Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-06-04

/ "Out on the bowsprit end, you!
/ Quick; quicker, you duffer! Get that
balloon jib started there! Port hel
howl Easy. easy-sso! Belay!"
A 1.-THE, light body Of a boy shoots
ollt to the SPIRITS end. Another is
shining up the masthead. Twenty
broad backs bend in unison as they
tauten up the main sheet-20 bending
like one. Over goes the helm-the
boats away!
See her heel, flying into the wind
a bone in her teeth and song in her
shrouds, as she cleayes sea and air.
The defender knuekles down to har
work, fine promise that she means TO
keep that glorious old reminder of
Yankee red blood and redder Drawn,
the Americas Cup, still safe on the
shores OF these United States, where
the real things in boats come from!
You know 1t was the sturdy yacht
America, which first took the cup
away from British shores way back
In 1851. says the New York World.
Cup defender? -. -. : ..-
How many of those looking on re-
alize what she means? Why, not one
In a thousand knows thing about
the labor, the time, the skill, or the
money spent to gain the extra sec
onds Of speed which may spell the diff
ference between victory and defeat.
A years time gees spinning in her
wake; the labor Of the canniest crafts.
men Of Yankeeland follows along; the
skill OF The boating sharps of all
America joins In. e
And a Million Dollars!
1t Costs Money. . =.
Yes, street that's what IL costs to
make the race possible. Before the
first starting gun booms. these seven
figures Of real money have been writ
ten down to profit and loss-profit If
We win and keep the cup; loss il tho
doughty Sir Thomas Upton with his
crackerjack Shamrock ". succeeds
at last in lifting IT. as he has tried
thrice before.
Three cup defenders have been
built to make one defender possible
They have eaten up from 100000 to
100000. The rest OF the money has
gone for Sir Thomas's boat and the
bringing OF her here, and for the gen
eral expenses Of the whole thing. in
Guiding the money spent by those
who have put to sea TO see. We are
racing off Sandy Hook, you know, and
all New York who cares and can is
there. r. l.. -
But not so fast! !, ~ =. r.
Let's 60 back and see what 1t all
means what II has cost. how it has
been done. It was last year when the
preiiMinaries began and now it is
fairly autumn weather again-this
day of the race. And only a little time
is left in which to find out whether it
was worth all the bother and time
and money. -
The race is practically a years
work. Some time before Sir Thomas
Upton sent his challenge to the New
York Yacht Club, yachting sharus
knew it was In the air and they wore
ready for 1t. And who was to defend?
I'VE will try" said a. syndicate of
flag officers of the New York Yacht
Club. When the list was made public
1t was found to consist of ]. P. Nor
gan, George r. Baker. Jr., Cornelius,
Vanderbilt. Henry Walters, Frederick
G. Bourne and Arthur g. James. :.
The more the mcrrier!P{ ehirped
another syndicate. called the "Tri.
City" being from BOSTON, Philadelphia
and New York, and made up OF George
M. Pynchon. j. B. Ford and e. Trow-
bridge Hall of New York: F. C. F1et-
cher, e. S. Webster. Elliot Wads-
worth. Charles Hayden. f. e. Peabody,
J. G. Cobb. Glover Ames and Henry
Taggart OF Boston; E. w. Clark of
Philadelphia; with George d. Bar
ron of Rye, N. Y, and George Lauder,
Jr,, of Greenwich, Conn.
Me, tool" piped another voice, or
In words to that effect, and 10! one
single individual had essyed the build
ing OF third defender all by his lone.
someness. He was Alexander Smith
Cochran, the young carpet million.
aire. So
Now there are many rigid formali.
ties co-incident with building a cup
defender Inst winning fhp raca isn't