THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.
Mr Bennett, the owner of the American yacht Dauntless, has challenged Mr Ashbury to race the Cambria from the Old Head of Kinsale to the lightship off Sandy Hook. The challenge is for LSOOO a side, to be laid out in the purchase of a Bervice of plate, or if that is considered too large a stake, Mr Bennett is willing to modify it, or, if Mr Ashbury prefers to race "for honor merely," to let the trophy be a set of colors ; the yachts to start, according to a proposal made in one of Mr Ashbury's numerous challenges, on the' Bth of March next, Mr Bennett declines all matches upon inland waters, but intimates that other American yachts will take up those challenges. The sarcastic style of Mr Bennett's letter, and his inuendoes that Mr Ashbury has coupled his challenge for the ocean race with others which he knew would not be" accepted, we should think will induce Mr Ashbury to put aside every impediment to the match, and to accept the challenge without reservation. \
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 619, 6 January 1870, Page 3
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180THE OCEAN YACHT RACE. Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 619, 6 January 1870, Page 3
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