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Show I' I WEE GEE SAYS-Tenuis SAYS-Tenuis reminds me of the war , Y. fSr&ll O A year or bo ago, zSlsr The reason for it la because I It's full of drives, you know. U I I Tennis reminds me of the war A year or so ago The reason for It Is because It s full of lrle you know. A jacht Is known us "be," I used to wonder h; But now T know 'cause The upkeep In so hl(fb 1 The speedier they are, The handsomer their rig. With boats as with the girl f They mak' a fellow ihk The silver up. representing the j yachting ehamplon?hlti Is some valu- 1 able bunch of silver, when one figures ..J the amount of money ;hnt has been spent lo keep It in this countr) anil i in effor'ts to transfer It lo England I The America sailed over thi ea 3 back in 1 ft 5 1 and won the cup Since J then the British have been trving to . get It back and hava spent fortunes In building challengers. And plenty 1 of coin had to b Invested In yachts ,1 i fast enough to keep the Blitona from I J lifting the trophy. 9 ' Cambria tried and failed In 1&70. j In '76 the f35,000 Countess of Duffeiin tried It cost 942,000 to race the Ma) - 31 flower In '85. The Volunteer and Thistle, the 1S87 contestants. -cost 1'".- 3 llJJ each. Mono reall) began to be spent when i.orrt runraven got into th-game th-game This was in lso.i and four defenders de-fenders were built that year. The Igilaal was chosen and It cost $150.-' $150.-' 'iun to race her. Tho American defense de-fense I ost s quarter of a million The Defender cost $200,000 In lfc9. Sir Thomas Upton spent $500,000 In , his first attempt to lift the up Th second Shamrock cost him m-arly half a million t'onstltution. which saile-l in the cup's defense cost half that s.im sir Thomas built the third Shamrock In 1903 and raced against Reliance and 'he whole bill was more than a million. In 101X it was decided to use yacht 76 feet on the water line for the clip rnr,-. The cost of racing had gone beyond reason. Resolute cost $1 20,000 to build. Sir Thomas will put up a million for his share of this months races. The New Tork Yacht club will underwrite a big bill for the trial spins I the picked crews and the ocean-going tugs required to pull off the contests. Therefore. It's easy to Imagine that .this silver cup represents a king's ransom ran-som Think what it would be worth et on the dlnlnjr table in the New I York Tacht club and filled with 12-ear 12-ear old bourbon. Oh boy |