The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-08
Are No Strings
to Challenge for
America S Gun

From New York comes the news
THAI the challenge Of the Royal Ills
ter Yacht club for a race for the
Americas cup 60 be sailed next year
N was delivered to Secretary George A.
Cormack AT the New York Yacht club
yesterday morning Secretary Cor
mack at once cahled 10 Secretary
Patterson Of the Royal Ulster Yacht
club, that the document had been re-
ceived and would he submitted TO the
mem bers of The club in due course.
Though nothing definite about the
size Of the challenger or the cond}-
tons has been announced, 1t is felt
certain by the members of the club
that the Royal Ulster Yacht club, the
challenging organization for Sir
Thomas Upton, has not put Itself
again in a position To have the chaI-
lenge declined through asking fer inn
possible conditions, In this opinion
, Is the statement OF Sir Thomas him
self that II is no conditional challenge.
When the last challenge was received
Il was turned down because a race
was asked for with "a single masted
vessel of the IS foot class. and the
present measurement rules Of the club
were TO apply TO the cup yachts The
club decided that IL eossla ssts accept
the Americas cup should he raced for
by yachts Of the first class only and
that cup yachts should not he ham
psred by any restrictions. as the cup
stood for speed on a given water line
length only. Had Sir Thomas wished
to bring over small yacht, he could
have done SO. bat the club could have
put the Reliance against the chal-
lenger and the two would have raced
all tS
would have been to the disadvantage
of the smaller yacht. but 1t would
have been strictly In accordance with
the terms of the deed of gift. which
states that. failing TO- agree mutually
on conditions, number of races. etc,
the yachts should sail over courses
forty miles in length, the series to be
two out of three and tho yachts to
race without any time allowance.
knowing that and being thoroughly
familiar with the terms of the deed
of gift, ii Is taken for granted that the
challenger yacht will be built up to
the limit, 90 feet on the water line.
This will bring back into the sport
the big spectacular yachts with can
vas towering way zap In the sky. The
Reliance, for instance, is Ss.5 feet on
the water line, 1853 feet over alt, draws
1871 feet and spreads more than To-
VUO square Ieet OF EdusaS+ II tdhSS
n crew of more than sixty men to
handle one of these yachts, and the
main boom measures about l5s feet.
IT was thought that as Charles
Nicholson is now building big
schooner for Cecil Whitaker. Sir
Thomas would profit by his expert
ence in that boat and allow him to
build a schooner as challenger. This
would give the challenging yacht the
advantage of having another yacht of
about the same size as n trial boat,
against which 1t would be sailed in
the tuning up trials. This. however.
is not the case The challenger will
be a single-masted vessel. This makes
the Reliance eligible as a defender.
Yachtsmen generally think that
while the Reliance Ia eligible as a de-
/. fender the club will organize another
syndicate and build n new yacht and
that the Reliance will be used as
trial boat Just who will organize
this syndicate will not be determined
until later, but Just now former Com
modore Cornelius Vanderbilt is being
talked of as managing owner, Mr..
Vanderbilt has been an active racing
yachtsman for several years. and has
been very successful in winning races.
Others who have been mentioned as
possible managers for the new de-
fender are Addison G. Hanan. Harry
L, Maxwell G. NJ. Pynchon, Robert
w. Emmons, Cd, and Charles Francis
Adams, Cd. These are a few of the
crack amateurs and there are many
more who could run cup defender.
G. Oliver Iselin and w. Butler Dun
can, Jr., who were prominent for
many years, have announced that they
will not take part in international
racing.
The question Of a skipper will be a
serious one. Captain Charles Barr Is
dead, He was tn class BY himself.
but ttArG are several good skippers,