Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — YACHT CUP IS OURS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

YACHT CUP IS OURS.

COLUMBIA IS VIctOR IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST. \ . r*— » Shamrock Is Vanqu ahed by Mors , than Six Minutes American Seamanship Haa Again Demonstrated Its Superiority. The American cup defender, Columbia, Friday gloriously defeated Sir Thomas Lipton’s green challenger, the Shamrock,

and the gallant British knight will have to build another boat if he wants “to lift that cup.” The time made by the marvelous white yacht over the deep-sea course of fifteen miles dead before the wind and fifteen miles thrashing home was three hours thirty-eight minutes and twen-ty-five seconds. It has been eclipsed in only one other windward and leeward race for the

prized trophy. That was when the Vigilant vanquished the Valkyrie six years ago, in three hours twenty-four minutes and thirty-nine seconds. The Columbia defeated the challenger in actual time by six minutes and sixteen seconds. With the allowance of sixteen seconds which She received from the Shamrock her corrected time was six minutes and thirtyfour seconds. The Yankee craft showed her superiority in every point of the game, and her active and hardy Deer isle sailormen were more than a match in seamanship for the nimble Britons of the Shamrock. In the run to the outer mark the Columbia was one minute and eighteen seconds better than Sir Thomas’ ship. This seemed to be the Shamrock’s best point of sailing. In the weather work the Columbia defeated her rival by five minutes actual time. Sir Thomas Lipton will challenge again for the America’s cup. He acknowledged that the Columbia was the better boat long before the race was finished. He said that she had beaten the Shamrock in weather just suited to his yacht, and said he was pleased that there had been a good breeze for the last contest, because it precluded the possibility of any excuse for the Shamrock. He paid graceful compliments to the Columbia, her owner and designer, and declared that he had received the best and fairest treatment that could have been accorded. As soon as the Columbia had crossed the finishing line, Sir Thomas ordered that the Stars and Stripes should be

mast-headed, and then, when the Erin ran alongside the victorious yacht he called for “Three British cheers” for her. For the eleventh time the attempt of a foreigner to wrest from America that yachting supremacy of the world has failed. The trophy won by the old schooner America forty-eight years ago is still ours, a monument to the superiority of American seamanship and American naval architecture and a standing challenge to the yachtsmen of all nations. The intrinsic value of the reward which hundreds of thousands of dollars were expended to secure is small —simply an antiquated piece of silverware which Queen Victoria offered to the best sailing ship in the world in the early days of her reign, but around it cluster the precious mempries of unbroken American triumph and the honor of mastery in toe noblest of sports.

THE CUP.

SIR THOMAS LIPTON.