The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1899, Page 19

2‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 1899. 19 aye in the Her- ards at Bristol, R. L, defender i8 being : d to get instde it 1s to see the Czar are everywhere; at t different parts 1l more, and an the shop yacht is be- been worked »m those of both s ne, near > feet. The 1 A nearly two feet « At !d cha n and w n inety-five tons, I S more than the De- imodore Morgan's \d seven tons which, with six eferider, e other im- s ature is a € new defender will be [; v 3 cel_mast as well. as i the Defender will al r to replace the Oreg . carried in’ the rac ast fi new boat will E of sterl riveted to longi- wide and will show lindrical surface as @ gaff of the old r-one inches nd will be a onger than the vacht, which ive inches in cir- ¢ discovered, this will be e first. steel mast ever used in a ¥ on . this side of -the Atlantie, and it n experiment t .will be carefully w architects. Tt is ver, that a complete set f s Will be' made in case of 4 , but no breakdown is an- tic ed the reason that steel spars 1 d a thorough test-by vessels ant marine, where structural weakness would be equally dangerous to life and property. ~ The spars for the two 4?19/ OLD AND NEW CUP DEFENDER COMPARED. From the Scientific American. The heavy outline and dotted white lines show the form of the old Defender. The shaded hull and the cross section are the lines of the new American yacht which will meet Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenger Shamrock in the forthcoming international yacht race. Nearly three months ago a well-known naval architect sald that he thought Yacht-builder Herreshoff would probably take the lines of the Defender as a basis upon which to work, and that an increase of speed could be evolved from her model by the simple process of lower- ing and augmenting the amount of lead in her keel, thereby increasing the draught of the vessel and giving her a greater amount of ¢ bility. This improvement alone would give great sail-carrying capacity and it will be remembered that it was by such improvements th: greater speed was obtained in the Defender when compared to the Vigilant and Colonia. Trustworthy information has been gleaned that Her- reshoff. has worked mainly on these lines, as a comparison with the principal dimensions of the Defender will show. The over-all length of the new boat will be 171 feet 4 inches, or 7 feet 4 inches longer than the champion of 15%. She will also have 11% inches more beam, 1 foot greater draught and nearly 2000 more square feet of duck in her working sails. She will have a trifle more displacement than the old De- fender. Her complete saii spread will not be far from 12,500 square feet. LINES OF AMERICA 1851 yachts are being built at Bristol, and will be braced with bulbed steel angles. A comparison between the known di- mensions of the new defender and Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging yacht Shamrock shows that the American boat will be 3 feet 4 inches longer over all, with about the same water line, and two feet more beam than the cup hunter. Both will have bronze underbody plating, but the Royal Ulster Club's representative will have topsides of aluminum and a pine deck over a bronze sheathing. Lit- tle has been leatned of the latter's ae- sign, although it is known that the yacht is well under way. i The Thornycroft at his yard on the Thames Which Won the Great Cup From England in 1851, Lines of the Famous Yacht Americ building “of ' the ~Shamrock by’ Our NFW DEFENDER_ For The AMERICA CUP. point of view has purchased the Aegiuss, sald to be one of the handsomest steam yachts ever built on the Clyde. Many other prominent European yachtsmen will voyage across the Atlan- tic to view the races, and several of ths most important yachts in British watets are expected here, among them the new schooner Rainbow and another big two- sticker from Watson’s board. With tha Colonia, Quissetta and a few others of the home fleet in commission it is hardly likely that they will carry many of the big trophies back to old Albien. CHAMPION RISH IS E@RN:. HE- Two O'clock Hunting and Fish- ing Club, which has already mads a record for some novel possum hunts and fishing exploits, held a meeting last week, at the. sug- gestion of Colonel Richard M. Johnson. - The colonel proposed to present a fine bamboo fishing rod for the best hunting or fishing story told by any of the members, barri him- self. The colonel is “away up in G when it comes to story-telling, and he thought he would encourage some of the vounger members of the club in the entertaining art of detailing, graphicall some inter- esting incident or novel experience con- nected with a fishing or hunting trip. Accordingly, all the boys assembled, after due notice of the purpose of the meeting, last Monday night, s the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, each one deter- mined to- carry away that handsome fishing rod. Promptly at 8 p. m. all were present. George Stumm jollied everybody until he was dared to start the ball rolling with the first story. “Well, I don't mind,"” said George, “but I'd rather hear some of the other stories, because I'm afraid you'll all quit when I'm through.” “All right, Mr. Stumm,” replied Colonel Johnson; ‘“you have the floor.” “All of you know where Gilead’s Slough ig, don’t you, boys? Of course you do. Lots of you have fisheu there, 1 know. a fine place to catch crappie, and &, too, if you only know how to do it. I'm on, and T'll just let you into the se- cret by relating my experience up there with some friends last summer. “We were guests of Calhoun County Club and were eager to make a good catch of crapple and bass, but somehow or other the first day we could hardly catch enough to cook for supper. The next morning we all turned out early, de- termined to make a ‘killing,’ as sporting men say. Up to noon we had only nine- teen crappie between the lot of us, and a big feeling of disgust seized all of the boys but your Uncle George. Not one would return to the lane after dinner, concluding to have a social game where the breezes swept through the cool rooms of the club house. “I hadn't given up t. 1 had seen some .old green frogs blinking at. me along thé shore of the slough, so I con- cluded to take along with me a little 22- caliber rifle that was at the club house, and knock the eyes out of some of the croakers if they showed up during the afternoon while I was watching those Ted corks of mine. I took a tow-headed country boy along to handle the boat and by 2 p. m. I was at it again. Not a fish but a few small crappie rewarded my pa- tience up to 5 o'clock. Then I began to get that feeling of disgust myself, but as I was looking down in the water I saw a couple of big bass looking up at me. 1 was leaning over the side of the boat at the time, when. a large pearl button that was on my blue flannel shirt dropped into the water. No sooner had it struck the surface -than a splash of spray was dashéd into my face. Both of these durned bass leaped clear out of the water in their eagerness to get that button. “‘Ah, ha!’" T exclaimed; ‘now I know what you want. I'll gi u all there i left on this old outing shirt. I will cast pearls before bass until they can't rest? and I did. I placed a button on my hook and ‘dropped it down deep, where I could see several bass. They would riot touch it. Then I'let it-go to the bottom, but the bass only. looked askance and baeked away. 1.saw those bass were not pearl diver: o I began trailing, but not a sin- gle strike. In utter disgust I took the button off the hook and cast it out ten feet. At least half a dozen bass just churned the water into buttermilk in their eagerness to get it. “Then I determined to try an experi- ment. I tied a button on my line, after removing hook, sinker and float, and gently cast out. Without a single skit- ter a game old bass had it. He hung on until I got him almost up to the boat, then-let go and shied off. ‘Wise old bass of Gilead's,” I thought; ‘you know when a fishhook is in sight. Now, I'll fool you.! T handed the rod to young Wilkin= son, and instructed him to cast .out the buttoned line when I told him to. “I picked up that little 22 Stevens as the boy tossed out the button. Oh, what a beauty nailed my shirt ornament. = He was a bulldog in tenacity, refusing even to take a down shoot, but just shook away at the button like a terrier.. .The boy raised the bass’ head above tha water, and T cracked away with the rifle. In an instant I saw that bass turn belly At this point in the recital the other members of the club began to fidget and make audible groans of incredulity, but. it never feazed Stumm in the least. - “Another and another .bass was served in the same way,” continued George, “and when it was too dark to shoot wa picked up thirty bronze daisi: all over two pounds in weight. And what do.you Tt B U SR S s e e THE OLD AND NEW CUP DEFENDERS. : s | Defender. ‘ Valkyrie IIL New Defender. .- + | | > 4 Length over all.. 126 feet. 130 feet. 131 feet 4 inches. 4 e Water-line length 88 feet 5% inches. 88 feet 10 3-16 inches. 89 feet' 10 inches. + Beam . 23 feet 3 inches. 26 feet 2 inches. 24 feet 215 inches. 4 Draught 19 feet. 29 feet, 20 feet. + Displacement 143 tons. - | 158 tons. 14! t 4 _Sall area.... | 12,640 square feet. | 13,026 square feet. 13,940 square feet. . 4 + 3 + D b b o SR R R SR R A SR S R R IR SR R I T B b R YR S SRS has modified to a great degree the con- tempt that marked the comments of the English papers relative to Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht and a great deal of inter- est in her is being shown, if reports from the other side are to be believed. Wil Fife has not received the greatest oppor- tunity to display his ability in the larg- est class, With the exception of the Ailsa, which, by the way, is one of the fastest of the fleet under certain condi- tions, he has not been represented at all in the 100-ton class. He is, however, the leader in the forty and twenty tonners, his products having won the largest share of valuable trophies against yachts by ‘Watson and other of the crackajacks. Sir Thomas Lipton has determined to spare no money in order to make the contest next October the most popular ones that have ever been sailed for that will-o'-the-wisp, the America's cup, and in order to se¢ the races from the best think, boys? Every blamed one.pof the thirty bass was shot right in the eye.” Colonel Johnson arose, and, in a dignt- fied manner, said: “Gentlemén, I mové this contest be closed. You are all pretty good liars, and I'm no slouch myself, but we must all take off our hats to Georgie,™ and they did, and the colonel presented the rod with a profound bow, but with- out a remark. The club was wetting that rod at 2 o'clock Tuesday morning. —_——————— Immigrant Inspector—We have inform- ation that you came over here on con- tract. Lord Fitsmud (indignantly)—Aw-what- er-er-why, you wude, impudent fellah! I came ovah here to_marry Miss Ange- lina Goldust of New York. Immigrant Inspector (tritmphantiy)— Well, what's the matter with yer? Afn't marriage the hardest kind of contract?® You'll have to o back.—Haglem Ligs