The sun., 1903-09-04
Upton Halls The VICTOR.
FAIRLY TREATED AND FAIRLY
BEATEN~A GAME LOSER.
Lays FITS Defeat Entirely 10 the Inferi-
Ority OF HIS Boat-ShamrOck H.. dc.
signed by watson, Probably the Bes,
shamrock Of All, His Friends Think.

shamrock of All. His Friends Think
Just before the yachts went into the fog
when it was quite apparent that Sham
rock ILL., was hopelessly beaten, Sir Thomas
Upton, aboard the Erin. pronounced his
public valedictory, This is it;
There is little to be said beyond what
every one may see for himself. I've been
licked-well licked. I've done everything
within human possibility to bring the best
boat to the line that could be built in Great
Britain, and to bring with it the best talent
in sailing.
Il am greatly disappointed in losing
But as was beaten by a faster boat there's
nothing for me to complain OF.
Il am greatly indebted to the Race Com
mittee of the New York Yacht Club and
to all the gentlemen Of the club for the
exceedingly kindly manner in which they
have done everything for me and those
representing me on the Shamrock A
kinder or better lot of sportanen than the
members of the New York Yacht Club
does not exist in this world.
Il am very grateful to the Government
for the unexoeptionable way in which the
course was kept clear. There's no country
in the world which could keep as clear a
course as We have had every day we have
been out.
And let me say now that can't ask for
a better course than this course of Sandy
Hook. We have courses on the other
side; and they have fluky winds just al
you have them here. If ever l should
race again and have my choice Of courses
anywhere in the world. should select the
Sandy Hook course"
-Sir Thomas" asked reporter, will
you come after the Cup again?'
who can design boat for me? That g
the question:" said Sir Thomas, with much
apparent feeling. Gentlemen, am ready
and willing to fight for the Cup at any time
il can find material on which, in my own
heart, can depend for a chance Of winning.
Mr.. Fife has done his best We've been
licked.
what will be your attitude should the
Royal Clyde Yacht Club challenge for the
Cup2"
"I'd do anything in my power to help
the challenger along" said Sir Thomas.
sd get out my boat and get up a crew
and do everything could to make the
trial races as searching and as helpful as
might be. would leave nothing undone
| to help any one else who would try to lift
the Cup.
sd he glad to have some one else try
it. This has been great strain on me and
would willingly transfer it 10 some one
else"
Sir Thomas paused moment, regarding
| the pattern in the carpet at his feet.
But, nevertheless. must admit he
said, after while, that hope that II any
| Englishman ever comes over here with q
/ boat that Ii fit and able to make q Winning
fight for the Cup, it will be my boat
Sir Thomas laughed.
II can't help that hope. gentlemen,
| he added.
Sir Thomas spoke very 7eelingly Of his
| sympathy for the members of the Sham
rocks crew. He said that they had worked
| as hard for him as men ever worked and
that they had done as well with the boat
| as any crew could have done, from Capt
Wrnge down.
He said that when he came back from a
business trip to Chicago, which he will
make in few days. he would send Sham
rock l. and Shamrock III. back to England
! in tow. Sir Thomas hopes to make visits
| to St Louis and to Bost on, but is afraid
| that so much time has been used up by
! the flukes OF the last week that he will have
to hurry home by fast mail steamer as
soon as he is back from Chicago.
what are you going to do with Sham
rock H., which is laid up here?" Sir Thomas
| was asked.
"If you fellows didn't keep such close
watch Of things" he said with laugh,
Il might smuggle her back and rechristen
her Shamrock Nv. and challenge with her
again
Anyway, I'll never change that name
| | NAV come over years from now with
Shamrock XXX. but she will be Sham
rock Just the same
According to a Briton who has been
here during the races and who has
been conversant with the state Of feeling
down in the Shamrock fleet in the Horse
shoe, this remark Of Sir Thomas s
was more han ordinarily significant. Sir
Thomas has peatedly said since the in
feriority of Shamrock III. has been proved
that "Mr Fife has done his best He has
never expressed an opinion Of the quality
of Mr. Flies best.
But everybody who has been through
the three campaigns with him is convinced
that Shamrock IL. was Sir Thomas = most
nearly successful boat She was designed
by Watson. This friend of Sir Thomas
said:
while Sir Thomas will not say it, and
while his sporting principles will never
permit him to say it. there are some OF us
who cannot help feeling and believing that
he ought to feel that he has had hard luck
in this. his last Cup-hunting venture,
when Shamrock /. sailed her races,
Fife, the designer, was sick in bed with
heart disease in the Fifth Avenue Hotel
His condition was such that his nurse did
not dare tell him the result of the races
as they were sailed He had no direct
experience in the sailing of a boat against
n Herreshoff boat
"The next time Designer Watson did have
experience.
"When il came 10 third challenger, Fife
designed her He selected his own boat
Shamrock /, and convinced himself and Sir
Thomas the she was 80 much improved
that NJ . was IA fast a. eithor Columbia or
Constitution He proved to his own salts
faction and to that Of Sir Thomas, that
Shamrock III was ten minutes faster than
Columbia This meant that she could beat
Reliance
He steadfastly refused TO accept sug-
gest ions TINT he build a more powerful boat
and secuted the stories Of the tremendous
power which the Herreshofs were putting
on Reliance
Bet ween the last trif ls on the other ide
and the races here II WAS CiscONered hat
the water line Of Shamrock III was way
over and above Einety feet and sEe bad
10 be- lightened by the removal Of great
,ulantity Of ballast 81" wrs greatly in
feriol after the change wfs mace
And again, Shamrock J the trinl boat
was nowhere near ~ good - Columbia