The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-19
THIRD BOAT RACE
| FOR TOMORROW
Captain Burton Of Shamrock
Has Been Relieved and New
Skipper Will Com
mand.
ALMOST MUTINY ABoARI
Even Landaubbers Realize That b
ton Was Out -Generalled by
Captain Of the
Resoiute.
ALMOST MUTINY ABoARI
by Henry L. Farrell, United Press
Staff Correspondent1

NEW YORK, July elS.-ShamrOck
iIV, the green cup hunter of Sir
| Thomas Upton, will have new hands
on her wheel in her third race tomor-
row with Resolute for Americas cup.
Captain William p Burton, whose
! handling Of the challenger in the first
| two heats of the race was subjected
! to open criticism, has been relieved.
His successor, not yet selected, will
be either Charles Nicholson, design
Ter of the slcop, Captain Alfred Diaper.
who sailed the 23-meter Shamrock in
! the trial races, or Colonel Duncan
F. D. Neil, Lipton's manager.
The new skipper may not be known
until the challenger sails tomorrow
! for the starting line at the Ambrose
light ship.
Upton is said to favor Nicholson
/ because of his familiarity with the
! sloop.
Even the ''landlubbers" among the
thousands who witnessed the first
|! two heats Of the race knew that Bur
ifaA p.ss on: seue, lied and s3Ht. iised
BY Charles Francis Adams, skipper OF
i Res61ute
II is understood that some of LIP
| toms friends sought to have the
hands on the challenger's wheel
! changed after the first race, when
! the defender lost only through an ac-
| cident
~ Burton lost good half mile early
/! in the first race when he made a
misjudgment of the wind and tackled
! in shore, and in the second race he
| went so far to the leeward of the
/ Resofute that the spectators thought
he was lost and off his course.
He also had the greatest Of diff
Guilty in getting around the marks
! Saturday, while Adams sent Resolute
around rather easily.
| However, his errors of Judgment
might have been forgiven, it is under
stood, if he had been able to keep
peace among his crew. but open dis
| sension and feeling akin to "mutiny"
against some OF his methods caused
the change to be made.
The removal of Burton means that
| his wife, who was timekeeper, also
| will not be aboard the challenger in
1 her next race.
/ Her presence on the challenger is
! said to have been one of the s5auses
of the disagreement between the
skipper and his crew, and it Is Known
that Sir Thomas Upton was opposed
to her sailing as a member of the
crew.
Technically, Burton was considf red
as too conservative pilot to COM
pete against the American.
No Race Saturday.
SANDY HOOK, N. j., July 19.-Ex-
piration of the sailing time limited
saved the British challenger Sham
rock w from apparent defeat at the
hands of the cup defender. Resolute.
in the second meet Saturday of the
1920 regatta for the Americas cup.
The trim defender, skillfully hand
led nv Captain Charles F. Adams, II.
had nut more than half hours sail
ing between her and the challenger
and US breezing horne under main
sail club topsaii and balloon jip4
when the race was officially declared
off at 7:25 o'clock.
Yachting Circles Surprised.
LONDON, July 49, Yachting
circles were astounded here today by
the news from America that Captain
William p Burton, who sailed Sham
rock " in the first two heats OF the
America cup races, had been relieved.
Burton IS raIeO as tne peer VI e1d
British yacht shippers and his
friends were slow to believe that Sir
Thomas Upton would replace him at
the helm of the challenger.
Burton Still There.
NEW NYORK, July 19.-Sir Thomas
Upton, challenger for Americas
yachting cup, today announced that
Captain VIM. P. Burton, who sailed
the Shamrock " in the first two days
Of racing with the Resoiute would be
cat the Wheel of the Shamrock in to-
morrow's race
This statement was issued following
reports that because of blunders made
by the challenger's skipper in the pre-
vious races, he would be replaced
Lfpton's announcement was taken
to indicate that Captain Burton would
be allowed to continue on the chal-
lenged during the remaining races,
but that some one else would be in
actual charge of the sailing.