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Show KING'S CUP FOR RACES ARRIVES NEW YORK. July 21. The King's cup, the blue ribbon of the year's yachting trophies, presented by King Edward VII. to the New York Yacht club, to be raced for annually by American yachts, open to the enrolled fleets of all American clubs, arrived at the New York Yacht club yesterday from England. The cup, which is of solid gold and valued at over a thousand guineas, is the handsomest trophy that has ever been offered for international competition. compe-tition. It is finely chased with symbolic sym-bolic figures, embldzoned with a srtield bearing its inscription and purpose. It stands fully forty inches high exclusive exclu-sive of its base, and measures about twenty inches in diameter. The cup was received on behalf of -the club by Secretary George M. Cor-mack. Cor-mack. Its ownership will b deter-ntifieJ deter-ntifieJ in a race off N.-w,ivt o;i August Au-gust 8. in conjunction with the New York Yacht club cruise. There promises to be an entry of fully twenty-five yachts in the race. The largest of these will be the old cup defender Vigilant', now converted into a yawl and owned by William E. Iaelln. |