Bisbee daily review., 1914-04-29
THE REVIEWS LIVE WIRE SPORTING SC0N 1.-THE LATEST IN ALI ATHLETICS
COST OF DEFENDING
 kMERICA'S CUP IS
 HARD ON yACHTSMEN

hfsfhs V'H tHtSta SBst5su Some idea of the amount Of money ! involved in the defense of the Amer ! ica's cup in the coming international
 yacht regatta off Sandy Hook in Sep 1 tember may be gained from the asssr- ! ton recently made by an authority
 who stated that twenty-two American | yachtsmen will spend more than half
 million dollars ais summer in de- ! fending the trophy. In addition to 1 the expense of preparing for the trial
 races it win cost Sl0.O00 or Sl5,000
 more to bring the defender through
 the cup races.
 Alexander smith Cochran of New York will be under the heaviest out | lay since as sole owner 1t will require | close to $200,000 to pay for the build I ing, fitting out and sailing the Canitie. | now rapidly nearing completion at | Neponset. Six present and past flag ' officers of the New York Yacht club | have given an unlimited order to tho | designer, builder and manager of tho ! Resolute. the Bristol production. and will probably be called upon to contri-
 bute between $35 900 and siO.0OO each | by the time the season Is finished ! Rear Commodore J. r. Morgan. former ! Commodore Frederick C. Bourne, ! Cornelius Vanderbilt, Arthur Curtis | James, and former Vice Commodore Henry Walters. It is estimated that 1 S200. 900 will be required Co build out. g. .u.. | June. July and August. Of the fifteen | yachtsmen who combined Co build the | Defiance at Bath at an estimated ex- pense Of $10O.O0O eight are from Bos- ton. six from New York and one from 1 Philadelphia. The syndicate Is com | posed of F. C. Peabody, J. C. Cobb. Ol. | iyer Ames, and Henry TaRgart Of Bos.
 ton; George M. Pynchon, George Lau-
 der. George D. Barron. James E. Ford,
 E. Trowbridge Hall. and Thomas C.
 Dunham of New York, and E. Walter
 Clark of Philadelphia
 The exact sums paid to the Heres ] shon Company for the las. five cup yachts including the Constitution. have never been revealed but other | |Na'''a' b'AA'Nf AAldA NlltN kllUM lntIn approximately From such data it Is estimated that the contract for the Resolute with two masts two or three sets of sails, miner spars, and rig ging complete called for close to S150,00O. It is thought that S75OO0 will be necessary for her upkeep dur.
 ing the preliminary season from May
 l to August 22 The contract price for
 the Nanitie is placed at about $lOO GOO
 and 1t Is expected that with her pro
 fessional crew and tender, Mir. Coch.
 ran will have spent another $1OO, 900
 by the time that the committee on challenge of the New York Yacht Club
 renders its decision as to which yacht shall be intrusted the defense of the silver tankard
 As the Defiance is of composite
 build with steel frames and a double
 wooded skin, it Is estimated that her building cost will be considerably less than either of the two bronze yachts, probably in the neighborhood of $40. 900 just before the launching. Her masts and spars will cost $l0,OO0, her sails S10,0O0, blocks S3.O0O and rigging Sl,O00 with $6.000 more for incident als, or total cost of $7O,0O0. As the yachts of several of the syndicate are to be used as tenders, the cost of run. ming the Defiance for the three months Is placed at $3O,0OO. or $l00O0O for the goason.
 With challenger also Of composite construction it is expected that the fourth venture of Sir Thomas Lipton will be far less expensive than his thr'e previous cup hunts. probably under $150,000. compared with third of H million spent on each fthe other challengers.
 For the first time since the Vigilant yanquished the Valkyrie in 1893 in 1893, the cup defense yachts will have fair market value after the 1914 re- Satta Is decided They are not ex pected to loteriorate more than forty per cent compared with loss of nine weight per cent, which the owners of the Reliance. the last cup defender, were forced to bear her building cost being nearly SSOO,OOO and her scrap price SG,0o0. Thus the value and availability of this years cup yachts for future work Is regarded as one of the most encouraging features of the new rule under which they have been built.