THE AMERICA CUP.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8329, 10 January 1907, Page 7

THE AMERICA CUP.

FOURTH CHALLENGE. As was cabled recently a" fourth attempt to lift the America Cup is to be made by the thrice defeated, but still sanguine Sir Thomas Lipton. Sir Thomas announced when he reached Liverpool from America, that he would send a challenge this year for a match in 1908. Fife will design the challenger. "But," added Sir Thomas in an interview with a representative of the London Chronicle, "it is possible I may build two boats, and if I do, Milne will plan the_ second. The boats would be tried in English waters, and the fastest selected as the challenging craft. "As to the type and size of the challenger, the boat will be cutter rigged. Since I have been in America persons have endeavoured to impress me with the idea that a 70-footer would be a better size to challenge with, but I like the larger boat—80ft to 90ft—and I shall stick to that size. "In the coming match my methods of doing things will be very different from what they were in the preceding contests. I have never objected to exptense in these races, and am not likely to do so now. I shall in the future be more thorough and give more attention to every detail of the arrangement for a match and the construction of a vessel or vessels." "I am just as keen to lift the Cup as I have ever been." All the races up to now, said Sir Thomas to another reporter, had been held under the old measurement rule of 55 years ago, which it was impossible to think of continuing. It only represented a freak or machine of a boat, which was dangerous to everybody who crossed the Atlantic upon it. and, besides, there was no advantage to be gained by yachtsmen, as there was nothing to learn from such a craft. It was a class of boat not allowed to be raced in connection with any other yacht club in the world. It was a "healthy" type of boat which competed in the first race, and nobody ever thought it would have developed into such freaks as were now required. It was under the "universal" rule made two and a-half years ago that he was perfectly willing to challenge, and all Americans he had come in contact with wished the next race to be held under that rule. It rested with the New York Club to say whether that should be so, and he had great faith in their judgment to do the right thing by him, as they had always done, for he felt they were anxious for the race. Exposure to cold and damp causes rheumatism. The skin cannot give off the excess "tic acid nnd it becomes deposited in tha blood. Rheumo will quickly core the trouble. All chemists and stores, 2/6 and 4/6'