Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1914-06-28
NEW YORK NEWS
OF ATHLETES
AND ATHLETICS
The Crew Of the Three Aspiring
Yacht Defenders are PraCtiC-
ally All SWedeS and NorWeigi-
ans; Are Great Sailormen.
Organized Baseball Attendance
Is Distinctly Light This Sea-
son; Is Accredited to General
Business Conditions, Country.

NEW YORK, June 27.-With the
various weaknesses which developed
in the tuning-up races corrected, the
trio Of cup defense yachts are about
to enter upon the second stage Of the
Americas cup preliminaries. Begin
ming next week off Newport viii be
held the first official tests of the Res
dilute, Vanite and Defiance and the
cup committee viii base it's final Sc
lection of a defender upon the result
Of these and subsequent races
These initial point races, as they
are termed since the points scored will
count for or against the defense as
pirants, begin on July with a series
of round robin races in which each
yacht will race the two others in
turn and the committee expects to Sc
cure valuable data as a result of the
dual contests. The early races both
on Long Island and off Sandy Hook
clearly indicated that Of the trio the
Resolute was the only yacht really
ready for the June races Once the
remodelling of spars and sails is COM
pleted it is predicted that the future
contests win be far closer and the
victories more evenly divided
While the structural points Of the
three sloops will be brought out to
the best advantage in all these races.
the work Of the crews will be a very
important factor The preliminary
contests have been just as much of a
training for the tars as the spring
workouts Of the baseball players. Once
the crews are thoroughly organized
and drilled the speed i'm handling
sail and tackle and response to com
lmands will mean the winning or los.
ing of races. 1t is a peculiar fact in
connection with these cup yacht crews
that almost without exception they
are foreigners
The captains Of the three sloops
have invoked the aid Of Norway and
/ Sweden in defending the Americas
cup for Vanite, Defiance and Resolute
are all manned. forward of the mast,
by descendants Of the Norsemen. Years
ago, Americas cup defenders were
manned with Penobscot Bay tars,
mostly from Deer Island but very few
Yankee seamen have been seen on
the cupyachts since the Vinal Haven
crew on the Defender assisted in de-
fennid the Valkyrie ILL.,
Captain Christensen, Resolute
brought nearly a score of men from
his native town Of Bargain, Norway,
far up near the land of the midnight
sun, while Captain Howell OF the De-
fance and Captain Dennis Of the Van
title also recruited their crews with
Scandinavians, although all hands give
South Brooklyn as their hailing port
They are a lively set Of tars, these yell
low hard and checked sons Of the
the Norwegian fiords. with muscles
like iron and nerves of steel for n
takes a cool head to occupy the mast
head position on a cup defender, es-
pecially in a smart breeze and some
; sea with club topsails adrii9. and
spinmaker halyards caught in the
standing rigging
Every man on the three boats is "a
veteran anu Win lew tANFlhlnho nav .
worked a year and some Of them FIVE
years under their respective skipper.
Captain Howell Of the Defiance took a
, number Of his men from the sloop Is
talana although some Of them sailed
with Commodore +. Walter Clark on
, the schooner Irelita, now the tender
to the Defiance.
r Organized baseball and especially
the major leagues win not look back
on 1914 as a year of golden harvests.
q With midsummer rapidly approaching
I reports from an parts of the country
/ are to the effect that attendance fig
I ures are not up to the usual stano.
, ard. The reasons assigned for this
unusual state of gate receipts are ex-
tremely varied The advent Of the
. Federal League is not generally given
& as a contributing cause and it is
r. known that the new organization is