Excerpt from Which Was Right?: A Story of an International Yacht RaceEarly in the month of November, 1694, great interest was aroused among the American people by the announcement published in the newspapers that an English sportsman had decided to issue a challenge for a contest to decide the ownership of the great international yachting trophy. Details were lacking, but sufficient information had been forthcoming to indicate that a determined effort was to be made by the Englishman to recover the coveted cup. Time and again had attempts been made to win back the emblem, symbolical of supremacy in the sport of yachting, which had been brought to America years before by a boat whose name had been thereafter indissolubly connected with it. Each time the Englishmen had sent over their best boat, manned and captained by their most experienced sailors. Each time they had been met and defeated by a superior boat manned and captained by better sailors. Each defeat had apparently only added to the intensity of the desire to recover their lost prestige, until at the time this latest attempt became known to the public there was not a man, woman or child in the tight little isle who did not consider himself or herself to have a direct personal interest in the success of the enterprise.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.