THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 7, 1989.
OCEAN YACHT RACING
The Wildcats, winners of the Southard Shield following their triumph in the Women's Softball League, 1939. (Royal Studio).
TO-DAY'S TENNIS
There are two matches in the "C" Division of the Tennis League, down for decision this afternoon which should be interesting.
At King's Park, C.B.A., who were strong contenders for the "D" Division title last season, meet C.R.C., holders of the shield in this Division,
C.B.A. are, however, weakened by the absence of B. I. Bickford, away on leave, and F. Angus, and should not provide much difficulty for the well-balanced C.R.C. team.
Radio and Postal Sports Club travel to Kowloon Tong to meet last year's runners-up. The home team are not nearly as powerful as they were last year, as they have lost the services of two of their finest players in Pang Oi-lam and Mok Fuk-in, and a very close game
should result.
South China should prove far too good for Craigengower, while Recreio should have little difficulty with I.R.C.
Division
PROGRAMME The following is the "C" tennis League programme and some of the teams selected for to-day:-
C.C.C.
C.B.A.
K.T.G.C.A.
I.R.C.
"D" Division
V S.C.A.A.
V
C.R.C.
V
V
R.P.S.C.
C.D.R.
C.C.C.:~S. A. Cassumbhoy and S. K. Chang, S. L. Leonard and P. C. Yu, H. King and P. C. Cheng.
GERMAN CRAFT TO COMPETE
Time Allowance Improvement
London, May 14-The Royal Ocean Racing Club's formulae for time allowances has played an important part in popularising the sport of ocean racing. It has shown amazing results in races over hundreds of miles.
This, together with the attractive way in which fixtures are arranged, particularly at holiday times, is a great tribute to the work of the club and its able officials.
So satisfactory indeed has the club rule proved that it has been adopted by France, Holland, Ger- many, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and Argentina. The Royal Ocean Racing Club's K. membership of over 700 is inter- H.jnational in character also, about 150 foreign members, including Americans, French, German's Dutch, Spanish, Swiss. Cuban, and a Dane.
S.C.A.A.-C. Y. Lau and T. C. Kwok and K. K. Wong. Leung, Y. K. Ng and C.-Y. Kwan,
Fowler, M. Yatskin and K. Knight, J. C.B.A.-N. B. Whitley and G. H.
Sloan and D. T. Smith.
Ling, Lee Ling-cheung and H. Y. Hsu. K.T.G.C.A.:-Henry Ling and T. E. Lam Kwan and W. H. Wei.
LEAGUE LAWN BOWLS TO-MORROW
and he is also responsible for half a dozen others, while Mr. Howson C. De- A sister ship to Mr. Devitt's is being vitt is having a twelve-tonner by him. built abroad. When these take their places amongst the grand ocean-going fleet already in existence we are prom- ised fine sport indeed.
One Addition
One addition, at least, suitable for the small class is "Mindy," which was built by King at Burnham, will be seen out in the first long race of the season, now being sailed in the Thames Estu- Corinthian's ary. This is the Royal finety-five miles event for the Thames Estuary Shield, started yesterday, at 5.30 p.m.
Each season in addition to the many I.R.C.-S. A. R. Bux and A, R., Kit- trophies sailed for there is a club points
and individual championship
boat's chell, B. M. Razack and A. J. Suffiad, A. M. Rumjahn and M. R. Abbas.
championship. Last season's club win- C.D.R.: H. A. Noronha and G. A.ners were Royal Naval Sailing Asso-
The R.O.R.C., as usual, commence Noronha, A. M. Remedios and J. Gonciation, with Royal Thames placed sec salves, M. Guterres and C. C. Pereira, ond and Marine Regatta Verein third their fixtures at Whitsun, but this year. of the forty-three clubs concerned. With instead of starting from the Crouch, Maid of Malham R.N.S.A. also won the Harwich will see the first of their events. These are the Weser Race for Trenchemer Cup in the Open Class,
A fifty-three-ton sloop for E. Gore-miles, and for smaller craft a 177 miles the big class, over a course of 295 Lloyd, by Camper and Nicholson, while course to the Solent has been substitut- not built primarily for ocean racing ed for the Maas event, which was pre- embodies many features which this has viously started in the Crouch and fin- proved. One which has been afloat tun-ished at Harwich. The Maas Challenge ing up for some time is Major Bryson's Cup, and usual R.O.R.C. Cups will be Taking advantage of the holiday thirty-five-footer Mary Bower, similar awarded in the Solent race, to-morrow Kowloon Football in appearance to Ortac, but with more
sail area, while Old Fox is a Watts challenge Cup, R.O.R.C. Cups, and the Club are playing off their post-designed forty-four-tonner. The Rear-Das Wappen von Bremen Cup, which poned lawn bowls League Games Commodore of R.O.R.C. is having one against Kowloon Tong and Prisonbuilt in the Baltic, but she is not ex Officers' Club in the Second and pected over until late in the season. Third Divisions respectively.
There are others for the large class The following are the teams:-und a good number suitable for the
v. Kowloon Tong (Away)
small class, including two of the John E. Eyans, W. Simpson, J. Gibson and Dory type. These are Clark designed, V. Chittenden (skip).
A. Moss, B. Thompson, and W. V. Field (skip).
V. Atienza
W. Groves, J. Eastman, P. Young- husband and T. Ferguson (skip).
v. Prison Officers' Club (Away) H. Mills, C. M. Hall, S. C. Wong and V. Petherick (skip).
W. Excell (skip).
K. TONG v. K.F.C.
C. Moss, T, M, Gregory, J. L. Ste phens and A. Spary (skip).
Y. Abbas, H. Y. Hsu, A. J. Kew and
D. Izatt, C. Fuller, J. Ross, and P.A. H. Basto (skip). Morgan (skip).
P. McCarthy, L. Bone, R. Hughes and
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The chief class race for the Haak's
is awarded to the first yacht home ir- respective of time allowance. German yachtsmen are very keen on this event, and are anxious to maintain the very cordial relations existing, and fifteen of their vessels are to take part in an event which will probably attract be- tween thirty and forty yachts.
The German competitors will race over from the Weser to Harwich, start- ing on Saturday, May 20, the race back starting on the following Friday, the 26th, at about 5.30 p.m., half an hour after the smaller class have set out for the Solent. On the Tuesday after the holiday yachts which do not go on to other Continental fixtures can race
back again under the R.O.R.C. to Har-
wich.
There follows these races a list of events lengthy enough to ensure that every enthusiast can be catered for, ranging in length from about thirty miles to the 685 miles of the Fastnet race which will commence on August 5. The programme ends with a Cowes to Poole event on September 2, but the last R.O.R.C. fixture is the Plymouth -La Rochelle one on August 18 over a course 355 miles in length.
Chief events of the ocean racing sea- son are:.
June 30, Southsea-Brixham,
miles.
208
July 14, Channel Race, 221 miles. July 20, Cowes-Dinard, 168 miles. August 5, Fastnet Race, 685 miles. August 5, Cowes-Falmouth, 167
miles.
August 12, Plymouth-La Rochelle,
355 miles.
With the numerous, other events pro- moted by clubs at home and on the Continent the ocean racing enthusiast is ensured of good sport. One realises, too, when a study of these events is made, the gruelling enthusiasts must be prepared to take when competing. Yet in a comparatively short life the Royal Ocean Racing Club, has made of this branch one of the most important of sailing.
The success which attended their programme last year was remarkable indeed, but still greater "triumphs are promised for 1989,
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