THE AMERICAN CUP.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 707, 11 January 1910, Page 4

THE AMERICAN CUP.

“ I fully intend challenging for the American Cup, the race to be sailed in 1911,” Sir Thomas Lipton said to a New York correspondent last month. “ I shall challenge under the universal rules on the ground that what is good enough for the Stars and Stripes is good enough tor the Cup. If the New York Yacht Club refuse my challenge, which will be for the largest-sized yachts, their refusal will be equivalent to saying that they do not wish to risk the Cup in a competition on equal terms. As things are, under the special Cup Race rules, the Cup might just as well be locked in a safety vault, for no one can ever hope to wrest it from America. I have hopes, however, that the younger members of the Club will outvote the elder ones, who are averse to altering the special rules.” Sir Thomas Tipton ended by declaring that no yacht builders, no matter what money was offered to them, were willing to build a flying machine — 1 ‘ that is all the freaks constructed under the present rules are ” —capable of winning the Cup, since the probabilities would be that the machine would sink in the voyage across the Atlantic.