New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-12
Action Taken After Ex-
change of Many Mes
sages with Upton.
CUP CANDIDATES TO
HAVE A VACATION
Permission to Tow Shamrock
Denied to Challenger, In
Spite of War.

There will be no race for the Amer
ica's Cup this year, nor Will tnere %
snv more races between the yachts
Pesolute and Vanitie for the purpose
If selecting a defender for that trophy.
This announcement was made at the
New York Yacht Club yesterday oy
George A. Cormack, Its secretary, after
the exchange Of six cabled messages
between the Yoyal Ulster Yacht CluO,
the New York Yacht Club and Sir
Thomas Upton.
ON August s. the day that war was
declared between England and Ger
many. the New York Yacht Cup
through it's secretary, Mr.. Cormack'
sent A cable message to II. i. Garrett
secretary Of the Royal Ulster facnt
Club. at Belfast, Ireland, expressing its
re.ret that England was at war ana
asking the challenging clubs wishes As
20 the matches for the Americas Cup
An acknowledgment OF the reeeipl
of that message WAS received mere .he
following day, and on August - aiteI
consulting Sir Thomas Upton tne
Royal Ulster Yacht Club requested .ne
New York Yacht Club by cable to post
none the race for one month and n
Tar was still in progress at that date
II asked that the postponement be ex-
tended. so that the races might De
sailed in 1915, under the same con-
ditions and between the existing ehal-
longer and defenders under dates 20 be
mutually agreed upon between the TWO
clubs.
On August s. the same day that the
Roval Ulster Yacht Club sent It's nrst
renlv. Mr.. Cormack received from Dir
Thomas Upton the following message
nv cable: an view Of serious war con-
ditions. il I can communicate with Erin'
will YOUR committee kindly allow Erin
tow Shamrock remaining distance
Please wire Immediately
The Shamrock was then eight days
out from the Azores, and less than 3OO
miles from New York.
To this Mr.. Cormack promptly re-
piled on the same date as follows;
1.-THE committee representa-. . the New
York Yacht Club is At present kcat-
tered and meeting impossible. IL Mere,
however, they do not possess authority
to change conditions OF deed OF grit;
We are awaiting reply from Royal
Ulster Yacht Club TO our cable al
dressed to them yesterday"
The last message OF the New YORK
Yacht Club, sent yesterday to Mr.. Car
rett. Of the ROYAL Ulster Yacht Club,
read as follows:
eve regret that in view the grave
conditions due to the war we do not
think il proper to race In October. we
are willing to postpone the series until
I 1915, subject TO future negotiations as
to date. We request cable reply as
soon as possible"
! The revised challenge Of the Royal
/ ITis4ar Yacht Cirh on behalf If Sir
| Thomas Upton. for the series of races
/ lust postponed was sent in April, 1918.
/ II was accepted by the New York Yacht
/ Club on August % Of that year. The
( Shamrock w, which arrived in
Bermuda on Monday, was built for Sir
; Thomas Upton as the challenger for
the Americas Cup, and the sloops Reso-
Lutte, Vanitie and Defiance we're built
here as candidates for the honor or
defending that trophy. TIL Resolute
and Venitie have sailed twenty-one
trial races since June 2 of this year.
The Defiance retired from the compe-
tition after sailing seventeen races.
No one can predict when the next
race for the Americas Cup will be
sailed. but yachtsmen believe that the
racing of the Resolute and Vsnitie will
be continued next summer if the oppor-
tunity offers. and ore of the two Sc
lected to defend the Cup when the time
/ comes.
Including a stop made at the Azores.
il took the Shamrock Nv seventeen and
one-haf days to cross the western
Ocean from Portsmouth to Bermuda.
Whether she will remain at Bermuda
or come on TO New York 10 lie up only
her owners can decide.