The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-16
DUNRAVEN'S LONG DENIAL
OF THE CHARGE THAT HE WENT
BACK ON HIS AGREEMENT.

correspondence ON Cup Racing
Questions CabIed 10 the Royal
Yacht Squadron of England with
the Request That IL he Published
in That COuntry-Text of Ny Lords
Rather Prosy EpfstIe 20 the Mems
bers of the New York Yacht Club.
London, Sept. 15.-Lord Dunraven yester-
day cabled to Mr.. Grant, secretary Of the
Royal Yacht Squadron. the corresponds
ence between himself and the New York
Yacht Club on the events in connection
with the contests for the Americas cup,
at the same time expressing a desire that
the correspondence be published in Eng
land.
The correspondence consists of
four letters The first dated
Sept II, contains Mr. Iselin's offer TO re-
sail the race of Sept. 10. In the second
Lord Dunraven declines to resail the race.
adding that he could not understand the
committees reasons for finding the VAL
kyrie in the wrong. In the third letter,
dated Sept u. Mr.. Garfield narrates the
delay in receiving Lord Dunravens let
ter of Sept. II, relative to not sailing the
race set for Sept. II, unless the course was
kept clear.
Ia "a fourth letter, dated Sept. 10. Lord
defending his claim to have the races
sailed where there would be no overcrowd-
ing This last letter, which occupies full
lythalf column In the newspapers. is as
follows:
No. 4S9 Fifth avenue, Sept. 13, 1S95.-Gen-
tlemen / have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter Of the 18th inst.
You say my letter OF Wednesday night
to Mr. Garfield was not handed in to the
New YORK Yacht club until o'clock a. m.
on Thursday and was not in your hands
until 8 o'clock a. m, Of the same morning.
There must, think, be come mistake. I
received Mr.. Candelds letter at 10.9O
o'clock a. M, Wednesday and my reply
was delivered by my own servant at the
New York club at 1915 o'clock a. M, to
the club clerk. The steward or clerk in
charge was called on by telephone at 1890
o'clock and was requested 10 find II Mr..
Garfield was at the Knlckerboclxer club,
and II So TO deliver tha letter at once.
The reply was that he would endeavor to
find Mr.. Canheld, that he had o short time
before he left the New York Knlcker-
booker club, and had left word that he
would call at O'Clock a. m, to see II there
We're any messages for him. The request
that Mr.. Garfield should not open my let
ter of the 10th until the protest was decide
ed, was unnecessary, as the cup commits
tee was not hearing the protest but
whether my letter OF Wednesday night
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at l2.l5 or O'Clock a. m; whether II was
In the hands Of the committee at or
o'clock, and whether my letter of the 10th
was read at l2:30 OF 2.3O o'clock d. m. an
pears 10 me TO be a matter OF minor in-
portanee. What Is OF impor-
tance to m is to tally the uniustiiable
opinions implied IN our letter Of the l2tn
Ia coming to the decision conveyed to YOU
IN my letter Of the 10th. l went back on
the agreement signed by Mr.. Smith and
myself. You say: We can only regret
that the conditions named therein-that Is
In my letter Of the 10th--as absolutely nee
essary, should not have been so presented
when the agreement of terms was formu.
lated. Permit me TO observe that / nam-
ed no particular conditions as indispensa-
bic, as you viii perceive on referring 10
my letter. hold that IN any match. a fair
held and no favor is a condition prece-
dent to any agreement as to terms and
that railing in that any party has per-
feet right to withdraw absolutely or con-
ditionally Articles Of agreement cannot
and are not intended to lay down fixed
rules TO meet every imaginable contingent
cy Certain contingencies have arisen, az
you are aware. Conhnlng myself TO the
subject Of my letter-the overcrowding. As
far back as last October, wrote concerns
ing the difficulty Of insuring a clear
course, but did not insist upon my views
because / thought the persons responsible
should be free to take what steps thew
thought best. In view of the failure in
that respect, IL might have been better II
in my letter OF the 10th, / had absolutely
Withdrawn, but my desire to sail off the
races was great and withdrew conditions
ally, and suggested steps which / thought
would remove the difficulty. These steps
were not taken. and held to my deter
mination to sail no more, and so acting.
| emphatically deny that l went back In
any way on the agreement as to terms.
did not know whether Messrs Canfield
and Busk were officially representing the
committee when they came to see me at
the Waldorf. judged by their conversa-
ton that they were not and understood
from them that the committee had NOT
come to any definite conclusions upon my
letter. now conclude from your conn
munication that they were Officially repre-
senting the committee. In that case. the
proposal made to me by the commitee
was that / should withdraw from my de-
termination expressed in my letter Of the
10th, and should sail the third, possibly
the final race, on conditions that sufficient
room was secured at the start and that
IN any further races my suggestion thar
the dates Of the races and the times of the
starting should not be made public, should
be carried out. That proposition did nor
commend itself to me- Nobody has de-
MED the oyercrowding of the course but
in any case either my complaint was In
the opinion of the committee, unjustiha-
bic, In which case. could not have agreed
with them, and should have Withdrawn be.
ing fully convinced Of the necessity and
prepared to take the full responsibility
for doing so, or 1t was justihable in which
latter case the committee. l think was
bound to give redress before the next race
was sailed. / so far withdrew my letter
of the 10Th to say 1 would sail tha
third race If the committee would under-
take to declare the race void if in their
judgment either vessel was fnterfered
with by steamers, the committee putting
anybody they liked on board the yachts /
was willing to leave the mat
ter in their hands. stipu-
lating only that they put experienced and
practical yachtsmen and Valkyrie III
AS far as 1 am concerned have no wish
to continue the discussion which you ac-
curately describe as 'superfluous,' and
will conclude by expressing regret that il
any desire to fesail Tuesdays race was
known to exist the regatta committee did
not order it resailed under article 10 Of the
New York Yacht Club regulations. in
which case, whatever my opinion as 10
the cause of the foul NAV be I sbould