YANKEE IN FIRST CUP TRIAL TODAY
This test, early one of Rainbow, Weetamoe not held significant.
BY TOM HORGAN,
Associated Press editor.
NEWPORT, R. I., June 18.- Yankee goes out today to receive her baptism as a 1934 candidate for the honor and responsibility of defending the America's Cup, most famous of all yachting trophies.
She is the only one of the three candidates that remains untested. Weetamoe and Rainbow have had two preliminary tests and Rainbow has emerged victorious from both.
Yankee has raced, however. She went out yesterday against Vanitie, and was trounced, but Vanitie, ineligible for defense purposes,is larger and more powerful and above Yankee's rating.
These first few trials are not being taken too seriously by the yacht-wise. Weetamoe had only set her sails three times since she was placed in commission after alterations. THE first two days of sailing, too, were in a very light air and no one knows yet what Harold S. Vanderbilt's newly constructed Rainbow will do in an honest breeze.
Changes are being made in Weetamoe, owned by Frederick Prince and sailed by Dick Boardmen; and it is certain that the skipper of the Boston entry, Yankee, Charles Francis Adams, former Secretary of the Navy, is not satisfied with his present condition.