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...Century were customarily accompanied by bitterness and suspicion. That the tradition of rancor had stoutly survived the 31-year period in which the late Sir Thomas Lipton made five amiably unsuccessful attempts to win the Cup was evident last fortnight when Rainbow completed its defense against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Skipper Sopwith sharply expressed his dissatisfaction when the New York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags flying so that it was hours before anyone knew that Rainbow...
...because after leading at the start, Endeavour had been fairly beaten in the race. To newshawks he announced that he would never challenge for the Cup again. While a party at Newport's Clambake Club broke up in a row over whether the Committee should have heard the Sopwith protest and Designer Charles G. Nicholson of Endeavour went home disgusted, fair-minded yachtsmen had no trouble reaching a conclusion about the historic truths of the 1934 series: Endeavour, as a boat, was definitely faster than Rainbow. Mr. Sopwith, as a skipper who took the blame for "all my wrong...
...sides, was postponed for a day while Endeavour got a new Genoa jib. Rainbow got the better start. Endeavour passed her on the first leg. Shortly after rounding the mark, Rainbow over-took Endeavour, went on to win by more than a minute. After the race, Skipper Sopwith filed a protest with the America's Cup Race Committee. He stated that Rainbow had committed one breach of rules before the start, which enabled her to get across the line first, and another after rounding the first mark, which had enabled her to regain the lead...
...flying a protest flag immediately after the first foul, Endeavour had deprived Rainbow of a chance to enter a counterprotest, thereby preventing the Committee from disqualifying Endeavour in case it found Rainbow rather than Endeavour to be the injured party, the Race Committee refused to entertain the Sopwith protest. Mr. Sopwith kept silent until after...
Sixth Race. Before the start, Skipper Sopwith issued a statement indicating that he was by no means satisfied with the Race Committee's ruling on the first protest. Expressing "great disappointment" at the treatment he had received when the Committee failed to "take heed" of the "sailing tactics" of Skipper Vanderbilt, he intimated he would set sail from U. S. shores shortly after the series was over...