The Race for the America ' Cup On the day
on which this issue of the Spectator is dated the first race between the yachts representing Great Britain and the United States for the America ' Cup is due to be sailed. For the first time in the history of the race the American defender is built to rules which make her a sea-going vessel and not merely a racing machine for sheltered waters. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V ' has given satisfaction on all points of sailing—beating, reaching and running--and is generally thought to be as fast a vessel as has ever been built in Great Britain. This week there has been much excitement among American yachtsmen as Mr. Nichols, the helmsman of Wcetamoc ' (one of the four American yachts which wer.: tried before `Enterprise ' was chosen to defend the Cup) condemned a special boom provided for Enterprise ' as offending against the spirit of the New York Yacht Club's rules.
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