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Show I TELLS THRILLS OF YACHX RAGES A. P. Correspondent Writes a Graphic Account of the Trials Off Sandy Hook H ABOARD THE SHAMROCK SANDY HOOK. July 10. A lands- H man undismayed by a dally chare? H through Now York's SUbWays, bv the fl vagaries of Coney Island's most bols- ft tcrous scenic railway and b the un- H certainties of glare lea under dull H .skates would feel perfectly at ease on H the Shamrock IV racing for the B America's cup this month H A representative of The Ajsoriated H Press. Invited by Sir Thomas Llptcn B to experience a trip on the 88 -mo tat Shamrock during one of her many H trial ntt-s with the challenger off the B Jersev coast, found that, as a passen- gcr, this was all he had to do: B 1 Dodge safely down a comprinion- H way when the crew. In adjusting sails, H dashed madly from stem to stern with B a speed that would have chagrined B even a veteran subway halfback. B 2 Get used lo the feeling of on? B moment ollnglng to the windward B gunwale many feet above the Atlan- H tie and the next, ao the "loop came H about, finding himself to leeward with H every chance of soon being many feet below B 3. Crawl gingerly over sea-splashed H decks to that spot at the moment M boasting the highest altitude com-j fortlng himself with the recollection; H that with 50 odd tons of keel under-, H neath her, it would bo a bit difficult lor the yacht to capsize STUDIES 6TJKROWDIWGS. H After these three requirements had H bfen met. he eould settle down to an B impersonal study of alien surround-1 H there was no ceremony to die s-Art. , H The meter boat, as green-hulled as tl o challenger, anchored c short distance B away, was riding at anchor with her rouinsail and club-topsail set when B 'the boarding launch came alongside. , H Sh Thomas had a short chat H Colonel Duncan F. D, Nelll and Cap- H tain Alfred Diaper, who were hand- B ling the trlai horse and pushed off. i H Th sloop thn slipped her moorings nnd s)ovlj he I out for the al H At first there was no commotion' HI abcard. The crew a BCOre of wcatb- h er-beaten tars, looking like brownies B dressed in white lay on the deck. B Hopes were neatly colled and every - H mi i mple. H As the yacht worked out from bo- H hind the- shelter of the Hook, aha H gan to get the full force of the w.nd H and cctrtrenrd over sill further, unul H eVeryone on hs feet was Waning over B toward port at an angle seemed H perilously close to -15 degrees.. B In the cabin even a stranger H met the eye. Table-tops and lamps H arranged on the gravity system listed B with the boat, yet kept To H uninitiated the first glance at lha B tcrlor was as much of a shock as that B In a maze where concave or Conv B minors play pranks with one's IP ft' a.iue MANEUVERS OP STAKTING. Suddenly the yacht came about. KcaUsalls which had been run up since the start flapped In the breeze. Indeed, the yacht seemed very like u builder shaking a rat; In his teeth. As little waves slapped the BlOOp'3 bows, sailors crouching at t.i- j' workuig on tackle vcr. drenched li was not unlike men trying to tlo R pretty how-knot under a shower. QUtsfde the Shamrock met the Shamrock IV, which hart beer, towea out by a tuff. As the two craft, shaking shak-ing out more canvas, chased each other about, a warning flag was raided aboard the steam yacht Victoria. Sn Thomis" flagship. The apparently aimless chase became even more frantic fran-tic as the rival skippers maneuvered for the start. It w.u like nothing so much as a game of tag. Then the signal to start was given. As the Shamrock cai.ic about and orders were given lo break out the Jibiopsall, the crew which had even before been milling around the deck Increased their seeming efforts to: create a scene of confusion A man would Klve a tug at one rope and then go galloping forward to twitch aa-Other, aa-Other, while his mute came tearing! nft on the other side of the craft i Everyone seemed to be training for sprints and the deck was a ma.53 i f writhing ropes. Meanwhile orders' came like machine gun bullets. But order came out of seeming I chaos. As the two craft crossed the line and straightened out for the first leg of the triangular course a 10-j mile reach the r w. (heir hardest work for the moment done, dropped to tho windward side of the dook and clunir to the rail a barrier almost three Inches high. Its companion B piece on the other aide later H awash. strategy or qi AitTrnni ru. ft Kor the moment there was a chance H to look around. It was n moment of i H quarterdeck Htrategy The trial horse B was a short distance behind the chal-I chal-I longer. Directors of the Shamrock s fate viewed through their glasses th , B quarterdeck crew of the Shamrock IV B and glasses in turn levelled at the B I H Just an explanation as to why lh" H Shamrock docs not bear any numerals after her name. She would, by right of birth, have been the Shamrock IV, B but she was never built to fight for the America's cup and Sir Thomas refused re-fused to . give her this magic number H which. Indicating the leaves of a shamrock, ha Intended should be carried car-ried only by the craft which he hopes H to carry off the coveted troprn B Tho navigator spent many minutes i with parallel rules and chart, stop-! stop-! ping now and then to glance aloft at H the sails and off the port quarter at wind-ruffled waters. Then he would BO nfer with the skipper and a h"a.l-H h"a.l-H sail would bo trimmed. These trimmings trim-mings seemed a vigorous as the tug which a woman sometimes would give a disordered lock of her hair, Hut li j had nautical significance, f As tho two craft drw near tho turn ing mark, tho Shamrock IV had I drawn away a little from her competitor, competi-tor, which lagged behind abut o'.ir Btinutea The next leg "as to be a run straight before tn wind. COMMOTION AMOXti OIUSW. Commotion ,itl-nda this turn. Out H had to come the spinnaker, a tall H angular tretch of canvai run up to the masthead and on the op- poslto '' to the mainsail by a Uglr. boom. As soon as Dim leading yach: i bean breaking out this auxiliary I the crew of the meter boat hoppei to their feet and prepared to do likewise. I It was a race lu 6all sotting. Time on l f a racing yacht Is figured In seconds,! not minutes. The great string of canvas which was folded and nound at two-foot intervals in-tervals with light twine, had i-en fed out of the sail locker like a firehose, then was run up and by tackle pulh d out lo the end .f the. beam The first tug broke lha firsl stop and the wind did the rest, it waj lik a ia-it wave rearing on one end and thru break-! lag On the second leg tho challir.igcr increased h r h ad and when 0 miles covered, the yachts Marled un the la-n and most tactical stretch beating up into the wind it was found th( Shamrock IV had pained more than fle minutes In the last ten miles! The renl Jockeying came with the t.'icr.mg. ISuch skipper "hoped to blanket the other that is. ihrusi his JSZ.Ol'O set of sails between the wind and the other yacht and -ut off propelling pro-pelling power as one would snui? a gas light. Great stretches of canvas BUCh as 7&-footers carry create quite a hole In the atmosphere. I back and forth the two sloops tacked. .Muffled ord"-rs came from i behind the wheel, where the skipper; WSS kneelmg. "Over to leeward crawl over one by one, so they won't sco you Now. then, about we come! " WIND PLAYS ITIAXK. Round spun the big yacht on an-i an-i other tack. It apparently took the , other crew by surprise, hut It was only ger headed up into the wind and; yurged again at another angle. The wind, which had been flattening flatten-ing out. played a prank on the trial hor3e as the Shamrock IV was approaching ap-proaching tho flnl.sh line. While iho trial horse was slipping slowly through the water, tho challenger was enjoying enjoy-ing a gust which burled her gun-wulo. gun-wulo. Just as they crossed tho line, the Shamrock, which was dropping bo-hind bo-hind minute by minute, caught another an-other gust. But U was too lato and when she crossed the lino and tho navigator, wh. with a stop watch had no'rd from a blast of tho Vl torla'a vhisile the moment the challenger had flulshod, announced thru tho challenger had won by exactly 13; minutes and 31 seconds. The 8hamrock's crow took their ber.tlng philosophically. They hadn't o:;poctcd to beat tbo chollengor but thoy had expected to make u better o'nowmg. But tho brief becalming had boon their downfall. "Fortunos of war," said the nkipror. ""When you've beon In tho racing game IS long time, you don't worry." But tho wind was taunting. On tho way back to the nioorlngH It strengthened strength-ened and whofl speed was not n r- d, tho sloop tore along Uk a gra bird nocking shelter behind Bandy Hook. California's greatest array of trscK ana ficid alnletes paid ugjon u hur-li,ed hur-li,ed si yesici uay. aiternoun en rout' to Boston, wn.ie the ncn will enter Lbe iniaij lur ih- American Olympic team next Saturday aitcrnoon Ti.o! party here yesterday cdnaifitca of nineteen nine-teen men unci two coacnes. Robert B iH-au. ol the L,os Aniicieii Athletic I ciud. and I rani. Foster oi the Uly mptc tico ol Sail Vl auei.ioO. The trackstoie With the parly were C KUby, 4J0-yard datu, .1 Boyle. weights and discus; lc. Evans, discus; o. xinderson, high huidieb; 1), too, High Jump, Gedi'ge Selilllei, 440-yard daoii; W. vVu.son, 440-yi.rd dash; nU .ols, hop. aivp and jump; J. Swrn. miiei u ti uaggJ. 4 io-va..i hurdles; ucorpp Bihimun, weights; ii. Caughcy. weights; J. Merchant, weighia; . Ohurcnu), 10, woo meter run; O. Hunter, Hun-ter, holm r 5.0ou-ineur American record, rec-ord, jaij.es McEacheron, weighrb; H "Bnck" Mullci, high jump; J. Norton, world's record holder, 110-yard low hurdles. I -il K OS 1HE ID. Four members of the California squad, namely Charii I'aridock, sprln-'ter; sprln-'ter; Morris Klrksey, Sprinter; W, ount, all-a'roUndS, and B. Sprolt. half-iiiller. departed for the east DUO ! week ago. 'iho iutn, according to Bob Weaker, are In tip-top shape and unless the unexpected happens the men from the west will be among the candidates selected se-lected for the trip overseas. 'The west will have tho fastest j bunch of men In harness tnlr. season that ever competed in the track and field games In America and I except' to see several records shattered overseas," over-seas," aald Coach Krank Poster. "With such men as Morr'o Klrksoy, Charier I'uddock, Creed Haymond and Harry Williams In harness In the sprtnts the competition In the events at Boston 3hould bo kn throughout' and unless 1 miss my guess this quartet quar-tet will easily nose out the eastern men. The four sprinters are without doubt the greatest ever developed In the country and will be heard from. "Never In tho history' of tho west has such an aggregation of tracksters been banded together, and never In western history has an aggregation of such class boon In harncas," said President l;ub Weaver. "SURE GOING OVER." "I am eoifCldent that tho entlro gang of western athletes, Including tho four ".igden A Ai men, will compete overseas. over-seas. In lh trials stuged at I'aaa-dona I'aaa-dona lost month tho western men clearly outclassed tho sastsrn men in a majority of tho events and In tho finals at Boston I look for tho western west-ern men to completely sweep tho meot In tho sprints, high Jump, weights, 440-yard run and tho 4l0-hurdle. With such men as itlchards, Cory, lirson, Ifuller an' Mardhant cut' red 111 tho aerial event 1 look for n com- pioio victory ior inn western s;urs. Both Foster and Weaver prulsed the work of the t'Kdon A. A. men and statod that the local club had to date received more attention mid advertising advertis-ing than any othm olub In America, Hl'EJ It .Mi nt II ANTS. Bpod msrehants, Thil' their mld- din name, Hrij BoliUlgf, 440yard man, wor. iho ovenl Pi Ihu l'i;i,ud na trials la 4 Noond4 flat and is the favorite In the pomlng mot a Boa I ton. Bonlllgy Is In n rl.-.a with tbo I world's grtaiest, aocordlng to Weaver land will be heard IrOm al Boutoii, Then Iheio Is Johnny Norton, the nurdler Norton shitiiied thu world's I record In ihe Il0-y.ird stick event at 'Pasadena, traveling, over th d-unce - BBBBBBBBBBBsl ggSBBBBsl In 53 and H-:" seconds. He la recognized recog-nized as America's greatest hope In the stick events In the lohg-dlstance events two men of considerable repute will represent the west. They arc O. Hunter, holder "i the American r,ooo iheter run and ' i tuirchlll, loriner!:. of I tali, in the 10,000 meter run Both men arc fast and have cleaned with America's greatest. .TAI NT I I' 26TB STREET. Upon arriving here yieste'rday tliese two men took a snrt Jaunt to tho lOgden high wcliool on Twenty-fifth Street and Monroe avenue in their running togs Both noticed the altitude, alti-tude, but Mulshed as strong as a young I onion. They are called ihe Mutt and JJeif of track and Meld athletics In the west. James M' Hachc ron, J. Marchant, It, Caughoy, George Behlman, J. Boyle, and R. Evans will take care of the i .-. elghi events in the final trials. These i men arc in a caee with America's I gi e:tte::t, acc ording to Veaer. j a. SWan, mllcr oi national repute, 'with a record of A minutes and 13 seconds, sec-onds, is the choice of the land in that Hi. according to Foster, despite the fuel that Jole Bay covered the dls-tan.ee dls-tan.ee In 4.10 in the eastern trials last month. The entire parly departed from Ogdcn eager foi Victory, confident and full of pepper. They v.ere scheduled : i Hold a short workout- at iliain River tonight. (Jpon a. riving at Chl-I Chl-I i to Monday aftei noon they will hold la workout at the Unlverjslty of Chl-cago Chl-cago truck field. i':lnton Lai sou, Ogdeb A A. high Jumper, will depart lor the Boston in. Ig th'.s afternoon. He Is recog-nized recog-nized as the greatest In the world and holds the world's record at tl feet 7 and 7-8 inches. i're d l'ayniond. Alma Richards and litll Glasmami departed 'for the finals last week. |