. Book of the Royal blue . THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES, 1901. THE International Yacht Races betweenShamrock II and the Constitu-tion will take place off Sandy Hook,beginning September 21st, for the Amer-icas cup. The great interest taken in theraces of 1899 by the Anglo-Saxon peoplethroughout the world will long be remem-bered, and the plucky determination of SirThomas Lipton in building another boat tocompete for this coveted prize will tend toincrease the interest even more for thecoming races. The intense desire of the English nationto take away the prize will be readily un-derstood from
. Book of the Royal blue . THE INTERNATIONAL YACHT RACES, 1901. THE International Yacht Races betweenShamrock II and the Constitu-tion will take place off Sandy Hook,beginning September 21st, for the Amer-icas cup. The great interest taken in theraces of 1899 by the Anglo-Saxon peoplethroughout the world will long be remem-bered, and the plucky determination of SirThomas Lipton in building another boat tocompete for this coveted prize will tend toincrease the interest even more for thecoming races. The intense desire of the English nationto take away the prize will be readily un-derstood from the following history ofAmericas cup: In 1851, the America, owned by JohnC. Stevens, sailed for Cowes, England, tocompete for a cup offered by the RoyalYacht Squadron for a race around the Isleof Wight. The cup was to go to thefastest vessel, regardless of any specifica-tions whatever. The Yankee craft wonout against a whole fleet of eighteen ofthe English yachts, ranging from the littlecutter Aurora, of 47 tons, to the th
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