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...supplied British bell-makers an extraordinary collection of metal scraps to be melted into music-a widow's mite of old Judea, ring money from 1,000 B C Switzerland, pieces of shell from Flanders, clinkers from Old Ironsides, a bit from Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, from the Columbia which beat Sir Thomas from Dewey's Manila flagship Olympia, from Nelson's Trafalgar-flagship Victoria-even copper wire from the late Commander John Rodger's seaplane, the PN-9, which flew to Hawaii, and a shaving, bored, after it cracked itself...
...Thomas Lipton, gallant yachtsman with the barnacle beard whose toast is drunk in 5,000,000 cups of tea, is a sportsman who has made an enormous reputation for his tea by knowing how to be beaten. Last week, in the famed Shamrock IV, he heard a pistol crack and scurried past a buoy at Cowes, England. Pennants crackled stiffly at mastheads; admirals, generals, statesmen, literary lions, captains of industry, peers and parasites eyed the heeling white boats, for it was the first day of the famed Cowes Week, and the King's cutter with Prince Henry...
...thoroughly at home in New York City. He would be at home anywhere, in a curious, amused, detached sort of way. They tell of Irish charm. One sees it in varying quantities. James Stephens has more of it in the crook of his little finger than any other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes. Something of the mystic, something of the comedian...
...Challenge. When the Shamrock IV trailed the Resolute across the line in the last of the 1920 yacht races for the America's Cup, sportsmen who stared at one another amid the din of the whistle, cheers and salutes?sportsmen who met afterward in London clubs, in Paris bars, in Manhattan cafeterias? asked, rather incredulously than inquisitively: "Will he [Sir Thomas Lipton] challenge again?" Last week, this question was answered. Arriving in the U. S., Sir Thomas said that he would challenge. True, certain formalities must be executed first. Even now international yachtsmen are holding in London a congress...
...replace the intimacy and closeness of the small club, for which members are naturally selected by virtue of congenially and likeness of interests. Competition such as was implied by Mr. Lament's, between the Union and the final clubs is obviously as impossible as would be rivalry between the "Shamrock III" and the Leviathan for the trans-Atlantic passenger traffic...