New-York tribune., 1908-02-07
THE Upton CUP AWARD
PROTEST NOT SUSTAINED.
TrODbu Goes to the Bensonhurst as
thinning Yacht.

The Yachting committee of the Crescent Athletic
Club has dismissed the protest against awarding
the Upton Cup to the Bensonhurst. The fuA report
of the findings was read last night at the annual
dinner of the Bensonhurst Yacht Club at the Hotel
St Denis, and met with general satisfaction
The Upton Cup sailed for last season on
Grayesend Bay. Seven yachts competed III Ten
events and the usual system of scoring points was
adopted The Bensonhurst, owned by Commodore
William H ChiIds and members of the benson
hurst Yacht Club, scored the most points IN the
series with the New Moon and Nereld. owned py
svndicates of the Crescent Athletic CIuo, second
and third respectively When the series was COM
pleted B. V r. and c. f. Speide owners of the
Goblin protested the ground that six out OF
the seven boats failed to comply with the restflc-
tions so far as headroom was concerned
The Goblin was the only one that had the fuii
feet inches of. headroom, and the others fell
short at the forward carng from three-quarters
of an inch on the Bensonhurst TO two inches on the
Blue BILL The Speidel brothers In making the
protest said they did so in the interest OF me
sport maintaining that if restrictions were framed
to cover any contest they should be enforced Ihey
also declared that they did not want the trophy
and would not accept cup a"aroeo 'iirouSh d
protest being sustained.
The question considered by the conanht'ee' Wh'o'
is composed of Charles j. McDermott j. o.
O'Donohue Addison C. Hanan. William H. Chllds'
McDonough Craven and A. F. Adridge, was
delicate one Mr. Childs, the owner of the Ben
sonhurst, after presenting his case, refraned from
voting at any of the meetings.
IT was established by the measurement certin-
Gates that while the six yachts, the Bensonhurst
the New Moon the Nereid. the Gunda, the Blue
Bill and the NJ. and F., were short of the required
headroom at the forward end of their cabins, thai
In all other respects they exceeded the limitations
to govern cabin space. They had more than the
required floor space Of nine square feet, and some
were more tfan feet inches long as required
II was showr that each yacht could have dropped
its cabin floor sufficiently to give the needful head
room without losing floor space that would cut II
out of the class in that and in some instances
all that was necessary to remove the forward
caring To have adhered a literal and strict
INTERPRETATION of the conditions would have meant
that the whole series would have been declared
off for if six of the boats had been dis
qualified there would have been competition for
the trophy.
The committee while appreciating the Importance
of strictly enforcing rules that drawn up for a
special class. decided against sustaining the pro-
test realizing that the erfors in the construction
of these boats were knoWf when the racing began
and in view o: the fact that the protest was not
made within the time limit provided by the rules
Further than that It felt that the cup was
the merits of the boats, and that the spirit
and intention of the deed of gift was not violated