| Show co COLUMBIA LUMBIA BEATS CUP challenger SHAMROCK 11 II IN MOST ING YACHT RACE EVER SAILED columbia crosses line TL thyrone i seconds ahead in a thirty mile race during which tbt contending yachts were abreast nearly the entire distance in the closest and most soul stirring race ever sailed bailed for the this america a e cup the white flyer columbia saturday beat the british over a windward aad leeard arii course of thirty nautical miles ly by tho the narrow darrow heart imagine margin of thirty nine an A lipton a latest as pliant ant for cup lionora honors A COLUMBIA must allow the defender forty thice seconda seconds oo 00 account of the extra square feet of canvas la in her bail lail area abo official record under the rules 11 gives her the victory by on one a minute and twenty two seconds ee conda As a ep hi e contest was sa j berb I 1 brom rare tie the time the two sky raping sen ping racer racers crossed the starting line until they fled fied across I 1 lie iff finish n I 1 a is itoe line four and a half halt hours later the tb result was in doubt and the excite aboard the excursion feet la in creased until men became frenzied and women almost byster hysterical icaL so evenly matched were these two racing machines that L L ver after they star started were the riva 1 skippers oot out of each other a hall and more than three quarter of the tb time they were so 0 o clone that charlie barr who had the tiller aboard the columbia owald hare have tossed a biscuit to captain byca moreon the shamrock lor kor mile miles as they beat their nay way to the outer mark the black shadows of bh bluerock blu a 8 huge dob club topsail was painted on tho tile susin sail of the columbia and for an hour on the run home with the yacht abing like cared scared deer wore the wind they ran almot almost lam beam and beam a if they were harnessed barne eed together the result of the race mates the possession of the cap cup a matter of grave doubt there are ar anre 11 we race faces to ie be run conditions the of tonne tome of them being in favor of the bli amrock and so even ly ire are the boats matched that the slightest acceded I 1 or f error w trill III decide t the lie race places are scheduled for tuesday thursday and saturday the cup haa has been in america halt half a century and its lose loss would now be a keen |
