The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-31

NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-Owing to the
continued threatening weather it was
announced at the New York Yacht club
tonight that no decision as to whether
there will be race or not tomorrow
will be reached until o'clock tomor-
row morning, when the regatta COM
mittee will meet, and, having decided
on racing or calling off the race for
the day. will at once notify Sir Thomas
Upton aboard the Erin.
That Sir Thomas regarded the pros
pect for race as very remote was
shown by the fact that this afternoon
he instructed H. HER Davis, his per-
sonal representative in New York, to
notify all guests invited on board the
Erin tomorrow that the sea was so
rough and the prospect for decent
weather so bad that he thought it not
advisable for any of them to come
aboard and that in consequence the
tender used to convey guests from the
city to the Erin would not make her
usual trip.
Two days after the final race Sir
Thomas will be the guest of honor at
banquet to be given at the Waldorf
Astoria by the Order of Pilgrims.
At midnight the wind at Sandy Hook
was from east northeast, blowing
twenty miles an hour There was a
heavy surf running. but it was not
quite so bad as at the Same time Sat
urday The mist had cleared and it
was possible to see for, a distance of
fourteen miles off shore. In these con-
ditions and with a possible increase of
the winds velocity after sunrise, there
is fair prospect that the yachts may
be able to race today
The local weather bureau received
the following dispatch from Washing
ton at 10 o'clock tonight
"The wind over the international
yacht race course Monday will be brisk
to high and mostly northeast, with
cloudy and possibly rainy weather"
Sir Thomas Upton expressed him
self forcibly today on the allegations
that Designer Fife and Capt Wringe
were in bitter controversy over the
cause of the defeat of the Shamrock
III
81 want to say" said Sir Thomas,
chat I am absolutely disguised with
the continual repetition of the story
that 1 have criticised Mr.. Fife and
that Mr.. Fife and Capt. Wringe are at
loggerheads. 1 want to say distinctly
and forcibly that I have never criti
cised Mr.. Fife. I had Mr.. Fife build me
a boat. He put in her his best endeav
ors and 1 have never questioned his
loyalty and his ability. It is not his
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one for these waters. 1t is not his fault
that the wizard of yacht building is in
this country, and wizard he is.
$50, too, the stories of MIR. Flies
having any controversy with Capt.
Wringe are without foundation! Capt.
Wringe has sailed Shamrock III. in the
same manner as Mr.. Fife built ito
the best of his ability. have no fault
to find with him, and the statement
that I have found fault with Capt.
Wringe or that of Mr.. Fife or I have
interfered with him is ridiculous. Mr..
Fife has done his full duty by me and
SO has Capt. Wringe. There is no con-
treversy between me and either of
them and none between them 1 will
vouch."
Col. Neill and Jack Wilson, guests Of
Sir Thomas on the Erin, were cruising
in one of the Erin's launches in the
Shrewsbury river this afternoon, when
then engine broke down and they drift
ed for an hour and half before being
picked up by another launch and towed
to the Erin. The accident was caused
by suddenly reversing the engine to
rescue one of the Erirl's mascot" Scot
fish terriers which had fallen over
board. ST