+1
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1937
ADMIRED FOR HIS RACING SKILL
GE LAN DAYS UP TEAM FOR US.
World Tour Planned
For Three Players
Berlin, July 8 Germany's Davis Cup tenuis stars, Baron Gottfried von Cramm: and Heinrich, Henkel, and Marie Louise Horn, ranking woman ace, will start a-world, tour after the German-championships in August
Their itinerary will include Boston, Forest Hills, where they will compete in the United States championships, San Francisco, Hollywood, Manila, Tokyo and Sidney.
ROMANI'S BRILLIANT MILE RUN
SECOND FASTEST IN HISTORY.
:1
BECCALLI FAILS
BY 20 YDS.
HAROLD VANDERBILT AMONG WORLD'S FINEST YACHTING
SKIPPERS
ALUMINUM AND DURALUMINUM SECRET OF RANGER'S SUCCESS
HAR
Newport, Rhode Island.
AROLD Stirling Vanderbilt, named by the New York Yacht Club as third-time defender of the America's cup is known to thousands of sportsmen who have never set foot off dry land as the "father of contract bridge."
AUTHOR OF THE ONGE FAMOUS “VANDERBILT CONVENTION,” THE NEW YORK FINANCIER HAS EXPRESSED IN HIS YACHTING CAREER THE SAME ATTITUDE THAT HAS MADE HEM AN INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN BRIDGE PLAYER. HE HAS ALWAYS PLAYED THE GAME TO WIN, AND HE HAS EXPECTED HIS OPPONENT TO OBSERVE THE RULES AS CAREFULLY AND MINUTELY AS HE DOES HIMSELF.
--
ACCUSATIONS THAT VANDERBILT PUT THE LETTER OF THE LAW ABOVE ITS SPIRIT, SUCH AS WERE HEARD AROUND NEWPORT AFTER THE PROTEST SQUABBLES WHICH MARRED THE 1934 RACES FOR THE AMERICA'S CUP, HAVE GIVEN PLACE TO ADMIRATION FOR HIS RAGING SKILL, HIS UNBOUNDED COURAGE, AND HIS UNRIVAL LED ABILITY TO TRAIN YACHTING CREWS.-
Vanderbilt his intimates
22.
know him as "Mike". began sailing boats when he was a small boy at Newport. Beginning with a little 14-footer, he worked his Charging down the homestretch way to 25 and 33-footers while like a team of horses harnessed to-still in college. Though he ac- gether, Archie San Romani and Don complished the four-year Har- Lash burst through the tape at vard course in three years to Palmer Stadium on June 19 in a earn his degree in 1907, and then near deadheat finish that furnished entered Harvard law school, hel the second fastest mile that man found time in the summers for has ever unfolded, a dazzling 4:07.2 sailing about Narragansett Bay that left a crowd of 20,000 breath and off Brenton's reef in the less with the brilliance of the per-waters his lofty cup defenders formance and the sensational char-were later to plough acter of its manufacture, reports In .1907 Vanderbilt built the "New York-Times."
his - first large vacht, The timers could not split them schooner Vagrant, with which apart at the wire, both being caught schooner, now known as Queen in the identical figures.
the
It took Mab, to-day is W. A. W. Stewart's the judges to determine that San flagship of the New York Yacht Romani, the heir apparent to the Club, sponsor of the international mile- crown, had beaten Lash by races.
the most infinitesimal of margins.
SECOND VAGRANT
More famous was the second Vag- Two yards behind these two stal-
rant, ordered in 1913, which thrice warts in one of the most spectacu-won the Astor Cap and twice the lar mile races ever run was Glenn King's Cap, blue ribbon events of Cunningham, the holder of the society yachting.
=
"ould Mug," "shove, em-
izined
his
fence of the Trophy
ing suprem- .
Mr. Harold S. successful-de- ith his yacht
once was she headed and that against Yankee when she was a mile astern of the Boston boat, the race being called after the time limit had expired.
VERY LIGHT VESSEL Ranger was built by the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, during the winter months of this year. Work was actually started on De- cember 22, 1936, when the 110-ton lead keel, the heaviest of any cup defender, was molded.
Her hull is of steel, fashioned-by the Carnegie Steel Corporation. Her mast, boom and two spinnaker poles are largely aluminum and part duraluminum. The wooden deck is made of white cedar transported from Oregon, where in an area of 100 miles in circumference white. cedar is grown the clearest of any part in the world.
ALUMINUM USED Throughout the construction of the boat, Designer W. Starling Bur- gess has used aluminum to lighten the construction of the class J. sloop. Aluminum is the hardest and lightest substance known in cup racing to-day, and it is with this substance that the Ranger attain- ed its speed
Aluminum has been used in the Screws on the white cedar deck season of racing, after which she planking, all are re-enforced under was junked. Ranger, built to last the deck fitting the rivets in the many summers, will have cost one-masts and parts of the structure
world record of 4:06.3. The barrel Vanderbilt, following in the steps chested Kansan did 4:07.4, a clock-of his grandfather, Commodore Cor- ing that had previously only been nelius Vanderbilt, founder of the surpassed by himself and yet, ironi-New York Central Railroad, became cally enough, it brought him only a commodore of the exclusive New third-place.
York Yacht Club in 1921. He served for three years. For a brief period A MAGNIFICENT DUEL·
in the mid 20's aviation lured him from the sea, and in 1927 his huge For sheer thrills this feature of Fokker seaplane was the most third that sim. the Princeton invitation meeting luxurious air yacht in this country: was one of the grandest battles of But the same year saw Vanderbuilt all time, a magnificent duel that placing an order for a new sailing At the helm of the three cup de left off being a three-cornered But the same year saw Vanderbilt fenders, Vanderbilt soon persuaded struggle forty yards from the wir which in ensuing seasons won fre-doubters he was among the greatest
3
when San Romani and Lash sho loose from Cunningham in a spri affair that has had few equals.
quent races and cruising runs.
AMERICA'S CUP DEBUT Vanderbilt moved into interna In one respect this was the great-tional competition in 1930 when he est of all mile races. Only one, headed the syndicate of wealthy the Cunningham epic, was faster, New Yorkers who built the but there was an eight-furlong test sloop Enterprise, before that had three men rundete
4:07.4 and under Even Luigi cali of Italy, a forlorn
twenty yards back, was well: 4.10.
Cunnin
fender of the
Sir Thomas rock Four headed, the and
ONE OF THE BEST
making up the crew's quarters. The flooring of the Ranger below deck is made of cork. Gas-fire places are provided for the crew as well as complete quarters.
SAIL-BINS
living racing skippers. In addition to his own skill in handling the
Sail bins below deck store the Tong, sleek yachts and controlling tremendous quantity of sails that their acres of canvas, he displayed the Banger carries with her. Sails an unsurpassed knack of training shutes, similar to coal shutes, but his paid hands, using methods much a little more semicircle send the like a football coach in developing sails sky-rocketing to the 165 fo
iger, Harold S. Vanderbilt's
yacht wa
Cup
der by the
working
uto the bola
Banger was equipped with
boards when
at the Bath Iron Works Her forward board shoots feet, nine inchess
her kee Her
smaller
board
than the
Only
Page 28)