The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
SIR THOMAS HOPES TO
CHALLENGE AGAIN SOON.
Will Keep the Shamrock III. Here
as n Trial Horse.

Will Keep the Shamrock III. Here
as n Trial Horse.
From the New York Times.
Sir Thomas Upton returned from
Chicago yesterday, looking a little
paler and little thinner than when
he left here, but with his optimistic
| cheerfulness quite undisturbed. Il
went there to stay three days" he
said, but l stayed a month. I was
lucky, though, to fall into good hands.
had the best doctors and l could not
have been better treated in my own
home''
The party included Col. Duncan, F.
D. Neill, and Capt. r. Vanentine
Webster of the British army, who, &C
cording to Sir Thomas, has been four
teen times around the world and nine
times through it, and Secretaries West
wood and Duncan. They We're an hour
late getting in from Chicago, reaching
here after o'clock. They came in
the private car of President Under
wood of the Erie Railroad attached
to the regular mail train.
President Underwood, with H. Hier
Davies, Sir Thomas representative
here, and ]. c. Wilson, Jr., met the
PAL ~ at JSISSy lily. MI. O0Q6fWOOQ
steam yacht, the Alice, was lying off
the pier and Sir Thomas went aboard
for few minues. He then crossed
the river on the special ferryboat Pas
sale, to which no other passengers
were admitted, and was driven with
his party to the Waldorf-Astoria
where they will stay while in the city.
Sir Thomas will sail for Liverpool
on Friday on the biggest White Star
liner, the Cedric. Personally, l am
not superstitious about starting out
the trial spins on the other side we
did not go out on that day"
Sir Thomas was asked whether or
not he was going to challenge with a
Shamrock ". A story which came
from Chicago recently said that he al
ready had chosen design and had
made his plans for another try at the
cup.
THAT story is not true" he said. IT
have made no plans at all. l am not
saying, however that will never ehal-
lenge again. Before l do it, though,
must have a designer"
This new man Milne may be a good
designer. They say that a boat of his
has beaten the best of Flies and Wat
sons, but he has had no experience
with big boats"
that Dennys, who built Shamrock III,
were going to design and build a boat
themselves with which they hoped to
win the cup.
THAT may be- replied Sir Thomas
Anybody can build a boat. The Den
nys build very good ones. The trouble
is to build one that is fast enough to
beat one of the flyers that Herreshoff
turns out.
"Herreshoff is a great man. He is a
real wizard. l take off my hat to
him.
The statement that a Shamrock "
is not improbable is borne out by the
fact that Shamrock III will be kept on
this side of the water
81 will not sell Shamrock ILL.," said
Sir Thomas. Il will keep her here in
reserve. She will be hauled out at Erie
basin where she will be given the very
best of care until she is needed again
as a trial horse. | hope that time
won't be very long coming" he added
with a smile.
Sir Thomas was asked if he had
heard that he had been suggested as a
successor to Sir Michael Herbert, the
late British ambassador at Washington.
1T was very kind. very f1attering in
fact, for Senator Kearns to think of
me in that way, but you know as we'll
as do, that anything like that is al
together impossible.
Sport and diplomacy We're given up,
and Sir Thomas was next tried on poll
stics-British politics, however.
would you accept an office in the
cabinet under Mr.. Balfour?" was the
question which almost knocked Sir
Thomas off his chair. 1t was explain
ed to him that the suggestion had been
made in one of the late magazines in
an article on Joseph Chamberlain.
fa loit fr hn erroo fpC In in
England" he replied, evading the ques-
ton. but / don't know what to think
about this new tariff proposition.
Il am a free trader myself. ! believe
in the free breakfast table l don't
want to see any tax on the working
mans food
There is not enough food produced
in England to support her three weeks,
OF course, we can get meat from
Australia, but that is almost too far
away, and we could get butter and
eggs and wheat from Canada, but no
country in the world could in tn
respect take the place of the United
States.
3 ,'Mr. Chamberlain, however, seems
to have reasoned the matter out thor
oughly and he is a very able man.
He was free trader himself until late
ly, and l don't want to put myself on
record as Delng OppOseu 10 MN NH
l go back and get a better understand
ing of the matter Then may change
my views, too.
i personally, in such an event would
like to see a preferential tariff for the
United States, as well as for the colon
les AS far as France, Russia, Or Ger
many is concerned, 1t would make
no difference"
He was asked again: Gould you be
Induced to accept Cabinet position
well, he answered thoughfully, Il
might be induced, but / am sure that
Mr.. Balfour would not ask me. have
never taken part in politics, and Capi-
net positions are rewards, for men, VINO
have done something for their party.
The Baronet was surprised when ne
heard that Capt. Barr and Capt. Mill
err, who had been Bars mate on the
Columbia when that yacht had beaten
Shamrock H., had bought the latter
boat and were breaking her up to sell
for junk When told that Capt. Wringe
would remain on this side, and that
next year he probably would sail Au-
gust Belmont's Mineola, he said:
"Well, Mr.. Belmont couldn't get
better man." Speaking of the work OF
his own crew on Shamrock III, Sir