New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-27
NO RACE FOR AMERICAS CUP.
CONDITIONS or SAILING WILL NOT BE
v1cHANGER
TIKI REQUEST or SIR GEORGE NEwSEs AND THE
ACTION or rHB ROYAL LONDON YACHT

TIKI REQUEST or SIR GEORGE NEwNEs AND THE
ACTION OF rHD ROYAL LONDON YACHT 80
;, c1,uB-coMMENTs IN THIS CITY.
''The London Field" yesterday published s'a,.-
ment to the effect that Sir George Newnes the an
ro,,na English, sportsnan had requested the Royai
London Yacht Club to Issue challenge IN ms oe-
half for a series of races for the Americas Cup.
the terms being that the races should DC saieo a,
Halifax and specifying other conditions The Nose'
London Yacht Club met on Thursday OF last WEEK
and declined to forward the challenge on the
Ground that the conditions for in the deed OF
Gift under which the Americas Cup is held by the
New-York Yacht club we're inmical to the sport
Of yacht racing.
This is the same old cry, oft reiterated by the
defeated Englishmen. that the conditions unoer
which they are compelled to race BY the Newt YORK
Yacht Club preclude the possibility Of their ever
recapturing the cup. These conditions were oe-
ytsed by the International Regatta Committee Oh
the New-York Yacht Club. and after all the cr''i-
cisms upon them and careful reconsioerauo" Vi
their terms this committee decided that they WE'RE
perfectly just. 1t see no reason Whatever io'
changing them to suit the convenience OF Ens~h
men who are disguised with international rae
ing for the simple reason that they nave not !e'
built vessel which can defeat those pu'it Ill '"s
country to defend the cup
Ex-Commodore James d. Smith, for sixteen Yeas
chairman of this committee, said in regard 10 ne
Field.s' treport OF Sir George Newnes's desire 10
challenge and to impose certain conditions unae'
which series Of races should be saiieo: Inc
conditions under which the New-York Yacht Ciup
agreed to sail under the mutual agreement clause
would. without doubt. shut out any new COM
n,ttee appointed by the club. That established
precedent which would hardly be changed IL Is
hardly probable nay, possible that the ciup would
accept a challenge to race at Halifax On Iair
terms such as have heretofore been agreed 10 ~
the International Committee OF the new tV V,h
would be declined. The United states Is oniy to1
anxious to show 1t can hold the cup against al
This plain and definite statement from such
nently to dispose Of the question whch tne Ens
fish would-be chaengers for the cup appaII,s,H
consider one to be mooted every time chaiehse
AS TO sailing series of international races else
where than off New-York City, that question was wa
thorouehiy thrashed over last year, when LORD
Dunraven demanded that the races De heIu oil
Marblehead His old bugbear. excursion poa's mas
the cause of his demand. he apparenty ioI soi
that with the prospect of series OF lnteIndt s
races off Marblehead, which Is only apout .,i &c
hours sail from Boston Harbor. not only nee. oa
excursion boats about large as gathereu neie
would 90 from here down East Dut 'nst ~ III t .hs
Meet would he added that from Boston anu all 'ne
ma bors of the New-England coast A., $50
Elk Commodore Smith in speaking o. tHo pfU
why we should go down there we nave iaen' IT" Tb
fhe finest course in the world for big races ,d1
waters outside Sandy Hook are iree tao, .s ~ nrf
curron.s which cannot be said or the Wasers Oh
Halifax where tides rise ana ran SUIT ,,ey
cr so and they are unusually free from the hsaa-
u,rds which generate the huky WINDS the ap ,.s
rance of yachtsmen We would not go 10 HaiilaN
under conditions