpectedly assumed all the proper
tions Of sea going rout for Thomas
O. NJ. SopWith's Endeavor I'd, six
tenth challenger for the classic
emblem OF international yachting
supremacy.
The snub-nosed, white-hulled de-
fender, sailed with characteristic
and consummate skill by Harold
Stirling Mike Vanderbilt, led all the
way in light streaky breezes over a
30-mile ocean course. IS miles to
WlndWard and return. She came home
In solitary splendor her huge
spinnaker biliowing against a foggy
background and her rival so far astern
she scarcely was discernible in the
rapidly settling mists of as dismal
finish as the big yacht races ever
have witnessed.
Victor by the Overwhelming margin
OF II minutes. S seconds. Ranger and
Vanderbilt established their combined
supremacy. for the time being, BY
handing the challenger the worst
shellacking in the last half-century
of Americas Cup history.
Upton Humiliated in 1920.
Back in 1920, Sir Thomas Lipton's
fourth Shamrock lost the fifth and
final race to Resolute by margin of
10 minutes. IS seconds on corrected
time. but the actual elapsed time
between the boats at the finish vas
only a little more than l3 minutes.
Not since the defender, Volunteer,
whipped the Scottish challenger
Thistle, by 19 minutes, 2375 seconds,
IN the first race Of the 1887 series.
has any contender for the cup been
so badly beaten as was SopWiths s
sloop TO-DAY, in race where both
boats crossed the finish line.
Under conditions and circumstances
as gloomy as the finish for the chal-
lenger as they were unexcitins to one
OF the biggest seagoing galleries since
the cup races were shifted in 1880 to
Newport, Ranger negotiated the
course in hours Al minutes IS sec
onds.
The challenger. approximately 2
miles behind after a final and futile
hunt for more wind, was timed in
4:582O.
There was not the slightest doubt
about the outcome, barring accident
to the defender, after the first Is min
utes of the race. which was As minutes
late getting underway because of the
Coast Guards difficulty in getting the
immense spectator feet. numbering
upward of 800 boats of all sizes, under
control at the start.
Ranger OF to Big Lead.
Ranger took an early and COM
mandlng lead. jibbed around the
outer mark with lead of minutes l3
seconds. and nearly trippled this mar
gin coming home on a broad reach
that Vanderbilt converted into a spin
maker run in the finishing stages.
1t took some freshening lifts OF
wind. blowing rarely more than six or
seven knots an hour, and Vanderbilt s
fine seamanship to bring Ranger
across the line with something to
spare, so far AS the time limit Of five
hours and half was concerned.
Thereby he avoided repetition of the
no contest introduction to his 1884
defense of the cup against Sopwith's
first Endeavour.
So startling was Rangers superior
ity on all points of racing that the
American sloop, 2-to-l choice, prompt
ly was made prohibitive betting IA
vorite tonight to keep the ancient
$500 mug" safe for America, where
1t has been kept ever since it was
captured by the schooner bearing its
name in British waters away back in
1851.
So crushing was SopWith's defeat
that yachting experts. to a man, pre-
dicted Vanderbilt will make it four
straight, to keep the cup. and thereby
duplicate his overwhelming triumph
over Sir Thomas Liptons Shamrock
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