Show THE AMERICAS CUP I There will Probably be no Races For it This Year TH TEN MONTHS TIME LIMIT Specified in the New Deed of Gift Having ExpiredThe New Yachts that are Building in England Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch LONDON Jan 1fBy cable to the New York World Unless the New York Yacht club waives its limit specified in the new I deed of gift there certainly will be no races for the Americas cup next year The ten months time limit expired yesterday and no challenge has yet been sent across the water Furthermore Messrs Watson Richardson Fife who model all the fast racing yachts on this side qf the ocean have not designed anything this autumn fit to cross the Atlantic to contest for the cup The World correspondent has the authority of Fife jr of Fairlie to say that he has not designed any probable challenger neither has he an order for one This disposes of the statement that he was designing a model for Sir Roderick Cameron who intended in-tended to compete for the cup Among yachtsmen over here Cameron is looked upon as the last man in the world willing to go to the expense necessary in entering a yacht for tho cup Fife has modelled about twenty new craft since the close of the racing season but his largest racer is only about fiftysix feet on the load water line Watson of Thistle fame has nothing new in the racing rac-ing line larger than a craft about sixty feet on the water line and according to one condition con-dition in the new deed of gift vossels or yachts competing for the Americas cup must be not less than sixtyfive feet on the load water line Rumor has been current for months that John Jamison of whisky and Irish renown would challenge through I the Royal St Georges club of Ireland with his new cutter now building at Southampton The World correspondent is authorized to deny this and also that Richardson of Liverpool designed Jamisons new vessel Yachtsmen who have seen her model declare de-clare that it is a pity she will not be sent to America because she certainly is a more thoroughly representative British vessel than the Thistle or any other which have attempted tie task but Jamison does not want to send the yacht t America to compete com-pete for the cup though he says he would spend any reasonable amount of money to defend the cup if once got here There is a big if in the way but should any American can yacht come here next season to try to take home again Brentons Reef or Cape May cups Jamisons new boat would certainly cer-tainly be the one chosen to defend them Work on the new cutter has progressed as far as laying the lead keel which the World correspondent saw at Southampton yesterday The first piece of the main I keel is of English elm She will be about eightyfour feet on the load water line Consequently i she went to America she would be giving away something to anyone any-one of the probable cup defenders of ninety feet because the new deed taakes it conditional con-ditional that future races shall be sailed without any time allowances whatever She will be a trifle over eighteen feet beam and will have a centreboard Her keel has been cast with the necessary aperture Lord Dunraven is aching to try conclusions conclu-sions with our seventyfooters but the chances of the Valkyrie again challenging for the Americas cup need not be seriously considered at the present time The Valkyrie Val-kyrie is hauled up high and dry but she is hidden from photographic fiends and prying eyes In fact there is not an inch of her hull from the keel to the planksheer visible After her last seasons doing it seems an unnecessary precaution to thus hide the vessel from gaze as any one about to build would want to improve and not to cop |