The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-24

tee, Whereupon Conjecture is Busy in
Yachting Circles on Both Sides Of the
Water as to Who 1t will be Next Year, If
Not Rose-Dunraven is Approached but
Declines to Talk Except to State that
He has Been "GrossIy Misrepresented"
Something About Fakes.
New York. Oct 23.-Charles D. Rose
today cabled the New York Yacht club
| y'ithdra wing his challenge for the Am
erica's cup.
London,O CT 23-The receipt of the
cable dispatch from New York announ-
cling that Mr. Charles D. Rose had with
drawn mis- challenge, issued through
the Royal Victoria Yacht club, for a
series of races for the Americas cup
next year, did not cause as much sur
! prise as might be generally expected.
| The attacks made upon him in the
| English press are enough TO discourage
| anybody, and 1T is now believed that
| the question Of challenge for races in
/ 1896 Will be left in the hands of Lord
DunGaven and the Royal Yacht squad
ron as it is not thought likely any 9TH
er club viii take UP the challenge, in
/ view Of the attitude in which the Royal
/ Victoria Yacht club has been put by
| Mr.. Roses action. However, Mr.. Her
| bert NOR, the we'll known colonial
yachtsman, who raised $50, 900 in very
short time TO build a yacht, to be mann
ed West Australia, for 1897, may now
challenge for 1896, Then again. Sir
| George NeWnes may issue a challenge
/ as he announced himself as being ready
to do so after Lord Dunraven's yacht
! was defeated.
Mr.. Percy Theliuson, secretary of the
! Royal Victoria Yacht club, replying to
a. response sent to him by the AsSocia-
ted Press this evening, after IL had
become known that Mr.. Rose had with
drawn his challenge for the Americas
cup, telegIaphed from Ryde, Isle of
Wight, saying that the Royal Victoria,
Yacht club has no challenge for the
cup.
When representative of the Associ-
ated Press conveyed to Lord Dunraven
the news Of Mr.. Roses withdrawal of
his challenge for the Americas cup, his
l0rdship declined to talk on the subject.
saying: at is useless to ask me ques-
tions.I absolutely refuse to say a word
on the subject Of the cup at present.
How can 1t be expected when / have
just been 50 grossly misrepresented."
FAKE INTERVIEWS.
New York, Oct 23.-The New York
Herald this morning pulish an article
signed by its yachting expert, A G.
McVey, rejecting strongly upon the
fakes" of the United Press, during the
course of which that crumbling organ
ization is handled as follows:
"As Lord DunIfaven in his last COM
munHcation to the Americas cup COM
mittee said there was no need for fur
Their comment anent the cup races of
ted in yachting circles on this side on
account of the interviews which were
sent from England to this country DUR
ing the last three days.
In these Interviews Lord Dunraven
was put down as finding fault with
everything, and he was said TO be actu-
ally in the sufks.
'The interviews were recalled to En-
gland and came TO the notice of Lord
Dunaaven Monday. AS soon as the lat
ter read them he lost no time in contra
dieting the cable stories, for he inlme-
diately ca.bled his American represent
ative in this city, Mr.. II. Maitland Ker-
sey, authorizing the latter to deny all
the interviews in toto. Lord Dunrav-
an. in his cable to Mr.. Kersey, said:
"'The interviews are wholly eogus;
never talked in any such way, nor
have 1 uttered "a word about the cup
10 any one III o. In TdcI,
have refused to say anything
Lord Dunraven does not know for |
a certainty whether the interview with |
Watson, which recently appeared in |
the Glasgow Citizen, is true or not, but |
If Watson has been Urea ted as he has, |
then Lord Dunraven presumed that |
the in terview with Watson is also false. |
Lord Dunraven evidently wants to |
be put right before the American people |
and at the earliest moment possible. |
YachtsInen wifi be pleased to learn |
interviews ever took place. because
They were in such tone that they would |
do no good to yachting.
''Tle makerup of the bogus inter 1
views, whether in England or this
country, only throws discredit on him
self, for, with a cable between the two |
countries. 1T is only question of five
hours for positive denials.''
Boston, Oct 23-The Herald, paper
misled by the United Press yesterday
had a special interview with
II. Maitland KerSey. The latter says
Lord Dunraven has cabled him 'tnat
the United Press interviews published
Saturday. Sunday and today are all
bogus and that no such interviews &C
Cured
London, Oct. 2S.-The Times tomor-
row Will publish the letter OF MI. Cnar-
les n. Rose, to Mr.. Perch Thullusen.
secretary of the Royal Victoria Yacht
club, dated Newmarket, October le,
which is as follows:
I'm view of repeated comments to the
effect that my challenge for the Amer
ica's cup might be construed as an ex-
preston OF opinion in regard to Lord
Dunraven's action in connection with
the last race. beg you viii kindly cable
the New York Yacht club that L desire
to withdraw my challenge. / should
like TO add that when i decided to chal-
lenge 1 did 50 solely in the interest OF
sport and with a desire to win back the
cup and that no question concerning
any incident OF the last series of races
in any way influenced me. /. therefore
ma turally deplore my action having
been misconstrued.