New-York tribune., 1913-09-28
SYND|CATES FORMING
TO BUILD CUP YACHTS
Reports Indicate That at Least
six 75-FOoterS Will Be
Constructed.
HERRESH0FF IS READY
Will Lay Keel of Prospective
Defender in a Few Weeks
Has Accepted An
other Order.

Now that race for the Americas Cup
IN 1914 IS assured yachtsmen in all parts
NJ the country are already planning TO be
present at this biggest Of all interna-
,,onal contests in the world of sport. I'm
,sss some unforeseen delay occurs the
challenger. the Royal Ulster Yacht Club,
and the defender the New York Yacht
Club. have agreed through their respect
I'VE committees that the first race OF the
series shall be sailed on Thursday, Sep
tember 10, 1914 The races that follow are
IN be sailed on Tuesdays Thursdays and
Saturdays until one Of the yachts has
won three races out OF ave. This will give
each side an opportunity TO make any
necessary repairs in case OF an accident.
This will be the thirteenth time that
the New York Yacht Club has teen called
upon to defend the famous oId trophy,
which has been aptly called the blue NIB
bon OF the sea-" and IL will mark the
fourth attempt that Sir Thomas Upton
has made 10 lift the cup.
Al & dinner on board the yacht En-
chantress this month the Irish baronet
announced that he believed that Charles
E. Nicholson, who is to build his seventy
hve-foot yacht Shamrock ", is the best
designer in the world, and he said he telt
yure that he has better chance OF win
ming the cup than ever before.
The New York Yacht Club has not had
much to say. but the faith of the mem
bers in Herresho1 does not waver. and
It goes without saying that they expect
him TO turn out seventy ty-ive-footer that
will keep the cup on this side OF the At
antic.
Although Nat" Herreshoff has repeat
sdly declared that he would not accept
a commission 10 build two yachts for the
elimination races-at which a defender
will be selected-the latest report from
Bristol says that George NJ. Pynchon and
f. Walter Clark have placed a contract
with him for a 75-foot sloop. George NJ.
PynchOn owns the X class sloop Istalena.
l.. Walter Clark is commodore of the
Corinthian Yacht Club, OF Philadelphia.
Herreshofr recently declared that the
limit Of speed has been reached in cup
defender and that future speed develop
ment must come from changes In the
rigging and sail plan OF the yacht.
Reports from many sources show that
the building OF at least six candidates for
cup defence is contemplated, but. as a
matter Of fact. only two have been
actually ordered to date. The first one
is TO be owned by the syndicate headed
by Henry Walters OF Baltimore, who was
formerly vice-commodore OF the New
York Yacht Club. The other members OF
the syndicate are former Commodores
Arthur Curtiss James. Frederick q.
Bourne and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vice
Commodore George F. Baker. jr., and
Rear Commodore J. p. Morgan. The
yacht is TO be managed and sailed by
Robert w. Emmons, I'd. OF Boston, a
member OF the New York Yacht Club,
and one OF the cleverest amateur shippers
on the Atlantic coast.
The keel OF this new yacht is TO be laid
in few weeks at the Herreshoff yard. at
Bristol. r. !. The Pynchon sloop will be
started later. Taking the present "ffties"
as q basis for measurement, under the
present rule, and enlarging them 70 70 feet
water line, an expert has figured that the
overall length OF both the challenger and
defender should be 10s feet; their beam, p
feet; draft, 1875 feet; displacement, about
s.7OO cubic feet and sail area, approx
mately, 1000 square feet.
Alexander Smith Cochran. of Ycnkers
who had the schooner Westward, built
BY Herreshoff under the British rule Of
measurement. is ready. It is said, to fur
nish the money TO build defender alone,
and so is John H. Hanan. who would
build a boat for his sons. Addison G..
and Wilmer Hanan. Addison q. Hanan
is the designer owner and skipper OF the
fast 3i-rater, Josephine. the champion OF
the J class on Long Island Sound this
summer.
Still another who is said 70 be willing
either TO build alone, or join syndicate
is Commodore August Heckscher, OF
the seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club.
whose son, Maurice Heckscher. is the
owner OF the ffty-footer Acushla. Com
modore J. Stuart Blackton, some say Is
forming a syndicate OF Atlantic Hacht
Club members with view TO building
Cup defender. c. Oliver Iselin, the sue
cessful manager OF the Reliance, Vigil
liant, Columbia and Defender, has also
been talked of as a possible member OF
syndicate TO build boat. IT is quite
hkely that he will bc the manager OF one
Of the sloops. even IL he does not become
Interested in the building Of one.
Among the many reports OF syndlcates
there comes one from Boston to the Ell
feet that the Eastern Yacht Club Is form
ing one to be headed by its commodore
Robert Treat Paine, I'd. who owns ana
sails the fast sloop Shimna. George
Owen. who designed some OF the lasIes'
sloops In the 2 and q classes, has Deeh
mentioned as the designer OF the yacht
for this syndicate.
1T is quite likely" said menOer Vi
the New York Yacht Club last night
that William Gardner. Henry IieIo"
and Theodore Wells will be among the
designers chosen by some Of the syndl-
Gates that are going 20 build Gardner IL
is understood has two designs of seventy
tve-foot yachts completed.
Racing yachtsmen agree with HERES
hon that the limit OF speed has been
nearly II not quite. reached, and every
one realizes that the next series OF races
Is going 10 be the closest struggle ever
seen for the cup for several reasons. one
being that the yachts are to be smaller
and built under a different rule OF meas
urement from their predecessors. The
Tact that both the challenger and the de-
lender are 10 be handled by amateurs
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