Show COLUMBIA BEATS CUP challenger SHAMROCK II 11 IN MOST EXCITING YACHT RACE EVER SAILED columbia crosses line seconds ahead in a thirty mite race during which the contending yachts were abreast nearly the entire distance in the closest and most soul at rang race ever sailed for the abaer ca s cup the white flyer columb a saturday beat the british challenger over a windward and leeward course of thirty cal the narrow heart marg n of thirty n ne seconds As lipton s latest asp rant for cup honors COLUMBIA must allow the defender forty three seconds on account of tha extra square feet of canvas in 1 ei 11 area the official record under tl e rules gives 1 er the victory by one m nute and twenty two seconds As a spectacle the contest was su berb from the time the two skyscraping racers crossed the starting 1 ne until they fled across the finish line four and a half 1 ours later the result was in doubt and the excite ment aboard the on fleet in creased until men became frenz ed and women al hysterical bo evenly matched were these two scientific racing mach nes tl at never after they started were the anva skippers out of each others hail and more than three quarters of the time they were so close tl at charlie barr who had the tiller aboard the colum b a could have tossed a biscuit to captain sycamore on the shamrock miles as they beat tl air way to tl e outer mark the black shadows of huge club topsail was pa anted on the mainsail of the colum b a and for an hour on the run home with the yachts flying like scared deer I 1 defoie the wind they ran almost beam and beam as if they were harnessed together the result of the race makes the possession of the cup a matter of grave doubt there are five races to be run the cond t ons of some of them being in favor of the and u even ly are the boats mancl ed abat the slightest accident or error will dec de the race races are scheduled for tuesday th raday and saturday the cup has been in amer ca halt a cen tury and its lobs would now be a keen disappointment |