The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25


have done it-but know that she could
not, Of course. as she raced, but strength
ened as the Shamrock will be. Why,
boat has got to be as strong as they
make EN- to stand the weather that may
come along at Sandy Hook. There was
one day there that we had terrific
storm, a Sunday, I think.
They are talking. too, see. he added,
''about changing the course from Sandy
Hook to Newport. and I've seen 1t stated
that I'm in favor of that. But m not
It's the very thing l wouldn't want.
''You see, if I should happen to win
over a new course everybody that had
tried before would say that l would
have been beaten if l had raced as they
did No, sir'-tflis with a mighty slap of
the Upton hand on the Upton knee-''no.
sir, the Sandy Hook course is good enough
for me. I'll have a course there as wide
as the English Channel. II 1 win
want to win where everybody else has
been beaten-where I was beaten-and
then there'll be nothing to say. I'm sure
the Americans will like it that way, too"
BETTER CHANCE THIS TINE.
''Do you feel sure of winning the cup
this time?''
81 won't say that. I don't want TO
brag-I never like to appear to brag. But
1 honestly feel that this time l have just
as good a chance as the Americans. NO
better but just as good. Others have
gone over there as 1 did last time. with
out knowing eithsr the actual conditions
or the men they would have TO meet
But now I know both. l and my assist
ants lllave learned a. lot Everything
went wrong last time OF course my
designers illness was the hardest luck
Of all He couldn't even be present at
the measuring to know if his boat came
up to specifica tons, and in New York
his rheumatic fever was SO bad that we
could not even let him know the results
of the races. He didn't know until two
DAYS after it was all over. But he didn't
need to be told that we hadn't any good
news for him. I'll tell you what he
knows, moreover, and what KNOW. anG
that is that all the Shamrock's speed was
not got out of her. She was capable OF
better things. That doesn't mean, now
ever, that Columbia wasn't the better
boat; she would have beaten anyway
You might say he added, beaming, that
| was a little surprised and srieved when
| heard that the Americans were going
10 build q nav boat I had never COM
planned that thought the Columbia was
90 SLOW
Suppose that something happened to
your skipper, Sir Thomas, could you sail
your yacht yourself?'
res, in fine shape You know I've spent
nv life at yachting I was brought up
N the banks of the Clyde, and 1 don't
;uppose there are more than two or three
men in England that can sail yacht
better than l can. OF course, when
was my own skipper my means never
permitted me to have so large boat
as the Shamrock. On the new boat Wal
lie Jameson will be Upton shall De
hue 1t.Sh no yN n n
solute charge. All the yachting folk in
America, know of him. He's one of the
best we have.
This referring to himself as Upton
is a fayorite trick of Sir Thomas.
AMERICANS WANT TO BUILD SHAM
ROCK.
'"There's one odd experience that m
having he went on, that l haven [ sald
anything about to a newspaper man vat.
That's with reference to a WONDERFUL sue
cession OF gifts I'm receiving from
America, which shows the feeling that
I'm glad to know that the American peo-
pie have for me- These gifts are yachts
nat is models of yactS that the de-
signers believe to be, sure winners OF
the Americas Cup. They come in by
every mail, and I've got a perfect mu-
scum of them-how many doZSn l don
know I haven't found one yet that
believe has any special merit, but am
touched by the care that has been taken
in getting them up for me. Each one
is a perfect model. with sails and all
complete. Theirs is a plan giving all
measurements, and besides q document
of sometimes many pages, giving the
designers idl:as in such detail that they
couldn't possibly be misunderstood.
Sir Thomas pushed an electric button
and asked that the two boats that came
by he last mall be brought IN, ana they
were.
There now said he scotchman, get.
ting up and taking one of the little models
-trr and complete, as he had said.
There's the boat Here is the plan,
and he unrolled a big sheet of parchment
s by 8 feet wide. '"Then there IS the
description" It was written IN small
but plain hand and covered all 1our Sues
of a shesst of foolscap paper.
"some of those people must have spent
months on those plans and models that
they have sent to me. I've hao one
from as far away as Portland, Ore. on,
yes. / acknowledge every one, and thank
the sender for his great Kindness. or
course, it's inspired by a very corolal
feeling toward me, and feel that barely
acknowledg ing it is the least can 90.
He permitted a photograph TO De mace
Of one of the boats, propped up III an OIL
flee chair.
MESSAGE TO AMERICAN NEWSPA-
PER MEN.
The subject of Anr:rica suggested Inc
American newspaper men, with whom
the yachtsman was brought SO Closely IN
OF themS he said: GU can say
that I'm just looking forward 10 getths
back there and seeing all those oid boys.
I know them all and I attribute pig
share of the good feeling that kno" the
American people have for me 70 the
favorable light in which those 1elioWsz
nut me before them. They came to me
whenever they wanted anything too, and
that's a large part of the secret. Half
the trouble of .misquotation and mis-
statements in newspapers comes from
making newspaper men STE secretaries
ana assistants instead of the man they
are writing about himself. never per-
nit it. I say to them, See me, and If
can Til usll you what you want to know
and rye never been rnisquoted once
Surprising you lose this race, you.
" III try again and keep trying p
..If r can get anybody to build me a
boat yes But wher.:. can 1 get one?
When the Shamrock is finished will
have given a chance to the two best
builders in Great Britain. and If they
fail. what am to dog That's the only