AMERICA UP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 188, 22 August 1903, Page 3

AMERICA UP.

i ( . I Per P.vss Ajf eolation. S! Nlw York, August 20. , 1 Many bite hvo been mide at Nr-w ! Yoik at on es, th it t v .e Sbtmcock wins , at laass on) i ;.ce. 1; FIR-T HKAT VCTD, ;! New Yokk, August 20. The racn to-dny was abandoned, the ' fi-sfc heat thus being inconclusive. (Presumably the wind failed, and the 1 time limit was exceadrd. Tbe next heat is eet down for S I'.urday). 'j Tbe loweiing if the tihsmrock'o ". throat halyard bl< ck has reduced her sail area, and c ns quactly ber allow- ' ance is increased to 117 seconds. Ihe cours9 was fifteen miles south--3 south-west d> ad to windwaid and back. | The weather was showery. ": The Shamrock crossed the lite 36 ' Sfconds ahfad. As eleven miles the J Re'iitce was lending by 200 yavds, acd increasing. The wind was blowing at six knots, and strengthening. I A DBIFI'INU RACK. j Received 21 11.36 p.m. [ New York, August 21. An immense►xeurrtinri fleet was kopt . a mile on either of the racers. ( Similarly the Revenue cuVer cordoned .(a mile round the Sandy Hoak Light . j Ship. ( I Both yach's at the outlet promised ,'equil sp ed, but the Reliance proved , the faster boa', in light weather, and in ; | windward woik ohe gained constantly: and pointed higher. j 'lhe wind wis from six k'>ots to: three, variable, wit h intii: vals of calm, i Heavy rain fell at in'erval j . J The Shamrock tacked frequently,' hrping to get a favourable slant of the i wind. The Reliince, which was to windward, fi-110-wed suit, and kept bo- ' twten her and the maik when the wind was blu'ktbt. j la this drifting race tbe Reliance: 1 increased h-sr Uad, and, the breeze; i! freshening, nbe s'ill conluufld to gain, i ■' She was two m.'es ahead b, fore reach- j i ing the turn for the run home. ; i London, August 21, The various pha.-es of the race were jreproduc d in miuiature at the Exrls Court Hippodroma.