The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-21
WILL TRY AGAIN.
Sir Thomas Upton Realizes He Must
Get a Better Boat TEan Shamrock.

| Sir Thomas Upton Realizes He Must
Get a Better Boat TEan Shamrock.
| NEW YORK, Oct 2O-Sir Thomas Lip
| ton bore his defeat like the gentleman
and sportsman he is.
1.-THE best boat won," he said and
! that is as it should be, and always has
| been in the races for the America
| cup"
| He was very hopeful and sanguine, in
| fact, that the Shamrock would win
| today's race. for the wind, early in the
! morning, came strongly from the north
west in a manner that set the white
| caps dancing merrily about his big
| steam yacht as she lay at anchor in the
! Horseshoe.
This is regular Shamrock weather"
| he exclaimed cheerily to his guests as
| they came aboard. I'VE are sure to have
a fine race at last and unless 1 am much
mistaken the Shamrock will give a good
| account of herself
When the yachts went over the starting
! line with Shamrock we'll in the lead Sir
| Thomas and those about him were jubi-
liant. When Columbia went ahead they
were uneasy, but not respondent When
| the turning point was reached and Co
| lumbia had the better Of it, there was
still more uneasiness, but hope still held
| a place. From this time on, however,
! confidence in Shamrocks ability to win
| the race fell rapidly, and the yachts had
| not covered more than one-third of the
| distance back home when Sir Thomas
came down from the bridge, where he
had been viewing the race, and said:
I'VE have no chance to win. Column
bia is the better boat. I had hoped for
another result, but it cannot be helped
now. Nothing but an accident to Column
bia would give US the race, and I would
not have that happen. We have lost the
race. Let's go below and have lunch"
= And Sir Thomas, who had spent
million for the challenger, left off view
ing the hopeless contest and devoted
himself to entertaining his guests. When
luncheon was over the guests remained
at the table until Sir Thomas rose in
his place and said:
My friends, I came here to win the
Americas cup and take it back TO Egg
| land, and I have failed, I never sa d
would do it. I never said more than that
| thought I had a chance to do it. Ny
rival never said anything more. # the;e
had been sure thing either way there
would have been no sport in it. What
ever I may have thought in the past
does not matter now. The results have
demonstrated that the Colurnb IS The
better boat, and she is deserving Of her
victory. The first race was a disappaint-
ment, but that does not matter now.
The second was lost through an unfor-
tunate accident TOday's race was regu-
| lar Shamrock weather. She ought to
have won. That She did not satisfies me
! Columbia Is the better boat
Il have proved to the British pubic
| that I was right when I said that an
English gentleman could come over here
and be assured of fair play II ne be-
Raves like gentleman he will be trea ed
as gentleman. o. may be- assured of
sportsntanlike. treatment. This has ben
my belief in spite Of opinions to the con-
trary, and I have proved that I am right
My opponents have not only treat d me
fairly, but generously. Not a single e.
quest Of mine has been refused. They
have granted all 1 asked for, freely and
unhesita tingly. In fact I have no feeling
but of kirdresG for the American sports
mems treatment from first to last. ! can
truthfully say that as we have lost it is
pleasure to have lost to such fri endly
and generous rivals"
Sir Thomas Lipon proposed the health
of the Columbia, her owners and her
crew, which was drunk amid cheers Sil,
Henry Burdette added to the enthus asm
by declaring:
Sir Thomas has failed. it is TUE, has
failed to life the cup, but n has sac
ceeded ir lifting the hearts OF the Ameri-
can people,
Il desire to say that I intend to chal-
lenge again if I lan arrange II alters so
as to max cit possible said Mr. Lift n.
AT this time I cannot go into details.
but I'll try it again some Gay. I've long
regarded Mr.. IIerresh0ff as the or attest
designer of yachts in the world and The
future possession of the Arne lea . cup
depends solely upon the ability of Eng
ish designers to excel him. I'll &, it if
can fird the man to bui;d the boat. My
ability in that direction exc eeds my abiI-
ity to pay for it. I cannot design nor
build boats.
Il cannot dismiss this subject" he con-
tinued, without expressing my great
sorrow that Mr.. Fife has not been able
to give us the benefit of his advice and
assistance in managing the boat for
while L have said that I believed Column
bia to be the better boat, yet 1 am sure
Shamrock has not done all she is capable
/ OF. Ii we had him on board he would
have known better than anybody else
what her good points were and how to
make the best of them. His absence was
a serious handicap to us ALL 1 am con-
fident that the boat was properly and
skilfully handled. Capt. Hogarth and the
crew did all they could do but they are
not designers. It is their business to
handle boat when it has been handed
over to them ready for sailing Mr. Fife
! IS goou ana we have missed him
greatly
! Lieut.. Won Boskeriek, of the revenue
! cutter Algonquin, proposed a toast to
Sir Thomas Upton, a a king among gen
tlemen, an English sportsman whose
memory will always live in this country
! as that Of worthy representative of
| great nation, eieiting applause.
Lieut.. Hall, of Fort Hancock. spoke
happily of the neighborly feeling that
| had always existed between Sir Thomas
| and the officers at the fort during, the
| stay of the Erin at Sandy Hook, to which
Sir Thomas responded that ne liked the
| place so well that he hated to leave, and
! that he had been accorded privileges there
| which he much doubted If his own gov
| eminent would have granted him.
| r. NJ. Little, Q. c., of London. pro-
| posed the toast THE President and the
| United States, God Bless Them Both"
| and Lieut. Hall proposed the health of
! the queen, to which Hon. Henry Bur
| dett responded.
Sir Thomas Upton will go to Chicago
next week
MIR. IsELIN DELIGHTED.