Show WILL REMAIN Throughout the entire country today congratulations are heard over the victory of the Puritan and the pleasing fact that the Americas cup will remain on I I this side of the Atlantic There have I been some mishaps soma delays in the I i 0 ui JL < Jfob 0 race but yesterday it was finished and finished gloriously for America The race was hard fought and the conditions of the i weather were such as have always been I claimed as most favorable to the Gen esta and detrimental to the Puritan j But the broad beam and the light draught j style of the Puritan won over the I knifeblade style of the Genesta The international race between the two I yachts is the most interesting that evor occurred especially when it is remembered remem-bered that it is thirtyfour years since the America won its coveted prize from a I whole fleet of British yachts off Cowes England in 1851 The Americas cup is now the property of the New York Yacht Club having been presented to that club under a deed of gift from the original owners of the America upon the condition of its remaining a perpetual challenge cup not being the property of any boat winning a match in which it is a prize but of the club to which such boat belongs and subject to future competition for its possession The cup which the America won in 1851 and for which the Genesta and Puritan Puri-tan have just competed became the property of the owners of the America as a prize won under the offer of the Royal Yacht Squadron of Great Britain for which all nations wore allowed to compete It B of solid siver ewer shaped and elaborately ornamented standing two feet high and weighing over 100 ounces Around the broadest part of the cup are medallions variously inscribed the first inscription being One hundred hun-dred guinea cup won August 22 1851 at Cowes England by yacht America I Amer-ica at the Royal Yacht Squadron regatta re-gatta open to all nations beating After this come the names of all the vessels which started in the race On the next medallion is engraved Schooner America Amer-ica 170 tons Commodore John C Stevens built by George Storrs New York 1851 On the other spaces arc inscriptions recording the results of the races with the schooners Cambria Livonia and Countess of Dufferin and the sloop Atlanta The Puritan von both races and had a third one been necessary it was to have been sailed over a triangular course outside Sandy Hook Americans may justly be proud of the triumph of the Puritan as the Genesta is i considered the best representative U allaround yacht of all the different yacht clubs of England but they may rest assured that Sir Richard Sutton and other leading yachtsmen of Britain will not despair of winning the Americas cup yet and it is more than probable that they will build new yacht for the very purpose of competing for thegreat international inter-national trophy the Americas cup As the America today would have no chance against many of tho yachts of the New York Club it is possible that the same may be the case with the Puritan Puri-tan a few years hence The America is the property of General B F Butler |