Aug. 24, Igbi.j 
FdRESt ANij STREAM. 
^2:2g:25. She then stood away on the starbosird tacic, 
feachiiig for the second buoj' and not being obliged to 
lack once during this leg of the struggle. The sailing 
here was very close hauled. Invader jibed about the 
second buoy at i -.36 -.30, breaking out spinnaker in very 
workmanlike manner. She showed a gain of im. 153. 
over Milwaukee on the second leg, which is something of 
a commentary on the ability of this Canadian boat, since 
Milwaukee is admittedly good. The run home under 
balloon canvas was uninteresting. Invader crossed the 
line at 2:49:01. 
Official time: 
Start, 11:00. - Second Buoy. Third Buoy. Finish. 
Invader 12 29 15 1 36 05 2 49 01 
Cadillac Disqualified. 
Score by races: 
Invader ...v... !l CadillaS 1 
Grounds of Cadillae^s Ptotest. 
Skippei- Thoinpsoii, virheri seen aftfef the rdce, claimed 
that Invader could have stood off, but did not do so, alid 
hence fot-ced the foul in a position Whete Cadillac had 
not room to rhakc way Avithoiit foUlirlg the buoy. He 
based his own protest upon Section 4, Chapter XXVlll. 
of the rules of the YaoM Racing Unioti of the Great 
Lrikfes: ... . . 
'A yacht, 'whieil, iii cohseqiiehce of "heglect of yidlatioii 
tif any of these rules, shall foul another yacht of compel 
another yacht , to foul a. mark or pbstf uci;iofl or run 
aground, niay be disqualii^ed aiid shall pay all damages; 
altd a yacht which shall wrongfully cause another to luff 
or bear away in order to avoid fouling, or shall without 
cause compel aiaother yacht to give room of tack as other- 
wise provided in these rules, or shall fail to tack or bear 
' away as required, of shall in an3r way infringe or fail to 
-Comply Muth any of these rules, inay be disqualified." 
^ Position o{ the Fool. 
The place wliefe Thompson found himself was near 
to the stake and just as Cadillac hung in stays. The 
actual contact of the two boats took place some j-ards 
beyond the linfe, when Cadillac had not yet gathered way 
, oil the starboard tack suffiGtent to alloW it to clear_ Inva- 
der, which was coming- at greater speed and Whichj of 
course, was obliged to luff tip on Cadillac's accbunt. The 
propfcr nianeuver for Thompson, under the circumstances, 
should have been executed back of thC' starting line and 
to Icewafd of the buoy, when, as he saw Invader coming 
un under good way, he should not have undertaken to 
t amplete his intention of crossing on the starboard tack, 
but should have stood on the port tack, and paid off 
enough to cross under Invader's stern. This would have 
been just a trifle humiliating under the circumstances, but 
yet it would have been much better than throwing away 
the race. 
Invader Vins the Cop. 
Aug. 14.— It is all over. Invader made it three straight 
to-day and takes home the Canada cup with her. With 
the boat, skipper and cup go the best wishes of all the 
sportsmen of Chicago and of America. The Canadians 
have sent over a good boat; not the best boat; m the 
world, and. perhaps, not the best boat on the Lakes, 
but certainly "the best skipper on the Lakes and a crew 
of the best fellows in the world. Jarvis and his inen 
have demonstrated beyond a peradventure their superior- 
ity as sailormen to the best that Chicago could put up 
against them. 
As to the two boats, the opinion at this later day re- 
mains much as it was at first. Invader is a racing ma- 
chine, pure and simple. She was sent here to win the cup 
and .she fulfilled her mission. Invader is, however, a 
machine and not a boat. Cadillac, sturdy, stiff and 
beamy, is fast enough for all intents and purposes, is a 
weatherly craft and not in the least a bad cruiser as she 
i.-^ to-day. It is not conceded by the Yankees, and prob- 
ably not claimed by the Canadians to-day, that Invader 
can outsail Cadillac in all kinds of weather. There was 
much talk at first that the fin keel was a stiff boat and 
wanted Tots of wind. This is tomniyrot. Invader in a 
wind of eighteen to twenty miles an hour is a strictly 
dead one. She goes all awash on any kind of a reach in 
such weather, and makes the worst sort of job of it. 
Upon the contrary, in light weather up to six or eight 
miles an hour, she is a perfect fairy of a boat, and it 
takes a good one to be in it with her. 
As between the boats to-day, Cadillac showed an un- 
expected light-M'eather quality, which leaves one the only 
r. gret pertaining to the series, outside of the unfortu- 
nate foul vesterday; that is to say, a regret which goes 
with the wish that Cadillac had been perfectly sailed. In 
that case it might have made a pretty even showing with 
the Canadian vacht, for indeed Cadillac was better sailed 
at the start, splendidly sailed all down the long reach 
out to the turn, and only began to fall out of it when the 
unfortunate mistake was made by Thompson of over- 
standing the mark. There was also a little delay at the 
turn, as the boat jibed about and broke out head sails for 
the run home. The finish shows that Invader gained 
only 19s. on Cadillac in this balloon reach home, and a 
good part of that 20s. must have been lost by bad handling 
of Cadillac's spinnaker and balloon jib shortly after the 
jibe for home. 
' The fatal error of the course, however, was made by 
Cadillac when it stood too far on beyond, the buoy on 
its long reach out. It is a good fault to do this ordi- 
narilv, for commonly speaking a skipper will not take 
distance enough. Jarvis. who, at the beginning of the 
tack for the buoy, was lying cleverly up in the windward 
berth, could have made the buoy before he' did, but he 
knew perfcctlv well what his boat was capable of doing. 
Skipper Thompson, on the other hand, although we may 
call him a clever sailorman, was not yet fully acquainted 
with this particular boat, and did not have so nicely 
limed her exact capabilities of windward work. There- 
fore, since he overstood further than he needed, every 
foot that he had gained on Invader on this long reach 
out was that much distance lost to him when Invader 
proved that she was far enough along to make the turn 
at one tack. Therefore, as the boats swung into star- 
board tack for the reach of about a mile or so for the 
mark. Invader, being then in the lee berth, pointed up 
into the wind, and had little trouble to cross Cadillac's 
{lows, leaving thqt boat fax astern for the first time jn 
nearW two hours. It was here that the battle was lost 
for Cadillac, and it is probable that, had Thompson known 
his boa!t as well as JarA'is did Invader, and had he utilized 
the last resources of wind arid of position, he could have 
cut down the 2m. or perhaps have beaten Itivader out by 
half that much. That is to say, that Thompson, sailed i 
perfect race with Cadillac and had Invader sa!iled l!he 
same race it did to-day, Cadillac might perhaps have 
won. This, however, is only a wa}'- of letting one's self 
down easier. Invader won it, won it fairly, decisively, 
handsomely, and by superior seamanship of a craft at 
lea,st as good as Cadillac under the conditions which 
prevailed. 
Details of the Races. 
It was Cadillac's hoodoo again to-day, the course of 
nine knots to windward and return. The direction of 
the wind Was S.E. by E., buoys passed to starboard, and 
the course Was logged oUt by the judges' boat Thistle on 
that direction. This made the first leg a beat dead to 
windward, provided that the wind held as it did. The 
wind worked around gradually into the E., then into the 
N.E., being N.E. on tne homeward leg, so that that run 
was made as a balloon reach, the direction being not free 
enough to allow the Use of spinnaker to good advantage. 
The Wiiid was perhaps a couple ol miles an hour in the 
basiii as the hotif approached for the preparatory gun. 
As it was desifable that this rice should be sailed tUider 
i)ractical .lifEtcbtihg coliditiohs. the judges Oil gonsulta- 
iioh delayed the start half all lloiir, atld nleantiirle Carried 
both yachts hearly a mile further out into the lake, trla- 
kiiig the starting line just two nlile^s E, of Michigan 
avenue. Thfefe is a spar buoy anchored at that point, and 
this buoy was niadc oi1e marker for the line, the judges' 
boat anchofiiig opposite as stake boat. 
Thefe Was ilo gtih fifed at 10:^0, atid rtone at it, .so 
very stiff, aiVd it was obvious iii^ Ca'dillae was being 
better handled than heretofore, afl'd sSlMg hWWis(t bet- 
ter trimmed. , 
At 1 1:55 the distinctive qualities of both boats htgaii 
again to come into evidence. Invader stood up into the 
Wind almost as she liked. Cadillac, also on the port tack, 
eased sliee^S rf bit and began to foot it handsomely. From 
this titVi^-. it wa.§ a beatitifiil sailing race for nearly two 
hours, and all the .tii'rife, ffofii it '48 pnWafd Cadillac con- 
tinued to gain ori Invaldcf. AS tHe boats passed tile fottf- 
mile crib, Cadillac was a' Iftflt f,6 tffe lefe of Inyadef, 
pointing nicely, slightly in the lead a'nd ^aUntn^. A little 
shift of the wind, which now began to be i'frdgtflar aind 
puffy, enabled the boats to haul up close and stand Mi 
out on one long reach, which lasted for more than dH 
hour and three-quarters. Now one boat would get a 
little slant, and then the other. 
At T2:i6, after the hottest fighting yet seen in the series 
and the most exciting half hour of the series, the boats 
still maintained about the same positions, both sailing 
on the port tack, and Invader now standing two points 
closer up into the wind. 
At 12:17 Cadillac got a better slant of wind, and for 
something like 3 to 5m. actually stood up closer into 
the wind than even Invader. At this unexpected dem- 
onstration of Weather qualities, the American boat re- 
ceived generous applause. The boats were now about 
two-thifds of the way out on the weather leg and had 
drawn to leeward of the course about a mile, or rather , 
about a mile to the south of the course. 
At 12:30 Cadillac still led, but had dropped down 
300\'ds. to leeward of Invader. 
During the next Sm. the situation was about the^ .same. 
The wind was Steady and was now at about 5 miles an 
hour. Cadillac was now about 250yds. ahead of Invader, 
and perbap.'i an equal distance on her lee. The jt,tdges' 
CADILLAC IN DRY DOCK. 
these preparations left the spectators somewhat mystified, 
but at II :20 the preparatory gun was fired, and the judges 
megaphoned instructions as to the course, etc., to the two 
yachts. _ _ _ . 
Now came a very pretty piece of jockeying, in which 
Skipper Thompson did as handsome work as ever did 
any master with any sort of craft. He fairly outjockeyed 
that skillful jockey Jarvis, and defeated him at his own 
game as handsomely as Jarvis had defeated Thompson on 
"the previous day, though with this exception, that. Jarvis 
did not get himself into a foul. 
Two minutes back of the start both boats went on the 
port tack. At this time two of the sister yachts which 
have met in the trial raees here, Illinois and Milwaukee, 
came up dangerously close to the starting line. Indeed 
these two boats, with several others. Nymph. Minota and 
two or three others, at different times, and more espe- 
cially on the run home, crowded into the course in a 
way which would not have been tolerated in any other in- 
ternational cup contest. Probably the skippers of these 
boats intended no di.scourtesy. and. indeed, they at no 
time actually hindered the sailing of the contestants, yet 
this sort of thing is not properly to be tolerated in a 
cup race, and it ought not to be tolerated by any club un- 
der whose auspices such a contest is held. 
As Illinois and Milwaukee cleared back out of the 
road, it was but a minute back of the gun, and at that 
time Cadillac showed that it had Avon the fight in the 
jockeying. It had gotten over on the line beside the 
judges' boat in almost the identical position gained by 
Invader on the day before, having the windward 'berth 
and the starboard tack. It was too late for Jarvis to try 
to fight for this berth now, and as the boats both came 
around on the starboard tack, they caught the gun and 
went across the line almost to a hair's breadth, and both 
practically lapped. Cadillac had Invader directly 
blanketed, and much applause greeted Thompson at this 
clever piece of seamanship at the start. Invader was 
quick to realize the situation, and it did exactly what 
Thompson should have done yesterday — came into the 
port tack and crossed under the stern of Cadillac. The 
latter boat noAv went on out in a good, long reach, con- 
tinuing on the starboard tack for nearly 14m. At 11 :47 :S5 
Cadillac came about on the port tack. At 11:48:30 In- 
vader came about on Cadillac's weather bow. It was 
then seen that Invader had established a clean lead on 
Cadillac. Avhich Avas about a boat length in the rear of the 
Canadian. The boats Avere very close together at this 
stage, and for a time sailed on as if cabled together, In- 
A^ader having the Aveather berth. Then all at once it Avas 
observable that Cadillac was coming up through Invader's 
lee. At II :52 Cadillac sailed directly into Invader's 
blanket. It did not stop her, and 30s. later the blunt 
•nose of Cadillac was poked out ahead of the sharp boAv of 
the Canadian. At 11:53 Cadillac sailed free of Invader's 
lap, and led distinctly. The hopes of the American ele- 
m.ent aros^ ve^y high at ttii§ point, fgr the wind was not, 
boat Avas now A'isible in the hazy air which overhung the 
lake far up to windward and apparently 2 or 3 miles away. 
At 12:45 the breeze became still fresher. Two big lake 
boats came into the course, and one could see, also, the 
pestiferous attentions of the other boats, Milwaukee, Illi- 
nois, etc., Avhich noAv began to appear near the sailing 
course. The big lake freighters slowed up and left the 
course \"ery handsomely. 
At 12:50 the hot fight betAveen the rival yachts was 
still eontinuing in practically the same phase. Cadillac 
had been sailed nicely thus far. Thompson now had his 
men out along the lee rail to give Cadillac her best sailing 
list, 
At 1:00 Cadillac Avas again pointing better than Invader, 
apparently not so much as looyds. to the lee of Invader 
and at least 200yds. ahead, perhaps more. This was the 
best position Cadillac obtained throughout the whole race. 
Every one noAV began to ask when Thompson would come 
about and stand for the buoy. Jarvis Avould probably 
have preferred to get a little bit farther up to AvindAvard, 
but so long as he had his rival well under his lee, he was 
wise enough to let well enough alone, and so he stood on 
Avith Cadillac, doubtless feeling quite sure that he had 
Thompson safe, and, perhaps, hoping just a little bit that 
Thompson would do exactly what he did do. 
At 1 :03 Jarvis hoisted his mainsail and spars a couple 
of feet higher, and it seemed to better the footing of 
Invader. A quarter of an hour later than this the wind 
began to freshen just a little bit. Cadillac Avas still sur- 
prising every one by the excellent way in which she kept 
up into the wind, It still drcAv on ahead of Invader and 
apparently edged up on Invader all the time. 
At 1:30 the boats had been ih. and 42m. on this one 
long, close reach. The wind had shifted into the E. The 
course of the boats was S,E by E., a quarter E. The 
course of the shore at Chicago harbor is in a great semi- 
circle, which stretches out at South Chicago well into 
the lake and S.E. of the main city -front. Thence the 
shore of the lake, beyond Whiting, Ind., the sand hill 
country of the Calumet Heights Club, etc., curves on 
around toward the foot of the lake and the Indiana shore. 
At 1 :30. therefore, even in the haze AA'hich obtained, the 
.sandy beach of the coast below Whiting could be seen 
looming up, -fmd there was a deadly in-shore calm hang- 
ing over the water which made CA^erybody fear that the 
boats Avere going into trouble. Naturally the closer that 
Cadillac ran into this oily streak the worse would be her 
chances Avhen it came into the starboard tack and laid 
for the buoy, Thompson, > indeed, did come about at 
length into the starboard tack. This was at 1:33. He 
bad stood on very much farther than Avas necessary to 
enable him to reach the mark. Needless to say, the 
canny Jarvis was not long in coming about also, and one 
may imagine that the Canadians chuckled in exultation 
as they saw the situation in Avhich the Yankee skipper 
had allowed them to take a place. Invader laid a straight 
course for the buoy, knowing exa^gtly hQ\v dose it coylcj 
