| Show The Records Record's dad Bad but the British ire Are I hack Back for fog Just dust One More Cup Race BY iRVING HIVING nix DIX rN THE E chapter In that cease cease- ceaseless ceaseless l less serial of ot frustration Americas America's Cup Races will be In n the churned up waters wa- wa waters wa waters oft off Newport R I 1 beginnInG beginning begin- begin nInG July 31 T TOM 0 M taking up here v-here lovable old Sir Thomas Lipton left ofT aft has brought two yachts ya over here from England Engl Endeavour 1 J and Endeavour our II II in hopes of ot regaining the cheap but prized little trophy t the e sloop America brought back In her hold 86 years ago The American defender will willbe willbe willbe be either Harold S VanderbIlt's new Ranger or Gerald B Lam Lam Lam- Lam ert s year seven-year-old Yankee or Chandler Hovey s Rainbow hi hi h sailed by Commodore VanderbIlt successfully repelled the lIP three years ago Of or course an American vic vic- victory vic victory tory Cory Is expected again no matter wh h ch h of the three yachts is se see se by the New York Yacht dub club It seems that the British h just cant can't win t gals this Is particular ent E s e e emiiL TIlL Americans won the cup I J list th st known as the Hundred Hundred- Hundred Hundred-Gu Gu ei nel cup then as the Queen s scup scup scup cup on Aug 22 1851 It was te trophy of at the Royal Y Ya nt ht annual regatta t and ind the Isle of Wight Night NightS S nee nce then there have been 37 rt by British sportsmen to a n this cup All have been r mi miserable rable failures Out of oftie lie 47 races which have been the British yachts have havet t on only twIce five tive twice because the thelama's lamas lama's wan ic-an yacht was damaged mag d dUld Uld old Sir Thomas Lipton had tie II host distressing series of de- de del deI f de-f l I is Four times he poured t r may nuy into a dream boat sailed t o 0 oer er cr here and then shipped It home badly beaten He Heui ui led his first challenge in 18 9 another in 1901 came back backli l h 1 l 03 repeated again in 1920 ard rude made his hiE final bid in 1930 H s boats all named Sham Sham- Sham Sham-re rc k X lost nine straight races be- be before before be before fore Shamrock IV raced across y yi 1 k 1 i 1 s t i aA M th thI ky kyM i c I 1 w o T ti 9 t h ha hm a m i Y f f rl k kf s J b bi i r A Y YI k I a Trim streamliners or the sea are the yachts used In thO tha t I Jp ip races here lIere members of the tr crew or of t the e British challenger tor or orthe the America s CUP Endear Endea our II fl prepare to run In a trial with ith our Endeavour I shown In the background oft Newport R I 1 the finish line ahead of the dis- dis disabled disabled dis disabled Resolute on July 15 1920 1020 e e e eTHIS THIS THIS series saw Sir Thomas make his boldest bid Sham Sham- Shamrock Shamrock Shamrock rock IV won the first two races and it looked like he might real real- realize realize real realize ize his long life-long ambition But Resolute was repaired and swept to three straight victories Endeavour made quite a fight for it In the last races In 1934 The British sloop p slipped over the finish line ahead In the first two races But Vanderbilt got some wind tn In his sails in the next four races and won th them m all sll So with was most dl u tEd Like the rest of the lit yachtsmen before him he mat mat- mattered mut t muttered something about nt E n r having anything more to dt d 1 with h the Americas America's Cup and who would want the danged thin thing anyhow But hes he's back again That ThaI s sone sone sone one thing about the yachtsmen they're pot o 0 n I y consistent but persistent losers |
