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Show SLOOP RESOLUTE ' HAS ILL-FORTUNE XEWPQRT, R. I., June 4. The ill-fomme ill-fomme with mainmasts which has attended at-tended the sloop Resolute, America's cup defense candidate, has clung to her in the elimination trials with the Vanitie, as it developed touay that it would be necessary to use another I steel mast In place of the one used , yesterday. A3 a result, the elimination elimina-tion trials off this port have been 1 postponed until the ltesoluto can be made ready again. In the trial race vftth Vanitie yesterday yes-terday the jaw of tho Rosolute's gaff was damaged and an examination ofi tho steel mast today showed structural weakness. Sloop Resolute Towwcil In. BRISTOL, R. L. June 4. The sloop Resolute was towed here late today from Newport, and immediately a spiral-plated steel mainmast, useu in j iyi5, and recently placod in reaCinesal for an emergency, was stopped, to- gethev with a hollow wooden topmast. Test, spins are expected to be heia in 1 Xarragansett bay tomorrow. i Tho new mainmast Is two feet longer long-er than the one which was pro-1 nounced faulty off Newport today, and with the new topmast will give :-ie yacht a loftier said spread. Xew rig- ging stay's and new aluminite gaff also! were installed. |