The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-26
TIME FOR Upton TO RETIRE.
YACHTSMEN WANT SOMEBODY
Else TO TRY FOR CUP.
An English Paper Thinks That Trophy. rs
Far as Sir Thomas Is Concerned, Is
Huge Adyertis ement--PlIant Press
Has Too Long Limelishted the Show,

An English Paper Thinks That Trophy, as
Far as Sir Thomas Is Concerned. Is
Huge Neutrality-suspicious. Press
Has Too Long LmeliEhted the Show.
English yachtsmen are not all enthusi-
astic over Sir Thomas Lipton's idea Of
trying again to lift" the Americas Cup.
Sir Thomas has had three trials and has
said that he will make fourth when he
has made the necessary arrangements
with designer. but so far he has not been
successful in inducing George L. Watson
to build another challenger for him.
There are many yachtsmen on the other
side who would like to see Sir Thomas
step aside, for time at least, and let some
one else try. j. p. Coats, Kenneth Clark
and Peter Donaldson are willing to enter
the lists, but they do not care to do so as
long as Sir Thomas wants to keep on try
ing. 1t Is an open secret that yachtsmen
on this side would like to have some other
British yachtsmen try for the Cup, and 1t is
generally understood that if the Royal
Clyde Yacht Club should challenge, and name
either of the three yachtsmen already
mentioned, there would be little difficulty
IN arranging race under the conditions OF
the new rules of measurement. The Ydchts-
man OF Sept. Is has this to say:
The evident determination of Sir Thomas
Lipton to challenge and race for the America
cup at any cost and at any sacrifice compes
both to him and to his methods. We do 30
with confidence. knowing that we speak for q
Or Bsa bs M
OF our duty to the public. To yachtsmen In
position to know the state of affairs we can
them the America Cup was q sealed book
after the contest OF 1895. to those intimate
sport and which. We consider. has largely
concerned, we Would address ourselves.
To avoid mincing matters and to 90 at once
TO the root OF the matter. let us say that we
Upton is concerned, TO be from first to last
q huge ,adyertisement. Business men who
are aware that his advertising s' senias has
America Cup contest has sse undoabtedy been
has both directly and indirectly brought him
greater profit than any other effort he ever
has sready oo 6ns al e
and an all too, simple public meekly stood
by and watched the prostitution OF its noblest
which can only find vent, in such blossom
ings we cannot understand. Our home
and would therefore be but badly placed
boarding. Sir Thomas Lipton's commercial
field is America, go American must be the
setting. But that concerns lis little: II the
Yankee is out Yankd, it is his own lookout.
We hold our brief for the British public who
may not get near enough TO hear the ring OF the
metal.
Under such conditions it may readily be
conceived that the result is quite immaterial,
and to discuss the unfair conditions Of the
contest under any rule would be but a waste
of words. We live by sport and we live for
sport, and will always do our utmost TO fur
Their 1t: but we will not further tolerate this
now too transparent masQuerading poster.
Fortunately such sport Is an exotic. but lest
it should establish an overlap 1t is our sacred
duty to luf 1t OF the course-pass us who
TO those Of us who know the inner work
ings Of the past three races 1t Is little sur
have washed their hands of the affair, and the
hunt for a designer to undertake the work
may prove as arduous as the search which
discovered the Royal Ulster Yacht Club as a
hacker for the first Of the ohaleng gers. We
are personally glad Of It. as the designers
share in the proceedings was the only one
we could conscientiously take an interest
II We have heard much OF the influence
81 such sport on the friendly relations OF the
flows on both sides of the Atlantic. and We
hurt II they thought for one moment that
their friendly ties were secured by such cheap
blandishments--we look to our bonds OF
friendship to be united by truer ties. We
have not the slightest desire to interfere
with business methods and enterprise; but
we cannot sit by and see dragged into them
the sport Of which we are so Justly proud.