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...were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks which were all green, Endeavor is a pale hydrangea blue. She is built entirely of steel except for a mahogany rudder, silver-spruce boom and pine decks...
There was one English boat which "Tom" Sopwith could not come anywhere near beating. She was Velsheda, built for Chain-store Tycoon W. L. Stephenson by Charles E. Nicholson who designed the Shamrocks. Velsheda was rigged according to the new international rules which provide that racing craft may have light duralumin masts but must have full cabin accommodations for owners and crew, and must have gear-handling equipment on deck (not below deck as on Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's sleek Cup-winner Enterprise). Mr. Sopwith commissioned Designer Nicholson to build him a yacht even faster than Velsheda. He will...
...Stephenson's big sloop, Velsheda, with which he may challenge for the America's cup next year: her fifth victory in a row, in the Royal Clyde Yacht Club regatta, with King George's Britannia second and Shamrock V a poor third; at Hunter's Quay, Scotland. ¶ The New York Athletic Club Relay team: four of their five races at the A. A. U. Championships, where Glenn Cunningham set a U. S. record for the 1,500 meter run; in Chicago. ¶ The New York Giants: a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals; both games...
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