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Show RACING YACHTS PLOUGHING THEIR WAY 10 WARD GOAL PHILADELPHIA,- May 24.-Capt. Crosby , of Hhe British tank steamer Saxolelne, which arrived here today from 'Cardiff J reports having passed two of the yachts which are now racing rac-ing across the Atlantic. On Saturday, May 20, at 2 a. m.. in latitude 42.22. longitude lon-gitude 6L41 the. Saxolelne - passed ' a three-masted schooner yacht supposed to.be the Atlantic,-and at 7 a. m. on the same day she passed an 'American bark, supposed to be the Apache-. The weather at the time was fine, and there was a fresh westerly wind. Cape Crosby Cros-by says that the boats were making fast -time. ---- - ' - . ; NEW YORK, MJ A three-jnasted. three-jnasted. schooner yacht, believed tp'lbe. the yAmerican buUt Utowaia, one of the contestants' in the ' trans-Atlantle rce for the Emperor William cup', was sighted at 4 p. m- on May 21 by the oil tank steamer - La ' Campine. 840 miles due east of Sandy Hook lightship. The tank steamer ; reported sighting the yacht when she-arrived hera today from Antwerp. The officers of La Campine said they ' Passed within, a quarter of a mile of the sailing vessel, and, although (hey were unable to .distinguish .dis-tinguish her' signals or name, they were satisfied from her-lines that she was the Utowana. , .--r - -j- v - The Atlantic, another of the racing yachts, which- was reported several days ago as sighted late at night on the 20th, had covered nearly 700 miles up to :that time, y ' . , v , t ; .. .. ' |