The New York herald., 1921-09-16

MAYFL0WER BARRED
FROM HALIFAX RACE
Roston Schooner Protested as
Not Bona Eide Fishing
Vessel.
"FRAMEUP" is CHARGED
Sailing Stunts Of Racing Craft
on Banks Discouraged
Gloucester Men.
"FRAMEUPn Is CHARGED

BOSTON Sept. 15.-Charles d. Brown,
chairman of the American international
FirSmen's committee. received tele-
gram tonight from the trustees Of the
Halifax Herald trophy. Won last year
by the Gloucester schooner Esperanto,
rejecting the Boston fishing schooner
Mayflower IS the American entry In the
International fishing schooner races to
be sailed eff Halifax.
The trustees Of the trophy did not
make public their reasons for this ac-
ton. but it is assumed here that it is
due 70 their frequently expressed be-
lief that the MayGower is not genuine
fishing craft, that she was built only
to defend the cup and that she has not
regularly engaged in fishing having
made only such fishing trips as would
qualifY her technically under the regula-
ticns Tor tie races. The telegram sent
from ltsdfax TO Mr. Brown was in an
swer 4, a message notifying the Cana
dlans that the Mayflower had been
choseil to represent the United States.
The telegram follows.
Answering your telegram of the 14th.
: am authorized to inform you that the
trustees OF the North Atlantic Fisher
mems International trophy, who met to-
day, cannot accept the Mayflower as
an entrant for the international races
Oft Halifax in October and 1t will be
necessary for you to find some other
defender or let the race go by default.
T, Is important to know promptly If
you will have defender here.
II. r. SILVER. Chairman Committee"
Boston fishermen declared to-day that
they were not surprised at the action
OF tho Halifax committee. and Michael
:. Connolly, commercial wharf rigger
here and principal owner of the May
flower, declared that tho boat had been
barred from the races by "frameup'
on the part of Gloucester fishermen.
who recognize that the Mayfower is
the fastest schooner in the Atlantic and
want 70 keer' tho Gun in Gloucester.
Gloucester has been trying to put
this frameup over ever since the May
flower was built" said Mr.. Connolly.
Gloucester IS afraid of the Mayflower
because Gloucester knows she is fast.
Put .f they persist in barring the May
flower we'll snow them. / am sure
there will be- race between the May
flower and the fastest Canadian boat.
AS for the cup which the Esperanto
brought to Gloucester last year, they
can use II 10 drink hooch out of for
oil we care"
The protest of the Gloucester fisher
men, in which they have been Joined
also by thu fishermen of Nova Scotia,
has bsen that the Mayflower is not
eligible for the races, because she failed
TO leave her last port of call on her
way to the fishing banks by the date
fixed in the regulations governing en-
,ries. Further 1t was protested that she
was built more on the lines OF q yacht
than fishing vessel, and could not
carry the quantity OF fish a ship Of her
sizn ehotaA b. able to carry.
Tie question whether the Mayflower.
with the speed and lines of a yacht,
would be accepted as the American en-
try has been discussed up ard down
the coast Tor months. Fishermen from
the Banks where she has piled the
fisheries have come back with word of
sailing stunts that made the old salts
Of the fleet withhold entry of their
vessels, conceding that the Mayflower
was the fastest ship OF the lot