AMERICA CUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 7

AMERICA CUP.

; RACE MARRED.

SHAMROCK DISABLED.

English Yacht's Mainsail Drops

To Deck.

ENTERPRISE'S THIRD WIN.

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: .; (Received 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, September 17. The third of the seven races for ' the' America Cup started under ideal conditions. The course was a 15mile beat to windward and a run back. There was a 12-knot breeze 'blowing, and it kicked up a bit of a sea. . Both yachts crossed the line together,

■with Shamrock in the weather berth. • Captain Heard got the challenger away perfectly, giving the best exhibition of. handling seen so far. Each boat carried mainsail, jib and. staysail, but Shamrock, which did not appear to be so comfortable as the. defender, seemed to be dipping her nose into it. Two minutes after the start Enterprise went on the port tack, evidently intending to shake off Shamrock, but Heard, who was to windward,: followed • suit, and Shamrock led by a" slight \ margin. Both boats were now footing along in wood style, and both had now set jib topsails. . , ■ At 10.52 a.m. Shamrock, for some -.reason that was not evident to the spec- ; -tators, went on the port tack, Enterprise following immediately. At' 11.25 a.in. Shamrock's huge mainsail came down on deck in billows. The ■crew , were '"partly buried under ; tJie folds and. the canvas dragged behind in the water." Apparently the halyard • block had carried away. . • ;

The crew quickly, hauled the big sail in board, and Shamrock was headed back for. the starting post, -under her headsails.

Before the accident to the challenger Enterprise had worked to windward, and was almost even with her. ' •

Enterprise started to come round; when the* Shamrock met with'her accident, but ehethen^carried on, apparently,, with' the .object ', of completing the course and claiming the race.

'.Shamrock had been giving best performance she has put up during the series. She was showing" every indication of making a real battle of the race, and of clinging to the , early advantage she -had established.;

■After a conference with Sir Thomas : j ilipton-- on the - deck' of'the j S;y:-,| Erin,, •which,was watching the race;. Captain .iHeard^turned as though he intended to I follow, the Enterprise, but soon changed mindand -i . .

'-> Enterprise'took in! lier jib.topsail, but fjeveS then she sent the' spray flying .from * stem to stern, drenching Mr. '-Vknderbilt'at the wheel. She completed beat out to the windward ; mark; in > ;^h-; l4m 15s. '.." ' v > : '■■.";- .

Immediately upon, rounding the mark Enterprise broke out her spinnaker and big/balloon' jib, but . the. wind was taking .off, and, the; first four, miles of • the run home took, her half an hour.

Enterprise-eventually completed tie t /course-at 2h'34m-p.m.