THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1937.
ENDEAVOUR, RANGER AND RAINBOW
MEDICA WINS BUT WAS NOT AT HIS BEST ·
SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA
INTERNATIONAL ATMOSPHERE
Sydney, March 18.
Finishing well ahead of Alan Crawford in 63 1-5sec., the fastest time ever recorded in Victoria, Jack Medica, who swam in the 110 yards Championship of Victoria, at the Olympic Pool on Monday night, was not at his best. Stomach trouble was affecting him, and he swam without dash. Crawford, as the first Victorian to finish, takes the title. His time 64 2-5.
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Later, Medica competed in a 220 yards sealed handicap, but though he won by 15 yards, the starts he was asked to concede were too severe, and he was unplaced when handicaps were adjusted. His time was 2min 25sec.,
The carnival was distinctly inter- national in atmosphere. Muasagi Kiyokawa, Japanese backstroke champion, appeared, and gave an exhibition. Two years ago Kiyokawa and his compatriot, T. Sakagami, were principals in the Victorian Centenary swimming car-
T. O. M. Sopwith, above, is the owner of Endeavour II which may challenge for the America's Cup.
nivals. Kiyokawa, who has since represented Japan at the Olympic Games, arrived in Victoria recently, and is now studying wool-classing at Geelong.
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CHALLENGE WHICH AMERICA FEARS AMERICA'S CUP SERIES
WILL BE FINEST SOPWITH'S BOAT MUCH FASTER?
(By WILLIAM H. TAYLOR,
the well-known American writer on yachting)
Mr. Harold Vanderbilt's pacht Rainbow, successful defender of the America's Cup in 1934, changed hunds this week; her new owner, Mr. Chandler Hovey, intends to race her against Mr. Vanderbilt's new yacht Ran- ger in selection trials before the defender is chosen to meet Mr. Sopwith's Endeavour II. when he races for the America's Cup this summer: Mr. Taylor, in the article below, discusses the improved chances of the British challenger in 1987.
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New York, April 30.
MERICAN yachtsmen are looking forward to the coming season of America's Cup racing with anticipation rather strongly tinged at least on the part of those charged with the duty of de- fending the historic trophy with apprehension.
EVEN ALLOWING FOR THE NERVOUS FLUTTER THAT ALWAYS PRECEDES THE APPEARANCE OF A NEW CHAL- LENGER, THEY HAVE A FEELING THAT THE DEFENDERS ARE GOING TO BE UP AGAINST THE MOST DANGEROUS THREAT IN 85 YEARS TO AMERICA'S CONTINUED POSSES- SION OF THE CUP.
This feeling is based largely on two things the known speed of the first Endeavour, which the new boat is reputed to have far outdone on numerous occasions, and the fact that both Endeavours are coming into American waters this spring, and that the Royal Yacht Squadron has the option, any time up to July 1, of substitut- ing the old for the new boat as its challenger.
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Sir Thomas Lipton on two oc- casions, in 1903 and 1920, had other boats here as trial horses for his challengers, but tuning-up racing between the yachts was not as serious, ac- cording to observers, as the. series of races will be which Mr. T. O. M. Sopwith and his asso- ciates are planning for the sum- mer. Also, the element of a possible switch in boats lacking.
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It is understood in America that both Endeavours will be at Bristol in May to fit out, and that they will be raced hard against each other on every possible occasion from then until the series starts on July 31. Mr. Sopwith, in a recent in- terview in New York, intimated that he intended to race the two of them with an open mind as to which would make the better boat to try for the Cup. He would cer tainly, he said, exercise his pri- vilege of naming the old boat if it seemed advisable.
NO MORE MISTAKES Other yachtsmen, both British and American, who have raced in the big class abroad during the past year, agree that the new En deavour is decidedly the faster boat under conditions where she has sea room, as she will have off Newport. This is by no means reassuring to the defenders, who are pretty gen- erally agreed that Endeavour was quite fast enough to have won the Cup in 1984 if it had not been for certain mistakes in her handling.
No Ameican is counting on those mistakes being repeated. Sopwith this year will be an old hand at a game which was wholly new to him in 1934. Americans who have raced against him in his home waters have a much higher opinion of him as a skipper than they got in the 1984 series,
VALUABLE ASSET: Another valuable asset to the challenger, it is felt, will be the (Continued on Page 22)