SOPWITH'S YACHT DISMASTED IN GALE
Endeavour II and Velsheda Spars Crash during the contest in the Channel.

PLYMOUTH, England, July 3.- T. O. M. Sopwith's new yacht, Endeavour II. prospective challenger for the America's Cup, and W. L. Stephenson's Velsheda both were dismasted in a race off here. They were caught in the teeth of a gale in the English Channel.
While she was pounding in the trough of the sea, the new Endeavour's steel spar snapped off at the lower crosstrees. As the mast went the boom, mainsail and rigging came crashing down on deck. Almost in the next moment, Velsheda's mast carried away eight feet above her deck.
The two yachts, covered with fallen and tangled tophampers, lay slamming about in a tumbling sea. Much of the gear slid off and dragged to leeward.
There was only one casualty. A member of the Endeavour's crew receive a face injury.
The Endeavour of two years ago, with which Sopwith unsuccessfully tried to capture the America's Cup, was also of the race and bore down on each disable yacht in turn, offering assistance. Tugs and motor yachts were summoned from shore and two of them towed the disabled racers in here.