The Washington herald., 1907-09-27
ENGLISH WANT NEW CUP.
London Press Says that Last Race
for Old Trophy Has-Been Run.

| London. Sept 26.-It IS practically
/ the universal view among yachtsmen
/ throughout the United Kingdom that
unless the New York Yatch Club mod
| ifes the conditions il now imposes for
a contest for the Americas Cup. no
/ challenger for the trophy is likely again
20 leave Great Britain in the face of
the rejection Of Sir Thomas Lipton's
/ challenge.
The disappointment Of the yachting
community is intense. and its surprise
is hardly less pronounced among Clyde
/ yachtsmen. who are probably more
kceIly absorbed in the struggle for
the cup than yachting devotees else
wkere in the United Kingdom It is
held that no challenger can OF ought
to think Of sending a crew across the
Atlantic aboard a vessel which could
be hoped TO compete on level terms
with an American freak
The late 6. L. WatsOns views upon the
subject are recalled and generally in
dorsed. He said it was impossible 10
push the development Of cup racers
further on the lines they had been
going II would be criminal folly to send
on an ocean voyage the craft required
to meet a further development OF the Re
lance type. In quarters where the New
York Yacht Clubs absolute infexibiIity
Is postulated the hope Of a contest is re-
garded as dead, and the Americas Cup
win henceforth be regarded as merely an
interesting antique embodying reni-
niscences Of events OF a closed past
Last Fight for Cup Is Fought.
The comments of the London press.
while sometimes hoping that the New
York Yacht Club will relent. and unani-
mously regretting It's attitude, generally
express the view that the last interna-
tional fight for the cup has been fought
Thus the Tribune, which is of the
opinion that nobody will again chal-
lenge. says a cup never challenged for
is practically nonexistent. A cup guarded
from the possibility of challenge by con-
ditions which the progress Of mechanical
invention and the stability of ocean OBJ
stacles have conspired to render obsolete
cannot be regarded as very glorious
trophy. If the race is not TO lie between
seaworthy yachts it no longer has any
meaning, and Englishmen must score 1t
cut Of that small list of international
events which appeal strongly to popular
imagination.
The Daily Mail says that no other
yachtsman is likely to step in where Sir
Tom Upton refused to tread The ex-
listing conditions are obsolete, essentially
unfair, and such as preclude a genuine
race with serviceable boats
The Standard says that the unexpected
decision practically debars any English
yachtsman from endeavoring 10 regain
the trophy. The Daily Graphic declares
that the attitude revealed by the New
York Yacht Clubs refusal must earn
them the suspicion, doubtless unmerited.
that they are sheltering the cup behind
a mere quIbble. which makes a challenge
impossible
New International Cup Desired,
The Daily News says that the Henley
committee might have saved the Grand
Challenge Cup by compelling the Belgians
to cross the channel in the eight-oared
boat they were to use in the race If
there had been a deed OF gift to have en-
aDled that there is not an oarsman In
England who would not have wished Il