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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY,

APRIL 23, 1937.

SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE OF AMERICA'S

CUP IS FORECAST BY EXPERTS

World Heavyweight Boxing TO-MORROW'S RACE

Championship Embroil

POSITION FAST BECOMING

FARCICAL

(By Jack Cuddy)

MEETING

(Continued from Page 8.)

culty in crossing the wire first to be followed by Centre Forward ond Yihon.

NEW AND IMPORTANT

DEVELOPMENTS IN ·

RACING CRAFT

BY WILLIAM H. TAYLOR, The well-known American writer on

Yachting

Recent developments in the Endeavour and Rainbow is still u

United Press Stap Correspondent i was believed that Jacobs and this! TABBY CAT FOR THE American J class yachting picture possibility, though a remote.one.

New York. captain were working together for the Chicago fight. But recent deve- Jopments indicate that this nois tycoon is trying to shove Jacobs out

On to Berlin? Nover in history has there been such an embroll- ment over the world's heavyweight championship. Champion James J. Braddock is

of the Chiengo fight picture.

HUNCHBACK PLATE

not only promise an exciting three months of America's Cup preli- minaries off. Newport, but heigh ten the chances of another suc cessful defence of the Cup against

challenge.

WEETAMOE TOO SMALL

The chances of a fourth American boat being in the running are un- fading. Mr. George fortunately Nichols, who raced Weetamoe in the for her, but it looks now as though the latter will have

"much lake ка

conson Square Garden against the most

to defend his title: (1) and the Chicant developments pubile since running fourth in the the Royal Yacht Squadron's 1930 trials, made Mr. Huvey an offer |

for

Max Schuneling at the Garden bowl on June 3; (2) for Joe Foley

key Parks, Chicago, against Joe Comiskey Louis June 22.

the

the

10

This reported split between Jacobs especially the one of February 14, capitalist is one of when she covered six furlongs in 1.22.3/5. Aziec is not appeared in heavyweight situation to date. Rooty-li Derby last February and Some persons have connected

Chief among these is the rerigging of Weetamoe's gear to all out Rain- bill I doubt if she will welgh out to- Illinois senate's passage of a

bow that this deal will fall through. limiting ticket prices to $10 with this morrow for Mr. D. Black, who is No. of Yankee and the announcement of

1 stri

string jockey of Dunbar's outfit, Mr. Gerard B. Lambert, her owner

Mr. Nichola himself considers break. Others insist that the senate has been booked to steer Lancashire and skipper, that he is "out for blood" Weetamoe too small a boat for modern class J conditions. He had planned Chicago that race riots may result Chips. However a bet of $5 each in the coming campaign, and has no from Braddock-Louis fight at Comis-way is shown vestene erop toerton of one paying the tame to sail her merely for his own enjoy- Telegraph of a mere trial horse for Mr. ment, and whatever help she might key Park, which is in the Chicago name

Haroid S. Vanderbilt's new Ranger, be in tuning the others up, but many negro district.

which

Is well on the way to com-American yachtsmen had looked for- pletion at Bath, Mr.

ward to seeing the old 1930 Nichols- Weetamoe combination afloat again,

At any rate, it looks now as though there will be a real battle among

with action reflects fear in Illinois and

were

+

And yet the titleholder's manager, Joo Gould, is negotiating Schmeling and Deutchland Halle to swing the Braddock-Schmeling title fight to Berlin's Olympic stadium carly in July.

Braddock and Gould have vowed

LAUGHABLE GUARANTEE that the

champion never will defend his

crown against Schmeling in New

Gould and Braddock reportedly York

because of the anti-Nazi cum-

guaranteed $500,000 to meet Herr Maxle. It would Louis in Chicago on June 22. How- fighting for "Peanut money. Meanwhile, the Garden is attempt-ever, this guarantee is laughed down o restrain But there is no question that Gould by many of the boxing fraternity. Ing to obtain an injunction to Braddock from fuinlling his engage and Braddocks were offered $350,000 iment with Foley in preference to his one with the Gardon, the Garden also Gould rejected this offer at first, he

to fight Schmeling to Berlin.

While

is striving to

to prevent Braddock from

later

Schmeling aboard the meeting Schmeling in Berlin under Queen

the former foreign promotion but don't be sur-

champion was enroute to Germany. prised if Jersey James defends hile

Most observers believe that Gould title in Berlin.

paign mean

phory-while

Board.

on

It should not be overlooked that these subscription griffing are not at home with the barrier and being sprint race, anything may happen. COPPER IDOL, HAS

GOOD CHANCE

Of Winning The Last Event

the

Feeling that Yankee, a 1830 boat, "is big enough to be a real contender against the more modern Endeavours and Ranger. Mr. Lambert and Mr. Frank C. Paine, her designer, have given her a completely new rig, which they hope will compensate for any deficiencies in her hull design as

of Ranger and against those Endeavours.

It is not so much a new rig as the application of rig of typical small- bont proportions the 7,521-square- The Tal-Mo-Shan (second section) foot sail area of a class J sloop. The In the first place when Braddockasiced Schmeling if the offer was still for "D" class China ponies will be the most of Yankee has been moved 0% บท open. However, Gould denied any last event on the card and a good feet

feet forward, and the main boom anade his contract (real or alleged) such question, stating "I simply asked race is assured. Araxy, I under lengthened nine set of her mula- feet, add 508 with the men in Chicago, both Brad-

stand, will be taken Qul by Mr. square feet to પદ્મ dock and his manager understood him a personal question."

Proulx and the combination does not sall, which is now 5,553 square feet. that Mike Jacobs, New York's 20th

Because of the apparent split be-Treat

any recommendation. Em- Century Club promoter, and the tween Jacobs, who has both Schmel-ergency Call and Happy Venture are about three and a half feet at the

require

The Jibstay has been brought aft Chicago" power that be in

were ing and Louls under contract, and the at the bottom of the ladder with only deck, shortening the foot of the fore working hand-in-hand.

Chicago capitalist who is a big shot 140 ibs. to carry, and it is well to triangle 10 feet altogether, and re But--they

are not. In

fact, in the Garden, it seems that linols remember that the latter is a fast ducing the area of the headsails just Chicago doesn't seem to want the title bout is cut definitely. And be merchant of the mark. It has been about as much as that of the main- Braddock-Louis fight. One of the cause of the boycott the Long Island whispered that Philanderer will cut sail is increased, her total measured, brosshats of New York's Madison bowl affair is off.

the fee to-morrow to register his firs! sail area being 7,521 square feet. Square Garden also is one of the What to do, what to do?

win, but I prefer Copper Idol's wealthiest and most influenital cop- Go to Berlin ... and grab the chances provided he keeps a straight

TRIANGULAR JIBS tains of finance in Chicago. At first $350,000.

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AIR CONDITIONED THEATRES

IMAGINE THE FUN WHEN THESE THREE

STARS GET HILARIOUSLY TOGETHER!

Up-to-the-minute Joan romping

with mile-a-minute Bob and Smile-a-minute Bill! Get gay!

course.

OPENING

TO-MORROW

JOAN CRAWFORD WILLIAM POWELL ROBERT MONTGOMERY

It's one of M-GM's big- gest laugh hits and no wonder, with such a pair of gay rascals as Bill and Bob tangled up in the ro. mantic escapades of Joan, as a girl from the "five-and- ten" who crashes society to steal or marry a million?

the

Cast of Mrs. Cheyney

Metro-Goldwyn

FRANK MORGAN

JESSIE RALPH. NIGEL BRUCE From the play by Fredrick Lonsdale Directed by Richard Boleslawski Produced by Lawrance Weingarten

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In place of the flb und forestaysail carried by all the modern class sloops both In England and America, Yankee will spread a single jib, the size, of course, varying according to the strength of the breeze. The new jibs will all be triangular there bring no object in using a quadrilateral jib with this rig.

Played With Arm

In Splints

McKenzie, Southend goal- keeper, played with an arm in splints for part of a recent Third Division match against Brighton.

He cracked a wrist bone in attempting a save during the first half. The wrist and arm were put in splints at half-time, but McKenzie insisted on going out again to play.

He went outside right for Then the Southend a time. captain, 'Nelson, persuaded him to leave. He went to. hospital later.

Southend, a goal down at the time of McKenzie's in- jury, hit back and won 2-1.

The primary object, of course, is three American bouts for the selec to increase the efficiency of the suition, which means that whichever plan and get a better wind-tunnel one wins will be in just that much effect between the sails than is possi- better trim to meet whichever of the ble with two headsails. The changes two Endeavours Mr. Sopwith finally may also simplify handling and save chooses. seconds on a tack or a jibe.

With the American boats holding To carry the rig. Yankee's 1935 their trials and the two Endeavours steel must has been reinforced with holding theirs, the owners will have steel rib welded to its forward side. to reach some sort of agreement on Five sets of jumper stays and struts apportioning the ocean off Newport, on the fore side of the mast are de so that they won't be running into signed to take care of the strain each other. hitherto carried by the forestay, which eliminged. Only one pair of backstays is

oys is being used, which further simplifics handling.

The proportions of jib and main- sail in the total sail area are about same as in the most successful class Q sloops, which arc the slipperlest things for their rating that have ever been turned out under the Universal measurement rule. They are not far from those of the best modern six-meter and twelve-meter sloops developed in America.

EXPERIMENTING

Whether the rig will prove practical in a yacht as large as a Class J sloop remains to be seen-Messrs. Lambert and Paine are frankly experimenting, and are prepared to put the old rig back in if the new one proves un-

satisfactory. They will, of course, have to be content with a shorter spinnaker

pole than heretofore, a marked disadvantage in running, but they believe that they have made Yankee theoretically faster than she was last year.

Besides changing the rig they have altered the keel, lowering the centre

Yankee is

is to be in commission early in April, and will give her new rig a try-out around Boston before going. west'

"to meet_Ranger. The latter, now plated and decked, is expected to be launched April 15 and towed to New York, where she will do her early salling on the Sound, and per- haps have a skirmish or two with Yankee before they go to Newport.

Rainbow, with less experiment to do, may be out a few weeks later than the others."

A week of racing off the Eastern Yacht Club, at Marblehead, home port of Rainbow and Yankee, is planned for Aug. 28 to Sept. 3, and will probably wind up the season for the big boats in America.

SPORT ADVTS.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.

The Fourth Extra Race Meeting

The First Bell will be rung at

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hongkong, 19th April, 1937,

of gravity of the lead, at the same will be held (weather permitting) time increasing the fore and aft at HAPPY VALLEY on Saturday, length of the keel and fining its lines. 24th April, 1937, commencing at

Unlike most of the older boats, 2.00 p.m. Yankee is, as Mr. Lambert points out, practically as big as the new Ranger and Endeavour II,, with a water-line 1.30 p.m. length of 80ft 3in. and a displace- ment of 184 tons. Whether her

bean, powerful midship section and 103-ton lead keel will be a disadvantage against Ranger, with her greater over-all length, probably less beam, and keel weight of around 112 tons,

still

the rig anybody's guess, but works as expected it may more than balance any such disadvantage.

Mr. Chandler Hovey's Rainbow from

M already been noted. Mr. Hovey, who sailed Weetamoe last year, plaus to bring out Rainbow in about the in 1034 and same trim and rig as 1935, though owing to much of her gear having been taken off to use in the new Ranger, Rainbow will be i fitted with a good deal of Wectamoe's | equipment and some hand-me-downs |from Enterprise.

V Chase

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Enterprise, in fact, is still well represented. Ranger will have, (among other things, the same sicering gear and wheel that the 1930 de- fender. now broken up, carried, and which Rainbow inherited from her. Mr. Hovey takes his racing rather more casually thon Mr. Vanderbl}; and Mr. Lambert, at least in prospect, but once the trials start, he will be as keen as any skipper in the fleet, and the 1034 defender is still a boat to be reckoned with, especially, Mr. Hovey believes, in light weather.

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