The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-02
Upton is CONTENT
THE PERFORMANCE OF sHAMRoCIx
EVERYTHING TO BE DESIRED.
OFF NEWPORT HARBoR
SIR THOMAS WILL WATCH TRIAL
RACE OF CUP DEFENDERS.

With Flags AhOat the Erin Brought
to NcwpOrt-same Weather Condf-
lions as Prevailed Saturday Would
Satisfy Him, When the Great Tests
of Speed Are Mnde-Lnwson's BID
for NOtoriety Given the ley Hand.
Neither Constitution Nor COiumb in
Will Race Independence.
New port. K. l., Sept. Flying the
British ensign and with the American
flag at the fore and the famous sham
rock signal at the main, the Erin
steamed into Newport harbor to-day
and anchored just outside of Goat ISL
and.
She brought Sir Thomas Upton and
his party to witness the second of the
trial races between the Columbia and
Constitution, which takes place to-mor-
row. Besides the owner of the Sham
rcck there were on board Designer
Watson, William Jameson, Capt.
Sycamore, Sailmaker Ratsey, David
Barrie and Dr. Mackey
The Erin will go over the course to-
morrow and the British yachts1nen will
nave another opportunity to see the
American boats out for a race. Mean
while Capt. Sycamore and Mr.. jamie
son of the Shamrock will get a line on
the sea jockeying of the men who will
contend against them in the cup con-
tests at Sandy Hook After the race
tomorrow Sir Thomas and his party
VIII be the guests of Commodore Lewis
{. Ledyard at his residence. Then thew
will board the Erin and start at once
for Sandy Hook to be on hand for the
Shamrock's spin on Tuesday.
or Thomas Upton was much inter-
ested In the details of yesterdays trial
race which he had not heard. In
speaking of yesterdays performance of
the shamrock at Sandy Hook he said:
IL was a fine spin indeed. good
sixteen-knot wind was blowing ana IL
was by far the best try out the boat
had since she came over We were ali
very much pleased and we ask for no
Detter weather conditions in the Gun
races than those of yesterday"
Sir Thomas was told of the announce
ment OF Thomas w. Lawson, owner of
the Independence, that he would be
cA"N ~ race MS Doat against all three
or any OF the ninety-foot sloops. sham
rock III, Columbia or Constitution with
the understanding that If he failed RI
win TWO out of three of the contests he
would donate 100000 to any worthy
cnarity. Sir Thomas had not seen the
statement. however, and was not pre-
pared to discus it, 1t has been gener-
ally understood that the owner of the
shamrock III considered that his boat
was brought to this country to race
Tor the Americas cup and that he
could not participate in other races. the
mission of his yacht being to meet the
defender of the cup and win the covet-
ed trophy If possible.
None of the officials of the New York
Yacht Club would talk about Mr.. Law
sons offer. II challenges should be
issued in behalf of the Independence
they properly would be made to the
owners or managers of the three boats
named, and would be dealt with by
each separately. 1t would not come
within the province of the New York
Yacht Club to pass upon the matter
in any way.
Although no statement has ever been
made officially on the subject, IL rs
generally understood here that neither
the Columbia nor Constitution will
race the Independence under any con-
ditions again, and that she was drop-
ped out of consideration some time
ago.