The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-28
ENGLISH KNIGHT
is STILL GAME
Sir Thomas Upton Offers a
Valuable Cup as Yachting
Trophy,
WILL BE SAILED
FOR NEXT SEASON
Course Will Be Six Hundred
and Fifty Miles in
Length.
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Tribune Special Sporting Service.
NEW YORK, Jan 2T-Sm Thomas
Upton. If IL were possible, has further
eudeared himself to- those interested IN
yachting in this country. by his recent
gift Of $500 cup TO be sailed fot over
the 500 mile course the coming season.
Despite his several defeats In races FOR
the America :" cup. Sir Thomas has
always shown friendly interest In
yachting In this country. The new cup
VIII be known as the Upton cup, and
VIII be taken charge Of by the Brook
lyn Yachting club The race VIII be
from New York to Bermuda. 1t VIII
be started Saturday. May Is.
Conditions of Race,
The following are the conditions:
First. limited To boats nifty feet over
all; second crews limited To eight men,
all amateurs; third. allowance two
hours and thirty minutes per foot for
whole course; fourth. must carry water
and stores for thirty days NTH. no
limit on sail. sixth measurement for
allowance. length over all. seventh,
hcadroom and floor space same as
Brooklyn Y. &. mile.
Third Race of the Kind.
This VIII be the third race in which
| small boats have contested The first
| was sailed i'm 1904 for $500 cup pre-
sentcd by Sir Thomas. The distance
was $40 miles and the course from
! Gravesend bay. past Nantucket light
! ship TO Marblehead, Mass. Nine boats
started and six finished. The smallest
! boat In the race was the Sea Bird, %
| feet over all; and the largest, the Ne
wasi, 80 feet over all. The rs2e was
won by Little Rhody, a raceabout. 81
all In b. arr al, N
IS hours and As minutes The boats
had fair wind all the way round after
! starting In strong northwester. The
! second race was sailed I'm June. 1905
for the Challenge cup offered by the
! Brooklyn Yacht club. The course was
| from New York to Hampton Roads
Five boats started, the Gauntlet. -
feet Mopsa 30 feet; Tamerlane. 80 feet;
Bonita, 81 feet; Lila, 80 feet The race
/ was won by Tamerlane, owned by
Rear Commodore Frank Mailer OF the
! New Rochelle Yacht club. She was
navigatcd by Mr.. Day. She won easily
/ beating the Lila hours % minutes
| The distance was $50 miles.
Discusses Next Big Race
The invitation 10 American yachts
/ men To send delegates to the interna-
! tional congress opened in London last
week To establish a universal rating
I rule, had an unexpected connection
/ with the conditions surrounding tho
! possible arrangements OF another race
| for Americas" cup. and elected an
! expression OF the sentiment of the New
York Yacht club on the question oi
rules TO govern the next race, WHICH Sin
Thomas Upton and others have been
/ trying TO secure for two years or more
! 1T developed that the old rule would
! In all probability, govern any race for
! the cup if a sloop or cutter were &c
! be the challenging boat or at least
! that nothing would be agreed to that
! would prejudice the chance OF the Re-
| lance. as the application OF the new
! rule 10 her would. on the other hand
| the sentiment seemed favorable TO races
under the new rule. provided schooner
were 10 be the challenger
Ledyard Brought UP Subject
EN- Commodore Lewis Cass LedyarC
( introduced this phase into the discus.
sions incidental to the sending ol