1938-08-20 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 20, 1938

Ocean Dare-Devil!

He's The Hero Of A Thousand Adventures

Cowes (By Mail). "Looking for Uffa Fox?" asked the "Kaiser"- moustached barber who shaved me in a saloon near the Waterfront. here. "That's a good one! Might as well try to catch a weasel asleep!"

Fox?"

shot-gun for-SIĄ That money helped us to make the Azores. There we got a little more money by doing-odd jobs.” .

Uffa is a specialist in dinghies. The first 15 dinghies in the race for the Prince of Wales's Cup not "So you want Uffa

long ago were all built at his yard. they said in 'the bar of, Every now and then he will em the Island Sailing Club.bark on some unexpected adven- "Well, try sitting on his doorstepture, like sailing a 14-footer from until he comes home. That's the Cowes to France, and racing on only way you'll catch Uffa!”

the other side before coming back "Mr. Fox? Course I know him-to Cowes.. who doesn't know Mr. Fox in Or he will do something like that Cowes?" replied the waiter at the other famous exploit-taking his Fountain Tavern. "If you see a tiny Vigilant across the North Sea gent that's got black hair, artistic- and through the Baltic to Stock- like, and dresses any old how-well,holm. that'll be him."

Then I met Uffa Fox, "uncrown- ed king" of the sailing world of Cowes-the world's finest small- craft handler; hero of a thousand adventures on land and at sea; a figure that might have stepped out of a Stevenson romance, writes a special correspondent."

NOT ALLOWED TO WED?

Suicide Pact Story

From India'

Internationally famous as 2 yachtsman,boat-designer, boat- builder, boat-owner and author, Uffa Fox is E character in 2 million-a man who, as

Bombay, July 20. everyone in the Isle of Wight

The Dadar railway station will tell you

little cares as + for the world's opinion as any her-the scene of a ghastly tragedy last mit on the heights of the Himalay-night when a Hindu couple, inter- locked in each other's arms, were picked up from the railway track, just after a local train had passed.

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Fifteen years ago, Uffa Fox, who has crossed the Atlantic three times a "cockleshell" craft, and can hand- The youth was found dead and le any kind of vessel from a Thames barge to a liner, was working as a trimmer aboard, the Red Star liner Lapland, bound for New York.

STRANGE GENIUS Dutchmen, Indians, Belgians, Germans-sailors from all the ends of the earth-huddled together in a sweating, grumbling mass-one night down in the forecastle.

A husky Belgian, with the frame of a Colossus, thought' he'd “rag". the quite English lad who, ignoring all the shouted invitatoins to join the card school, cat curled up in a corner reading Sharkespeare,

Taking off his, enormous wooden sabots, the Belgian chucked them, one by one, at Uffa Fox.

The black-haired trimmer looked up, then he picked up one of he sabots, took careful aim and hurled it back at the Beligian with such force that it split the big follow's. skull.

Nobody interfered with Uffa. after that,

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This strange genius, is working day and night at his yard in Cowes, building a craft that he hopes will outsail the best America can show.

He has been about 10 years in the boat-building profession.

ASTONISHING YACHT

His first yacht, Avenger, swept the board and astonished all who saw her race. She had 51 first two

thirds seconds and three prizes in 66 starts!

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This man, who may "lift" the America's Cup for Britain, told me how he sailed to America in Nutt- ing's Typhoon, with only a few pounds in his pocket and nearly lost his life several times in the crossing.

"We were terribly hard up," “Uffa said. “Food was scarce, We used to shoot birds in the Bay of Biscay. Sometimes I would dive overboard and get them,

“We had: achit of luck on the

we sold Spanish constits

the girl is now lying in a precari- ous condition with a severe head injury.

The nice dramatle ability of (Whitney Bourne. Hollywood's recrut from the socialité ranks, is given play in "Blind Alibl," Richard Dix's current starring film. In the opening scenes she is presented as a cypical critle of a struggling artist's work; in the later scenes she is revealed an A sympathetic and loyal friend of the same artist, who has come back into her life as a supposedly blind man while on a mission impérilled by a gang of blackmailers.

£100 Dog Will Be Murder Witness

New York (By Mail). cused of the murder, will be intro- A Pedigree dog was held in cus-duced in evidence to prove a link tody by New York police recently between Bathelt and the dead man. as an important witness in the mur der of Charles Morris, race-horse owner, whose skeleton was found recently encased in a cement block in Connecticut River.

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It is alleged it was sold puppy to Charles Morris, cheque paying for it was allegedly signed by Morris, but it was made out by Bathelt. According to the police. were The dog owned by a woman Bathelt later gained possession of friend of John Paul Bathelt, hus- the dog and offered to sell it for band of a New York heiress ac-l£100.

A suicide pact was revealed by a letter reported to have been found on the person of the youth, which stated that the two were in love. with each other, but they forced to keep out of marriage by the threat of social ostracism

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