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Show CHALLENGE DECLINED Yacht Club Will Not Accept Conditions Proposed Pro-posed by Sir Thomas New York, Mar. 1.". Intimation that a challenge from some other English )ra btaman than Sir Thomas Lipton Ilt the Americas cup, is anticipated by members of the New York S'acht club caused considerable speculation iu yachting circles todav, but there v;iP no answer to the question who the prospective challenger might be. The rumors of another challenge were coincident with the decision which tho New York Yacht club reached late lav, :iip;ht to decline the Upton challenge, chal-lenge, which was made In his behalf b the Royal flster Yacht club. Ii curie as a surprise to many mem. bers of the club when they read the Challenge for the first time last night to find that Sir Thomas not only proposed pro-posed a chnllensinc vessel not to ex-ceed ex-ceed Beventy-flve feet on the water Unp. but that he would require the defender to be of the same dimensions In Kossip of the terms of the challenge chal-lenge jt had been intimated that Sir Thomas male no conditions as to the deft nder except that If in excess of the peventy-flve foot length the usual time allowances should be figured. Some Protests Entered The deed of nlft of the America's enp allows competing vessels of any length from 66 feet to 90 feet, and tho maximum lnsth has always prevailed. prevail-ed. To be forcr-( to reduce this to a I seventy-five feet limit under the' l-rnis of the challenge was held by (he New York club lo be contrary to l lie spirit of tho dec,), of gift The "i Iti rejection of LIpton's terms v a: given as "'unanimous," but this means unanimity of only forty out of the members of the club who attended at-tended last nlpht's meeting The forty for-ty members, however, were all that were privileged to vote as the balloting bal-loting was confined to the actual boat owning members present. Among other oth-er members there was some protest against the arbitrary action of the club Evans It Dick, Jr.. ,a member of the club, who expressed such a protest declared that the motion to reject the challenge was "railroaded" through the meeting. "The yachtsmen of this country admit ad-mit almost unanimously," he said "that the type of yacht which has defended the club within recent years bas been the sort of a vessel which makes for all that is undesirable in' yatchlng. The present yacht racing measurements of the New York Yacht Clul, were made to drive this type of! yacht out of existeuce The recent, defenders have been rofinu' maehlnes , I pure and simple, which arc and can ! be of no use whatsoever for the pur- j p'.u;e of yntcbing alter the race They I I are rdthcr broken up for junk or kept out of commission during the long In. j terval between races " |