i a of i on.
The America’s Cup Successfully
Defended by the Yankee
Yacht Columbia.
THE LAST RACE THE MOST EXCITIN6.
After a Nip nn«l Tnck Contest, in
Which First One, Then the Other
Showed in Front, Columbia Won
the Final Contest by Barely Her
Time Allowance.
New York, Oct. 5.—With victory
flags floating from her towering mass
heads and the ends of her spreaders
in honor of her concluding triumph
in the cup races of 1901, the gallant
sloop Columbia returned to her
anchorage last night under the escort
of the entire excursion fleet. She yes
terday completed her defense of the
honored trophy in another stirring
race with the Shamrock II., over a
leeward and windward race of 30
miles, crossing the finish line two sec
onds behind her antagonist, but win
ning on the time allowance conceded
by Lipton’s boat by 41 seconds.
For the second time she has now
successfully foiled the attempt of the
Irish knight to wrest from our pos
session the cup that means the yacht
ing supremacy of the world. And
plucky Sir Thomas Lipton, standing
on the bridge of the Erin, led his
guests in three hearty huzzahs for
the successful defender.
“She is the better boat,” he said,
“and she deserves to be cheered.”
The series of races just closed will
THE CDF DEFENDER, COLUMBIA.
always be memorable as the closest
ever sailed for the cup, and Sir Thom
as, although defeated, will go home
with the satisfaction of knowing that
his yacht is the ablest boat that ever
crossed the Atlantic ocean. During
both series of races not an untoward
incident has occurred, and Sir Thomas
will return to England far the most
popular of all the foreigners who have
challenged for the America’s trophy.
Yesterday’s race, on paper, was the
closest of the series, but because of
the flukiness of the wind on the beat
home, as a contest of the relative
merits of the yachts it is not to be
compared with the magnificent, truly
run and royally-fought battles of Sat
urday and yesterday. The conditions
of the race at the start yesterday
were very similar to- those of Thurs
day. The wind was strong and from
the shore, emboidering the sea with
foam and piling up no swell-ideal con
ditions for the challenger.
The racers were sent away before
the wind, each carrying penalty for
crossing the line after the handicap
gun. No official record is kept of the
time after that gun is fired, but the
experts with stop watches estimated
Columbia’s handicap at 15 seconds,
and Shamrock’s at 30 seconds. The
contest of the yachts fleeing before
the wind was picturesque. The big
racers, like gulls with outstretched
spinnakers, had every inch of can
vas spread, all their light sails, in
cluding bulging spinnakers and bal
loon jib topsails.
Their crews were gathered aft to
keep the heads of the boats up, and
thereafter until the outer mark was
reached it was merely a question ol
holding on to all the canvas and let
ing the wind do the rest.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
Columbia beat the Shamrock before
the wind last Saturday, the challenger
yesterday gained slowly, but steadily,
all the way out, and rounded 49 sec
onds before the defender, having actu
ally gained one minute and fice sec
onds. Immediately after the yachts
turned their noses into the wind for
the beat home the breeze moderated
and turned fluky. The skippers split
tacks, each searching for wind, with
the result that first one would get a
lift and then the other. At one time
the Columbia seemed a mile ahead,
when a sudden cant of the wind al
lowed Shamrock to point nearer tha
mark, and a mile from home the chal
lenger appeared to be leading by fully
half a mile. The talent be-nn to feel
nervous, but as the yachts ..pproached
the finish the Yankee skipper, by some
miraculous legerdemain, shoved his
boat into the light air like a phantom
ship, and 100 yards from home the
two racers were almost on even terms.
It was a pretty sight and one seldom
witnessed, when they crossed rail tq
rail, the white yacht’s bowsprit just
lapping the golden boat’s mast.
The usual pandemonium that at
tends the final Yankee victory in a
cup contest followed. Whistles, bells,
bands and cheers united in a grand
chorus of jubilation and J. Pierpont
Morgan’s steam yacht Corsica added
to the terrific din by firing a national
salute of 21 guns.
After the Columbia had hauled
down her sails and set her victory flag
the excursion boats crowded alongside
to cheer the Yankee sailors and the
winning skipper. Nor did they forget
either Lipton or his gallant craft. In
turn the crowded steamers ran along
side the Shamrock and Erin and the
vanquished received almost as much
honor as the victor.
And thus, with felicitations all
around, the twelfth series of races for
the old cup which the schooner Amer
ica brought over 50 years ago ended
with the best of feeling.
While taking his defeat gamely, Sir
Thomas Lipton made no attempt to
conceal his honest disappointment
when he talked about the races last
night on the Erin.
“I am very much disappointed,” he
said. “I can’t hide that. I thought
within 15 minutes of the finish that
we had won. I was sure as my life
we had won. When I looked around
the situation had changed, and we had
lost. It was a hard blow to be so
near winning and then to lose, i I
should like to have got one race, just
by way of consolation. It is a very
hard thing to be beaten by a breath,
by a few beats of the pulse. It has
been a severe strain on me, I have
worked so hard for many months
now, and I am glad it is over.. To
have won would have been a joy great
er than to-day’s disappointment. Co
lumbia’s win to-day was fair and
square and honorable. There is noth
ing to protest if I wanted to protest.
In fact, I have a feeling in my heart
that if there had been any error in
judgment at all it would have been
in my favor. If there had been any
possibility of choice in the matter, I
believe the yacht club would have
given me the race. Sometimes a man
may have the better boat, but even
having it must have a wee bit of luck
to win. I am very grieved indeed, very
grieved,” and, he added, “I should
liked to have won one race.”
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