Remeasurement Of The Yachts

The Defender and the Valkyrieweredrydocked in the Erie basin for another scrub, and were floated again bef ore dark. The Defender also placed one of her spare topmasts in position to take the place of the one tliat was sprung in the collision. A surprise came to thepeople who were waitingabout the docks when John Hyslop, the official measurer of the Now York Yacht club, ontered the Boston doek yard, in which the dry docks are situated, with his black handbag in tow, and proceeded to measure the two boats again. It was said that Lord Dunraven had asked for one more measurement in the hope that by dint of extraordinarüy severe stripping the Valkyrie's water line could yet be reduced so that the 2 seconds time allowauce she gives the Defender could be wiped out. It was cortain that the English yacht was bare of everything that could be removed under the rules. But the same thing can be said of the Defender. On board the City of Bridgeport, the Valkyrie's tender, wero Rear Commodore Arthur Glennie, Designer Watson and Sailmaker Katsey. These gentlemen had no opinión to express on the regatta committoe's decisión. Captain Hank Haff, on the Defender, expressed his opinión that Iselin had no power to cali Tuesday's race off, even if he feit so inclinud. The captain thought that the nullifying of the event lay entirely with the America's cup commit u-u. In an interview Lord Dunraven expressed himself regarding the action of regatta committee of the Now York Yacht club in the matter of the protest made by the Defender in Tuesday's race as follows: "I shal! Sttll thisracetomorrow asa sportsi cauje i have no occasion to do otherwlse. I believe tn the nbility and honestyof the regatta oominittee of the N-n York Yacht club. I brlieve tliat no effort has been made t; iniluoncc thoir decisión. I bellere them to be gentlemen and yiic'htsiiian. and, whlle I do not caro to say anythinj: about the Valkyrie, I yet think that Mr. "iVatson has also fulfllled his engagement to build for me a boat. I do not expect that Mr. Iselin will offer a chance for a resail or anything of that sort. "While it is very cortain tliat the Anierjca's cup is lost by reaaop oí the Valkyrio's racing showing, it is not so certain that at gome time the cup may not be carrled arross the Atlantic. I belleve fchat the Defender mude a heroic effort on Tucsday. I do not think that the decisión of the Xow York Yacht club regatta committea i id upon thoir calm consideration of liitter in hand. Ido not agroe with tlu'm."