The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 11, 1895, Page 1

Call =y VOLU‘\IE L\\VIII.—\ 0. 103. SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 11, 1895. PRICE FIVE CENTS. UNDER PROTEST THE SPEEDY DEFENDER SAILED TO HER FIRST DEFEAT The Valkyrie finished first at 2:55:22. | Tho DaTenaer tuRe G st ana 15 | seconds behind at 2:57:40. The lapsed | times were: Valkyrie, 3:55:09; De- fender, 3:56:25. Valkyrie allows De- fender 29 1-10 seconds and Valkyrie started 1 minute and 2 seconds ahead. The corrected time Valkyrie, 3:55:09; Defender, . The Val- kyrie won by 47 corrected time. ds, I NEW YORK, N. Y., Se morning, smooth sea, moving into position, gun fired, yachts | maneuver. The Valk hes against | the Defender and a fc claimed and | disallowed. A second gun and the yachts | are off. The Valkyrie secures the wind- both yachts move w the grace of the | cygnet. The Valk but falls off a little to the leew The Defender gaining slightly. ward position, the breeze increas | ] I alkyrie carries | During the Jockeying for Position at Starting the American Boat Was so Badly Crippled That the Valkyrie Won the Second Cup Race by Forty-Seven Seconds. gammg. The home run is the most per- | fect race vossible. The Defender makesa | splendid effort to overcome her bad start and loss by injured rigging, but is beaten by forty-seven seconds. WiLLiaM GREER HARRISON. CRIPPLED AT THE START. After Entering a Protest Captain Hank | Hafl Piloted the Defender Over the Course to Defeat. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 10.—Close | can combatants for the America cup | fair play for the visitor has been made, | and methods that vrevail in English races when an American boat competes are not ‘tried here. The boats, in jockeying for | the line, had shown some of the prettiest work that has been seen here, and when the jockeying resulted in the Valkyrie ob- taining the windward position, as the two | boats headed for the line, there were 1 murmurs of disappointment in the crowd | when it was discovered that the Valkyrie 1 had the windward position. Both finally | approached the starting line, with the | Valkyrie leading and to the windward of beautifully and | jockeying between the British and Ameri- | the Defender. Had both held their courses there would THE DEFENDER RESPONDING TO A (ALL ¥CR SPE&SD. [Reproduced by “The Call's” Art Department from the latest engraving in Harper's Weekly.] club topsail, staysail and jib topsail, the Defender the same without the jibsail. A | vast semicircle, prolonged into a race of battle, shows all the river steamers packed | with an excited multitude eager, anxious and not hopeful, for the Defender is not gaining. The Valkyrie is still leading. Both yachts come about like the swift turn of carrier-pigeons. The Defender breaks out her jib topsail, but immediately takes it in again. There is something wrong with her spreader. The Valkyrie increases her lead. The breeze falls off to seven knots. The Defender is unable to carry her jib | topsail, and something is wrong with her rigging. Both yachts come about. The Valkyrie increases her lead. Evidently the brush with the Valkyriedid some dam- | age to the Defender’s shrouds. The ex- cursion steamers are behaving well. I have just sighted George Bromley, Harry Gillig and Frank Unger on our lee bow in the George Gould yacht Atalanta. Clay Greene is at my elbow. The weather is per- fect. The Valkyrie, the ox-eyed Juno, has it all her own way. Mercury wingless is powerless, and the Defender appears crip- pled somehow. Neptune is smiling upon the woman in white, and turns his back upon the Yankee maid. The old god is fickle, false and frothy. The Defender is working well to wind- ward, but lacks power. The first stake is in sight and both boats will fetch it this tack. The Valkyrie rounds the stake and breaks out the balloon jib-topsail and bal- loon staysail. The Defender rounds the stake three minutes and fifty-eight seconds jater and breaks out her jib topsail and balloon staysail. Considering that sheis hurt in her rigging, the Defender sails beautifully. The Valkyrie takes in her balloon jib, substituting the regular jib baby topsail, thus placing the yachts on even terms as to sail spread. Now they are nearing the second stake. The Valkyrie rounds the stake. The Defender takesin her baby topsail and rounds the second stake three minutes and twenty seconds later. In this leg the Defender gained by about twenty seconds. The Defender breaks out No. 2 jib top- sail. The yachts are on the home run with an equal spread. The Defender is in the race off Sandy Hook resulted in an accident to the American boat which | | spoiled the race. Fifteen thousand persons, on steam- boats, tugs, steam yachts and ocean steam- | | ers, sent up a groan of disnnpointmcnt when the beautiful aluminum and bronze creation was crippled before their eyes. Not all were near enough to see what had happened, but all the yachting sharps said | at once that it was an accident to the top- mast rigging. Some remarks were made which would have made ears tingle had they reached the Valkyrie, but Lord Dun- raven’s boat, after fouling the Defender, was away, cup-hunting. While no one suspects the owner of the visiting yacht of such unsportsmanlike conduct as inten- tional fouling the Yankee yacht, yet the way he raked his great steel boom over the deck and tore down the other fellow’s rigging, and then sailed away at his best over the course was not pleasant to pat- riotic Americans to contemplate. From the first, every attempt to secure have been no trotble, but the anxiety of the British skipper to get his boat over the line first and to windward of the enemy made it a question if he would not cross before the starting gun sounded. To pre- | vent such a predicament, the Valkyrie | bore away a trifle and eased out her sheets. The main boom of the Britisher swept | over the deck of the Defender, carrying away the topmast shrouds on the star- board side and tearing out the jaws of the spreader. The topmast cracked and was badly sprung. Just as the crash came the | starting signal was given, and the Valkyrie sped away like a rocket. The Defender was luffed in the wind, the jib topsail lowered, the wreckage removed, and Mr. Iselin decided to continue the race. Probably a couple of minutes were wasted making repairs before the boat con- tinued on her course. A protest flag was displayed, and the committee-boat showed an answering pennant. Then the gallant Defender and her plucky crew went in | pursuit of the British cutter. But for the accident the race to-day would probably have been ane of the finest in the history of America cup contests. Nothing was lacking to make 1t a memor- able affair. The crowds of spectators and the fleet of excursion craft and private yachts were present to lend animation to the scene. There was a good sailirg breeze, the sky was clear after the mist of the morning had been dispelled and the ocean was comparatively smooth. It was a good day the for Valkyrie, but it would have been a better one for the De- fender had she not met with an accident. The weakened topmast of the Defender pre- vented her from carrying the sail that the Valkyrie carried and she could not keep the pace set by the Dunraven boat. Inthe beat of ten miles tc windward to the first turn the Valkyrie gained an advantage of two minntes and fifty-two seconds. At one time she led by fully a mile, but as the wind freshened from the six knots at the | start to fifteen at the first turn and eigh- | teen shortly afterward, the Defender, | crippled though she was, began to gain. The second leg of the race was a broad reach and the Valkyrie used a balloon jib | vopsail, while the people on the Defender had to be contented with a baby jib top- sail. In spite of her handicap the De- fender gained seventeen seconds on the second leg. On the run home the Defender continued her good work, gaining one minute and seventeen seconds. The time allowance of the Valkyrie to the Defender is twenty- nine seconds, and allowing for this the dif- | ference between her time over the course and the Defender’s time was forty-seven seconds only. The early morning crowds found the harbor and bay wrapped ia fog. A gen- eral murkiness filled the air and blew up the city’s streets from the river. The du- bious outlook kept many people at home, but there were many thousands of others who filed down to the water front and em- barked upon everything that was going out to see therace. Many of the steam- boats were dangerously overcrowded, owing, no doubt, to their reduction in price of tickets from $3 to §1. Yachtsmen and men wearing yachting caps were nu- merous on the club steamers. They were not dismayed by a little fog in the early morning. Yachtsmen and others who were not were gotten up in blue serge and white duck suits. On the steamer St. John the members of the New York Yacht Club and their guests were assembled. The America cup com- mittee and the regatta committee went Gown the bay on the tug Walter F. Luck- enbach. The yachting contingent was not dismayed by a whiff of fog in the morning. The people were out to see all that could be seen of the great international doings beyond Sandy Hook. That portion of the general public which was actuated by a patriotic desire to be present when the crack yachts of Uncle Sam and John Bull met for their second bout made haste to secure good seats on the excursion boats and club steamers. The crowd was not as numerous as on Saturday, but it numbered well up into the thousands. Most of the steamboat captains named an earlier hour for departure than on Saturday, as they found it no easy matter to push their deep-laden craft ‘through the thirty miles of water that intervened between the Bat- tery and Sandy Hook lightship. Down at Bay Ridge, tugging at their an- chor chains, lay the two yachtsin whose performance the world is deeply interested at present. After yesterday’s sail-stretch- ing spin both sought the picturesque anchorage inside Owls Head. Their tow- ering spars poked holes in the mist this morning as each champion tugged at its moorings. Likea racehorse champing at the bit they seemed anxious to get away. The crews breakfasted early in the lum- bering propeilers Hattie Palmer and City of Bridgeport, which served as floating boarding-houses for the men. After break- fast there was a careful tautening up and testing of rigging and deck tackle. The skippers of both yachts looked longand earnestly at the weather. The wind was lignt from the southwest and the fog was lifting slowly. Both boats got club top- sails ready and made preparations for light airs. The Defender was the first to leave Bay Ridge. At 7:40 she took a line from the tug Wallace B. Flintand started for the scene of action. The Valkyrie left her moorings ten min- utes later in tow of the White Star tug Pulver. Both boats got up their mainsails going down the bay. The Defender used the Herreshoff mainsail and the snow white topsail which she displayed for the the American boat. On the Valkyrie with Lord Dunraven were Arthur G. Glennie, H. Maitland Kersey and J. R. Bush of the America cup committee. Lord Dunraven’s daughters did mot sail on the Valkyrie to- day. They saw the race from the deck of a steam yacht. On the Defender were Mr. and Mrs. Iselin, “Nat” Herreshoff, Woodbury Kane, Newbury Thorne, Herbert C. Leeds and David Henderson, the representative of Lord Dunraven. The fleet of excursion steamers and yachts which followed the racers was smaller than on Saturday. They did ==t begin to arrive off Sandy | Hook lightship in much force until just for once saluting a British yacht. The Defender received the greater ovation of the two. Her plucky fight elicited much praise from yachtsmen. Both yachts were towed to Bay Ridge, where they are anchored for the night. To-morrow a new topmiast will be put on to the Defender. The regatta committee stopped their boat at Bay Ridge on the way to the city and { Mr. Iselin made a verbal protest in regard | to the fouling. Mr. Bush, the club representative on the | British boat, was asked by the committee to present his version of the affair. At 10:30 p. . the following notice was posted on the bulletin board at the club: ing from almost due south at the rate of aix or seven milesan hour. The conditions of wind and weather were very much like those of Saturday. It was most ems phatically the Valkyrie's day at the start. At 10:50 the preparatory signal was fired. Both the racers were then to the leeward of the line and some distance apart on the starboard tack. Each had the same cane vas set, consisting of mainsail, club top- sail, staysail and jib, with a jib topsail in stops ready to break out. When the gun was fired the Defender, which was to the eastward, came about on the port tack and stood toward the Valkyrie. The latter, being still upon the starboard tack, had the right of way and as the Defender ap- proached her she luffed up into the wind and went about. This brought the Valky- rie on the weather quarter of the Defender, that is, to windward of her and just a trifle behind but well overlapping her and so gave her the weather gauge. The maneuvers by which the Defender endeavored to make the Valkyrie lose her grip were especially interesting in view of THE VALKYRIE III IN A RATTLING BREEZE. [Reproduced by “The Call's” Art Department from the latest engraving in Harper's Weekly.] before the start. A few minutes before 11 o'clock the various craft could be seen hustling down to the starting-point around the lightship. While the yachts were maneuvering for position the patrol boats were very vigilant in warning the over-eager captains to keep out of the way. The yachts were not seriously hin- dered about the start, although at times it Jooked as though they might be. The Grand Republic brought down an enormous crowd, and the 8t. John, thc Monmouth, the Sandy Hook, the City of Lowell, the General Slocum, the Cetus, the Sam Sloan and a score of other boats were filled very close to the limit. After the race was under way more boats con- tinued to arrive. At the turns and during the race the attenaant fleet gave the vachts plenty of room. The warning whistles of the patrol vessels were heeded and no serious interference with the yachts occurred at any time. At the finish there was the usual scene first time on Saturday. The Valkyrie's mainsail was fitted far better than that of of excitement with patriotic Americans Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1895.—The Defender pro- tests the Valkyrie on the ground that she bore down on her just before reaching the starting line, thereby causing a foul which resulted in the carrying away of her spreader and the springing of her topmast. THE REGATTA COMMITTEE. Commodore Smith of the America cup committee said this evening that in his opinion the protest will not be decided until to-morrow. Speaking of the De- fender, Commodore Smith said that his | faith in the Herreshoff boat is tremen- dously strengthened and that the cup is safe. MADE A GAME RACE. Had the Last Leg Been Five Longer the Defender Would Have Won. NEW YORK, N.Y., Sept. 10.—Shortly after 10 o’clock the committee’s tug, Walter Luckenbach, arrived off Sandy Hook lightship. She found a gentle breeze blow- The work of constructing the new race course and buildings of the Pacific Coast Jockey Club at Ingleside, which has been in progress for several months, will be completed and the track in readiness for the November meet. The grand stand, 320 feet in length by 115 deep, is a saddling paddock of sixteen box stalls on the right, and on the left, connected with the grand veranda. The clubhouse has a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 80. The architecture of all the uilc buildings. T.J. Welsh is the architect and A. M. Allen superintendent of construction. . AR gs is of the colonial style. a seating capacity of 4000. Connected with the betting ring by a colonnade by a colonnade, is a three-storied clubhouse, surrounded by a fourteen-foot Two hundred workmen are at work on the the subsequent foul to which they led. After the Englishmen had secured the much-coveted position, both yachts stood along the westward on the port tack until beyond the committee-boat. Captain Haff then gibed, hoping to get around and luff up the windward on the Valkyrie before she could get around. But Captain Cran- field gibed so quickly that the relative positions of the two boats remained un- changed, the Valkyrie still keeping the weather. This was at 10:56. The two boats came back on the star- board tack toward the starting line. They passed around one of the big excursion steamers, and then, as time was short, be- gan to approach the line from its westward end, breaking out their jib topsails as they did so. On came the boats until only a few seconds elapsed before the starting gun., Then it was seen that the Valkyrie was too near the line and was in danger of crossing a second or two before the gun. She immediately began to bear away to avoid crossing. There was the Defender just to the leeward and a little behind her, which had no need to bear away, and so did not propose todo it. The Defender was allowing the Valkyrie plenty of room between herself and the mark and was act~ ing strictly within her rights in keeping her course. Captain Cranfield could not call for room and there was but one thing he could do to save himself—that was to stop the headway of the Valkyrie. The orders were given and all her sheets were slacked off wide at once, to spill her sails and stop her headway. Hence came the foul and 1ts resulting trouble. The long boom of the Valkyrie, reaching out to leeward, raked across the deck of the De- fender, only eighteen or twenty feet away, and striking the topmast shroud on the starboard side carried it away, breaking SMOKE La Belle Creole CIGARS, 3 for 23¢--10¢ Straight--2 for 250 ASK DEALERS FOR THEM. RINALDO BROS. & CO., Pacific Coast Agents, 300-302 BATTERY ST, S. F,