By the time editorial comment is resumed in these columns after the week end the first of the series of clit races off Newport, Rhode Island, to decide whether Mr. T. M. Sopwith's new vessel, the Endeavour N is good enough to regain for England the America's Cup, which the United States yachtsmen have held ever since they won it in 1851 at Cowes will have taken place. Yachtsmen all over the world will be watching the series of races for they have long since become a yacht-racing classic, and the competition has been so keen not only between those sailing the craft but so the builders, that when the yachts the starting line they may be id safely to represent the very latest that man can devise for obtaining speed from the sea breezes. Though it is reported that the betting favours the Ranger as being the faster ship, there is no small amount vf weighty opinion which suggests that the designers and builders have so far extended themselves that there very little to choose between the of the two craft and that the will go to the skipper and crew who handle their craft the best. It will be remembered that when Mr. Supwith took his Endeavour I to the United States to compete in the last series. at the last moment he had to secure another crew in place of the one that went on strike. In that it was claimed he was severely handicapped, but as a result of the nees it was even more apparent that Mr. Sopwith's own inexperience in this type of yacht-racing contributed in no small degree to his defeat. It is expected that, in the time which has elapsed since his first attempt on the Cup, he has remedied whatever defects showed themselves during the last series, though it has to be remembered that in Mr, Horace S. Vanderbilt he is opposed by a man ct great experience and tried ability who will be able to give him as good a race, probably, as any yachtsman in the United States. Betting apart ihe contestants appear to be fairly arched, and all true sportsmen will sh that the better ship and crew win the day.
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