THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936.
CORONATION YEAR WILL SEE THE AMERICA'S CUP RACE REVIVED
ENDEAVOUR II TO HAVE TRIALS IN SUMMER
AN ALL-EMPIRE PRODUCTION
(By Special Correspondent.)
During Coronation Year, in September, 1937, there will be yet another race for the most elusive sporting trophy in the world -the America's Cup. The next British challenger, the new all. steel J Class yacht, Endeavour II., is being built this winter, and will have extensive trials during the coming summer at all the Royal Regattas around the Channel coasts, where thousands of holiday-makers will have a chance to watch the racing of this beautiful sailing ship.
the America's Cup. In 1861 the chooner America had a clipper bow, which was then fashionable for ocean.
sailing craft.
Π
Some of the
in the Blue The America's Cup Riband of yacht racing, and has been the chiaf competitive stimulus in the designing and building of big J Class yachts, Originally It was a silver vessels immediately following her had
Atraight bow and a
straight keel, cap offered by the Royal Yacht Squadron at Cowes, for a race around but in later years designers of the Isle
of Wight in 1851, and was have followed more closely, to Nature won by the schooner America-hence and modelled the hulls of these racing America's Cup. During the Intercraft much like a half-fish and with
years there have been fifteena fin-shaped keel,
win it
tul challenges to
The challenger's bow is like a half.
back, costing over two million pounds. spear, and equally as sharp on the The luitinl cost of the Cup was one hundred pounds, and at the prezenti
about price of zilver it in worth nineteen pounds.
career,
inte
the lay
for
for
extreme use, whilst the hull aft fines cut to the counter very much like the tall of a large fish. It will be noted, too, that recently-designed big The new challenger will naturally including the new embody in her design and building all the main hall form the best accumulated experience in ilke a giant shark's. To
. naval architecture gained during the student of naval architecture thus In past Afty years by Mr. Charles E. an extremely interesting feature Nicholson, the most eminent designer the Arab Dhow, seen in the
follows very much the of yachts in, the Empire, who has Ocean to-day,
of the finest and fastest Hines of her ancestors of two thousand built
yachts in the world.
years ago whose designers copied the racing
Discussing yacht racing recently sharp's form. Indeed except that the with Mr. Charles Nicholson, he re-bow of a J Class yacht is now clon- as well as gated to do away with the bowsprit, marked: "The building, the sailing, of yachts is the finest there is a grent similarity to the bow sport in the world. There is always of the Arab Dhow in which I used to an element of fascinating uncertain all when living in Zanzibar, ty in it. It is one of the few crafts
OLD IDEAS REVIVED left in the modern world where art, are all combined
Another interesting innovation in sport, and work Yacht
moro of
axler J Class yacht Is her a correct selence, and un art than
And "tumble-home" sides, resembling the will, as far as I can see after fifty above-water lines of the old "wooden
90. We walls of England, and which was years' experience, semain
and re-design, and the "pe characteristic of the H.M.S. Victory design
•har-11
of ship built a century and Budd of our yachts depends upon the mony, wind, and not least, seaman- half ago, the iden being to prevent ship. In yacht racing art and sport
the ducks being awash when the are subtly combined. For this rea
gacht in heeling to a smart breeze, will greatly in son its popularity
The sailing yacht will ever appent to the artistic instincts in'
стение.
mines,
designing is
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L/Cpl. Peters, R.E. and Lieut. Patullo, R.E, who tied for first place in the Grand Aggregate during the Hongkong Rifle Associa tion's prize meeting, photographed with some of the trophies they won (Photo: Ming Yuan).
Browns And White Sox Exchange Pitchers
New York, May 5. The St. Louis Brown's pit- cher, Morritt Cain has been traded to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Leslie Titje, according to an announce- ment made to-day. They are American League ball players-uited Press.
THROWS IN HIS HAND
U.S. BASKETBALL DIRECTOR
REFEREES' MEETING
Football Officials Suspend Fortnightly. Gatherings
As the local football season will be brought to a close in the very near future, the fortnightly meetings of the Hongkong Referees Association will be suspended until the sutumn. The next meeting of the Associa tion has provisionally been fixed for Monday, September 14, at the Sports Club at B p.m.
WHO'S WHO IN CURTIS CUP
(Continued from Page 8.) The runner-u 1931. She has played for Englund since 1931, and The rain against the United States, Canada and France since 12. Her favourite club is a Nu 2 run.
Britannia Not To Race Again
THOUGH PERFECT IN CONDITION
London, Apr. 26. Imperfect though royal, the Vic- toria and Albert has never been considered a really seaworthy ship, Now she is to go to the shipbreakers. iler career is likely to end some tim” next year, probably after the Corona- tion Naval Review which will be held in May 1937 if King Edward follows precedent.
• The Victoria and Albert was built for Queen Victoria, and was launched in 1890 by Queen Mary, then Duchess of York. Eight months after the launching, while she was being com- pleted in dock. she-heeled" over suddenly and lay at an angle of 20 degrees. It was found that serious errors had been made in the enlouin- tions for weight and stability,
The result was that her designer, Sir William White, who was con- aldered the world's most eminent na- his val architect, resigned from position. Efforts were made to
the fault, and eventually the Victoria and Albert was put into commission, but sle was never complete success, and has not been used for serious ocean cruising.
Last July King George
accom-
panied by the present King, spent two days in the Victoria and Albert for the Naval Review at. Spithead and at the exercises that followed. She has not been to sen since. Rear- Admiral Dudley North commands the yacht which also numbers among her. officers Captain L. Da C. Ricci, or the author of sen stories. Officers and men total 363
"Bartimeus" altogether."
Liona
BRITANNIA'S FATE
race
So far no decision has been made. to break up the Britannin, the yacht owned and raced by King George and accounted the finest racing yacht in the world. It has been decided, however, that she shall not again, 20 it seems that sooner or fater she is intended to be broken up. Yachtsmen have made many sugges- for her future and they are being considered carefully. She is in perfect condition after 42 years.
Though King Edwa
Edward
does not take his father's keen interest in yachting and the son generally, he is expected to accept the position King George held of Admiral of the Royal Yacht Squad-on. is proposed to give him a class "J" yacht us coronation gift and his views are to be sought before the gift is offered, ---Beuter.
Nature has also been copied in the! design of the challenger's mast, which is constructed of high tensile steel. The bamboo cane has served As model for this tail, siendier ateel A GRACEFUL SHIP
168 feet long. The knots or The new challenger will be an all. "rings" of the bamboo can have been
Her beautiful modelled in special steel and electric Empire production, hull will be shaped from British steel ally welded inside the steel tube. Tha plates, rolled and tested at the United seams of the steel mast nye butt-edged Steel Company's works, Appleby, and also welded by an electrical pro-
of ceus. 01 The Cumberland.
mahogany
Lawrence, Kansas, May 5.
MISS BRIDGET NEWELL which her
from is made comes
It will come as a great surprise to rudder" British Honduras, the yellow pine the layman to know the sails of these Dr. Forrest Allen, the Kansas-
Such a newcomer to the ranks of the mighty that she is not even Ixted In the stud-bo for the docks from
the forests of big racing yachts are all deuble University basketball coach his re- Western Canada, and the cotton fer stitched by hand, although we live in signed as director of the American "The Guffer & Ifaurik". Until Otis vers smson Pile was just one of the many god her great white wings was grown in machine age, and the yarn used in World Olympics basketball because of the Sudan and woven at the on the actual sewing is of the same the "unsportsmanlike attitude of the elab players, but aning the ranks, of the
tournament playin. However she won the TO DAUCHTER Of MaharajaH members of the A.A.U. committee."
first big medal competition of this season, the the sail-cloth. This pro- | Crewkerne, Somerset material
ial DN
OF RAJPIPLA Dr. Allen added that the A.AU.scratch Gold Cup Rt Roehampton with a score market town
will
of 54. Soon afterwards she was invited 19
*AT Nature artistry
behave as one piece under- then ways,
there best the course record of 38 by two and man's
try will have co weather conditions, The, Bermudian tie directors who enjoy riding in creating this graceful mainsail is made of one hundred and nited Press, operated sailing and Nicholson's yard,
ship.
She will be built at twenty pieces, and the cloth takes four
months to prepare. Go
In the sail loft port, on the western shores at the entrance to Portsmouth Harbour, and temperature so that all the various is of romantic interest to learn pieces can be "seasoned" to the same before being that the sails will be cut and shaped climatic conditions
ก
Thus the accumulated...__energies__of_!_vision 1 essential, as the cloth was filled with, n. group of Inert parkolpate in the tale at Glenergies,”
diverse
is placed out "to nir" in an even IMPROVED DISPLAY BY
In an adjoining loft, owned by Ratsey stitched together. and Lapthorn, where about
hu
of
In the matter of sails, Mother Na-} dred and thirty-three years ago the ture has again come to the rescue salls were made for Nelson's flagship, the yacht
OLYMPIC PLAYERS
(Continued from Page 8.)
utruken, bruiden showing excellent form in her
matched it were likely that she will play u the wingles hist not the foursomes. And it I aimet certain that he has been picked un this season's form alane. Of middle height And so, she is somewhere in the rly
twendes. Smart dresser and cheerful appear ance, but with a nut-cracker jaw and nowe. Shế là a quick, sletermined player, and one of the inouest hitters in this country. Whe ber, short game comes up to her kur vante Lähe will take's good deal of stopping.
MIS PHYLLIS HELEN WADE There is even less to record about her than
ILM.S. Vietory, before she left to mudian mainger, and in the Ber- their failure to use the right wingi
the bird's wing has to any extent. Favacho was starved Miss Newell, although at least she is in the An approximate idea of her size kind of snit rs ago set a similar when the A.S.F. nunek would swing handbook. Her oge in not alven, and pre-
fight in the Battle of Trafalgar.
been
copied. Yet the ancients of two thousand
known as the Inten,
and
Into action.
Aumably there are on photographs of her, for
of champions when she won the English native
may be gained from the following used in Egyptian and Arab craft attack proved to be the fast and champkurship In 1936. From personal remem The dangerous part of the Chinese her likeness was missing from the gallery simple measurements. Her extreme today, except that work Tho at of women length from the top of her lang the sail is set differently and left and Tay Qua-linng at the left here, ahe sa whort and stewkily built in her Inte twentien; and out the stemilient of points pointed bow to her counter will be point higher.
| wing. Combining smoothly., they players. She wan Hampshire champion Naturally, mun my applied much moved swiftly through the half-back 1933 and 1955, wred pinged for England in the of his scientific invention to the more line time and again and only the fine home internationaiz in 1934. he was a men- efficient handling of a yacht's sails. work of the A.S.F. backs or weak.ber of the Australaning touring tenni, To-day the hard manual labour ex-ness on the part of the other for-
about 132 feet, whilst her length on
the waterline is to be 87 feet, and her extreme beam will probably be 2254 feet. Her draught, meaning the depth she is in the
her waterline to
to and keel, is 15 feet,
und
bo of
The part
104 tons displacemate the
ly
which will
great
the
DULEEPSINHJI MARRIED
Rajpipla, May-b;---- K. S. Duleepsinhji, nephew of the late K. S. Ranjitsinhli, and the famous England and Sussex cricketer, Was married here to-day to the daughter
the Maharajah Rajpipla.-Router. ·
of
SPORT ADVTS.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
of
Draft Programmes and Entry Forms for the Fifth Extra Race Meeting to be held on Saturday, 16th May, 1936, (weather permit- ting) may be obtained at the MRS. J. B. WALKER Secretary's Office, Exchange Build. Timly Irish woman in the team anding: the Club House, Happy
i pertenced in the sailing ships of last wards halted the movere. K. P. the bent in that Ettle country. A smart look-
is mostly
ercentury Sed
Bermudian mainsall, sails,
MS. Lee,
, specially China, K. P. PRU, T. S.
winches used to haul in the main sches Tam, Y. C. Liang, M. S. Wong, K. W Lee, S. Y. Yeung, K. S. Suen, C. H. of beches, the latest fashioned in hey will be her huge sails, especial- | mangle, are also in favour, the intent Fung, . K. TRO, Q. L. Cheng.
A.S.F.--Boissezon, Borgeest, Jack the Genoa jib. Ward, Remedios, Park, Bell, Favacho, which In 153 feet from the deck to Mechanical
Real gadgets are now also the penk, therefore nearly as high BR favour, the latest being a tin racing Nelson's
n'a' monument In Trafalgar flag at the mast head, which acts as tion. With the ald of this gadget a wind indicator and pressure gauge, the helmsman is able to steer his Naturally, the hull form of these telling the helmsman on a dial in ship more efficiently trimming his big racing yachts has changed very front of the wheel the pressure of sails with every shift of wind shown considerably since the rat race for wind at the mast head and its diree- on the mechanical indicator.
quare.
matron of about 38, well built and with Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the powerful awing. She was the chaperone of Sports Club; and the Stables, the 1981 Curtis Cup team, tihe ja in okl intemational player, the very wrence of steadi- Shan Kwong Road.
in a tight corper. In certain to be the
of the foursomes pairings. If not the singles
Entries close
Starbon, with whom she won the Autreilan foursome championship during the Australa 1936. size fee-st year. She won the Irish cham- whip in 1980 and was runner-up in 1934.
She is the Australian champion, and runner.
up for the New Zealand championship.""""She
has played for Ireland ever since 1928, and
for Mrithis agulast the United States
and
at 12 o'clock on Thursday, 7th May,
By Order,
S. A. SLEAP,
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