The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-29
WILL NOT CHALLENGE AGAIN
LIPToN DISCOURAGED AT HIS
 LAST FAILURE.

Hsrreshofrs-Great Britain Has No
 Such Dssigners-Was oonhdent This
 Time Of Lifting the Cup but Now
 Realizes the ImpossibiIisy of It.
 Highlands, N. J., Aug. 2S.-Sir Thom- as Lipton declared to-day that he had lost all hope of ever lifting the Ameri- cas cup. He said that he would never challenge again, as he thought there was no hope of beating the yachts Herreshoff could build to defend the cup.
 While Herreshoff is here think 1t impossible to challenge again with any prospects of success" declared Sir Thomas. When we produce a Herre- shoff on the other side will challenge again. Yacht building is all question of brains, and the brains of 1t are in America. You have the wizard. was not made happy when yesterdays race was called off. I realize that it was only prolonging the agony. I should like to win tomorrow and hope that there is a big sea, but do not wish to win on slip. I never before crossed the Atlantic feeling so confident of my boat as I did this time. In consequence my disappointment has been accentu- ated the more. I am 9 most disap- pointed man. No general ever prepar- ing for victory had higher hopes of success than I when I came over this time.' ss
 In reply to some talk about the great difference in sail area on Reliance and Shamrock, Sir Thomas said: T cannot tell you why our sail area is so much smaller. cannot build boat myself, neither can I sail one I depended on what I considered the most competent designers in England, and, of course. rested on their Judgment. am confi- dent that the best designed and best built boat is winning. But do you know he added, with a smile, T be- lieve the American people would hon. estly like to see me win. I think if they could make Shamrock faster by pushing her they would do it.''
 Captain Barr was asked this morning is Reliance would end the series to- morrow ..Who knows" he replied with a sfrug. He seemed much disappointed that Reliance failed to get over the fin ish line inside of the time limit yester- day.
 Shamrock and Reliance were tugging at double anchors inside the Horseshoe with a moderate gale bowling through the rigging up lost. Nearly 200 yards away on the other side of the Hook the sea was pounding the jetties in boil- li ing white wash which tumbled inland before roaring twenty-five mile wind from the eastward. Starting from the calm that hung up yesterdays race a quarter of mile from the finish the storm made up in the evening seawards and broke over the coast at midnight. All night long it ragged. and at day. break the east was a bank of mist out of which pelting rain was surging that stung the face like sleet and kept the sailor men down below. On board Re- liance and Shamrock no one was in sight save the anchor watch. bundled in oilsldns and crouching in the less of canvas cover.
 Off shore. bound toward New York, a couple of coating steamers labored in the trough Of the sea and coming out O. the southeast a fleet of fishing schooners were staggering in under shortened sail. At 9 o'clock the point of the Hook was shut off from view | from the Highland, and there were no signs of let-up. Mariners said that the gale would not spend itself before sundoWn. if it dropped then. The weatherwise predicted that the morning would bring fair wind fro mthe north- west.