AMERICA GUP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 220, 17 September 1930, Page 7

AMERICA GUP.

RACE POSTPONED. Fog and Lack of Wind Holds Up third Test " WILL ENGLAND TRY AC&AIN? (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 9 a.m.) (;

NEW YORK, September 16. The third race for the America Cup was postponed. . . A heavy fog and lack of wind caused the postponement, and the yachts did not leave their .moorings; Mr. Nicholson, designer of the Shamrock, has announced that the 20001b of lead ballast removed from the yacht for the second race wasrrestored last night. Possibly other . changes will be made. "England is beginning to realise she can never lift the cup under present conditions, and probably will never- try again," he stated.. - Rear-Commodore' Ralph Grove-Raines, of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club, who was aboard the steam yacht Erin, said he believed the strain of crossing the Atlantic under her own sail undoubtedly hurt the Shamrock, which looked to be an entirely different boat from the one which in trial races in British waters gave confidence in England beyond that accorded any other- challenger Sir Thomas Lipton had produced. "Now she sails as though dragging a crabpot," he added. While in no way representing official opinion, Commodore Grove-Raines suggested that England be allowed to build a boat in any section of the Empire, such as Canada, saving six precious weeks of the tuning-up period, and avoiding strain and possibilities of harm in the ocean crossing.