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Show FOLLOW TRADITION IN NAMING YACHT NEW YORK. Feb. 1. The eight-letter tradition has been adhered to in picking pick-ing tho name of tho America's cun defender, de-fender, now being built by tho Herrc-shoffs Herrc-shoffs for n syndlcato of New York Yacht club members, and the new boat will be called the Half Moon, It was learned tonight. to-night. Successful defenders in recent years have borne names containing eight letters, let-ters, aa instanced by tho Reliance and Columbia. The name also fulfills the wish or Charles Francis Adams II, who is to sail tho craft, that tho jiamo selected se-lected contain a double "o." |