Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-29
SIR THOMAS WAS SOLD
OUT IN LAST CONTEST.
BLANEs HIS SAILING MASTER WITH
THE DEFEAT OF SHAM
ROCK 4.
NOW DENIES THAT HE SAID TT,
But TWO AMERICAN BUSINESS
MEN RErTERATE THAT
HE DID.

TOLEDO, Ohio. September 2S.--Sev-
was to the effect that Sir Thomas Lip
ton on his recent trip across the waters
to this country made the statement
that one of his captains sold him out
in the last race for $500. This state
ment was credited to Mr.. b. Il. Wade,
for years one of the foremost business
men of this community. who said Sir
Thomas made that remark to him
when they were fellow passengers. Sir
Thomas promptly denied It, Mr..
Wade remembered that n prominent
wholesale merchant of New York, Mr..
John Mccullough. of the Belfast Linen
Handkerchief Company, Limited, ~
and 30 White street, had been present
and overheard the statement. He was
rather nettled at Sir Thomas curt de-
NAL of the assertion and wrote to Mr..
Mccullough for a confirmation OF tho
matter. Following is the statement
made by Mr. Wade and appended there
to is the letter no received from Mr..
Mccullough:
ION our second morning out from
Liverpool. Friday. August 10. 1901,
about g.. 30 n. m, Mr.. John Mccullough,
of New York, and the writer were seat
ed at the head of the main stairs on
board the steamer Teutonic, bound for
New York, when Sir Thomas came up
the stairs. AT tho landing we arose
and extended the morning greeting
when he asked us to be seated. Dur
ing tho conversation we wished he
might win the coming race as we be-
lieyed 1t would create livelier inter-
est in yachting for the future; when,
unsolicited on our part and without
any reserve on his part, he went on to
| tell us how his captain had sold him
out two years ago (for about two hun
dred or three hundred pounds-am not
| certain whether he said two or three
hundred), but that his crew was true
as steel. We then said to him that
when he found his captain was not do
ing what was right he should have dis
charged him, Mr.. Upton replied that
he was not n sailor and that he could
| not sail the boat. but that this time irB
had the designer with him and Captain
Sycamore, who were the best and tru-
est sailors in all England. In gem
eral conversation he was quite severe
with his former captain.
tSigned) "B. f. WADE"
Here is the letter from Mr.. McCul-
| Tough:
THE Belfast Linen Handkerchief Co.,
Limited, u and 20 White Street.
NEW YORK. September 3, 1901.
"Mr B. +. Wade, Toledo, O.
Dear Slr:-Yours OF August 26th re-
ceived, and am glad to know that you
and Mrs. Wade arrived home all right.
The conversation we had with Sir
| Thomas Upton Is correct. | remember
1t distinctly, but there appeared in one
of our papers the statement crediting
! MIR. b. f. Wade, which credits you with
| saying that Sir Thomas told you his
crew was disloyal. He denied ever
making such statement, and from
your letter you evidently did not eitHr.
| Some reporter got your statement
! twisted as regards the crew, and It was
evidently shown to Sir Thomas, as he
| came out with prompt denial. You
have got the conversation correct,
| which was to the effect that the crew
were loyal, but that the sailing master
! and those who were Immediately under
| him were not.
| (Signed) JOHN MCCULLOUGH"