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Show RESOLUTE WINS EIGHTH I RACE WITH VANITIE i ' NEWPORT. R. I.. June 16. The i Resolute Avon the eighth America's cup 'defense elimination race from the Vanltle today by the widest margin (either yacht has had in thejast week. 'The clapsod time was two minutes, six Isoconda, and tho corrected time three 1 mlnues, 41 seconds. 1 ' The race was sailed in an Increasing breeze and ovor a shortened course, which had been expected to givo tho yachts a boat to the otltor mark and a run to the finish. Tho wind hauled on the last leg, making it a reach. Tho Resolute gained 26 seconds in the 14 mile boat and one-minute, fifty seconds on tho reach. After the race Manager Hoyt of tho Vanltle asserted that tho Resoluto's gain on tho last leg was duo to a Jammed center board on the Vanltle which compelled tho Gardner boat to drag the board. Divers workctl on t!m center boar,d. b.o. lonjght in an effort to froo tho" board. |