OTHER CHALLENGER WANTS SMALL BOAT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 13045, 10 April 1913, Page 3

OTHER CHALLENGER WANTS SMALL BOAT.

NEW YORS, Match 15. In connection with reports that some other British yachtsman other than Sir Thomas Lipton is a prospective* challenger for the America's Cup, it devolves that at least one such Ehxjjflmhihan with eyes on the cup is Charles C . Allom, owner of the first fifteemmetto cutter Istna which Jhas made pJhenortleiiai speed m European waters. Like Sit Thomas, however, it appears that Mr' Alk>m desues a race with a smaller boat than the 90-foot maximum length whioh is allowed under the deed of gift oi th* *up It is regarded as doubtful that Mr Allom is the yachtsman whom the New York Yacht Cl_b members had m mind When it let it be knoAvn that Another challenge was anticipated, for it was then said that unnamed prospective challengers would impose no cohdituttis other than those prescribed by the deed of the gift upon the length of the. boat. . "I. have had the project of a challenge m mmd," Mr Allom, who is m this city, is quoted to-day as saying, "but with a twenty-three metre boat under international rules, the boat to be bliilt by a syndicate consisting of _ever_l of my friends." , • He had made informal ehqUiries of the Nevr York Yacht Club, he Said, long before the publication of the Lipton challenge. He was mno wise m competition with Sir Thomas' m his challenging, and he hoped that Sir Thomas would see fit to amend his conditions so that a race for the America's Cup might be had. "The greatest good that could possibly accrue to the sport would result from the loss of the cup to America," he said, "for then there Avould be an effort to bring it back and each effort would cause tome new advance m the science of yachting."' He pointed out that conditions had changed since the deed of gift of the ' America's Cup had been drawn ab that a proportionate development of a 90-foot yacht would place it m the schooner oiwQ% i