Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1903 — RELIANCE WINS FIRST RACE. [ARTICLE]

RELIANCE WINS FIRST RACE.

American Yacht Defeats Shamrock 111. with Nine Minutes to Spnrc. The defender of the America's cup. the Reliance, decisively defeated the Shaut- . rock 111. Saturday by exactly nine minutes, or, with the time allowance due because! Sir Thomas Tipton's boat is the smdiler, seven minutes and three seconds. The victory showed, that is more comniandiugly tlte superior of the Shamrock 111. than the Columbia was of the Shamrock 11. Saturday's race was u contest between the best two boats that ever sailed in international yacht races and seemed to make it evident that the yachting supremacy of the world stiil lies in American shipyards and with i American sailors. f ■ Tli is glorious contest for the America's cup, by n curious coincidence, occurred on the lifty-seeond anniversary of the day on which the old schooner America, in a anil round tihe Isle of Wight, won what was then known as the Queen’s cup by to immense a lead that the phrase “There was no second" has become hi'tone. Sut- , nrday’s race was a magnificent spectacle, the first hour, in which the English cruft was ahead, being full of painful excitement, and the run home liefore a spanking breeze, with the excursion fleets puffing in the rear, trying in vnin to keep np with the speedy racers, being one of the fiSf* ? f SII'JPS H nns ever poefl icep. The ReiTanee beat the British boat 3 minutes pnd 24 Hocbnu* Tii tiie thrash to windward and 5 minutes and 30 seconds in the run dawn the wiud. * - -