Veteran British Sportsman Lodges His Fifth Challenge For the America's Cup
T AST month Sir Thomas Lipton’s challenge for the world’s premier yachting trophy, the America’s Cup, went forward to the New York Yacht Club. The date suggested for the contest is September, 1930. The new Shamrock will be 77ft. long. Sir Thomas’s latest challenge comes on the eve of his 79th birthday. It has been estimated that his four previous attempts to lift the Cup have already cost him £2,000,000. What the present attempt will cost him is problematical, but it will probably be more than any previous one, as the cost of building racing yachts has increased considerably since Shamrock IV. was launched before the war. Sir Thomas's lifetime ambition has been to lift the Cup, which went to America in 1851. He has frequently said that he would give all his other yachting trophies—and he has won hundreds—if he could only obtain possession of ‘"that mug.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 683, 7 June 1929, Page 6
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159Veteran British Sportsman Lodges His Fifth Challenge For the America's Cup Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 683, 7 June 1929, Page 6
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