The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25
SIR THOMAS UPTON HERE
 TO LIFT CUP
Jolly Irish Baronet Arrives and Is Trying to Arrange
 Fourth Challenge
But No One Would Have Ghost of a Show Unless Yacht Club Modifies Rule
(special from United Press.o

New York, Oct 25.-Declaring that no foreign challenger would have the ghost of a show to lift the America s cup unless the New York Yacht Club modifies the special rule under which cup races have been held, and that he would not challenge again until the rule is changed, Sir Thomas Lipton. the iovial Irish baronet, arrived today aboard the Cedric to try to arrange for his fourth challenge.
 @I have waited six years in the hope that some one else would challenge for the cup after making three unsuccess- full attempts" said Sir Thomas. ''But it seems that no one else will, and so I am here again. If the New York Yacht Club will change it's cup rules so that I can build a racer seaworthy enough l will come over in 1911 with 6 Shamrock W and hopeful of lifting the cup. If it will not do so there is no use for me or anyone else to chal- lenge. If the rule is to remain un- changed, the cup is safe for all time.
 tI don't want to be understood as asking .favors,'' he continued. T am anxious to race under the Universal Rule, which is the rule used by yacht clubs in America except the New York club which only discredits the rule. A special cup race rule would be my only chance. I have tried three times to lift the cup and done my best every by better boat. I have no com plaint. But do hope that for the sake of yachting sport and in order to give the American public a better sporting event I will be given the op- portunity. to challenge again under conditions that are even to both sides.
 t'The deed of gift for the cup has been altered three times and could easily be altered again. The rule that the New York Yacht Club wants me to race under is barred by every other club in America"
 Sir Thomas would be willing to chal- 1enge for a race next year were it not for racing engagements he has along the British coast. In the last year he says he has taken part in 40 races, winning 21 of them. If he challenges again, he will have Designer Fife. who built the other Shamrocks, and De- signer Mylne each build him a boat, the challenger to be finally determined in a series of races between the two.
 Mr. Lipton will remain here several weeks and should the New York Yacht Club grant the concession asked for he will imm ediately have one of the Irish yacht clubs, of which he is member, isue a formal challenge. Sir Thomas is accompanied by his secretary and Colonel Duncan NeiL an English expert
 MT Lipton had no sooner reached the Waldorf Astoria than friends be- gan calling him up on the phone, all of them expressing the hope that he would be successful in arranging for a race.
 "It is good to get back to America" he said. 'I certainly like this coun-' try" From the cordiality with which the Irish baronet greeted even the about the hotel many of whom he remembered from his former visits, there is no denying the genuine ness of his enthusiasm. He hopes to meet with the New York Yacht Club officials within the next few days