The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1899, Page 1

The TCall AT UR A BTAT 2\ — L VOLUME LXXXVI—-NO. 1438, SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. RITISH TROOPS BEIVE TEE TAal,ANA HITL BOERS FROB Dundee, Natal, the Scene of the First Big Battle in the Preseny Vo | and the Losses on Both Sides Are Very Heavy-General Symons Badly Wounded. LENCOE CAMP, Oct. 20, 2:50 p. m.—After eight hours of con- tinuous heavy fighting, Talana Hill was carried by the Dublin Fusileers and the King’s Rifles under cover of a well=-directed artillery fire by the Thirteenth and Sixty-ninth batterics. The Boers who threatened the British rear have retired. The fight was almost an exact counterpart of that of Majuba Hill, except that the positions of the Boer and British iorces were reversed. General Wiiliam Symons was severely but not danger- ously wounded. General Yule assumed command. General Symons | S o e o e ® O S S e e R 2 ! L o e e S O e e SR = B e e 2 was shot through the thigh, but no bones were broken. He is ~heertul | cheeriul. [ ! need the guns on the hill. | ever seen. The firing of the Boers was respondent could see shells ot so deadly as might have been ex- pected from troops occupying such an ex- cellent position, but the infantry lost | heavily going up the hill, and only the | t I which d them to m from be- AWAY. eed, th kopje, T sible to the storming party | o the Britis fon would have lost the | ? ( nce. ns, so far as the | & PS s . were all aban-| ¢ ) T o Boers had no time to re- | & ,’ > - ide into the valley, where | ¥ 4 nton with no abatement. | 2 Talana Hill—The Kings Royal Rifles and the Dublin Fusileers Attacking the Position of ¢ T the Boer Artillery. A | . e S S e G S A e e e e S R o R S D N N S W S +9 P e e AR asacee aacecs s oaee ae PR WD W WG I S S WA S WD & B 0 S S SO PG sot-v-g + . iIn “Shamrock Weather” the Amer . © . : : Icas Trophy Deigrid Agai $ 3 P er gain 3¢ . 3 Sails Away F e ' 3 rom ElS DS 3 Challen 3 ger. . EW YORK, Oct. 20.—Put away the | ing gun was fired, and the Shamrock | neared the turning point. The fib which cup and turn the key: cast it|stood ac the line showing mainsail, | the Shamrock been carrying had been $ away even, for there will be time | working topsail, jib and SIESHe [ ITPCed bS e Tarsent I Nerfaail Iocher; ¢ enough to mold another before the | challenger crossed at 11:00:34, followed | $10, f0F & tme It seemed as though the lock need be turned again. Twine (one minute and one second later by the | for long. In spite 0f the changé of coa: ¢ | garlands around the trophy, but scatter | defender. The Shamrock lowered her spin- | vas, In spite of everything that Captain © | about it ashes, for once more it is an urn | naker to starboard as she crossed the line, | Hogarth could do, the Columbia steadily 4 | for ashes for hope, not the chalice of | but Captain Hogarth did not get it set ;l’f:““fiy\';:i‘”frr"rl: ”fi('h”(’ih anm' Near- L ok S z St ‘ i ha ite olum- | {NE er mark both made prepara- | victory which Sir Thomas Lipton had | until full ln:l\:;l\um(n‘\:umfi:t:}”‘“‘:‘" Somum- | tions for turning it. the Columbia. taking + | hoped to litt. | bla’s went s ng to d. O in her spinnaker as she brought the buoy '&/‘ Beaten at every point of safling and in other hand the Columbia had not set her | broad off her starboard bow, the Sham- every'sart of weather, there can be no | Working topsail, while that of the Sham- | rock dofling hers haif a minute later. ¢ | further doubt that the Shamrock is not | Tock was gradually drawing that vessel | Luffing around the point, the Columbia : E s not | rock 0 " stood away on the starboard tack, fol- ¢l s class. One lone doubt | away from the Columbia 0V ed covontean: shconis ater by h . ther there is any such | Meanwhile the Shamrock's naker | i S T | thing ‘Shamrock weather.” That | giving trouble. the sall hanging in home was the road of the { | which apportloned to her to-day was | Stops a dozen feet or more from the top- | rough, and imme heading into % | nebilarty vesieasd b -t Mindin renlot t head. This advantage was evened | the wind both 3 ely dance 3 | the broad-beamed Trish cutter would show | bY the queer capers which the Columbia’s | over the tumbli e e ¢ Ly A CEa ¢ 20w | spinnaker cut. The pole seemed to be too | ¥as under mains ail. The & | to greater advantage than her narrow- | SPi AP0 2 g Shamrock, und . carried ? | waisted competitor. But from the start | USht for the great weight of the wind | 5 working topsail in addition. She took | to finish, throughout the wild dance to| Which the sail was carrying, and it fre-| that in at'12:34, the strain being too great the outer n\nrk’nnd throughout the dip- aucoliy Sepedias bt ucle s, shauy that of both | ping and rearing spray-beaten thresh to | it Seemed as though the spar would be up- s | windward there never was a time that su. | €nded. Once it went so high Into the air ere kept 3 : g il that it looked as though the pole had e e den ] * GOttt 0000000900400 09009004090 * O+ perfority of the. Herreshoff ra not apparent. | “We might as well walt unti | hoft retires from yacht-building. discouraged British yachtsman id a he as closed up his binoculars and placed them in their case. “There seems to be no use in our building challengers so long as he continues to build defenders."” Clean-cut as was this victory of to-day it was even more glorious as a spectacle. Imagine two superb racing yachts sway- ing and staggering before a wind which had the weight of half a gale in it, thelir swollen salls threatening each moment to bid farewell to creaking boom and buck- ling spar. Picture, it you can, the stream of foam which came boiling about the flying yachts as, driving before the wind and sea, they rose buoyantly to the swells to sink stern first into the sloping val- leys that came racing after them. Then home again with flat sails, as taut as drumheads and lee scuppers knee deep in foam, one straining spar and shroud and sall and stay in a terrific effort to keep the vantage gained, the other as desperately striving to overcome the lead. It was well worth the ten misspent days the excurslonists had squandered on these other lifeless effcrts ‘at racing and which proved to be little more than days of fog and calm and drift. Straight out of the north a lively wind was blowing when the two vachts arrived off the lightship. The wind had a twenty- mile-an-hour gait and the Shamrock, as she dipped her green hull Into the sea, had a now-or-never look about her. It was wind that Sir Thomas had been looking for, and in it all realized lay the Sham- rock’s last, long, lingering hope of taking away the cup. In all other sorts of weather she had been weighed and found wanting. It remained to see what she could do In wind of the kind that was blowing to-day. The start was at the lightship and the course was & fifteen-mile run to leeward and a beat back to the finish line. Both boats were standing to the northward under mainsail and jib when the prepara- tory gun was fired. The wind was then too brisk for the yachts to show club top- gails, but thelr working topsails were up in stops and ready for setting. The Sham- rock's was sheeted home three minutes after the preparatory gun was heard, the Columbia setting her staysails four min- utes later. At five minutes to 11 came the warning gun, and the headed for the line, | both jockeying for position and neither Herres- gaining any decided advantage. The start-) been broken or that the crew weré making to take in sall. Despite all .the of tipping booms and the ab- aff topsall, the American boat wued to overhaul the Shamrock. Then the Columbia broke out her topsall, and soon afterward the Shamrock’s men were afforded the same old famillar view of the Columbia’s stern which they had so often looked upon before. The wind held strong and true, and the run down the wind was as pretty a| vachting scene as was ever witnessed. | The excursion fleet tofling along on either beam had all it could do to keep pace | with the winged racers. The gallant | American was still In the van as the two 0w or when the ur'h-‘!\' often they went th ine. Sufficlent t t ver one altered her cours other followed. Tacks were frequent and at irregular in- tervals, but each time the Shamrock spilled the wind out of her sai spun around upon her heels and filled 6n the other tack her crew saw the Columbia still farther in the lead. The Columbia gradually widened the gap, steadily outfooting and outpointing the Shamrock, and despite that vessel's brave showing it became apparent that she was not to win. This became so evi- dent as the two neared the finish line that the conclusion of the contest was robbed of all the sensational features which mark a closely contested event. |COMPARED WITH COLUMBIA PAST- YEARS, MADE GOOD TIME HE following table gives the winning yachts in the internation- al contests for the America's in going over the course. It cup, and the time occupied by each will be observed that the time mnade by the Columbia in the last two races of the series of 1809 compares very fovorably with that of past years, having excelled on but three occasions: 1851—America . 1S70—Magic . 1871—Columbia . Columbia . Livonia . Sappho Sappho 1876—DMadeline . Madeline . 1881—Mischief Mischief 1885—Puritan . Puritan . 1886—Mayflower .... Mayflower . 1887—Volunteer . Volunteer . 1893—Vigilant . Vigilant Vigilant ... 1895—Defender .. Valkyrie III Defender .. 1899-e-Columbia Oolumbia . 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