Arizona republican., 1914-06-29
Three Swift-Winged Yachts Will Compete Next Week Off Newport for Suprem- acy of American Seaman ship and Shipcraft.
 ALL BOATS MANNED
 BY NORSEMEN. Very Few Yankee Seamen in Contests Against Sir Thomas Lipton's Flyer, Yet Every Man on Yachts Is a Veteran.
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 NEW YORK, June 2S.-With the varlOus Weaknesses which developed in the tuning-up races corrected, the trio of cup defence yachts are about to enter upon the second stage of the Americas cup preliminaries. Begin ming next week off Newport will be held the first official tests of the Res olGte, Vanite and Defiance and the cup committee will base its final selection 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 aspir- ants, 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 secure valu- able data as result of the dual con- tests. The early races both on Long Island and off Sandy Hook clearly in dicated that of the trio the Resolute was the only yacht really ready for the June races. Once the remodelling of spars and sails is completed it is pre- dicted that the future contests will be far closer and the victories more even ly divided.
 While the structural points of the three sloops will be brought out to the nest advantage in all these races, the work of the crews will be a very i'm portant factor. The preliminary con tests have been just as much of q r1i mi ha a workouts of the baseball players. Once the crews are thoroughly organized and drilled the speed in handling sail and tackle and response to commands will mean thewinning or losin gor faces. It 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 Vanitie, 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 cup yachts since the Vinal Haven crew on the Defender assisted in de- feating the Valkyrie III.
 Captain ChriStiansen. Resolute, brought nearly a score of men from his native town of Bergen, Norway for up near the land of the midnight sun. while Captain Howell of the Defiance and Captain Dennis of the Vanitie al- so recruited their crews with Scandi- navians. although all hands give South Brooklyn as their hailing port. They l are a lively set of tars, these yellow l haired, red checked sons of the Nor wegian fjords with muscles like iron and nerves of steel, for it takes cool head to occupy the masthead position on a, cup defender, especially in a smart breeze and some sea, with club topsails adrift, and spinnaker halyards caught in the standing rigging. Every man on the three boats Is q Veteran. and with few exceptions have worked year and some of them flVe wears under their respective skipper , ,Captain Howell of the Defiance took a humber of his men from the sloop ls- ,talena although some of them sailed with Commodore E. Walter Clark on the schooner Irolita, now the tender Ito the Defiance.