Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-11-15

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mon Come After it Again.
NsW YORK Sun
In Wow of the probable receipt in a
few days OF smother challenge from Eng.
lish yaohtBmen for the Americas sup, H
has been suggested by those who claim 10
feel deep interest In the defence Of that
ancient trophy that II Is about time for
New York yaohtsmen 10 build sloop or
schooner TO defend II.
''rhe Epglisbmen may challenge with
schooner this time" said o broker
yacbtsman yesterday; Gin that case /
think we could find vessel already built
that would defeat her but IL a Gutter
comes we should probably havs 10 build
again, for they are getting 30 near to our
speed in single atiokers that II ia not al
all certain that the Volunteer could hold
the cup against the next big cutter thew
may send. l should like to see tho
YaYaua and Katrina matched for the cup.
The English boat won over 25 first prizes
last season against the Irex, Petronilla
and other flyers, but think our Katrina
would give her good solid RAGS over the
outside course. She would have 10 give the
Yarana about i've minuteB' time allow
ance; so II would certainly be q close
race under equal oonditionssof weather."
Unless Rear Commodore Edwin ID,
Morgan succeeds In selling his sloop
yacht May flower soon, he intends to turn
her into schooner. He has given Bur
gess an order for O 40-foot sloop for
racing and cruising, 40 the May flowers
racing days In the big sloop class are
about over. Mr.. Ohaunoey and the
other owners Of the sloop Atlantic have
decided TO turn her into schooner, but
few believe she will ever amount 10 any.
thing for racing In the schooner GLASS.
The changing Of the sloop Priscilla TO
schooner seems 10 have been q mistake,
for she has never shown any speed size,
So out Of the Ave big sloops built to de-
fend the Americas cup, the Puritan and
Volunteer only remain, and there are
rumors that the former Ia TO be sold or
altered. This condition Of Affairs makes
it absolutely necessary for us to build, il
the challenger builds up 10 the 9O.foot
limit, allowed by the new deed OF gilt,
or II the challenging club send boat Of
that length already built. There
has been well. founded rumor that
James Goats, Jr., the present owner
OF the Thistle, is having the handsome
cutter altered so as 10 challenge
withHher, but it.appears from the text in
the fourth clause OF the new deed of gift
that II would he impossible to do 80. Il
says; "There must be sent the name OF
the owner and certificate Of the name,
rig, and following Dimensions OF the
challenging vessel" go. CLAUSE 8 says
mo vessel which has been defeated In
match for this cup can be again selected
by any club ns its representative
until after the expiration of two years
from the time Of such defeat" so II TO
select q yacht, Is to furnish her name, the
Thistle is not eligible this year. In the
fifth clanse, however, 1t says: "Any and
all conditions OF the match
may be waived by mutual consent" so II
the New York Yacht Club chooses to
accept another challenge from the Thistle
they are free to do 90, and IL the rnces
are sailed in October, 1889, the two years'
interval required in clause will have
been complied with. Capt. Joe" Ellis.
worth, who has watched the situation
pretty closely for the past three yeacs,
has scheme OF his own in mind that Is
. good one, and one that will be sur
prise TO everybody when he carries II out.
II challenge comes he proposes to go to
certain very rich yRchtsman who llyea
in New York, and offer TO put his expert.
cnce against the yachtsman's capital iDthe
building OF a yacht for the defence of the
cup.
TO Gen. Paine all the credit r9,engi
ipT tuning out those tine boats, May
AJWer aud Volunteer" hs said. s'ue Ia
the best yaohtsmkn in America to-day,
and feel sure he would again be the
first TO build another boat TO defend the
CUP, but that doesn't prevent New York
from doing something, too. / believe
that sloop built to-day on the lines Of
the old schooner Comet would provo a
hard one for any English cutter to beat"
"What chance do you think the Thistle
will have with the Volunteer when she's
altered Z"
THAT depends ON how they alter her.
she can beat the Volunteer now, running
before the wind always said 30, and
If they put sensible forefoot on her and
make other alterations where they are
needed, she would probably capture the
cup next time, unless we build something
faster than the Volunteer"
How do you account for the Thistlss
great speed before the wind ?"
The Volunteers centreboard, or any
other centreboard IN propelling power
In Rindward work, but when IL is haulod
up aud the yacht is going free hor speed
10 impeded by the suction OF tho wator
up into that great open space, the oentro-
board trunk. | have aeen II overflow ct
the top OF the trunk before now, so greet
was the suction. A deep-keeled boat like
the Thistle, with no oenire-board, has tho
advantage with big breeze and the same
spread OF canvas. They are all coming
to the deep keel md csntreboard COM
hination. Lead on the keel is good
thing when it's put on properly, for with
1t you can carry more sail with less de-
placement"
J. frederic Tams OF the SeawanhakA
Yacht Club, said he thought the Thistle
could be made much faster by proper
alterations, but be was inclined to believe
that the English would not challenge this
year. III they do so," said he, 81 think
New York yachtsmen would be apt to
build boat"
Japanese tEaidenss
American Magazine for November
A pretty Japanese maiden, dressed in
soft embroidered silk, sitting on the mat
on the floor, bending over Koto, on
which she atruma an aeonmnanSmank io