The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-21
MORE RACES NEEDED
TO CHOOSE DEFENDER
Three Additional Trials May
BE Scheduled for Second
Week in August.
HOPE FOR BETTER WINDS
Results Of Newport Contests
Regarded by Committee
rs lncOnclusivc.

1t is probable that several races vii
he arranged for the cup defenders IN add
zion to those still scheduled to be sailed
The series sailed of Newport proved
most unsatisfactory and has shown the
cup COMMITTEES little or no,hing. ot the
ten races scheduled only four were sailed
to finish.
The Shamrock " Is now on her way
across the ocean and 30 far none Of TN.
defenders has raced IN q strong wind or
rough SEA and u Is under such conditions
that the cup committee wishes to see The
two yachts tried. ono member OF the
committee admits that the coinmittea
has little to work on and that all n knows
Is that perhaps the Resolute and the Van
tic are venly matched, with the chances
fivoring the former. and that under GER
tain conditions the Defiance too 10
fast boat.
The committee IL considering the ed-
Visibility OF ordering another series Of
races TO be- sailed off Newport on Angus
2, 10 and II. and perhaps on succeeding
days IL the first three are not conclusive.
As At pressn; arranged the yachts will
meet next in the races OF the cruise
Of the New York Yacht club whtrn
will begin on July 81. The squadron runs
ore rarely NOR" than running or reaching
races. once In awhile the wind may
come ahead. but not often. The cruis"
ends with the Astor and kingss Gun
races. which are over regular courses
and the Kings cup. the last on IL" cruise
| is scheduled for August on Newport
| After the cruise Is ended II is the plan
4 20 let the yachts have ono week to over
haul and then begin tho mai trial.
on August ~. II the additional race
\ are arranged the final trials will p.ph.
! ably he postponed until August 10 ~
! 20 The managers and owners Of the
| threc yachts have been in consultation
with the cup committee Of these extra
\ races. The committee wishes To select
the fastest yacht to defend the cup and
also wishes to give each yacf every op-
! portunity TO show what II can do.
| The ResOlute has gone to Bristol for an
Ioverhaul!ng and the Nanitie and Defiance
were towed to city Island after tho race
on saturday. They arrived there ycster-
day morning and the work of grooming
| them for the next races will begin to-day.
! No radical changes are to be made on
either. Some think thai n tho neianc"
could put on A double head rig she would
do better but there IL not time to make
the change, ~ a new mast step would
have TO lie built and She would need A
bowsprit and another boom and gan II
Wouln mean beginning All over hghlf, o.
NJ. Pynchon In talking Of the Yacht yes-
terday said THE Defiance just misses
being a very fast yacht Her form i .
very good one ard she goes through the
water much more easily than the Resolut,
or Vanitie. think that George owen IL
To he commended for his work. lie has
had little experience with large boats and
the errors he made in the Defiance, par
ti"ularly in tho ARRANGEMENT pf veiAts
were costly. As originally planned she
would have beer the largest Of the trio
ard would have heen close to tho sham.
rock In size. but her rig was too lofty
j think, though, that n the Donance acre
| rigged "a the class lImtauors and hc'
sail plan remodelled she would do we'll
That will come In class racing another
season. We shall Put the yacht In az nn-
CONDITION as possible and race all through
the season doing our best"
| Designer Nat Herreshoff is puttir; hts
entire mind on thc Resolutc according 10
his friends. lie Is taking inorc interest
IN that yacht than In any othar that h.
has built and he Is studying hard 10 save
every second possible in spite of he fns
showing the Resolute has made IN light
weather and at drifting.