Rainbow is selected to defend the America's Cup.
Behind that terse statement by the New York Yacht Club's selection committee last week lay 25 summer days of trial races by the three contenders off Newport, R. I. Last fortnight the weakest candidate, Frederick H. Prince's Weeta-moe, was eliminated. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow settled down to the serious work of defeating Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and sailed by that fine old salt, onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams.
Yankee had won most of the preliminary trials...
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