In Manhattan's City Hall, Mayor James John Walker presented a very heavy gold cup to Sir Thomas Lipton. It was the cup for which U. S. people who admire Sir Thomas had been sending in moneya consolation cup to show they thought him a good loser. Sir Thomas was feeling too badly to read all of his speech but got through some of it. ". . . After one of my former attempts to lift the cup I received a letter from a lady sympathizer inquiring whether it was true that the Americans had...
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