Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-19
BURTON TO HAVE
ANOTHER CHANCE
ON SHAMROCK N
Sir Thomas Upton Decides
Not to Change Skipper
of Racing Yacht.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SANDY Hook, N. j., July 1S.-Capt.
William P. Burton will be given
another chance at the wheel of Sham.
rock Nv. Capt. Burton could not be
seen. - =
SIT Thomas showed today q cable
message ne had received from King
Alfonso of Spain, which read:
Go on. - = ~. >,'.'. Z
Sir Thomas supplied King Alfonso
with the skipper and crew of the
kings yacht, the Espana. .4 ~
Sir Thomas Upton would not say
this afternoon what DEVELOPMENTS
might be expected after tomorrow's
race with the American defender Res
o1ute for the Americas cup, no.
would he deny that he and his ad-
visers son the steam yacht Victoria
had virtually decided to remove Capt
Eurton from the tiller of the cup
challenger after Saturdays contest, in
which Capt. Burton's handling of the
Upton craft had been severely criti-
cised.
Sir Thomas was somewhat per-
turbed when he read in the new
rapers of plans for supplanting Capt.
Burton. Capt Burton will be at the
wheel tomorrow. I understand" said
Sir Thomas this afternoon. After
that I cannot say. and. of course, I
will not talk about it,
1t was the general belief aboard the
Victoria today that Capt. Burton had
asked for another chance to sail the
and that it had been
granted him.
Upton Has Confidence.
Sir Thomas Upton. his friends and
advisers on cup matters on the steam
yacht Victoria today have all conf
dence in the ability of the cup chal-
leiger to defeat the Resolute.
Sir Thomas friends say that with a
stout wind Shamrock should show her
heels to Resolute, which may have
trouble with her top hamper and rig
ging in heavy weather, and that in
shows to best advantage. the Reso-
lutte cannot compete the course with
in the time limit of six hours.
The mainsail of the Resolute has
been re-cut at the sailmaker's at City
Island, and win be bent on this after
signs of stretching after the wetting
in last Thursdays rain squall The
staysail of Shamrock has also been re-
cut.
The race tomorrow will be over a
thirty-mile triangular course, ten miles
to a leg. Saturdays triangular con-
test having been called off because the
sloops could not finish, the rules pro-
vide that the race should be re-saiIed
on the next succeeding race day.
disappointment Not Concealed.
That things were not going well in
the handling of the Shamrock in the
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either on board Sir Thomas Lipton's
steam yacht Victoria, where Sir
Thomas associates. and friends watch
the races, or on the tender Killarney.
where officers and crew of the chal-
lenger are housed.
Open admiration for the wav
F. Adams has handled the
wheel on the Resolute has been eY-
pressed on Sir Thomas steam Yacht
and at the same time 1t was observed
that there. was also concurrence of
the opinion expressed in newspapers
that the Shamrock was not being sail
ed in a fashion to show her real
ability; that in the starts of the
racers she has been completely out
and that the Upton craft
she might.
The climax in the situation, in which
even the crews engaged in scuttie h,tt
criticism nightly after the races, came
Saturday, when the Shamrock lost
ground because of certain Changes in
hsadsails during the first leg to wind
ward. Here again Skipper Adams was
on the skill with which
he hunted out the vagrant breezes
and kept the Resolute moving, while
the Shamrock was continually in
trouble f1oundering helpless in oiIy
soft spots. where there was no wind,
and getting SO 'becalmed. that She fell
far behind the defender.
Believes in Craft.
Sir Thomas Upton believes that the
Shamrock w is a wonderfully fine
craft and that with good wheel work
and a whole sail breeze can defeat
the American defender.
The incident that capped the cimax
for Capt. Burton came. just as the
sloops rounded on the tack that sent
the Resolute skimming around the
marker to bear away toward the
second buoy with a lead that made
victory certain had she, been able
to finish in the time limit. The Sham
rock. though outguessed at the start
and outsailed through the first long
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