The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-14

 BETWEEN BOATS
 READY FOR RACE
Series of Four Wins Out of Seven Will Decide Amer-
 ica's Cup Winner
BY HENRY McLEMORE United Press Staff Corrcspondcnt

Newport, R. l., Sept 14.-(UP) Two greyhound racing sloops-- Britain's royal blue Endeavour and the sleek White Rainbow, tlic American defender-rocked gently on leash to-day, trimmed to the second for the wild gallop over tumbled seas off Brenton's Reef tomorrow in the first race of the America's cup series
 This port is all worked up. 1t is the fifteenth challenge for the worlds most prized seagoing sill. verware-a turkey-necked goblet that was brought over from Eng land in 1851 by the schooner Amer. ica and has rested ever since on a shelf at the New York Yacht club
 Thomas Octave Murdock Sop- with, pipe-smoking Englishman who used to race airplanes, has designs on the big silver beaker. Thousands of additional citizens in this quiet cove, a long line of white cutters now anchored off the Connecticut coast and a cordon of gray patrol boats attest to his seriousness.
 Moving In
 The big flotilla of spectator boats has not put in yet, but small- CT craft were moving into the har- bor to-day. Yesterday the two sloops-Endeavour under two from Bristol yards. and Rainbow white and glistening under her own sail arrived.
 Both have been overhauled. They will weigh early tomorrow for the starting point, about nine miles southeast of Brentons Reef light ship.
 The races will be best four out of seven over alternating 3O-mi!o courses. The first will be wind ward and leeward 15-mile course, with starting signal set for -10:30 a. m. tomorrow. The alternate races will be over triangular 10- mile legs.
 Seagoing folk of all sorts have crowded into this port for the big races. Seldom. if ever, has an Americas cup challenge so caught the public fancy. And opinion on the outcome is as varied as the crowd. Flat-hat. front nt-porch ad- mirals in duck pants incline toward the American entry, most of them in hope. The rougher fellows, who know the smart of northwest gale, like the blue lugger from Gosport.
 No Heavy Weather
 Most agree that Endeavour will be helped by light air. The British challenger outraced Shamrock V in British waters by large margins in light weather. Neither has been we'll tested in a rough blow of IS knots or more, and on tumbled wa ter. Rainbow has never been in a blow of more than 13 knots, while Endeavour has tried out in noth- ing but faint airs since her arrival on this side.
 The racers looA very much alike. with polished duralumin masts glistening white in the sun. Both have steel shrouds, flexible booms and the new quadrilateral or dou- ble-clew working jibs. Both have similar sail equipment. using Genoa jibs or staysails in place of the oli topsails when working against the wind.
 In seamanship the Americans have what edge there is. Vandel- bilt is one of the worlds foremost amateur shippers, and his crew is professional, trained to the min- ute- SOpWlth'S amateur crew has not been definitely tested under racing conditions.
 Sopwith has been sailing big racing cutters for only five or six years, but is rated one of the best iIl British waters. His second wife, whom he married in 1882, will sail as timekeeper. Two Ameri- cans are on Endeavour's crew Beecher Moore, of Syracuse, N. Y, and Ralph Frost, the second cook.
 Frank Murdoch, Gerald Penny and Charles E. Nicholson, the de- signer, will form Endeavour's af- terguard, or advisory group, while Vanderbilt's afterguard consists of c. Sherman Hoyt, John Parkin- son, Professor Zenas Bliss. naviga- tor, and W. Startling Burgess, de- signer.