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| have even bean, smaller had not Capts-♬ Wrings, the skipper of the British ship, bungled
WM. POWELL, LD.,
THE "AMERICA CUP. From American papers quoted in the Kobeat the start, sending his craft over the line Chronicle we publish a few extracts from the nineteen seconds after the last gun and GENERAL DRAPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND voluminous reports that have appeared of the last handicapping her to that oxtant, international yacht reps for the possession of
"At every point of sailing the defender's the America Cup.. The following is a summary superiority was demonstrated. She gained one of the first completed race, sailed on the Zulminate and fifty-five seconds in windward work, In a piping breeze-the weather he wanted and forty-five seconds on the close ranch for
-and- under as dinar a sky as mariners at
Sandy Hook hare ever known, Sir Thomas Lipton saw his third Shamrock out-manœuvred and out-grilad în the first completed race this yeat of the international series. Not since the coveted trophy was won, fifty-two years ago to-day, by the Yankee schooner whoss victory was so decisive that to the engairing British monarch it was announced, "Madame, there is no secoad," has there been a contest which for its closeness and for the auspense in which it held the thousands who weat down to see it, compared with the desperate two-hour throsh to windward to-day of the Reliance and Shamrock III.
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forty seconds on the ran to the second mark,
home."
"The spectators watched the jockeying for the start with eager interest. It was hair. raising to see what close company the giant single-stickers kept. It seemed momentarily as if the spars and hulle would clash, but they wheeled and circled like gulls, tacking, gybing, and putting about scross the line, closs-banded for the thresh to windward. It was seen that the American skipper, by his extremely clever work, bad again out-generalled his rival and secured the weather gange. Not only was the challenger's captain defeated in his effort to socure the windward berth, but ho actually failed to cross in time to save a handicap, an almost unpardonable offence in a cup contest,
the incomparable seamanship of Captain Barr not less than to the unequalled lines of the Reliance was dun the victory of
"As the olean-limbed racers got further out the Ysokee defender. Getting his boat over
the weight of the wind steadily increased and the starting line well to windward and on the waves began to spill froth from their green practically aqual terms with the Britisher, Barrerests. Both bonts, with every stitch of canvas kept bis craft in the windward berth set, smashed into the soas, heeling down in the throughout, forcing Captain Wringe at a puffs under the pros of thousands of yards of critical sings to make the otherwise unnecessary light canvas until their las rails were awash in tacks to escape from under his rival's lee. The the foaming brine. Their crews, piled up on sailing of the Shamrock skipper was practically the showers of spray sent aloit by their shark. the weather side, ware repentedly deluged with
flawless. The advantage which he lost before tho race was fairly begun was costly and he paid the price. That was, the story of the day.
A
"The skippers jockoyed picturesquely for the start. Never did yachts look more beautiful than in the rollicking, tambling sea, with the
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aboat in wide circles or changed their direction sharply, and all the while it looked to the followers of the Shamrock as if Wringɔ was getting the intter of it, while the patriots hoped and the sharpe know that Barr had far and away the advantage of the start, although
he Shamrock did cross first. Thore WES âne romp over the ocean straight into the wind, which beat warm and soothingly apon the faces taroad towards the racers. They wore beoled The Undersigned AGENTS of the above far over, so that to those behind the head sails Company are PREPARED TO ACCEPT Firatbellied out in exquisitely graceful loops. The Class Foreign and Chinese Risks at Currout form of the seas, protesting, ngainst the boats Rates.
sailing so fast, boiled furiously at. their bows 172 and spoondrift swept aft in clouds. Thy white. garbei sailors, lying flat on dook with loads COM-outboard because the head is the heaviest part of the body, ware rathor envied by the spectators because the spray that fell upon them looked cool and refreshing.
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"The first leg of a racs probably never was watched more closely. To begin with, it was impossible to determine how neat together were the racers, because early in the contest they split tacks, and it was a guess whether they wore minutes or a mile spart. The uncertainty, coupled with the beauty of the day itself, kept up the interest until the outer mark was reached. "And then it became kean, for this would afford the first real comparison. There was sadness when it became apparent that the Reliance was a long way ahead, for that settled the race and it could not be close. Everybody
wished a close race.
"When the Reliance swept around like a gull, eased her shoots, set har balloon staysail, spinbaker, and balloon jib, the great filmy sails Billed swiftly and beautifully, Her white hul! ssttled down in the water, and away the sped through the water, passing the Shamrock ijke a shot. As the minutes aped by and the Shamrock still beaded for the weather mark it became apparent that she was out of it. And then, whex her kitos refused to behave
properly, even a chases of making a fair com- parison of the running abilities of the yachts was destroyed." -
The second race, which was won by Reliance by seventy-nine secunda, is thus described:-
"The Reliance won her second race for the America's Cup to-day in oneof the finest contests erer waged for the historie trophy, Shamrock III. also sailed a great race, and was defeated
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There the vast coucourse of steam craft lay walinwing in the trough of the sea antil the yachts, bowling along at a terrifie pace, turned the second mark. The Reliance sailed this leg of ten miles in 56m. 208. Thon the fleet started for the finish line, steaming a course paralloi with that of the flying yachts. This last leg was also covered of roaring spoed, the Reliance still increasing her lead with her wake streaming alee; a path of dancing white on the Just before the deep blus hom of the soa. finish the wind died down, but the Relianca went across in ample time to win, having covered the ten miles in 57m. 408.
"There followed the usual rict of whistless
mingled with the wail of sirens, the clang of balls, and the exaltaneshouts of patriots and the Shamrock was about a booming of cranes. mile asters, and crossed four minutes and forty seconds later, to s repetition of the riot whica had welcomed the Reliance's victory,
Then the great observation feet honded. back to New York at top speed, not waiting to follow the racers, And it was well that it was Before half the fleet had reached the upper
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"The Reliance was permited by the regatta committee to sail to-day's race subject to the re-measurement of her gaff. She had taken on A new stick, and the result of the race is techuically in doubt, although it is certain that the change cannot affect the Reliance's victory,"
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