Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-04


Quick; quicker, you duffer! Get that
balloon jib started there! Port her
now! Easy, easy-so! Belay!"'
A 1.-THE, light body Of a boy shoots
cut to the. SPIRITS end. sttAnOther is
shining up the masthead Twenty
broad, backs bend in unison as they
tauten up the main sbeet-20 bending
like one. 0versg0esg the helm-the
boats away Il ~ = 49, T.
See, her heal, flying into the wind
q bone In her teeth and a song IN her
shrouds, as she cieaFes sea and air.
The defender knuckles down to, her
work, fine promise that she means to
keep that glorious old reminder OF
Yankee red blood and redder Drawn.
the Americas Cup, still safe on the.
shores OF, these United States, where
the real things in boats come froml
You know II was the sturdy yacht
America, which. first took the cup
away from British shores way hack
in 1851. says the. New York World.
Cup defender7 NV d.
How many OF those looking on re-
alize what she meansak Why, not one
in q thousand knows as thing about
the labor, the time, the skill or the
money spent to gain the extra sec
ondss of speed which may spell the diff
ference betweenf victory and defeat.
A years time goes spinning In her
wake; theslahor Of the canniest crafts,
men of Yankeeland Follows along; the
skill OF thas boating aharps Of all
America Joins in. -
And a Million Dollars! - ! =
It Costa Money. .e&+-,..
Yes, street that's what 1t costs to
make the race possible. Before the
first starting gun booms, these seven
figures of real money have been writ
ten down to profit and loss--profit IL
we win and keep the cup; loss If the
doughty Sir Thomas Upton with his
crackerjack Shamrock Nv. succeeds
at last in lifting 1t, as he has tried
thrice before. z.....
Three cup defenders have been
built to make one defender possible.
They have eatenaup from 100000 to
100000. The rest of the money has
gone for Sir Thonas's boat and the
bringing Of her here, and for the gen
erai expenses OF the whole thing. in
Guiding the money spent by those
who have nut to sea to see. We are
racing off Sandy Hook, you know, and
all New York who cares and can Is
there. 3 S.. i $50.
But not so fast! En- 81. .e,s
Let's go back and see. what HHlll
means-what It has cost, how 1T has
been done It was last year whsil the!
preliminaries began and now 1T is
fairly autumn weather again this
day OF: the race. And only little time
IS left in which to find out whether it
was worth all the bother and time
and money. !
The race Is practically d years
work. Some time before Sir Thomas
Upton sent his challenge TO the New
York Yacht Club, yachting sharps
knew it was in the afr and they ware
ready for it And who waste defend? p
"We viii tfy.f said a syndicate Of
flag officers OF the New York Yacht
Club. When the list was made public
1t was found to consist of J. p. Nor
gan, George F. Baker. Jr,. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Henry Walters, Frederick
@. Bourne and Arthur @ James.
4 "The more the mcrrieri" chirpeds
another syndicate, called the Fri,
City" being from Boston, Philadelphia
and New York. and made up of George
M. Pynchon. ]. B. Ford and E, Trew-I
bridge Hall of New York; F.EGs Flet-i
cher, E. 81. Wehster. Elliot Wads.4
worth, Charles Hayden. f. L. Peabody.
]. C. Cobb. Glover Ames and Henry
Taggart of Boston; E. w. Clark of
Philadelphia; with George D. Bar
ron of Rye, N. z, and George Lauder,
Jr., of Greenwich, Conn. .ti,&s
me. tool piped another voice, or
in words to that effect, and 10! one
single individual had esayed the build
ing of a third defender all by his lone
He was Alexander Smith
Cochran, the young carpet million
aire. nj. .-@,.s. s.st44& sd
. Now there are many rigid formal.
ties co-incident with building a cup
dofnndor Inst winning the rapa isn't