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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1895. cleared. Just as the Defender was ap- proaching the line, a three-masted schooner swung across directly in the way. They were shouted to from all sides to clear the way, but the skipper paid no attention, shoufing back defiance. When the Defender sailed proudly over the finish line she was given a tremendous ovation, Whistles were tooted long and Joud and cannon boomed, and the many thousand excursionists shouted themselves hoarse in exultation of joy over the gallant American boat’s big victory. On the Defender the gentlemen all shook hands with Mr. Iselin, who stood on the companionway with a beaming counte- nance. Woodbury Kane danced a jig, waved his arms windmill fashion, and be- haved like an overjoyful schoolboy. Mr, Leeds hugged Mr. Iselin, and all hands seemed to drop decorum and give way to hilarity. Eight minutes later when the Valkyrie finished she was also given a splendid re- ception, which was acknowledged by Lord Dunraven’s party. Immediately after the finish of the race the fleet headed back to the city and all the way up the bay the happy spectators of the day’s race sang praises for the great American single- sticker. After crossing the line the Defender took a line from her tug and was towed into the Horseshoe. She was saluted on'the way by all the steamers that passsed near, and steam yachts went out of their way to fire a gun at her. The Val- kyrie started for Sandy Hook under sail. A fine rain which set in just before the finish was followed by a mist which hid the yachts from view. At7o'clock she had not reached the Horseshoe, and her tender, the City of Bridgeport, went out, and after considerable trouble found her and towed her in. STARTED IN THE LEAD. But the Wind Freshened and the Valkyrie Was Left Astern by the Defonder. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. It was j 12:20 o'clock when the preparatory gun boomed out and the red ball was hoisted on the committee-boat, the Walter A. Luckenbach. The wind was very light, perhaps five miles an_hour, and was from the east-southeast. The sea was moderately It was Valkyrie’'s own weather, in which she ought to do her prettiest. If she did not run now there was very little hope for L Both boats were standing along the line close-hauled on the starboark tack, and so headed for the Long I d shore. The Valkyrie was to windward and the De- fender had just walked thro her lee, so that she was apparently, although not actually ahead. The D d her maipsail, club to with her jib topsail in mc stops. The Val- kyrie had only her main, club topsail and with no staysail. Now came the prettiest part of the race, where skillful seamanship is at its high- est premium—the maneuvering for the _ weatherage. The Defender went about, followed by the Valkyrie, and both ran back along the line with booms to vort. The Valkyrie went about again beyond, breaking out a baby jib topsail and her staysail. The Defender kept on her course a minute longer, and when she, too, went about on the starboard tack again she broke out a No. 2 jib tovsail, one size larger than the Valkyrie's. Thre Valkyrie went off about the line and ran back to meet the Defender, with her bow to starboard, but well in board and the wind on her beam, the Defender mean- while coming up from the southward close-hauled on the starboard tack. She had the right of way and passed to the windward of the Valkyrie, thus gaining the coveted windward position; then stood for the line on the starboard tack, with the wind on her beam and her sheets still closehauled. The Valkyrie gibed over and found herself to the lee- ward of the Defender. Time was passing rapidly and it lacked but a minute to the starting gun; both boats now made for the line in good ear- nest. Both were on the starboard tack, close hauled. The Valkyrie was to the leeward, but was not blanketed, and she was slightly ahead of the Defender, and more than that, she was moving faster and forging ahkead. In this wise they ap- proached the line. The rival captains calculated their time well. Both boats were to the leeward of the line when the starting gun sounded at 12:20:00. Both headed for it at once, and Valkyrie passed over first, at 12:20:46. The Defender was only four seconds behind. She crossed much nearer the top of the line, however, and so was considerably to the windward of the British boat. Both the racers were now well away, standing, as they had crossed, on the starboard tack, with sheets ciose-hauled, which, in that wind, meant that they were heading along the Long Island shore. The Valkyrie was leading by a hundred yards or more, as well as the distance could be estimated, some distance behind her, while the De- fender still held her windward position, which, to some extent, was an offset to Valkyrie's lead. As they sped on the excursion fleet, massed up to windward, gave way and opened a narrow line through which the racers passed, and then the gap between the two giant boats, narrow enough at first, began to widen slowly but surely. Measuring their comparative speeds by the apparent rates at which they passed the excursion boats it looked as if the English craft was going three feet to the Defender’s every two. The Defender was pointing up to windward better, however. On they went, the Valkyrie still gaining and the Dbfender dropping slowly but surely behind. They went through tne water with equal ease in that light wind, so0 that neither had any advantage below. Aloft the Valkyrie had a slight advantage. The set of her sails was perfect and they drew beautifully. Her baby jib topsail was justsuited to the breeze and did better work than the larger corresponding sail of the Defender, which did not seem to work as well. At 12:40 the Defender went about and the Valkyrie followed her, both standing off on the port tack. This brought the Defender apparently ahead, but as the Valkyrie was considerably to the wind- ward the American boat’s lead was only apparent, and she was in reality some dis- tance behind. The Defender was much the quicker in stays, seeming to whirl about as on a pivot. The conditions on this tack were different from those of the preceding one, as the sea was then on the beam and the yachts rode easily over it. Now it was on the weather bow and they had to cut through it. Both yachts began to pitch and to splash the spray from their bows. The English boat seemed to ride the waves more easily and with less fuss than the Defender, but it was plainly to be seen that she was not gaining, as she had on the opvosite tack. Still she held her own weather side. Captain Haff tried an experiment and the Defender was seen to bear away a trifle from the wind. She rode the waves much easier this way and she at once began to outfoot the English boat, though, of course, she lost to leeward; the Valkyrie, sailing easily, worked still farther up to windward, This was a losing game for the De- fender, however, and at 1:12:30 she went about and stoed toward the Long Island shore on the starboard tack again. The Valkyrie followed instantly, and it was then seen that the English boat was fully a quarter of a mile astern, though a little to the leeward. In the light wind and with the sea on the beam the Valkyrie had a decided advantage, and again she began to walk away from the Defender. The American boat made her worst showing at this point of the race. Ital- most seemed as if she had a different wind from the one which was doing such good service for the Dunraven craft. Now, how- ever, the luck turned, and fortune began to favor the American boat. The wind became stronger, increasing from five to six knots an hour to nine and ten. The Defender began to pick up noticeably. She not only pointed up better to wind- ward than the Valkyrie, as she had done all along, but she now seemed to foot as well and perhaps a little better. At 1:48 the Valkyrie went about and stood over toward the Defender on the port tack. The latter kept right on her course. It was evident that they would pass close together, and for the first time since the race it was evident that the exact relations of the two boats would be clearly seen. The Defender was on the starboad tack and had the right of way. Would the Valkyrie cross her bows, or would she pass astern? On they came and the excitement be- i seen to be about three-eighths of a mile ahead of the Valkyrie, and considerably to the windward besides. The English boat went about-a minute later and both headed for the mark. Being up to windward the Defender was able to ease sheets and lay a better course for the mark. She rounded amid another storm of noise at 3:36:29, and as she swept around broke out her great balloon jib topsail to the wind. It filled instantly and she went bowling along for home. The Valkyrie rounded at 3:39:52, just 3 minutes and 23 seconds behind in time and a half mile behing in distance. Her crew seemed very slow in setting her big balloon jib topsail, but finally it filled, a beaunfully fitting sail, and on she swept in pursuit of the fast-fleeting Defender. The wind had shifted, so that the run back was not dead to leeward, but was made with sheets only about a quarter eased off and the wind coming over the port. For this reason the spinnaker was not set on either boat, as it could not hnve been held out. Now began a stern chase in good earnest, but a hopeless one as_far as Lord Dunra- ven’s boat was concerned, for the Yankee flyer not only kept her lead with ease, but gained steadily from the mark to the line. It was race no longer, but a triumphal procession for the Defender, escorted by the entire excursion fleet. The Defender increased her lead slowly but surely over the-entire distance and finished at 5:21:14. The Valkyrie finished at 5:29:30, 8 min. 16 sec. behind. As she had been but 3 min. 23 sec. behind at the Then, in order to entangle itself in the most effective possible manner, the Chi- cago Associated Press organ in Washing- ton added these comments: ‘‘At the other newspaper offices, and at the public places where the progress of the contest was posted through the agency of one of the press associations and the telegraph com- panies, the bulletins changed the places of the boats and gave the Defender the lead. This complexity of information naturally perplexed the many who were interested in the struggle, but the wise among them knowing what absolute depenaence might always be placed in the truth of anything the Evening Star published in either its columns or upon its bulletin board, settled themselves down to the unpleasant convic- tion that the English boat was beating the Defender.” This statement it clinched as follows: “As the time approached for the stakeboat to be turned and the wind was shown to be in favor of the English boat there was in- creased tension on the nerves of the bulle- tin readers, as it would be made known when the turn was made beyond any ques- tion which boat was really in the lead. At 3 o’clock the wires flashed the news, ‘Val- kyrie turned the stakeboat at 2:55 . a. and immediately squared for home.’ This set- tled the uncertainty. The Star was right, as it always is.” The effect of this jubilate was naturally much diminished when it was subsequent- ly learned by the medium of The United Press dispatches that the stakeboat had not even been turned when the Star appeared on the streets of Washington, and it was HOISTING 1HE MAINSAIL ON THE DEFENDER, [From an engraving in Frank Leslie’s Weekly.] It looked as if the Valkyrie | turn it was evident that the Defender had | gained 4 min. 53 sec. on the home run. By lapsed time of the start the Valkyrie was beaten by 8 min. 20 sec., and as she has to allow the Defender 29 sec., she loses by 8 min. 49 sec. corrected time. came intense. would cross the Defender’s bow, until sud- denly, just as they came together, the Eng- lish boat suadenly put about right in the Defender’s lee and stood off on the same | tack with her. She had failed in her at- tempt to cross ahead of the American boat and she would not pass astern. It was a costly move for Captain Cranfield, and he had not only put his boat about twice unnecessarily, but he had also run her into her opponent’s lee. As the realization of the maneuver dawned upon the assembled fleet all the long pent-up enthusiasm of their de- lighted passengers broke out, and there was a pandemonium of shouts, cheers, more whistles and steam blasts that lasted for fully five minutes. In the midst of the excitement, at 1:50 the Defender went about on the port tack and the two boats separated again. At 1:54 the Valkyrie went about again; a moment later the Defender also tacked. Once more they approached each other as before, Valkyrie on the port tack and Defender on the starboard, with the right of way. This time the Defender crossed the Valkyrie’s bows amid another dea-en- ing chorus of whistles and cheers, and going about quickly took up a position just ahead of and to the windward of the Englishman, at the same time showing him WAS FAIRLY BEATEN. Lord Dunraven Admits That the Val- kyrie Was Outsailed by the America Cup Defender. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 8.—Lord Dun- raven and his friends admit that the Val- kyrie was fairly beaten in yesterday’s race, although they complain that the fleet of excursion boats and tugs interfered with the sailing of both yachts. Not one word could be coaxed from them about the contest of wits between Captain Haff and Captains Sycamore and Cran- field when the Yankee made them break off. | Lord Dunraven could not be found, but | Messrs. H. Maitland Kersey and Arthur | Glennie, his representatives, were seen. ‘When Mr. Kersey was asked whether he cared to say anything about the race he said: ““We were fairly beaten. that’s all,” and Mr. Glennie nodded his assent. * ¢Did the excursion boats bother you a neatly lettered stern. This was too much. The Valkyrie did not stay there and she blanketed. She promptly whirled about and went off on the starboard tack. She had had quite any?”’ “The tugs did,” said Mr. Kersey with a note of bitterness. : “Did they bother you or Defender the ‘more?” the Defender and not the Valkyrie which rounded it first. CHICAGO, IrL., Sept. 7.—Thousands of Chicagoans who perhaps never saw a yacht race, but who are American to the core when a sporting contest of such in- ternational importance as the Valkyrie- Defender race is on tap, eagerly awaited every bit of news from New York which .told of the progress of the race. The people who did not sit in clubhouses, hotels and other resorfts and get the latest message over the ‘“tickers,” depended on regular and extra editions of the Chicago afternoon papers for their information. Three out of five of these papers de- pended exclusively for the news of the vachf race from the Chicago Associated Press. From this source the news was false and misleading almost from the start, and the deluded public which read the papers would have gone home for the night with the assurance that the Valkyrie had won and led from start to finish had not the newspapers furnished with the real news of the race by the United Press issued extra editions which told of the De- fender’s victory and forced the Chicago Associated Press papers twenty minutes afterward to publish the news. The interested public,which wanted and was entitled to the facts, was told in the Chicago Associated Press papers that Lord Dunraven’s yacht was at times three- quarters of a mile ahead, and turned the stakeboat in the lead at 2:55 o’clock. The facts as bulletined at every possible moment by the United Press from eight - EVOLUTION OF THE CUP — WHY IT SHOULD REMAIN IN AMERICA. [Reproduced from the New York Herald.) enough of jockeying, too, and she did not come about again until she made her final reach for the mark. The Defender soon tired of her course to the southward and coming about she, too, stood on the port tack, well up to windward of the Valkyrie, though behind her in distance. The Defender had unquestionably getten the best of thé two little encounters,” and her friends were highly elated in conse- quence. Moreover, the fact that she had been in a position to do so showed that she had overcome the Valkyrie’s lead since the wind freshened, and that the weather was now in her favor. The English boat could no longer outfoot her since the wind had increased, while the Defender could still edge up to windward, And now came a long and determined struggle. For over an hour the two rivals kept steadily on without starting a sheet. The wind still increased and both racers began to labor- in it, the Valkyrie far more than the Defender. Seen from behind the distance between them gradu- ally widened out like an inverse perspec- tive astheYankee boat climbed persistently to the windward. She was going faster, too, than the Valkyrie, and s0 was making a double game. On went the white-winged racers, with the flag bedecked pleasure fleet trailing astern, until finally the windward work beceme plain in sight. It was evident that another tack would be necessary in order to right it. Still the boats kept on and the Defender had stood considerably farther than necessary when she finally went about at just 8:24;56. She was then “I really don't know,” answered Mr. Kersey. “In the first three miles of the race don’t you think the wind favored the Valkyrie by letting her up a point and a half?” “No,”” answered Mr. Kersey. “Didn’t the Valkyrie make an extra tack, making three tacks to the Defender’s two, when you weathered the Defender?” “I don't know, really,” said Mr. Kersey. “Oh, we can’t say anything about that,” exchnmed Mr. Glennie. MANY PAPERS MISLED, Inaccurate Reports Sent Out by the Associated Press of Chicago Cor- rected by the United Press. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.—Interest in Washington in the international yacht race was strung up to the highest pitch, and was intensified when the three even- ing papers appeared giving directly oppo- site statements as to the progress of the race. The Washington Times and Neys, both receiving and using the service of the United Press, assigned the advantage at the turning point to the American De- fender. The other paver, the Star, promi- nently identified with the Chicago Asso- ciated Press, made a little yacht story of its own. It led off with a two-column statement of the efficient service which the Chicago Associated Press was rendering it, and closed its 4 o’clock edition with flaring headlines stating that the English boat was leading at the turn and that the De- fender continues to lose, to two minutes ahead of the fictitious news showed a reversal of positions before the turn, and at the turn, while in point of time when the boats turned the Valkyrie aid not go around the stakeboat until forty-five minutes after the alleged turn as seen by the Chicago Associated Press. All this romancing sadly confused the Chicago people when they were confronted by an entirely difterent account of the race from start to finish in The United Press papers, The public, which was deceived, had been told what to expect from the Chicago Associated Press in advance in the follow- ing words, now almost humorous, in view of the results *The eyes of the whole world were upon them, for the Associated Press arrange- ments to cover the race were so complete that not a move on the board could be missed, and every change of sail or course was sent by cable direct from the steamer Mackay-Bennett, off Sandy Hook, and from shore by exclusive wire to the Asso- ciated Press offices in New York, recorded there and flashed throughout the United States, all over Europe and all over the rest of the world through the various agencies of the Associated Press.” In shooting parlance, the Chicago As- sociated Press “flashing” of the news was a flash in the pan, and its only re- liable ammunition was stolen in Chicago from the United Press. Its attempt to make good this Brobdignagian boast was a matchless failure. | When all doubt was set at rest regard- \ . ing the result of the race by the copying of United Press news in the Chicago As- sociated Press papers, there was great re- joicing all over the downtown districts. At the hotels, in the boating, athletic and other clubhouses, many bottles of wine were opened on wagers won and bets in money or wine which were made on a 2 to 1 basis for the Defender. Many mem- bers of the University Club went East to see the races and the Defender wagers went begging almost at 2 to 1. AS SEEN IN THIS CITY. How the ¢“Call’s”” Model Yachts Showed Every Phase of the Great International Race. Even more successful than the original event in New York was its accurate repro- duction in miniature at the business office of THE CALL in this City. ‘While the original Defender and the giant Valkyrie I1I sped over the waters of the Atlantic, two model yachts, constructed on the identical lines of the great racers, moved at a directly proportionate speed over the course laid out above the big sign of the San Francisco CArn on Market street. Fifteen miles to windward and return was the New York course; sixty feet (also to windward) and return was the miniature distance. And all through the great contest a glance at the models re- vealed the progress of the race, and a brief mental calculation on a basis of four feet to the mile told how far ahead was the leading yacht. In fact, San Francisco was better situated than New York so far as actually seeing the race was concerned. On the Eastern coast people secured supposed points of vantage and relied on their own eyes for a correct view of the race. But the racers mingled with the fleet of pleasure craft, the summer haze hung over the water and ere the yachts got home a thick fog rolled up from the Atlantic, and the finish of the greatest race of a grest series was lost to them because they had made no such preparations as THE Carr had made for the pepple of Ban Francisco. And the people of San Francisco appre- ciated the efforts of TuE CavLL in their be- half. Long beforethe announced hour of the race the crowds began to assemble in front of the office on Market street, and curious eyes were fixed on the big sign above which the racers were to be shown. Then the yachts appeared and a great cheer greeted them, while yachtsmen dis- cussed their perfect lines and chances of victory, and many an urchin cast longing glances at the pretty models. The false etart, the recall and the final *‘go”” were all vividly and accurately reproduced. Did the Defender in New York go about on the port tack? The tiny Defender above T CarL Office went about also as quickly as electricity could flash the news across the continent. Was the gap between the great yachts in the East closed up a quarter of a mile? The interval between the models was lessened by a foot. And so it went. The Defender passed the stakeboat and started on its homeward run three minutes before the Valkyrie and the crowd in front of Tae CAvLL office cheered. And such a crowd! Market street was black with people, so that the griomen on the cable-cars could barely secure a pas- sage. Away down on to Third street it extended, and along the sidewalks in either direction for a block. Little groups there were about other bulletin-boards, but TrE CaLr's yachti race was the attraction of the day, and THE CALL had the people with it. The circus came along. With diffculty the heavy wagons made their way through the throng, for Market street could not easily accommodate more people. The procession attracted but passing notice, toe, for the yachts were only five miles from the finish, and the people awaited the end. Presently the end came. “Defender wins!” flashed over the wires, and the black-hulled model crossed the line. No need of bulletin to tell that story! A rousing cheer celebrated one more Ameri- can victory. Caps and hats were thrown into the air, while strangers shook hands in congratulation. Then the bulletin con- firmed the news, and there was another cheer. How was it done? One old fellow, who "had apparently taken a day off to see America’s representative win from the sturdy Britisher, explained to a friend that THE CALL had two wires in New York attached to the rival yacht, and that by electricity the relative position of the models was made to agree with that of the originals. “What wonderful things they do these days by electricity !”” exclaimed the friend, but that explanation was incorrect. Back of the big sign stood a table bear- ing a telegraphic instrument, and through that instrument at brief intervals came messages—most of them from the steamer Mackay-Bennett in New York har- bor, upon which were two CALL corre- spondents. Wires connected the steamer with the shore. In accordance with these messages the models were moved; and thus by the enterprise of THE CALL San Franciscans saw the race, which many New Yorkers would have given almost their very eyes to see. THE GREAT AMERICA CUP. Here Is 8 Record of the Trinmphs of Naval Designers of the United = States. This series makes the eighteenth time the cup has been challenged for since it ‘was won by the America, owned by George L. Schuyler and other patriotic Americans, on August 22, 1851. The cup was originally the property of the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain, whch resolved on May 9, 1851, to give a cup worth £100, to be open to yachts of all nations. British and Cana- dian yachtsmen have- been the chal- lengers for the cup, now the proverty of the New York Yacnt Club, to whom it was decided by the original winners, the challenges on the part of the British yachtsmen having been frequent since 1855. The contests have been triumphs for the naval designers of the United States, The following is a list of the contests which have taken place: Year. Yacht. Course. a8 America, Round Isle of 1851. Wieht, ~trom{ 10 8700 ang 14 ozhen, Cows =i N. Y. C. C( 85821 IE'ID course thirty-. L cambria, nine miles. 43738 Columbia, (N. Y. C. C) 61041 1871 { Livonla, 646 45 20 m. to wind- 1871 Colnmbll, ward, ofl} 307 41 onia, Sandy ' Hook, [ 31815 Infl return. r C. G 1871 { Columbia, conrse. Col:| 40295 | Hovanis, umbia dis-{ 41735 [ sappo, 1 mr"lx" | 53902 \ppho, eeward, of 8 mfliuwnu { Sandy Buox} 509 23 and return Sappho, LY. C. 0 41617 1871. { P Livonia, S suss Madeleine, o3 c. C. ) 52354 o frEse g Cotss Duffrin, 53453 inh;.;“:d- of| 71848 3 Fanfme ot 187610 n:euofl)ul- 74600 And nmn\. 18 miles to lee- NEW TO-DAY. ‘ward, - 32 1881 {Hll«:hief { . off s&n} 454 talanta, dy Hook and[ 53347 gey S LRees 0 o FHE END: IS NEAR. uu‘{fie"“".‘ { course. } 82335 e 20 miles_to lee- 9 wa [558% s SULLIVAN'S wo i {TEPE] ot turn. o . C.} 52641 186 (St {™ . @} S3848 MONSTER o Meyflower, (20 miles to lee- 1 { ard, oft sandy} 843%9 Galatea. Hook, and run. 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