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...been sailors. It was a Cape Cod captain who brought into Boston the tea that provided for that city's famous party, and our navies in 1775 and 1812 were largely officered and manned by men from the Cape. But the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, the days of the clipper ships, were the days of Cape Cod's glory. Boys went to sea at the age of twelve, and often became captains before they were twenty-one. A man who was in Rio de Janerio in the Fifties once told me that of the fifty-six ships he once...
...American seamanship. For that same schooner, an American vessel with an American crew, is to race the challenger from Canada for the supremacy of North Atlantic waters. No butterfly drifting contest, this, but a real battle, regardless of weather conditions, and fought out by men of the old clipper-ship stock--men who are best able to uphold our fame and reputation...
...Clipper for this week, contains a portrait of E. B. Bloss '94, with a short account of his athletic career...
...after the meeting a very loud and boastful article appeared in the New York Star purporting to come from Conneff, in which he challenged Dohm to race. The article was in very bad taste, and everyone was glad to learn through a letter by Conneff, which appeared in the Clipper, that the article was ficticious, Conneff disclaiming all knowledge of it. In his letter to the Clipper, Conneff says he is willing to meet Dohm in a scratch half mile invitation race at the Berkeley Athletic club games on June 8, or in a similar race given under the auspice...
...York Clipper Annual for 1888 has appeared. It contains a record of all sporting, musical and theatrical events that have taken place during...