The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-03

ever, that Immediately on the conclu-
sion OF the race Of Oct. 3 and of each
succeeding race the regatta committee
shall inquire of each contestant wheth-
er ne is willing to start the next day.
ana should either contestant reply in
the negative, one day shall intervene
before starting the days race. The
sunday shall not count as such inter-
vening day
For tie New York Yacht Club.
Lewis Cass Ledyard. Chairman.
For the Royal Ulster Yacht CLUB.
X. g. Sharman-Crawford, Chairman"
Decide on the Change.
The proposition for a race on con-
secItive deys came from Sir Thomas
Upton, and as E.. D. Morgan at once
agreed. two representatives Of the
Royal Ulster Yacht club Immediately
sought Commodore Ledyard of the Now
York Yacht club, Secretary Oddie and
former Commodore +. NJ. Brown. The
matter was discussed fully in Com
mOdore Ledyard's Office.
2 he agIeem ent of two years ago was
gOne over and a similar one finally
drawn and signed late in the after
noon. In the case of the agreement of
two years ago the managers OF the
yachts waited until nearly a half-dozen
attem Is had been made 20 sail the
race tetore steps were taken t. have
present case, however, one race has al
&c D-Cn Competed anu Lue. nave
b, en- two postponements on account of
the lack Of wind. Under the rules it
was necessary for the challenge COM
mittee e the two clubs to make this
agreement. neither Sir Thomas Upton
nor z. d. Morgan being parties to it.
although it was made at the sugges-
tion of the former.
About noon il was learned at the
club that those in charge Of the Sham
rock sired to shift some ballast.
which. Of course. necessitated plans
for -emeasurement. Whether this
plan of removing ballast from the chal-
lenger was made with a view of de
creasing the stiffness of the boat or
cutting the water line a matter of
lew inches so IS to gain in time allow
dnce. could not be ascertained
May Remove Ballast.
Mr.. Watson was at the club about ;
o'clock but found none Of the officials
in the building and left Immediately.
He admitted. however. that he pro-
posed to take out ballast from the
shamrock but refused to make any
uther statement regarding It.
Under her present measurement the
Shamrock allows the Columbia forty
I'VE seconds Much Of this allowance
was due to her treat sail plan, as her
water line measurement is already
--AAAE AutlltS HnOFLeE If3u the Column
bia 3 II will be necessary for Mr..
Watson to decrease the Shamrock's
water line length by foot in order to
gain fifteen seconds in time allowance.
and although the overland of the chaI-
lenge~. both fore and aft. is very long.
it is thought that considerable ballast
viii have to be taken out in order to
make gain of even five or six sec
onds. Still with races in which neither
boat seems to have the advantae-e of
more than minute or two. the mat
ter OF five seconds might become very
important.
Measurer Hyslop was sent for later
IN the afternoon. but the matter was
finally dro- ped, it being decided not to
make any alterations in the trim of the
new boat, at least not until after to-
norroW's race The decision to have
The yachts race every day was received
with good grace at the yacht club to-
night