Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-23
A RACE Is PROBABLE.
Prospects for Another International Centea
for the Americas Cup.

Prospects for Another international Contest
for the Americas Cup.
The latest letter Of Lord Dunraven to Gen.
Charles J. Paine Of the New York zach. Club.
with reference to challenge for the America
cup in an international yacht race, and reply,
cabled Monday, have been made public. Lord
Dunraven's letter is as follows:
DUNRAvEN CASTLE, BRIDaENp, GLAMoRoAN,
Nov. z, 1892.--Sir: have to acknowledge the
receipt Of your letter Of the Goth Of October,
containing the reply Of your committee to my
letter Of 10th of September.
On the general terms Of the races We seem to
be one. With regard to your remark that
"as to the details of sailing the match alluded
to in your letter, we think they can be easily
arranged after a challenge has been made in
proper form by qualified yacht club, l take
1t that the details would be arranged within the
propositions made in former letters.
With regard to your proviso that mo yacht Of
the specified rig. either now existing or under
construction, and known to be available for the
use Of this club in defending the cup, shall be
barred or penalized," lam quite agreeable to sail
any such yacht withoutany penalty beyond taking
or giving the ordinary trial allowances accord
ing TO the New York Yacht Clubs rules; and ss
my letter appears to have been ambiguous on
this point, may say it was under that rule Of
measurement and scale OF time allowance that
proposed the match should be sailed. In
1889 suggested that in calculating time allow
ance the meaning Of the rules in use by the
challenging and challenged clubs should be
taken, but the committee did not then see their
way to agree, and have no wish to reopen the
question. In respect Of the final clause Of your
letter 1 stipulated that should win the cup
the club obtaining the custody Of it shorSd hold
it, open to q challenge on the same conditions
as those under which challenged" To this
adj ma haiDu Nv IL, xrif
idea of fair play, and no yacht club would place
itself in the position of having the power to ex-
pect or Of appearing to expect, as the party
challenged terms different to those under
which it challenged. But, feeling that your
committee; with, am sure equal faith, believe
in the absolute fairness of the conditions laid
down in the deed Of 1887. had no intention of
barring challenge under these conditions To
mako this perfectly clear l am quite willing to
substitute for my former stipulations:
at is to be understood and agreed that
should I win the cup the club obtaining the
custody of it should hold it subject to a chal-
lenge on precisely similar terms to those under
which l challenged, provided, always, that the
club shall not refuse challenge in accordance
with the conditions laid down in the deed Of
1887. and is at liberty to make any arrangement
mutually agreed upon, as provided for ip the
deeds of 1857, 1882 and 1887"
trust that no difference now exists between
US. and on your cabling me that a challenge on
the terms of my former letter, as herein modi-
fed, will be accepted / shall at once endeavor
to arrange for q formal challenge being sent
through qualified yacht club. l remain yours,
faithfully. DuNRAvEN.
The committee on the cup met in the New
York Yacht Club house and after discussing the
matter sent the following cable dispatch to
Lord Dunraven:
''Dunraven-f all reference to former and
obsolete deeds is omitted the proposition in
your letter of 7th Of November is satisfactory
and we will recommend the New York Yacht
Club to accept. PAINE"
According to the terms of the letter and the
acceptance of them in all but one instance it is
evident that the New York Yacht Club is de-
sirous Of having a race. The single point Of
difference is in the question of the mutual con-
sent" clause. which is almost identical in the
three deeds of gift, and therefore when all ref
erence to the old deeds il stricken out Of Dun
ravens letter there is really no change in it,
the meaning being exactly the same with the
dates 1857 and 1882 left out.
From high source it is learned that Dun
raven has written a letter to friend in which
he has expressed himself as being willing to
accept the conditions which the New York
Yacht Club holds out, and that the letter pub
lished above Is only an attempt to obtain as
many concessions possible. There seems
now to be no doubt that race will be sailed
during the summer of 1898.