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Show UU- BRITISH WANT TO BET MONEY New York, April 3. Commodore H. H. Melville, of tho motor boat club of. Amorica, has received a cablegram i from London advising him that sportsmen sports-men thore aro ready to back tho British Brit-ish entry In the international motor-boat motor-boat races In wagers for any part of $100,000, The Englishmen asked If tho Americans havo "any offers' to make, i The International cup, now in tho custody of "the Motor Boat Club of America, will be raced for off Huntington, Hunt-ington, L. I., on August 2G, 28 nnd 29. Oiio of the British challengers, a hydroplane model, in a recent test, made a speed of nearly a mile a minute, min-ute, breaking all records. |