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Show LIPTON MAY TRY FOR YACHT CUP (By Duncan Curry) New York, Oct 18. It 16 now nino years since vro had a raco for the American cup, the "Blue Ribbon" of the Sea" and the onlv person who seems at all anxious to challenge for this little $500 piece of silverware I which millions of dollars has been J spent to defend and capture is Sir Thoraa3 J Lipton, who is due to arrive ar-rive in this country today. Sir Thomas has aready challenged for the trophv three times and thrice 'has seen .his. challengers, Shamrocks jl , 11. and 111, defeated would be held I off Snndv Hook next Summer. Sir ! Thomas Upton's attitude in the matter mat-ter was very clearly expressed in an interview in which he eald: "What's good onough for Uncle Sam is good enough for Upton. I' 1 want no favors. .Iu3t let me start tfalr and square under the rules recognized rec-ognized fiom San D'ego to New YorK 1 by every American club, and I'll chal. ( lenge for the American cup tomonow. I have always said what was good j enough for the Stars and Stripes is good enough for me. What I want to do is to challenge under the legula-I legula-I tlons adopted b eery club in the j United St3tea from the Pacific coast to tho Atlantic and on the lakes as well namely under the so-called "Universal Rule." Two Sets of Rules. "Thr International rule is the one adopted bv every club In Europe, so'' ou can see there are two sets of rules In existence. The three Shamrocks Sham-rocks that I sailed Jn America were only fit for the scrap heap after the races wert finished. Thev would not bo peimltted to take part In any other yacht race iu the United States Every yachtsman knows that in building such boals marine designing gains nothing and that freaks hamper the 'progress of the sport. If the Universal Univer-sal Rule which as I have said is adopted by every club In the United States, is good onough for America j for what reason should I be Drcvent-inc Drcvent-inc from challenging under the same rulo? I "If there Is anv pull in this, America Amer-ica ha qot it. for in the vhole of Europe there has never yet been a boat built under the American or 'universal rule.' I only ask for a I sporting chance when the gun fires at I Sandy Hook, and 1 know In my heart I this is all that America wants, as I j feel convinced there are no greater or bettor sporting pcoplo in the world than Americans. I do not say that under tho 'universal rule I would win the cup, but If I get licked I would know that I had been given an 'equal chance with my competitors. In addition, an international race would give nn Impetus Im-petus to yachting throughout America. Amer-ica. America may got challenges from Britain but I havo stood aside for nine years now, and no one has come forward and no one will as long as America holds to sixty-year-old conditions con-ditions I want no favors from any club in America, 1 merely say that tho lule adopted by every American club Is good enongh for me, and why I should the New York Yacht club asic 'me to race under a rule which is barred bv all clubs in the United States' Change Qld Conditions. The American can easily change tho old conditions of sixty years ago, as In the deed of gift there is a golden bridgo which states that by mutual consent of the opposing parties the conditions of the race can bo altered. "If you stick to the old conditions, j 011 may as well send the cup to some museum as an ancient relic. Is young America satisfied to rest on her laurols held under such antiquated conditions? "I cannot believe that America will let a few men build granite rocks nround the "Blue Ribbon of tho Sea." If it Is worth keeping it is worth fighting for, and I am willing to fight in your own waters and under our own rules if you will let mo. Only say the word and I will issue a challenge chal-lenge within twenty-four hours " Are tho present rules goerning the Vmerlcan cup as unfair as Sir Thomas Thom-as Linton contends or not7 The officers and members of the New York Yacht club, tho present holdors, of the trophy, say that not only Pre the present rules fair, but thev have no power to alter them, even if thev wished to The American cup is supposed to represent the acht racing championship champion-ship of tho woild, and while the tiophy was placed by its doners in the custody of the New York Yacht club, they slniplv hold the trophy as trustees trus-tees for tho lent of the yachtsmen of the country. Brieflv there arc thlrtv thousand odd acht owners In the United States, and of this number num-ber only sK hundred are enrolled in the New York Yacht club |