The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1903, Page 3

THE -SAN FRAN CISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1903. SWIFT DEFENDER RELIANCE SCORES HER SECOND BRILLIANT VICTORY OVER THE CUP CHALLENGER —— Yankee Boat Leads by Minute and | Seconds. Britisher Makes a Gallant Battle in Vain. —_— EW YORK, Aug wholesale breez 2%.—In a glorious | over a triangular | course miles a leg, the ficet-footed cup defender Rellance again 1o~ wed ber heels to| Sir Thon n's challenger, of the cup series w margin of one min- | nds. It was as pretty | st as has ever been | k and had the wind | taking the se the course, three hours, | d fifteen seconds, made | es & the last ten minutes, | | two years ago, in her st the Shamrock II As it was the thirty miles within ty-nine seconds of speaks wonderfully of broken. ne FOR THE RACE. | xcursion vessels al- | t of ¥ y BREEZE An assemblag most as large the | of the led un- h the low ramparts Island shores nrough the thin- like & floating city f the ocean, lined up t semicircle to wit- e, a beat due 1 miles, then a n the case might be, Cholera banks, thence old red-b d light- ed the interest. jocki It was | close company tickers kept. It seemed the spars and hulls rd. It was seen that the r by his extremely clever utgeneraled his rival and ather gauge. Not only was | aptain defeated In his | indward berth, but | to cross in time to save donable of- er the his lee all FOAM OVER YACHTS. mbed racers got farther | ight of the wind steadily in- | e waves began to spiil froth en crests. Both boats, with set, smashed into | in the puffs under | | | ands aboard | that the Rell- wider stretch ger. | sion obedience tc down to as the Re clanging bells in the whole fleet at ast leg of the There the vast concourse o the troug ALVERTISEMENTS. of the most stubborn and chronic kind are promptly reileved and eventually ceed by the usec of Hydrozone This powerful germicide is ab- lutely harmless. It has cured ses pronounced incurable and will cure you. By killing the : cause skin diseases, it " Skin Diseases | Used and endorsed by Jead- ians everywhere for the Booklet on request. 4 by leading druggists or trial ut prepaid on receipt of 25 cents. Schilling’s Best is the mo ground gerfect ginger-root =ry fine indeed. We know of oilly one other grinder pro- such quality; don’t whether he gets it fessing kiow o ©F not; mever saw his ginger. Your grocer’s; moneyback, || the third.” | [ “We are licked. The | Reliance is jolly well the |- best.” i) 10 SUPERIORITY ' OF RELIANCE DEMONSTRATED DON'’T suppose anybody ever saw two boats better handled than those to- day. It would seem, how- ever, that the Reliance has proved her superiority in all kinds of weather and un- der all conditions.— C. Oliver Iselin, managing owner of the yacht Re- | liance. Captain Barr said the contest was over: “That’s number two. Now we will get ready for when | Lord Shaftesbury made this statement : - e — 5 terrific pace, turned the second mark. _ The Reliance sailed this leg of ten miles in fifty-six minutes and twenty seconds. Then the fleet started for the finish line, steaming a course parallel with that of the fiying yachts. The last leg was also covered at roaring speed, the Reliance still inereasing her lead, with her wake streaming a-ice, a path of dancing white on the deep, blue bosom of the sea. Just before the finish the wind died down, but the Reliance went across in ample time to win, having covered the ten miles in fifty- seven minutes forty seconds. RIOT OF WHISTLES. There followed the usual riot of whigtles, mingled with the wail of sirens, the ng of -bells and the exultant shouts of pa- triots and the booming of cannon. The Shamrock was about a mile astern and crossed four inutes and forty seconds later, to a repetition of the riot which had welcomed the Reliance’s victory. Then the great observation fleet headed back to New York at top speed, and it was well that it was so. Before half the/ fleet had reached the upper bay a green gray squall out of the northwest, raising a curtain of spray as it came, struck the fleet, bring- ing grief to many excursionists and carry- ing away vacht and steamer awnings and top hampers generally. It was a hard day for the overworked newspaper reporters. The experience of two years ago demonstrated the uncer- tainty ofeall wireless telegraphy, but no one was prepared for the utter collapse of the system which occurred to-day. There were four competing systems, three of which were most active. The atmosphere above the triangular course was beaten + - > CUP DEFENDER RELIANCE AND SIR THOMAS LIPTON'S CHALLENGER SHAMROCK III AS THEY AP- PEARED WHEN IN THE WATERS OFF THE JERSEY COAST, WHERE THE GREAT SERIES OF | RACES FOR THE COVETED AMERICA'S PRIZE ARE NOW TAKING PLACE. | o — - OFFICIAL TIME OF THE YACHTS IN THE SECOND RACE. y Elapsed Corrected Start. Finish. Time. Time. Relian 3 .11:00:36 2:15:30 3:14:54 3:14:54 Shamrock III ... .11:02:00 2:20:10 3:18:10 3:16:13 < g s o . ol | coni system, with all its careful prepara- tion, was available for but a single mes sage throughout the entire day. a It would not have been so exasperating if the rival companies had been honestly striving to send thefr own bulletins, but much of the interference was obviously malicious. The wireless telegraph system, the fleet of small boats carrying the news from the course to the shore and a line of shore obgervers along the Jersey and Long Island coast werc used to carry news of the race, but all three systems proved a fallure. Before the yachts had reached the first turn a thick haze overspread the course and shut them entirely from the view of the shore observers. Then some indulged in a guessing match and one of Marconl's opponent companies professed to have re- cefved a message giving the hour, minute and second at which each boat turned the first mark. This was well enough until the official time was obtained from the; committee boat, and then it was disclosed that this so-called wireless company was publishing bulletins from shore observa- tions and wild guesses that had not been transmitted by wircless telegraphy at all. B AR L A STORY OF THE RACE. Rare Seamanship Displayed by Crews of Both Yachts. NEW YORK, Aug. 2%.—When the yachts reached the starting line shortly after 10 a. m., the wind was south-south- east and blowing about four knots, not enough to send them over the course within the time llmit, but there were in- dications there would be enough wind later. The preparatory signal was fired at 10:45, the warning gun at 10:55 and the starting gun at 11 o'clock. The naviga- tor signalled that the race would be over a triangular course ten miles to a lég, the first leg south, the second northeast into a hapeless confusion, so that the Mar- | by east, half east, the third northwest by west, half west. The wind at that time was due south and had begun to freshen. In the preliminary jockeying Captain Barr of the Reliance got the windward position, blanketing the Shamrock III and clung to it through various maneuvers until the *warning gun had been fired, when Captain Wringe had got clear of the Rellance. At the sound of the gun the Shamrock III bore off to leeward and away from the Reliance, while Captain Barr tacked under the stern of the navigator as the starting gun was fired, and crossed the line only thirty-six seconds behind the gun. The Shamrock kept away from the line almost until the handicap gun fired, then tacked and crossed It handicapped by nineteen seconds, for which allowance was made to her. The nineteen seconds were dead loss. The officlal starting time was: Rellance 11:00:36; Shamrock 11:02:00. The actual starting time of the Shamrock was 11:02:19. . Both went across the line on the star- board tack, but held that tack, for not more than a minute and then headed for the Jersey coast. .Once fairly away Captain Wringe of the Shamrock resumed .his tactics of the previous race, gave his boat at good rapfull ana sailed through the Reliance’s lee.and got under her lee bow, while Captain Barr pinched the Re- Hance close into the wind and began to cover the distdnce to the windward mark. Captain Wringe's maneuver gave him a wind clear of interference, and when once satisfled . that the Reliance could not blanket his boat, he flattened in his sheets and began to point closer to the wind. Captain Barr, however, was nurs- ing the Reliance up to windward in mas- terly fashion. Half an hour after the start the dis- tance between the two boats had widened materially, the Rellance pointing higher and the Shamrock footing faster. They were half a mile apart when they tacked off Highland Beach at 11:42. The Reliance was the first to go about. When both yachts were fllled away it was clear that the Reliance was gaining. Shamrock was far astern and very little to windward of the Rellance’'s course. Meantime the wind had been increasing and was now blowing at the rate of seven knots. Carrying a hard full, the Shamrock III was heeling prettily, mowing through at a fast clip and making much more fuss under her bows than the American boal. Captain Barr was pinching the Rellance into the ‘wind until her little baby jib topsail flut- tered. The race was being fought out on the same lines as the previous race. The Reliance sought to make her gain by outpointing the British bcat, while the latter endeavored to make up for what she lost in pointing by footing faster with a rap full. At noon the wind had in- creased to ten knots and hauled about a point to westward so that both yachts could lay a straight course to the turn- ing mark not more than two miles dis- tant, They were heeling hard and drag- ging their lee rails through a lather of froth and sending it gpurting from under their bows in a fashion that Indicated that they were making at least twelve knots and that there was little danger that the race would not be finished within the time limit. Without making another tack both boats made the turn of the first mark as follows: Rellance, 12:21:3); Shamrock, 12:24:45. Though the Reliance had a lead of three minutes and fifteen seconds, she still lacked six seconds of making up the time allowance and the difference of one min- ute and twenty-four seconds at the start. Officlally the Shamrock IIT was still six seconds ahead of the slippery Yankee craft, but it was evident that the latter had won the race, barring aceidents. In a breeze varying from four to ten kuots an hour she had made good the time al- lowance In a ten-mile thresh to windward and there was every reason to believe that in reaching and running, which are her two* strongest points of sailing, she ‘would quickly overcome that official six LIPfON HOPES FOR VICTORY IN THE THIRD OU have all seen the race, and the only thing I can say is that we did better to-day than in- | . the last race, which is hope- ful. I figure my defeat at a little more than one min- ute. - If- I make such prog- { | ressin the next raceas I did { | over the last T will be in line | | to win the third. T was more than pleased at the way my boat was handled to-day. It is hard to admit, but the best boat won. Perhaps with more wind at the fin- ish the result might have been different. But I do not want to throw any water on the victor. It is hard to win every race in such a series, and I hope our turn will come next.”—Sir Thomas Lipton. * S < seconds. Both captains broke out balloon jib topsails when they squared fer the second turn. The wind was so far aft that they quickly decided that instead of being a broad reach, as intended, the course to the turn was a run. Spinnaker booms were guyed out and the great sails added to the tall reaches of canvas. Staysalls were taken in and with spinnaker baoms guyed well forward the yachts ran away for turn. Both were heading off their course a bit in order to make their spin- nakers draw well, and they ran that way for half.an hour, when the Reliance smothered her spinnaker and began tq set her staysail. During that time she did not appear to have gained an inch, but immediately on laying her true course sne began to draw away. Ten minutes after the Reliance the Shamrock III also took in her spinnaker, set her staysall and headed for the mark. ‘With the wind over their quarter both yachts made fast time of it, but it was apparent that the Rellance was gaining. They made the second turn as follows: Reliance, 1:17:30; Shamrock, 1:21:45. The Rellance was leading by three | minutes fifty-five seconds, having gained | forty seconds in the run across from the first to the second mark. She had over- come the time allowance, made good the difference at the start and established a margin to her credit of thirty-four sec- onds. With a close reach still to be made there was faint hope for the challenger. | sheets were eased | the guide vessel. SHAMROCK Il IN A SPLENDID AND THRILLING RACE UNDER SUPERB WEATHER CONDITIONS Sir Thomas Proves Himself Much of a Hero. —_— Rescues the Women From Peril in a Storm. Special Dispatch to The Call. EW YORK, Aug. 25.—Black skies streaked with flashes of lightning. a seething squall tearing boats from theit moorings and sending the fleet of yachts, both steam and sail, driv- ing to leeward, until there was crashing and splintering of spars and bulwarks, and in all this Sir Thomas Lip- ton in a half swamped launch hastening to the rescue of imperiled women, was seén off Sandy Hook late to-day. In the terrific squall from the northwest that broke over Sandy Hook at the an- chorage at 5 o’clock the brigantine rigged steam yacht Allita, belonging to John H. Flagler, vice commodore of the Atlantic Yacht Club, with Mrs. Mandelick, mother of Mrs. Flagler, and Miss McClenahan and two malds on board, were driven on to the big steam yacht Giralda, flagship of the Philadelphia Yacht Club. Commodore Abram L. English, Robert F. Thompson and two others were on the | Giralda, and the Allita, unmanageable, and with captain and crew in panle, came broadside on. Bearing true to the whip- ping hurricane, the bowsprit of the Phil- adelphia yacht impaled the Allita at the bulwarks just aft of the seaboard gang- way. There was a terrific crash as a huge hole was torn in the bulwarks and the bowsprit of the Giralda was broken short off at the stem. . Then, as the yachts ground against each other like upper and lower mill- stones, the rigging was torn from its fastenings until the Giralda was decapi- tated and the starboard main rigging of the Allita threatened to go at any mo- ment. There was mo opportunity to get between the yachts and several minutes before the starboard companionway of | Allita had gone overboard. “Come here, ladies,” shouted the wal- lant knight, and Mrs. Mandelick and Miss McClenahan hastened to the footrail, where the willing hands of Sir Thomas and his friends rescued them from the viclous sea. Again Sir Thomas’ practiced eye noticed more work to do. Signaling his tug Crulser to up anchors and steam along- side, another launch, the Smoker, was quickly filled with a dozen picked sailors, and with Lipton, again went to the en- tangled yachts. Sir Thomas, seeing the panic of those on board, assumed com- mand of the Allita. After,the Erin's crew had weighed the Allita’s anchor, she was towed stern first to a safe an- chorage. L R ] The Reliance whirled about the mark, gybed over, trimmed in her sheets and romped "away on a close reach toward Sandy Hook lightship and the finish line. She was three-quarters of a mile away before the Shamrock III rounded the mark. Both yachts were heeling about the | twelve-knot wind from south by west and were salling at least one mile an hour faster than the wind was blowing. Their just enough to put them on almost their best point of sailing and one upon which the Reliance has of- ten demonstrated that she is faster than any racing craft ever built. She was heeled just enmough to bring her long oyerhangs to bear and give her the benefit’ of her great sailing length. The gulde vessel, coastwise, was scurrying along ahead of her at full speed, but the Reliance was overhaullng her inch by inch, and when the lightship hove fair in sight about two miles away, was not more than a quarter of a mile astern of A mile further on the coastwise sheered off and gave the Re- Hance a clear course to the finish. As the wind softened the Reliance first set a baby jib topsail which the Sham- rock had been carrying sincé turning the second mark and then exchangd it for a big reaching jib topsail in which the Shamrock promptly followed suit. ‘When the Reliance was a quarter of a mile from the finish line, the wind died away considerably, but the Shamrock III came booming along, carrying a splendid breeze and fast overhauling the leader. It looked as though the British boat was going to get within her time limit, but the finish line was too close, and the Re- liance slipped across it with one minute and nineteen seconds to spare. The Shamrock III finished in a softening wind and both boats were taken in tow to Sandy Hook. The official time: Elapsed.C'r'et’d h. Time. Time. Reliance . 3:14:54 3:14:54 Shamrock 10 3:18:10 3:16:13 The next race will be sailed on Thurs- day. —_— CORSAIR IN COLLISION. J. P. Morgan’s Yacht Collides With Club’s Chartered Steamship. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The first serious accident which has marked the nightly race home of the steamship fleet from the racing course took place to-night in the collision of J. P. Morgan's yacht Corsair with the fast Sandy Hook steamer Mon- mouth, under charter by the New York Yacht Club, and filled with members and thelr friends. The Corsair struck the Monmouth a glancing blow on the star- board side nearly amidships, her bowsprit raking the Monmouth’s side, breaking stanchions and awning supports- and ¢ smashing woodwork and-glass. The Cor- sair fell astern, carrying a part of a twisted iron support on her bowsprit, but not appearing to be disabled. On the Monmouth there was a brief panic. The many passengers on that side of the boat.rushed away to safety. Sev- eral women fainted, it is sald, but no one was hurt. —_———————— Aug. 25.—Through an error the As- somioted Presy roported Jesterday that the Pope had sent his white cap to General B. F. Tracy of New York It should be Ge.nnal Jes Tracey of Albany, a former United States Congressman, who served two terms in the Papal Zouaves during the Gartbaldian campalgn. -+ THE CALL'S GREAT ATLAS OFFER Will close on September 24, 1903, and all holders of Atlas Coupons are requested to pre- sent them immediately, as this t opportunity to secure one :!mt.hm splendid Atlases at The Call’s premium rates will be brought to a close on Septem- ber 24. & —————e s