MOTOR BOATING.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13879, 2 November 1910, Page 2

MOTOR BOATING.

-\KW BRIGHTON CLUB. 'file New Brighton .Sailing and Motor ! Boat Club opened its season on Satin - - I day afternoon. The weather was as m>od as could be desired for the occasion, and between ■'){){) and GCO interested .spectators lined the brinks of tho •iver. which bad been made gay with bunting lent by the president "Mr A. V\. Owles. Alter a. short speech by the president, the Commodore'of thoVhtb, .'dr 11. L. Moore, declared tho season open. An open handicap raco for motor boats was then held, and was won by tho Cynthia with 11-Jmin handicap-, the Edna, with Drain handicap, beating the Hippie on the same liar.dieap for fcuind place. The Puriri, 121 mm. Kia Ora and Seahorse, lSmini Hawhiti, i'min, ICaitere Bmin, and llvs '-cratch, also started. The last-named knit rather dis;< ppointod the spectators, a.s die had jiust been idled with a now 10 b.p. ermine, and wa> expected to t-iiow a turn of Kpecd. but her owner, Mr L. t'iirt.i«, had not had time to pet her in proper running ord-v. After the race the club's fleet of boats. i;itiudm..i tho Commodore's iOft launch Siola, and the Kaitere from Bodcliff.s, tvere placed at the pleasure of the visiters, and made numerous trips up and iow:i the river crowded with pasoonkt.s. Diiriiip; the afternoon the Now iJripiiton Municipal Band -played a. lumber of seh otion.s enjoyably." Tlje •omplctiun of the river wall "by the Yew Brighton Borough Council lia.s nodi improved ti;o appearance of the ■Ivor, and the recent addition of .stejxs o the jetty proved a very stem oon•enienro to the- larpe number of pasen ;.',e r.s.