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Sport: Off Newport

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The Event.

For the America's Cup—rococo, gourd-necked silver trophy 2 ft. 3 in. high, offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron for a sailing race in England in 1851, won by the yacht America, and ever since the property of U. S. yachtsmen:

A series of match races off Newport, R. I., on courses to be announced by signals from the committee boat on the day of each race, the winner to be the boat taking four races out of seven:

The contestants: two yachts built within the limit of the specifications for the...

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