Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-09-14
He IS A GUTTER.
Dunraven Lets His Temper
Get the Best of Him.
Va'kyrie Being Stripped viii Prob
ably Race No More.
Gen. Taylor win Offer Cup for a visilan!-
vaikyre Race.

New York, Sept. 13.-Dunraven has
quit for good. The Valkyric Will he
stripped OF her racing rig and sent back to
Scotland at once. There will be no more
races between her aud the Defender
Lord Dunraven and his two daughters will
go TO Colorado and other points West on a
pleasure tour and will then return to Eng
land.
rms morning found the Defender and
Valkyrie anchored off Bay Ridge, the cen
Ter OF such group of yachts as only an
| international cup race brings together
The Defender was decked in full dress
| OF coiors. There was fresh breeze and a
choppy sea, and the big single stickers rode
and courtesled under their influence.
The Nalkyrie and her tender lett Bay
Ridge in tow for Erie Basin at $50. 1t
was after III when Mr.. Iselin, who had
| spent the night in the city and had come
down to the Atlantic Yacht Club in the
steam yacht Nectar, put off in launch to
| the Defender
The tug Wallace b. Flint then went
| alongside and put a line aboard
| Mrs. Iselin was on the Defender with
her husband, AS the yacht got under
| way in tow for New Rochelle, one of the
yachts anchored close by burst forth a
salute from her gun, and the other yachts,
taking the cue, Joined in noisy ovation
| that lasted 30 minutes and sounded like
| the bombardmento of a besicged town. The
Valkyrie in tow of the tug Lewis Pulver,
arrived at Erie Basin shortly before 10
| O'Clock. The British boat was warped in
between the steamship George W. Clyde
and the ship Carnshill, and her sailors
n work ar fri har
BY noon her topmast and much of the top
hamper had been removed Lord Dun
raven was not present.
MIR. Glennie, his representative, said
that his lordship would start at once for
Colorado with his two daughters and
that Valkyrie would start on her home
ward voyage as soon as she could he got in
trim for the passage. He said that the
Valkyrie would not enter any race for
special cup on any conditions Beyond
this, he would say nothing. Mr. Ratsey,
who was present, was even more reticent
H. Maitland kersey said that Valkyrie's
sails would be shipped to Cowes and her
spars would follow later. Several mem
bers of the Americas cup committee and
the regatta committee visited the Madi-
son avenue club house of the New York
Yacht Club, this forenoon. No meeting
of either committee was held, and no com
munications were received from Lord
Dunraven or sent to him.
A. Cass Garfield, secretary of the cup
committee, left the city at noon for New
port. Elk Commodore r. Nicholson Kane
chairman of the regatta committee, said
that he regretted the manner in which the
races wound up, but that Lord Dunraven
ut the last moment made request which
the committee could not grant. MIR.
Kane continued: eff we had acceded to
his request to call 1t no race if at any time
one of the beats was interfercd with by
steamers, it would be unfair to the other
boat IT she was winning. We did all that
we possibly could do to keep clear course
and prevent interference, and offered to
postpone the start until the course was
clear. | do not know what more we could
do"