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Show SIR THOMAS IS DISGUSTED. Wants a Good Wind So That the Whole Thing May Ee Settled. New Y'ork, Oct. 19 Before the Erin left her moorings in the horseshoe to steam out to the lightship, Sir Thomas cast his weather eye skyward and gave it as his opinion that there would be no race. . "My experience over here," he said, "convinces me that winds from the north or' west do not hold. 'We shall have a start, but not a finish. I am sorry, too, for I had hoped to have a good blow. Then if we were beaten there would be nothing left to say." Both racers had gone out from their anchorages when the Erin got under way. and the big steam yacht followed them to the starting point while the hundred or more guests breakfasted or gathered on the decks and discussed the chances of the day. When the gun from the committee boat announced that the time limit had elapsed and that "no race" was again the verdict, the Erin steamed hack to the horseshoe and Sir Thomas' guests went home. Sir Thomas himself was clearly tired of the whole affair. He has been living aboard his boat in the horseshoe for more than a month with but an occasional visit or: shore. "I wish," said he, "that we could have had a good breeze and have settled set-tled the question one way or another." Asked if he favored the suggestion that two more races be sailed in the event of the Columbia winning three straight and the cup. Sir Thomas replied re-plied in the affirmative, adding that it might be a good plan. Said he: "I am willing to stay a little longer in order to get at least one more triangular trian-gular race, and the chances of a race in a stiff breeze. Of course, it would have no effect On the possession of the cup, which will go to Columbia if she wins another race." . - |