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Show ! HARDS OUT COIN I III W LONG I : Reporter Paints Interesting I Picture of Tom Lipton I Grooming Yachts XKW YORK July 8 There's a lit. M tlo bit of Ireland floating off thl Jcr-sey Jcr-sey coast and Its ruler Is a familiar H flgurs In yachting flannels and cap. Its Sir Thomas Lipton and his "jiavy" HH six craft strontr Invading the Unit- HB, cd States to capture the America's cup HH In a yachtsmen's battle off Sandy HH Hook this month. HH The man io whom a large patch of HH water is mi alien sight think of the HH cup races as a few impromptu Jousta i between a cbuplt of vailing sloops HH' HFhfdh COSl a mite more than the avc-r- HH age man can afford. He doe not real- HH Ize that these yachts and their crews HI have to ro through a period of train - tng as lonp as that of any football Et team a,d a thousand times more H7 costly. Hj pun ha or charter Sir Thoinaa lias auiaaaed his fleet, in .iddition to H the challenger. Shamrock IV. ami the H trial horse, 'he 28-meter Shamrock, Kfl there is the pieam yacht Victoria, the mm flagship of the fleet, on which the veteran yachtsman lives, anchored HI each night m the Hudson JM li s HOI SEBOAT IOO. HH Then there Is the houseboat Kll- fi larney, tucked snugly awaj In the ' Jf shelter of the Hook On the Klllarnej Kj reside the crews of the 'two racing r-e! crafl Put thil doc: not complete the ' ' fleet. There ifl Che tug Goveimor Smith to tow the sloops to the starting lint and a snappy speed boat to run er- J rands. Numberless smaller launches and dingy don't count In this yacht -ing armada. H The Irish baronet has his daily H schedule enjoyable enough, but just mm at present a tmsiness to wmeh he an- H lu-res as closely us the broker daily HH watches his ticker. HI Each day he steams down to the H Hook from New Vork to watch the H challenger his sweetheart, tht eldei - HH ly batehclor calls her match her HH speed against the trial hotoe. HI Baoh day, as ausk approaches, he HH holda conference with his band of HH yachting experts, suggesting little HH changes here, little caangOl there. HH smoothing out a -i In a Club-tSP- HH sail which to Die landlubber flu ex- HH actly or clipping a few Inches from a HH topmast with which to the uninitiated. HH there seems i.oihing wrong. 1JE LLb K 1 DOi LAH& HE And bach day he continues to deal K out dollars to the 150 members of his HHJ armada. For it is an expensive sport, I this quest of a hundred guinea cup HH and victor or loser. Sir Thomas WlU Wm , have paid oul mori than a million HT dollars for tins year s laces alone. j HI At S o'clock, except in most dls- 7S, n ins weather, raising ot git PjKj Thomas' personal flag a green sham - j HE lock on a field of gold betokens that tK the vice-commodore of th-e Hoyal I'l-' BHj ttr Yacht club la aboard, awake and HJ ready to receive guests. These invar- HJ lably include a corps of newspaper- HHJ men. Most of them come for break - H Cast, the yacht's larder receives a I mwj blow which would make the ordl i HB housewife quiver in these days of higu HI, prices. HB Then the Victoria weighs anchor. HE Recognized by ail harbor craft, she HE receives salutes from sootiest tug to HH i most majestic battleship. VMis BRLDG1 . H Sir Thomas atands on the bridge V the 'familiar, blue Jacketed, beflan- HT nelled- figure who for years hus R crossed the Atlantic to win the trophy "U Which he has set his heart. II. strokes his gray goatee and his face. BB wrinkles Into a roguish grin as he fl; swaps yarn for yarn with ills innum- Wi. crable guests BjuSk For Sir Thomas must have MM Joke. FcW 1 -'he of which he is particularly ,'ond eoncorna a visit once paid him ai a- Cowles by former Mayor John Fltz- BB gerald of Boston HH, 1 The baronet was entertaining a H group of Americans when suddcnlv it H was reported to him that the royal launch was headed for his craft I mm "The king or the queen." cried Sir' ai Thomas and at once began drilling his' guests in court etiquette. BBB But the royal launch, which rarely I BBI carries any but royalty, arrived with BBB lone Yankee BII' It seems, that Mr. Fitzgerald, wish-1 BBjl Ing to pay a visit to his friend, the tmMU Irish yachtsman, had been unable to BBK find a craft which he deemed suffi- BJB Cl Btly natty to bring him alongside. IB Rut finding the royal launch at the IB royal landing stage, he pronounced It BHB a decent enough bout" and ordered BEB it to tlx- Lipton yacht. BI -Meanwhile the king and queen, BJB reaching the stage, beheld in smase- flJB ' ment their launch dashing away Trom BjB them. And the master of the Bmnll BjJ craft, on his return, h;ii iins explana- BJK Don to make the gentleman had In- HBw troduced himself as "the mayor of U- Boston, Fnited States of America, " which the royal yachtsman, lm-pressed, lm-pressed, compressed into "the ma or Of America." And of course a nian fll Who would dare march onto the royal landing stage must have stepped onto 1 , j it With royal permission. Awl kJid chatting of king. and stOw-j 111 1 j a ways, yachts and intrigues, he enter- f guests until the Hook is BlB reached And as Sir Thomas is never BII BO well cast as when he in playing tht Wff host, it is an enjoyable trip, this little BjvH Joy-rtdc down the buy to the serious j H work of the day BjH The in- Ing sloops, lying at anchor HI With mainsails and club-topsails stt, BjB awaiting the arrival of their master, Ml look as alike as two peas to the lunds- jB man. And the vegetarian simile Is BI carried out by the hulls, both painted HI a lively Irish green The onlv appnr- II vut difference Is thut the Shamrock IV BI Jk' B little greener than her part- ner, for even her decks are emerald. IB As soon as the Victoria's engines anil an-il stopped, the veteran of international I' regattas boards his launch to inspect H 1 j ; his craft before they set out. From D I I ,nal moment ho becomes lost to all E bui things maritime. Eli Round the courao Sir Thomas fol-E fol-E a : lows his sloops as they race and after i the finish again holds parlev with KlH i their skippers Then It's back to New Kjn j '"' k '" '-enlng the day"s work |