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Show Will This Cup Be Won By This Yacht For This Fine Sportsman? BY Id W SNYDER, XEW YORK, July 2. -Beginning on Thurnlav. July 15. Inst outside the three-mile limit off the shore line of Sandv Hook, ihe Shamrock IV will try 10 Wresl the maritime honors from ihi countr.v .ind i.ik' liark the beautiful America s cup. On every alternate day, not counting count-ing Sundax, the struCKle will continue until one of the competing yachts has won three out of five races. The picture It will present to those I fortunate enough to be within eye I range will be a typical "movie.' with : the stage setting on an opal sea, for not a sound will he heard. And while' the Llptonian tars, recruited re-cruited from the north or Ireland una the t'lyUe. will he handling the 1 1.000 1 square feet of canvas flown b) the Shamrock IV. the historic yacht, 1 America, which won tne tropny in1 Ikpl. will he linc ten miles up the; iharrles river, where It is kept as a' sacred relic by Its present owner. But-! ler Ames. Noble Lo0CT. If Sir Thomas L.ipl"n lopfp thi lliue' he mjs he will nevr compete agau.. Hut the Irish skipper 13 a great sportsman and a noble loser. He tTouKht his Shamrork I to this country in I '.'. The Columbia II defended de-fended for America and won the flrjl ra !e "n October IS with a lead of ten minutes and eight seconds. The ne.if day the challenger was forced to withdraw with-draw after her topsail was carrledl away. The final race was held on Oc- tobcr 2m, and again the Columbia trl-l uinphed with 1? minutes anil 3fi seconds' lo spare Thus ended Lip ton's first attempt at-tempt to win hack ihe. up. In 1?C1 hu Shamrock II made a' second attempt, but lost In three; straight races to the same defender, Columbia 11 The Reliance 4mlefended the cup successfully against the Sham-' rock 1 1 1 111 1908i taking three straight again This la the history of the premie, Irish sportsman's futile attempt to cop the cup. 1 1 v Enterprise. Each Unit he has sppent a million' dollars in the enterprise, only 10 see it slip away. The cup itself Is of silver, hlghlv embellished and decorated vet this sum of money would bu a boatload! of t ups. Will this hie fourth u"e.ot t.c sue-' cessful? The grahO oid skipper is, such a fine sportsman that It would1 he almost a pleasure to lose to him. 1 Vnd If he does realize his "Sham-! rock" dream, it is almost certain that, I he will be challenged immediately fori a race In England In 1921. Here's the Llptonian assembly the cup, the yacht and. Sir Thomas himself I le ii holding the wooden eagle with the coat-ot-arms of the United States, which is to be the mascot of the Shnmiock IV. There is a lot of history con-, nected with both the Irish skipper and his mascot. This1 figure graced the saloon of the America when it won the cup from the English boat, Aurora, 69 years ago |