The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-01
WEEKLY SPORT REVIEW
Change In Worlds Series Suggested
 Preliminary Details For Yacht Race

the United States and one or two oth- CTS may be built if those interested can find satisfactory yacht builders to undertake the work.
 In England the actual construction of Shamrock w., Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging yacht, was started on No vember 3, and the 75-footer is ex- pected to take the water early in April. Although five months will elapse before the tuning-up process is started, English yachting circles are already busiIy engaged in discussing the plans for the test races and the selection of the crew and officers for Shamrock ". A prominent yachting authority, in discussing these prelimi- naries, says:
 Tn the trial races between Sir Thomas Liptons cutters, the new challenger Shamrock W. and the old Shamrock 23-metres, built in 1908, w. F. Burton will have sole charge of both the yachts, and will sail the challenger, assisted by his sailing mas ter, Albert Turner. The 23-metre will be steered by Captain Gould, a skip per who has a high reputation in rac- ing circles. That the professional shippers whose names are so familiar to yachting people are not connected with the matches for the Americas cup for 1914 will appear extraordi- nary to many, and it is undoubtedly circumference of much interest and will form topic of conversation amongst yachtsmen for many months to come"
 However, good men as they are, Sir Thomas Iipton has failed before with them in command of his yachts, and he can but try again with new hands in charge. Captain Gould is not a young man, but he is a skilled racing man, and, while w. P. Burton and Albert Turner are of course, typi- cal of the latest school of seannanship in modern racing cutters using all the science and forethought that is re- quired in handling the beautiful talI- spared races of the day, it may per haps be said that Captain Gould is a skipper of an older sch ool ''
 The one point raised at present ap- pears to be regret that a, younger pilot of the modern yachting school was not appointed to send the trial yacht against Shamrock ". Criticism is voiced by y-another yachting enthusiast, as follows:
 I've know Captain Gould's record is good one. We very much doubt however, if he himself expects to be able to go straight into his new com mand with a new crew and get as much out of her as Captain Sycam ore The latter had carefully tuned, Sham rock up and had had the best oppor7 tunity of doing so, opposed as he was day after day to a vessel to which he could not afford to give anything away, and which was also handled by a skipper, as keen and experienced in the class as himself. It will take some little time to find out the form of the boat, with which her former skipper is. already. acquainted, and by that time the short period available for preliminary trials may have nearly or quite elapsed and the trials will have been lacking in conc1usiveness. The new skipper and all concerned un- doubtedly will do their utmost to bring the old boat up to the highest pitch possible. Nevertheless, there will be throughout an element of doubt as to whether even those most intimately associated with the trials will be able to gauge the merits of the new boat as "oncl'. .siVely as if the old yacht were sailed under Captain Sycamore's command.