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Show HL- ' YACHT EACES ASSURED. H! Director-General Sets Aside Appropria- Bi ' tion for Three Weeks' gporl. Wl Tribune Special Sporting Foivire. 'K : fi,m?iRF.?Ii?- Va,' A"- 3 Thf Intorna- Bl.' tloiial yacht and inotm-bont races will lK ',c. ,,0IV j11 ll,o .TamoHtown exposition as MSi 5CMHU,e1- All doiilii as to their being K failure was, dismissed last week when Jf Director General James M. Barr of tlio Bfi exposition net nsldc the appropriation fl , requested by the committees of the WKEi lei. Beginning with September I. there jKai ' w"1 be r?.Pes flal,y for three weeks. Thee TffB-; I rac,es w H be international in character. CRJ I w 11 ,be on larger scale tlmn ever 'iHK f attempted before in America. Four cuns llgr Have been offered for the principal races. 'Iml lat should attract the largest fleet of rBf Falling veasels ever gotten together for lM j event In the history of vachtins: J T..ne:C,are.ns follow: The Prcaldenfa cup. IjB; fl fhe Kings cup, Sir Thomas Upton's cu t'Hi the Jamestown Exposition cup. Manv I'H other cups will nlso be offered. They IW are to he raced for under the rules adopt- (W ?",by tho Atlantic Coast conferenco of fv, Jf'06. and all are to be under the universal jf rule of-measurement. W f InvltatlonH havo been extended to .; yachtsmen of every countrv in tho world. m ; i and asRuranccs have been recelvod that M I there w II be a representation or foreign i yachts in keeping with the Importance M of the contests. The international motor-K motor-K , bflL carnival, held the week before the '. yacht races, will be the greatest motor- boat carnival ever held at any cxposl- ' Ml i tlon. There will be dashes, shor't-dlstancc 1 . mf. races and endurance -races. j |