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Show SIR THOMAS WILL TRY, TRY AGAIN LONDON. Oct 20. Discussing the probabilities of a challenge for the America's Amer-ica's cup, the . Yachting World says: "Many have taken It for granted that all proposals bad been definitely shelt). so far as Sir Thomas Upton was concerned, but there Is less Justification for the ss-.sumption ss-.sumption that his regrettable withdrawal means the totsl collapse of all chances of an immediate reopening of the contest. con-test. Kenneth M. Clarke, one of the foremost Clyde racing owners, dropped his aspirations when Upton moved again, but his interest in this international phase ef sport remains unsbated. and recent re-cent negotiations bring it well within the bounds of possibility that he may enter the contest" Ir Thomas Upton was shown the Yachting World's article today and said to the Associated Press that it Is utter-ry utter-ry meorreet to' assume that he has abandoned aban-doned the Idea of challenging for the Americas cup. He had. he said, faced great difficulties in securing- -a designer, but he had not given up. He had given George I Watson carte blanche in the matter of securing a boat, and was still hopeful of success. - |