The age-herald., 1901-07-14

l see here was a great deal of talk in the papers a day or two ago about Ken meth M. Clark, owner of the yacht Ka- riad, challenging Sir Thomas Lipton for a series of races between the Kariad and Shamrock II. to decide which yacht shall be sent as challenger to America. What Tommy Rot this Is. even If 1t is printed as special despatches in the great morning dailies. I do not know what business MT Kenneth M. Clark follows. He may be a king. tea merchant, an emperor, or a whiskey distiller, it matters not They are all good fellows as a rule and none of them want to die poor, which is a l strong point in their favor; but If MT. | Clark is out for advertising purposes with the Kariad, then l have nothing to say so far as he is concerned. 1 have 1 this. however, to remark so far the formal challenge racket Is concerned, that 1t Is all rubbish. Sir Thomas Lipton races the Shamrock IT, for the America s cup or there will be no race He couldn t
 if he would engage Shamrock II. in a
 race with the Kariad, and if that boat
 was victorious. might cross the ocean and become the challenger. Nothing of the kind Even Shamrock II. could not take the place of Shamrock IT. unless by | a special dispensation of the New York Yacht Club, which 1t is not at all likely would be granted. If Shamrock II. does not come over here this summer or au- tumn to carry out the conditions under which Sir Thomas Lipton entered her. no other foreign boat will be received and it Is dollars to doughnuts there will be no international race. Sir Thomas Lipton will bring Shamrock II. over here and race her, no matter what may be the odds against her. There are times when defeat equals victory-if the latter is de- served the former is robbed of it's sting Sir Thomas Lipton's last defeat in our waters left nothing but pleasant memo ries of a gallant, honest struggle in a pastime which has been truly called the sport of kings
 MT. Kenneth M. Clark avast heavin with your formal challenges to Sir Thomas Lipton. If you won you couldn't race, and that is the English of 1t. If you are so anxious to see what you can do with American boats, please excuse me if I offer a suggestion. You have good boat in the Kariad. We know something about her over here, if the re- ports in the newspapers are to be credit ed. Well, my suggestion, MT. Clark, is that you announce your determination of entering the lists next year. Send the measurements, etc, of the Kariad to the New York Yacht Club, and there is no doubt you will be accommodated, pro- vided that you and the Kariad can com ply with the conditions of the deed of trust by which the America's cup is open to the challenge of the yachts of all na- tions. 'Tis a simple matter. If you mean business, try it. You can do noth- ing this year, believe me.
 Before I close let me say one thing while we are on the yachting topic The Emperor of Germany has, within the past couple of weeks, been very frank and outspoken In regard to yachts and yachting. He expresses the conviction that our schooner yachts are good boats He believes in them. I cannot now give his exact words but His Majesty of Ger but, If reports speak truly, he intends to have an American schooner built, on board of which he will test his views. think l but re-echo the sentiments of every man who loves the sea and Is wind and wave, when I say that I pray the day will come when schooners will once more fly the racing burgee of the New York Yacht Club in defense of the Americas sceptre of the sea. Before an other season or two pass over 1t is to be hoped that a challenge will come from Germany for the Americas cup, and the entry will be a schooner. It was with a schooner, the glorious old America, we won the blue ribbon of the sea, and 1t Is with a schooner many a good yachtsman -Idon't mean a steam yacht owner mere ly-would like to see 1t defended and re- tained. Your Majesty is to be congratu- lated on a happy suggestion, and I trust your burgee will fly at the masthead of the German schooner which will chal- lenge for the Americas cup