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Show 1 DISCONTENTS WANT LA FOLLETTE AND BRYAN I 3 1 OCCIDENT PUIS g MRICHK YACHT outofpu if 4" Resolute Well !n Lead When F V Halyards Part Near A . Turning Point A SHAMROCK IV KEEPS ON H AND CROSSES LINE Defender Handled With Great- ' er Skill: Challenger's Start Very Poor PR SANDY HOOK. N J. July 15. ' MB4 Shamrock Ir. British challenger for PhJ the America's cup. today won the tHa first race of tho 1020 regatta, sailing Bli across the finish line at 4:25:30 un- SHBfl official time, after tho Resolute had; iOTBbmH been withdrawn because of a mishap j B to the rigging. ojBoRng Parting of the throat halyards on M&SHjB lne American defender Resolute re- ;(.!s-fiMlB suited in her being withdrawn from .! ffifyi today's contest after beating Sir KifcUJi Thomas Lipton s challenger to the! S'iiJ'HjSjj turning mark in a JO-mile nice. Vl Giving the Amerti - OOP wide f ' 1x5 berth, the Irish baronet's pride swept VV A on towards the i lv ue- 1 fender was taken in low by hi r steam Resolute's misllap amc in . dj i- :' matlc manner as the two greai sloops, IM ' after- having made 'heir wa through gKnHl an electrical storm and torrential ' I''fiiilsSMSM cloudbursts, were bearing down on tho MnrE9 turning mark, a few milOa Off Asluiry Park, N. J. I Hi From the tarl ntil th hei HHHBQ halyard?, parted, the American bout fWwKSj had easily tho Upper hand and u mwBB seemed as if only a tailing wind keep- flfijj!55 io her out beyond the time limit KSSjtgSS could prevent her trom taking today s Rdv&BftjGB honors in hand', fushion. SMAlVJ l - W Y l$!jHEX Getting away In smart fashion from ji'iiEsaaW' Ambrose channel lightship, where IitJllSaP . tnc Llpton sloop made the lilunder of being on the line at the starling signal, sig-nal, forcing her r.-rroms, the de-fender de-fender increased her lead steadily on; BfflBffiK: the 15-mlle beat to windward which t comprised the ilrst leg of the race.; Her crew handled their heail sails with greater skill and speed, and sho seemed to have the advantage on; tacks. Leading by half a mile, Resolutc's' crew prepared to round the mark when, without warning, her throat halyiarda snapped. Down slid the gaff! until it reached almost the middle of! her mast. Like a duck wounded in one wing, she kept gamelj on going! past the mark, while her Yankee skipper sent two men aloft to repair the damage. PASSES CRIPPLED FOE. The British sloop which had drifted drift-ed with her rival over most ot the ' course, picked up her heels at the! mark and hs than three minutes after af-ter the turn had been made, slipped! alongside and then passed her crlp-j pled foe. Captain Burton, sailing forj the Irish baronet, made a wide sweep In passing the defender to preclude! any opportunity of coining afoul of Once past her. &hamroek IV apparently ap-parently made no great effort to speed on to the finish line. Shamrock tailed down toward thei finish line unchailengod, witiioiu set ; ling ex i ra sails. FLEOT OF BOATS. A great fleet of excursion boats Ste&med along on boih sides of Lip-! ton's cup yacht to give ln-r welcome ns she sailed over the finish line a winner Far astern and withdrawn' from tho race came the Resolute in! tow of a tug, her unsupported main-"sail main-"sail hanging llmjplj and uselesal) over the boom and with only two headsails flying to keep the sloop's nose out of tho water. The finish was surrounded with M-ht-soelng craft that grouped them-j Ijg'i'flP I selves around the committee boat tt ' see the first Lipiori ohallenger to wli 1 R$Sh I 1 .acht raco for tho America's cup jT j these waters. The Irish baroneti' affifofpiJB needs onl to win two more vlctorlc I ,0 ,nsure n,m tne successful llftlnj HXRivufl tne CUP- NFXT RACE SATURDAY. &$5ll8lx Thc nexl raco 18 601 'or Saturday HrMfflO July 17, If the Resolute will havi completed repairs to her throat hal I rKCfcfriSKI A somewhat similar Incident cans I I- slr Thomas Llpton to withdraw his first Shamrock In the regatta ofl 1899. In the second raco of that ser-"ifiiBia ser-"ifiiBia lf,'s w,tn Columbia defending the cup feilHc ,l"' Shamrock In the challenging role,! HP i h British craft carried away her MBR topmast and was withdrawn as was' 1iL9be Resolute today. ' HiiiiHK: Columbia continued on and com-' Upleted the race which was a ten-mile' triangular contest, and was credited with a victory. As Columbia won the first race and the third won bv Upton's Initial attempt to lift the cup failed. All told there have been but three' times when competing yachts did not fflH finish out the race. In the final con-i iffifflDB t st of the 1 Sit 5 scries Valkyrie III toBsMBfl withdrew immediately after crossing hHHJSs the line because of Lord Dunravens BBBBBBBBBBBB dissatisfaction with racing conditions. The second withdrawal was that of October 17, ipB9, when Shamrock l loxt her topmast and the third that ofl Beptember I, ioo3, when Shamrock III diil not complete the final race of the series because she lost the finish line in the fog. i |