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Show TO WOULD LIKE CUP RAGE II JULY New York Yacht Club Expected Ex-pected to Fix Later Date, However. By L. R. MURDOCH. (UnlwrEa.1 Servico Staff Correspondent.) LONDON, Oct. lit. "I have ru trusted Juno 21 tis the date for the first race fur tlio America's Amer-ica's cup," eultl Str Thomus Lipton today, "but tho New York Yuclit club, of course, has the privilege of naming the dale ami there 1b some reason to believe that they will fix it tntPr und It In quite possible thry mny uelect ntiuiher courso than S unity Ilwk. "Whnievtr tlipy ileciili', I know they will show i lie ut must f uirm'Ni. I've 'heih rnctny in Amerlcnn wn icrs for twenty yeura ha e ulwuya b'en tri'ated very kindly and fairly. "The Itcsolute, which was to have oppospd Shninruok IV in lUi 1, will probably bo the difinder next year. "Captain Iturtnn, nn nmnreiir, with a rrfnrd of over a thiuihitnii rail's with liis own yachts, will sail the -chnlh'iiger ami will' have full charge of the prcparatimiB. Smne slight cliane will be m a U In S h a m ro k 1 V , which is the fastest boat uf her kind I have ever known. "I expect d reccl vp many mascots. The Inst time I raced in America my steam yar;liL was a regular menag rl. "VYe had enough maBCots to tii'ik tlie yacht if tlit-y were all put aboard. I could m-v.-r remember tlie full list, but in It was iucludiHi nine Irish terriers, several Knncas (rrnpslioppers, n horseshoe made by a champion American boxer, sevt-ra 1 pedigreed pedi-greed black cats, many kinds of rabbit, an American eiicle, halt a hundredweight of shamrocks, including many four-leaf clovers. "Whn wo lost the race. I threateii.d to tiro the menagerie loose If everybody didn't clep.r off. I k- pt t lie A merlon n ea irie ami disposed of the ot hers. One wo in a n w rote me that she had a sun who had red hair and was tlie luckiest hoy in the world. IT 1 d only take him along I'd be sure to win. I had to decline because of the liumher of animals ani-mals on board and I was afraid the. boy's luck might not hold out." |