| Show TO It TilE THE liIl Milwaukee Wisconsin Shamrock lit JIt repeated the perform performance ance once ot of Shamrock II 11 Hill In Ia losing her steel st eI mast In a squall but she shO have havo havethe the king on board boar American m yachts yachtsmen yachtsmen men will viii congratulate Sir Thomas Lip Lipton Lipton Lipton ton on hIs TiU escape from tram serious bodily Injury and wish him more success IB In lit Inthe the construction of ot a u new steel spar San Francisco Chronicle The same kind of ot an nn accident hap happened pencil Shamrock II In her trial races when Ing Edward l then Prince of ot Wales Valos was aboard The Constitution Which built to defend the tho cup against Shamrock II If was wan also this ella dismantled mantled by the buckling ot of her mast malt In one of at the trial races with tho the Colum Columbia his bia The weaknesses of ot Shamrock II It were vere corrected correct ell before she crossed the Atlantic and no doubt the same ome thing wll vil 11 Ibe done with Shamrock HI III whose whoso weakest point seems acorns to have hae been b en In Inthe Inthe inthe the fastenings of ot her rigging where weakness was least llast looked booked for lor Hut the strength of ot a yacht h is no greater than the weakest part vart ot of her structure just na Is the strength of ot a n chain Is meas incas measured measured by the weakest link In It Baltimore Sun The accident to the new racing yacht acht ot of the gallant Sir Thomas Thomai Lipton will cause at III much regret on this tide side of ot the ocean as In his hie own land Sir Thomas has hUB accepted his hili numerous defeats detest so ro gracefully and antI cheerfully that there ther are aro NI probably many good and patriotic Amur Americans leans who sympathize with him in lila his hl efforts to lift the cup Two To years ears ago tivo when Shamrock II woo was racing with Shamrock I In the th English channel a sudden squall carried away 1111 time tile and sails I The king was Aas on omi 01 board bo the yacht tIo hl at the time but no one cap was all hurt In lii this accident the owner of ot the yacht was not so o 0 fortunate te as aR a I mem member her ber r of the crew wag wal wa drowned and Sir Thomas himself was waa u knocked with Ith groat great violence do down n a 1 hatchway and anti i II as asvery very verely bruised He lie was greatly dl die tre tr s d at nt the lot loss ot of his hla sailors life but the damage to hi boat he accept accepted ed with characteristic composure and ao fortitude New York World With all our sympathy for tor Sir Thom Thorn ThomAS AS BB it must be said Mild that three th repeated accidents prove that the designers de he hehM baa liaa employed have hare gone to the very ver limit of ot safety In combining a gigan gigantic gigantic tic with lIh flimsy construction It U Is said eald now that the Shamrock II will not even be fit for torl a trial iriel horse for forthe forthe the new challenger on o this slit side She Sh It II 1 Imply n It Pita pile of ot junk Doth HOlh yachts ap up apparently a were built buill with lIh a I view Iw to barely holding together until after t ler the races Thu Tho Shamrock k II 11 had to be lie tow ed etI halt half way across the Atlantic nl al although though hough the conditions of ot tho limo contest proscribe that tho the challenger shall hall cross the time ocean under her own sail Probably ably atH the tho new ne challenger will iii have to tobe tobe tobe be towed all the way WilY Worcester Spy The Tho disaster to lo Shamrock III II was ns an tip patently nono imone no no less severe Heere than hum that to II TI and the consequences were really deplorable because yester yesterday yesterday ester esterday day one aile life was sacrificed The Tho acci accident dent dont probably will not Interfere with proposed International regattas r but It will tend to cause causo temporary gloom among yachtsmen n mind and friends of at yacht yachtIng yachting Ing I nil both In England and In this coun country country try Boston ion Herald Yesterdays dismasting ma of at the Sham Shamrock Shamrock Shamrock rock III HI Is the opening of o the long chapter of ot accidents that will doubt doubtless lOss less have havo to 10 be bo recorded r cor ed for the time sloops before the till yachting season of ot I 1903 Is closed clo d Unfortunately this lat hat latest latest est eel dismasting has been attended by bythe bythe the loss of cit the life lite of ot one of ot the thc mem meni members members bers hers of at the crew In tho three previous of ot there thero was no noone one ohms seriously Injured though the sec eec second ond mate of ot the Constitution had hn a l very cry close call cull when whon the craft lost her stick lUck |
