YANKEE FRONT IN YACHT TRIALS
Registers third triumph by beating Weetamoe as Rainbow Idles.
Associated Press editor.
NEWPORT, R.I., July 7- Yankee of Boston beat Weetamoe today and went into the lead in the competition for the honor of defending the historic America's Cup against the British challenger, Tom Sopwith's Endeavour.
The Boston boat now has three victories to his credit to one defeat, and that defeat was won by Gérard Lambert's old cup candidate, Vanitie, now ineligible.

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Today's contest was sailed over a 30-miles course, 15 miles to windward, against a brisk southwesterly breeze, to the Clayhead whistling buoy off Block Island and return to the Brentons Reef lightship. The speed of the breeze ranged from 14 to 17 knots, but the sea was reasonably smooth.
Yankee's skipper, Charles Francis Adams, former Navy Secretary, took the start handily from Dick Boardman, who never thereafter was able to bring Weetamoe in a threatening position.

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The summary :
Start 12:45 daylight; course 30 miles windwind-leeward.
Wind moderate southwest.
Yacht, Yankee: skipper, C.F. Adams; first mark, 3:01:30; finish, 4:30:14; elapsed time, 3:35:14.
Yacht, Weetamoe; captain, R.D. Boardman; first mark, 3:08:05; finish, 4:35:38; elapsed time, 3:40:38.