The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-14

didn't seem overclned to arrange cup
contest at all. Just before [ left I
finally got definite declination of my
made verbal challenge for a race at
Yokohama. This was Mr.. T. M. Latin,
a wealthy American gentleman, who
verbally agreed to put up 5000 yen for
the winner of race, to be pulled off in
Japan. He wanted a race for yachts of
thirty-eight foot water line, which is
the size of his yacht, Mary" She
carries 140O feet of canvas and is about
fifty-eight feet over all. OF course l
MT bring a boat over, the size of j
small schooner, on a steamer, and did
not want to take the risk of sailing
her over on her own bottom. So l
asked him if he wanted to race small
er boat, and finally Mr.. Latin agreed
to make the same offer for any yacht
from twenty-one foot water line or over
and I told him that I would take up
the challenge if I had time next year.
glishman and is in the ship chandling
business, and besides is a yacht de
signer. He has his boats built by the
Japan Dock Co. and superintends the
work himself. The Mary" which he
has, Is as big as the La Paloma. Laf-
fin, by the way designed the Malolo,
which is about the slowest boat of her
class in these waters.
II don't think much of the japanese
boats. They are not in the same class
with American built yachts, and a man
on the steamer told me that the Yoko-
hama yachtsmen were foolish to think
of competing with American yachts.
The Japanese boats are none of them
built on modern lines and I don't be-
lieve they would have a ghost of a
show, even against such small boat
as the Defiance. I feel sure that we
could outsail them in their own wa
ters. OF course our yachts would never
make the speed there, that they do
here, but I haven't the slightest doubt
of the result. Conditions are different
in those waters, they have choppy seas
and the water is never smooth as here.
"rd like a try for that Y5,000 cup
anyway, but 1 am afraid they won't
or I1xrd
to go over there. The challenge was a
verbal one and no papers have been
signed, but if I can get away from
business, and the challenge is put in
proper form, I shall take a boat over
there next year"
WHAT JAPAN SAYS.
The following account of the negotia-
tions for race is taken from the jap
anese Gazette:
..It will be remembered that on the
3Oth ult representative of the Hawaii
Yacht Club, Mr.. H. E. Walker, still in
Yokohama, issued a general challenge
to local yachtsmen for a VI 600 cup, the
Yokohama boat to be taken over to
Honolulu for the first annual event.
Mr.. Walker at the same time claimed
some remarkable records for his yacht,
the Defiance (about II feet water line),
records as regards which our local
yachtsmen expressed strong scepticism,
to say the least.
But Mr. Walker was apparently not
discouraged, and. today, it is whispered
round town, that well known racing
man of Yokohama has offered Mr..
Walker, if the latter will bring boat
fss feet water-line; fitted as cruiser;
TO carry !, 500 feet of sail; to be designed
and built in Honolulu;) over from Ho-
nolulu. to race said boat for the sum
of Y5.00o. Tt was intimated that Yoko-
hama yachtsmen are business people
and have no time to play with chai-
lenges. but if money talks" here was
a good chance for Honolulu to show
that it is in earnest.
'.Mr. Walker is said to have replied
that he would have the boat over here
in six months to capture the stake"