The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
CUP TALK IN ENGLAND.
YaCntsmen Growing impatient for . Race
Under the New RuIe.

British yacbtsmen are much pleased with the
working of the new rule, which according to
their view Is causing fast and sound yachts
TO be built. The successes OF the White
Heather. the new Fife yacht. and the Shimna
and Ma'oona. new boats in the 50 foot elias
have shown that the new craft are fast, and
II Is the opinion of many that they are faster
than anything that has vet been produced,
and they are also thinking that now they are
better prepared TO challenge for the America a
cup than ever before. The Yochfino World
in an editorial calls II a hitting time" and
points out that n the New York Yacht Club
wants a race II can have one under a rule
similar to the one that has been adopted In
Europe. The rule is similar to the one In
force there and produces practically the
same results, but by a different formula
The Yachting World says:
wolf has been cried so often in connec-
tton with the America cup contest within
the last few years that yachting men and the
larger public who waken to an interest In
our sport while this international In on hand
may he pardoned II they have come 70 regard
all further limitations bearing upon this
with much suspicion. II II we're worth going
back upon ancient history II might be pointed
out that there was actually much better
grounds for some of the rumors that have
been circulated than the results-or rather
the inck OF r~esults-would seem to indicate
All that happened in connection with the
effort made by Sir Thomas Upton 10 induce
the New York Yacht Club TO make a definite
declaration as to the conditions on which the
contest might be resumed has not vet been
told In public. but enough Ia known of the
incident to put IL beyond doubt that had
the holders Of the cup been at that time willing
to come from behind the barrier of obsolete
rules and conditions where they have been
entrenched the owner of the Shamrocks
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another bid for what has come to be regarded
as the highet honor which the sport OF yacht
racing has to offer.
Equally certain IL is that another keen
racing owner with a long and honorable
connection with the sport considered also tho
test and the conditions under which it might
be resumed. and this INQUIRY apparently
S Mas ! d,s reasGhs Tor Tor t believing that there
York Yacht Club to realize that some kind of
. modernization OF the conditions was neces-
sary for the continuance of this historic
contest.
These considerations and some others.
make the present a fitting time for glancing
over. the position and noting the position
in which we would stand if called upon now
to set about the carrying through OF another
cup. To make this reckoning anythinS
reliable IL is first of all necessary to know
what are the rules, and particularly the rule
contest. At the time the last negotiations
were shrivelled in the bud II was made abnn-
dainty clear that an overhaul OF the conditions
TO bring them into touch with those which
now govern every other phase of international
Yachting was a necessary preliminary to any
revival Of the match. The position was laid
down briefly az: No alteration no race
and We may take IL therefore that in there
IL "a contest in the immediate future Il viii
be a contest under some such rule "a that
which governs the racing OF this country
and throughout Europe. This being admittad
we have good reason for counting ourselves
now as being in a position to take I'M the
fight with a better chance OF success than
ever we were before.
We have just--with some little difficulty
and one or two awkward bitches got through
the work OF discarding one rule and adopting
another more suited to the reuuirements
OF the time. The provisions OF this measure
and the developments to which they NAV
lead are almost as new TO us az thew are 10
the designers on the American side. but
the difference favors us slightly in the fact
that we have had opportunity OF irving two
or three yachts Of widely different model
rnder that scale Of measurement, and there
IL little doubt. in the inside circle at least.
OF the type which IL likely to be the most
ever. il the opinion which has been growing
to an unshakable conviction that the last
two OF three years. barren though they have
been in important orders. have been rich
in progress In yacht designing. BY all the
logic there is good reason why the yachts
CT this year should be slower than those
built TO the rule Of fewer restrictions. but
a comparison OF the actual performances
Ia apt to make the averag &c sportsman i'm
patient for this opportunity Of another yacht
ing tnssle with our American friends and
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