TOIL DURING NIGHT REPARED YANKEE
Forced Out While Leading Rainbow Yesterday, Set for Race Today.
By the Associated Press.
Newport, R. I. August 29.— Encouraged by her fine performance yesterday, the crew of Yankee, Boston's hope of defending the America’s Cup, labored far into the night preparing her for a scheduled resumption of her battle with Harold S. Vanderbilt's Rainbow today.
Yankee was forced by an accident to her rigging to drop out of yesterday's race after she had overcome a long lead of Rainbow and passed her. Her jumper strut, part of the support of Yankee’s lofty mast, splintered, just as the wind hauled, and prevented her carrying on without risking loss of the spar. The race was called off and declared "no contest.”
Two of Yankee's crew worked in the dark and rain, swaying on bosn's chairs, more than a hundred feet above the Boston boat’s deck, and Yankee's afterguard informed the Selection Committee they believed she would not require a day free from competition to repair the damage.