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THE WEATHER
Local thnnder shower? to-day; prob?
ably fair to-morrow and aome
what cooler: moderate fresh
southwest winds.
Full report ?n lac* ?**?.
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In Greater New Tortc |
THREE TENTS
Within 200 Mile*
FOTTR CENTS
El ?e where
Resolute Wins 4th Race by 9 Minutes 58 Seconds;^
Cup^ Series Is Now Tied; Deciding Contest To-day
Poland Sends
Peace Offer
To Bolsheviki
Request for Armistice Dis?
patched by Wireless to
Soviet Government; a
New Cabinet Organized
Coalition Formed;
Witos Is Premier
Ufarshal Foch Won't Go
to Polish Capital Unless
Allies' Aid Is Required
By Arthur S. Draper
F ? The Tribune's European Ru"*ou
Copyright, 1920, New York Tribune Inc.
LONDON'. July 23. The Polish gov?
ernment has appealed to Moscow for
an immediate armistice. The Bol
ihevik reply is awaited here with
anxiety. If the Soviet government
prants the request the preliminary
peace negotiations are to be held at
Grodno, on the river 150 miles east of
Warsaw. If the Bolsheviki refuse to
s?cele, they will succeed in uniting al!
of Western Europe against them; their
efforts to oner, trade relations will fall
flat and their chance of getting diplo?
matic recognition will be gone.
Although the advancing Bolshevik
armies have only just crossed the
DoIi- h frontier, their steady onmarch
has brought them to within live miles
of Grodno. The Red armies have be?
come a s? rio is menace to Warsaw, the
capita ! ] here seems to be small
7;:i<_; their progress, as the
Polish armies are short of munitions
and the men are growing badly de?
morad
Fifty Miles From ?Viernel
One ?-('poi'! is that the Bolshevik
arm.,'.; have reached within fifty miles
of the Mernel area, which is garri?
soned by French troops. General Bru
siloff, who knows this territory better
than mo.-t of the Russian leaders, is
directing the Red forces, swinging
them down through East Prussia,
where the Bolsheviki hope to find sym?
pathizers. It is reported that Lithu?
ania has been invaded.
Thu Poles are planning to make a
stand on the River Niemen. Another
Soviet army is moving westward from
Bre '.7 ?? k and a third is driving
:r?rr. the ? mtheagt ?"rom Dubno, hav?
ing erf.--, i d the River Styr.
The British and French missions
which left London and Paris last night
?ill be in Warsaw to-morrow to ad?
vise tiie Polish government.
WARSAW. July 23 (By The Associ?
ated Press). A new coalition Cabinet
has been formed under the Premier?
ship of M. Witos.
The new Cabinet has the support of
the Socialist party. M. Datzenski,
head of the Socialists' organization, is
the Vice-Premier. Aside from these
two changes the Cabinet remains the
6am e.
The direct negotiations begun with
the Soviet are on the question of an
immediate armistice along the entire
front of about 720 miles. The pro?
posals were wirelessed after a failure
to reach any definite conclusion in
dealin-r with M. Tchitcherin, Bolshevik
Foreign .Minister, through Premier
Lloyd George of Great Britain. The
proposals were signed by Prince Eu?
gene Sapieha, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs.
Peril in Further Delays
The Polish message was short and
to the point. There was some delay in
dispatching it, owing chiefly to hitches
in the organization of the coalition
Cabinet, with the Peasant party leader
Witos as Premier. The Council of Na?
tional Defense and Premier Grabski's
Cabinet had been considering the ques?
tion since Wednesday night, as it was
known that if M. Witos and M. Datzen?
ski came into power their initial step
Would be for an armistice. It wns de?
cided further delays would be serious,
owinp to the situation beyond Bialy
tok, and a decision was reached to send
* wireless note to Moscow at once. A
reply is expected by Friday night.
Foch Awaits Developments
PARIS, July 23.?Marshal Foch will
not po to Warsaw unless the report of
the French and British missions now
f!i route indicates the necessity of his
Presence and subsequent developments
show that military aid of the Allies is
required to prevent the Bolsheviki
from overrunning Poland, it was
-earned to-day.
Some hopo is entertained in official
?'roles that direct armistice negotia?
tions between Poland and Soviet Rus
*'a may make Allied intervention
unnecessary.
Poland Asks U. S.
For Moral Backing
Minister Seeks Statement
of Nation's Attitude;
Material Aid Discussed
from The rrOuim'i Washington Bureau
fc WASHINGTON, July 23.?The United
??tes was asked by Poland to-day to
Jjnnounca formally to the- world its
moral support" of Poland's war
?gainst the Russian Bolsheviki.
?? r!nce I-ubomirski, Polish Minister
l? the United States, called at the
owtte Department and discussed the
Ration at great length. He asked
'ne department to proclaim that this
l?itry ls "m?rally supporting" Po
'?nd and suggested that a similar ex
Pression from President Wilson would
?V -??'toward stiffening the morale of
*fle t oles.
American aid for Poland wa? dis
kCont?Biit? m m* si
Poles Beyond Military
Help, Says Ludendorff
Special Cable to The Tribune
Copyright, U"20. New Yorl' Tribune Inc.
BERLIN, July 23.-?General
Ludendorff, commenting to-day on
the Bolshevik sweep toward War?
saw, expressed belief that the
Poles were beyond military help.
He said that eventually German
communists would unite with the
Russian Bolsheviki for defensive
purposes.
i
Mutilated Body
Of Woman Sent
Here in Trunk
! Vital Organs Removed by ;
Murderer, Who Shipped
Victim Fro nr Detroit
by Express on June 10 '
-
Found in Storage House!
Consigned to 'Douglass, N.
Y.'; Clothes Used to Cover
Form May Prove Clews
The nude body of a young woman,
victim of a brutal assassin, was found
yesterday morning when employees of
the American Railway Express Com
' pany forced open a funk that had
, lain unclaimed in the company's ware?
house. 228 East Forty-fourth Street.
1 since June 17. It. had been shipped
hero from Detroit.,
An examination at Bellevue Hospital
I morgue showed that tho slayer had
?nade a deep incision in the body of
the woman, extending from the throat
i to the lower extremity of the torso.
I The lungs, heart and every vital organ
1 had been removed. Dr. Charles N. Nor?
ria, chief medical examiner, said that
: so complete was the work of the mur
| derer that it was impossible for him to
, determine how the woman came to her
death.
The brain was removed yesterday
| afternoon and an analysis will be made
? to-day. This examination may aid in
i determining whether an anaesthetic had
been given before the woman met lier
death. But even if this proves to have
b< en the case the surgeons will have
' only a theory, not entirely sound, that
: the victim hud undergone a criminal
| operation and died as a result of it.
Trunk Shipped June 10
The trunk containing the body was
i shipped by American Railway Express
Ifiom Detroit on June 10. It was re
! ceived at Grand Central Station two
i days later, and after remaining un?
claimed for a week was sent to the
I wnrehou ;e on Forty-fourth Street,
i There it remained on the third floor of
the warehouse until last Thursday.
; The trunk was sent to the first floor
'? and yesterday morning it was deter
; mined to open it.
; A tag tied to the handle of the trunk
I bore the name of A. A. Tutner, 105
Hopsy Street. Detroit, Mich., as the
? sender, and the shipment was made to
i "Douglass, New York." A given name
had been written on the tag, but the
writing was not legible.
Captain Arthur Carey, head of the
homicide SQuad, said the name "Doug
'. lass" undoubtedly was fictitious. As
j the crime was committed outside of
New York State, he said, the police of
?Manhattan could only send the-cloth?
ing found in the trunk and a record of
I the measurements made on the body of
I the slain woman to the Detroit police.
Dr. Norris said the butchery of the
I slain woman was the most ghastly that
! ever had come under his observation.
! A portion of the tongue was severed,
I and, while Dr. Norria would not con
! cede that the work was done by a man
\ who had a full knowledge of surgery,
i he said that the assassin undoubtedly
knew wher* the vital organs in the
body were, and he knew how to remove
them. He said that a layman could
not have done the work.
Clothes May Solve Case
Articles of apparel found in the
trunk may prove to be the clews that
will lead to the capture of the slayer.
The woman's body, when found, lay on
its right side, and stuffed around it
j were a blue serge coat and trousers
that would tit a man of medium build,
(Continutd on last page)
Troops Pour
In and Quell
Belfast Riot
Only Sporadic Outbreaks
Reported in Isolated
Sections of City; Three
More Die of Wounds
16 Sinn Feiners
Taken to England
Many Rioters Placed in
Jail on Charges of Loot?
ing Stores and Shops
By Frank Getty
Special Cable to The Tribune
(Copyright, 1920. New York Tribune Inc.)
LONDON, July 23.?A steady down?
pour of rain in Belfast to-day
damped the ardor of the Sinn Fein and
Ulster rioters who for two days and
nights had terrorized the city. Only
four casualties had been reported at a
late hour to-ni^ht and a semblance of
quiet had settled over the city, with
only now and then a sporadic outbreak
in isolated parts.
Three persons who were wounded in
yesterday's pitched battles in Falls
Road died in hospitals to-day and man.',
others of the hundreds of injured were
still in a dangerous condition. The in?
gress of new forces of the military,
however, has had its influence on the
riotera and the authorities art' now
hopeful that the worst of the trouble-,
i:; over.
At dawn to-day the lull in the fight?
ing came. Tin* Catholic quarter of
Belfast that had been the scene of
such terrific lighting last night, in
which eleven were killed and 300
wounded, and $1,000.000 worth of
property damaged, had become quiet
once more.
The night sky had been red with the
burning of Nationalist property by
Unionist mobs, which included hun?
dreds of women, many of whom were
tvounded. The military had been
forced again and again through the
night to turn their machine guns or
both Ulster and Sinn Fein mobs to
drive them back.
Shops Are Looted
The hospitals resembled clearing
I stations. All night long the men and
women looted public houses and
shops, setting fire to everything they
couldn't consume or carry away. The
rival crowds fought with sticks and
stones in San ford Street for an houi
i and a naif, while the exhausted sol
I diers who had jus^ shot down ten per
? sons in an earlier riot looked on.
When the Unionist mob which
j wrecked the Catholic church had beer
[ turned out by the reinforced military
| the Sinn F?iners opened fire on botl
I the military and Unionists.
The Sinn F?iners banded togethei
for protection, clashed with the mili
I tary in Kashmir Road and again ii
| Springfield Road. Reinforcements were
i hurried to the various scenes of trouble
and sniping became so incessant thai
the military was ordered to open fin
with machine guns to clear the streets
Bullets raked the windows that were
suspected of harboring snipers. Man\
Unionists as weil as Nationalists fel
before the machine guns.
Troops Fire Into Crowds
The soldiers several times firec
volleys on both factions, and then
were inevitable clashes between thi
two whenever they met.
In tue Ballyinacrett district th.
j crowds got beyond control and tight
between the Orangemen and the Na
tionalists were interspersed with at
tacks by both on the military, wh'
replied with volleys of rifle fire.
By midnight all the city's availabl
fire fighting apparatus was hard a
work to prevent a general conflagration
while the hospitals were overcrowded
with more wounded coming in at ever;
minute.
Many Nationalists disguised as worn
en were found trying to escape fron
the danger district.
To-day armored cars and cavalry ar
patroling the streets, while lang
bodies of troops with machine gui
nests are on guard behind barbed wir
entanglements. The doors to th
Roman Catholic Cathedral were barrd
(Continued on pose 3)
Pampered Pup Finally Loses
His Playground on 5th Avenue
New York's most pampered pup is
about to lose the wonderful playground
that has made him the envy of every
other dog in the city. The problem of
high rentals and space shortage has
entered into the life even of the Wen
del terrier, and soon he must find a
new place to bury bones and a new
lawn to roll on, for the back yard of
the old Wendel home, on Fifth Avenue
just north of Thirty-ninth Street,
maintained for years for his exclusive
pleasure, Is to be covered by a build?
ings?a commercial building at that.
And now that this Wendel pup will
have to go out into the streets or the
park for his exercise and recreation, he
will have a wonderful story to tell the
other fellows he meets?how all his
life was spent in a million-dollar back
yard; how time and again men wanted
to buy his playground for a building
site, but his master, old John G. Wen
del, who died two years ago, wouldn't
sell it because he could not deprive the
little terrier of his pleasure.
He can tell all the other dogs the
story of Fifth Avenue and its remark?
able changes in recent years, for he
had a grand stand.scat for everything.
?
Through cracks in the high board fence
he saw the daily panorama of shoppers.
And in his lonesome majesty he has
looked on at all the parades and cele?
brations that have crowded the famous
avenue in recent years. He has watch?
ed the steady march of big buildings
all about his domain watched them
without fear or even anxiety, safe in
knowledge that his romping space
would remain until the tima came for
him to move on to the happv land
where all good pups finally go.
But now he is the victim of over
confidence. He did not know that the
Misses Ella, Mary and Georgiana
Wendel and Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendel
Swope had changed the policy so long
maintained by their brother. They are
putting all their property to work?
space is needed and rentals are high.
Yesterday their architects, John B.
Snook's Sons, filed plans for a six-story
loft building on the site of the pup's
playground. It will cost $200,000. And
with its erection the little fellow's
story will become part of the history
of the greatest street in the world.
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Resolute Crosses First Again
The defender skimming across the finish line ahead of Shamrock IV, tying the score with the challenger.
J o ii ?? s o ?? Says j
Harding S ta eel
Assures Victory
Position osj 'Paramount Is?
sue, League of Nations,'
Makes Success Certain,
Declares the California!!
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23. Senator
i Hiram W. Johnson, erf California, de
| clared in a statement to-day that Sen
i ?itor llai'uing, in his speech of accept
! anee of the Republican Presidential
I nomination, took an unequivocal stand
, upon the "paramount issue in this
; campaign, the League of Nations," and
; that his position "made Republican
! success certain and his election as
j sured."
i Quoting from the speech of accept?
ance delivered by Senator Harding,
Senator Johnson said:
"Yesterday, in his speech of accept?
ance, Senator Harding unequivocally
i took his stand upon the paramount
j issue in this campaign, the League of
| Nations. The Republican party stands
j committed by its platform. Its stand
! ai'd bearer now accentuates that plat
j form. There can be no misunderstand
I ing his eloquent words. . . .
"Senator Harding is to be con
? gratulated upon his firm and emphatic
stand against the proposed league. His
! words strike an answering chord with
every American. We now go to the
solemn referendum of the people with
our party pledged, our candidate boldly
! bearing aloft the standard of Ameri
! canism. Enthusiastically and over?
whelmingly, our people will respond.
Mr. Harding's position has made Re?
publican success certain and his elec?
tion assured."
Many Wire Praise
Of Harding Speech
| ''Stirring U iterance J Says
Knox ; Robens Declares
United Party Is Assured
From a Staff Correspondent
MARION, July 23.?Delighted with
praise of his speech of acceptance
contained in congratulatory telegrams !
received from all parts of the country '
to-day, Senator Warren G. Harding
motored to Mansfield, Ohio, to play
golf, returning after dark this evening. |
"We are going to renew the Sena- j
torial fight on the links," the nominee
said as he climbed into his aiachiite !
with Senators Freylinghuysen, of New j
Jersey, and Hale, of Maine, and Fred j
Upha'm, of Chicago, treasurer of the j
Republican National Committee. Mrs. j
Harding and Mrs. Freylinghuysen ac- j
companied them.
The Ohio Senator probably was
pleased most by one of the earliest tel?
egrams delivered to him. This was
from Senator Philander C. Knox, of
Pennsylvania, who wired:
"Heartiest congratulations. It was
a strong and stirring utterance by an
earnest and patriotic man, .*xpres3ed
with that becoming modesty without
which no man is truly great."
Senator Knox was the author of the
resolution that would have made peace
with Germany by declaration had it
not been vetoed by President Wilson.
In his speech of acceptance Senator
f (Continued oa page 5)
Burton Could Have Won if He
Had Heeded Experts on Shore
Yachting Sharps; Armed With Binoculars, Tell How
?? Ought To Be Done as Their Families Consume
the Sandwiches; 11. 3d Refuses To Be Interested
By Hey wood Broun
The 6:43 whistled long enough to wake us and went its way. Rubbing
our eyes, we realized that time, tide, train-- and the United States de?
stroyer Semines wait for no man. The alarm clock had betrayed us. We
would have to make a front porch campaign of it.
And yet, there are many worse places from which to view a cup race
than the steps of a house on Navesink Beach. We have a bigger porch
than the destroyer Semmes, and there are no rocking chairs in the Ameri?
can navy. More than that, a shore view permits a different and a some- '
what more interesting perspective of the yachts.
Traveling on the heels of Resolute 7?
and .Shamrock, the big boats till the eye
with their magnificence. They seem
! more important than the ocean.
i Viewed from the Jersey coast, they are
tiny white pellets riding precariously
'? on a vast sea which could tako one
every hour without even a gulp of
? water to wash it down, In fact, the
I ocean shook them so well yesterday
\ that we were not. at all sure it did not
i mean to use them.
Sea Swallows Tiny Boats
And above the ocean black clouds
! banked up and rumbled as if in threat-?
against the little ships. From black
the clouds shaded down to white fog
: banks, which clung to the sea and !
swallowed up both boats whenever they
tacked away from shore on the first
thrash down the coast against the wind. ;
As Resolute and Shamrock in turn j
headed out to sea and drew the white j
blankets of invisibility over their j
, heads we had a warmer feeling for ?
them than we ever did during the
afternoons aboard the Semmes when ;
we dogged their lootsteps. For all we
knew both shins might have come to
the end of a flat world and leaped
over the edge. At any rate in their
misty aloofness they touched the
glamorous tradition of ships which
have sailed away to win mightier
stakes than silver cups. It seems to
us that the voyage for Golden Fleece
might have been a somewhat less j
romantic quest if the tug of The As?
sociated Press had journeyed just be
hind Jason with a stop watch.
Still we must admit that we missed
the experts. To remedy that we
walked down to Highlands and up on
the hills to Twin Lights. The most
expert of the experts were at the top
of the lighthouse we were told. But !
it was not necessary for us to go ;
so high, for the hill was crowded by j
many men with telescopes and field
glasses. Nobody in the world is
?quite as omniscient as a man with
field glasses. Personally, we never
could mako them do more than blur
a perfectly clear picture. Never a
pair in all the world has told us any?
thing we had not already seen with j
the naked eye. They worked better '
for thf men on the hill.
These Were Real Experts
There was not a singlo owner of
a field glass who could not tell you, if
you asked, by just what margin Reso?
lute was leading and what mistake Cap- I
tain Burton had made or was about to j
make. Usually it was not necessary
to ask. A man with field glasses is <
one of the most expansive and least !
reticent persons in the world. We
were filled with wonder and pride in
our United States. On tri?t Highland
, hill there seemed to be at least two
hundred men, any one of whom at
I ten-milea distance- could-sall the chai
lenger more expert*?/ than the man who
actually stood at the wheel. This
wealth of talent reconciled us to the
thought that the cup might be lost.
Seemingly, every man who owns a
pair of binoculars is a yachtsman to
his family. The hill was dotted with
heads of households. Each kept tight
hold of the field glasses and told his
wife and children what was going on
out in the haze. However, the families
usually had their revenge. While the
head was scanning the seas they ate
the ham sandwiches.
On all the hill there was no one
who knew less about the race than we
did. We didn't even have as much as
a pair of spectacles with which to
impress anybody. Suddenly we re?
membered H. 3d, and decided to go
home and give him a lesson in naviga?
tion. He ought, we felt, to see some?
thing of Resolute and Shamrock
although yachts are hardly suitable
everyday companions for a unformed
child, what with their reaching and
their oointing.
Still, H. 3d is by no means a con?
firmed mariner. He began with a dead?
ly fear of the sea, but has now out?
grown that to such an extent that he
can take the ocean or let it alone, with
equal willingness. But when we were
back on the front porch we found that
somebody had given H. 3d a pack of
cards, six red pebbles anel a penny.
There wasn't a chance in the world to
make him look up and see the yachts.
Yachts Naught in His Young Life
After all, these yachts had no ac?
complishments with which to lure him.
They cannot hum like an airplane or
go "toot, toot" like the Little Silver,
which comes up the Shrewsbury every
afternoon just before bedtime.
Finding H. 3d engaged in impor?
tant pursuits, we sought somebody else
to help us watch the yachts, hut no?
body along the strip seemed to realize
that the America's Cup was hanging
in the balance.
The folk along our shore were rais?
ing radishes and digging for clams
and reading "Miss Lulu Bett." They
would look up now and again to find
the dim white sails, and say: "Isn't
that beautiful," but then they would
go back to their radishes. Maybe our
strip of beach is not unique in that.
Perhaps there is many a person in the
world who would rather be skipper
and sole commander of his own radish
than a mere spectator at a race for the
America's Cup.
Reds Appeal for a Revolution
Against Britain and America
LONDON, July 23.-The Congress of
the Third Internationale at Moscow has
issued an appeal to Syria. Turkey and
Arabia to rise against Great Britain,
France and America, according to a
wireless dispatch from Moscow to-day.
The appeal asks the former countries
to "throw off the yoka which th? Allies !
are J,ryingrto imposa" on themw '
Upton's Smile
Fails to Cover
Grief at Defeat
Shamrock's Owner Cannot
Comea! Kcal Feelings!
as Resolute Ties Score in
the America Cup Serie.?*
Sir Thomas Lipton saw his green ;
slcop Shamrock IV go down to its sec- j
ond successive defeat yesterday from '
the bridge of his steam yacht Victoria.!
Peering anxiously over the edge of the
bridge, his keen blue eyes plainly!
shewed the disappointment that his :
merry, weather-beaten face success?
fully hid.
He knew, and his subsequent con- j
versation indicated he knew, that Sham-?
reck had failed on her last chance to j
obtain for him the realization of his
life's desire. In that moment when
Resolute crossed the line ahead of the ?
challenger, his actions showed he real- i
ized that Fate had knocked from his j
tightening grasp the cup which he has !
striven two decades to win.
Three days ago Sir Thomas expressed I
his conviction that the America's Cup j
might possibly change hands. Yester- j
day, while still expressing sentiments
of hope, he discussed the possibility of
again challenging for it.
Praises American Yacht
Despite the disappointment at de?
feat, Sir Thomas took the situation
bravely. Before expressing his own
feelings he hastened to express his
admiration for the American yacht and
her crew. "Resolute." he said, "won ;
on all points of sailing. Her crew is
composed of a very good class of men I
who do their work in a very smart and j
efficient manner. They are certainly;
very well trained.
"To-morrow will be the deciding fac- ?
tor, but I am very nopeful of tho out- ?
come."
Then in a jocular moment Sir i
Thomas, without aparently pausing to j
think, let slip an indication of his real j
thoughts:
"Unfortunately," he added, "I gave !
orders for a wooden fase for the cup, !
and also for a steel safe to put the
wooden case in. '*'ow the whole thing's I
no use. Still, 111 fceep it for the next j
time."
Friday proved to be a regular jinx
(Contlnufttf on pugs 3}
Bury Children to Necks ;
Wait for Life to Return
Relatives of Lightning Victims
Expect Earth Currents to
Draw Out Electricity
'Dr. Howard W. Neail, Deputy Medical
Examiner of Queens County, making
his official visit yesterday to Bayside,
where nine-year-old Jennie Stahurski
and her brother, Edward, two years old,
were killed by lightning Thursday
night, found the bodies of both chil?
dren in the back yard buried up to
their necks.
A throng of relatives and neighbors
filled' the yard and protested vigorously
when Dr. Neail had the bodies dug up.
They explained to the official that every
Pole knew that a person struck by
iightninp never was killed outright
and if the body was buried promptly
the earth currents would draw out the
electricity and life would be manifest.
It was with the greatest difficulty
that Dr. Neail persuaded those who
had been watching for life to return
that it was really extinct. Convinced
at last, they assured the physician that
the measure had failed this time only
because it had not been adopted
' promptly enough,.
Shamrock Is
Outsailed at
Every Turn
Without Time Allowance
Defender Beat Lipton
Yacht by 3 Min. 18 Sec.
, Over Triangular Course
Defender's Skipper
Defies Blaek Squall
Last Chance of Challenger
Lost on Third Leg as
Glnbtopsail Goes Amiss
Yacht Race Weather
TJie winds off Sandy Hook to?
day will be moderate to freah,
south to southwest, with unset?
tled weather. Probably thunder
sQdalls in tne afternoon.
By W. O. McGeehan
Boat for boat, captain for captain
? and crew for crew, the cup defender
?Resolute beat-thevchallenger Sham
I rock in a l'air wind and a running
? sea on the triangular course outside
! Ambrose Channel yesterday.
The series for the" America's Cup
; now stands two to two. but on the
i showing of yesterday Sir Thomas
| Lipton is no nearer to winning the
! cup than lie was when he started,
' thirteen years ago. The yachts will
meet in the deciding race to-day and,
barring accident?, the quest will be
halted.
Adams Challenges Storni
The drama of trie race was staged
in black shadows with the lightning
for footlights on the slate-colored
seas, when Captain Charles Francis
Adams, the American skipper of
Resolute, refused to strike his top?
sail to the challenge of a sullen
-quail. Captain Adam** slapped the
storm in the face with his slender,
tapering spars and his film of sails.
Captain Burton of Shamrock low?
ered his top and played safe, there?
by losing his last and only chance in
the third leg.
It was a runaway race, from the
start off Ambrose Lightship, where
the defender danced away from the
snub-nosed, green boat at the start
and flitted into the face of the ten
knot wind. Not once during the
thirty miles did Shamrock seem to
have a chance. Resolute sailed
across the finish line three minutes
and eighteen seconds ahead of the
challenger on actual elapsed time,
with her balloon jib arched and the
remainder of her canvas set as
gracefully as a gull's wings.
Counting the time allowance award?
ed to the defender bv the physics
laboratory computations, she beat
Shamrock by nine minutes and fifty
eight seconds. Not once on the course
did she seem to need anything like
a handicap. She skipped away like
a sea nymph leading a slashing and
som. .hat aimless porpoise.
Defender Skips Over Waves
The balloon jib on the defender was
set less than a quarter of an hour
before the finish, and Resolute was
skipping over the wave tips, while the
challenger, with her ballooner and her
spinnaker flapping, looking aloft for
all the world like a stout old lady
with a crinoline skirt spread, panted
astern. But all the canvas that could
be stretched on a fleet of Shamrocks
would have meant nothing at that
stage.
Sir Thomas Lipon's power yacht
Victoria, was the first to greet
tho victor, and even the whistle seemed
a trifle hoarser from emotion.
Yesterday, according to all the com?
putations of the experts, seemed to be
the last chance for Shamrock. They
agreed that if she were destined to
lift the cup at this trial she
would do it over the triangular course.
To-day's race is a beat to the wind?
ward and back to the mark, and Reso?
lute seems to have demonstrated that
with her time allowance she can hold
the big green challenger safe.
It would seem then the cup will stay
unless the wind gods and the sea gods
as they sit at their green tables to-day
load the dice for Shamrock. Sir
Thomas has come nearer to the mark
? that British yachtsmen have sailed for
i for more than half a century, but it
- looks as though the race of yesterday
had taken the wind from his sails and
left him blanketed again.
Shamrock's Clnbtopsail Amias
The last chance of Shamrock was lost
In the third leg, the run for the finish
lit?, when something went amiss with
her club topsail as a black squall
rushed up. Up to this point lu that
run Shamrock was making up dis?
tance, not enough to overcome that
time allowance, even if she could main?
tain her gain, but enough to make it
look more like a race.
It seemed that Captain Burton feH
it would be too great a chance to
carry the top as it was and it cam?
down. Captain Charles Francis Adams,
of Resolute, gambled with his rigging
against the souall and the defender
sped ahead into the black film and
through it. Perhaps it was not
gambling at all. Perhapa the Ameri
?eaa ?kippe? feit that hi* at -jiag