SANDERS CUP.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 13

SANDERS CUP.

RETURN OF SOUTHERN CREW,

Mr S. Sinclair and tho crow of tio Linnet returned to Lytteltan by the Maori yesterday. Other Canterbury yachtsmen and onthuaiaats who arrived back woro Meas'ra D Bamford, H. Soott, W. Pctors, h\ Rhodda! and Mr A. Bound, (Jid Canterbury delegate to the Yachting Association's conference. Tho cxov7 oi tho Murihiku also passed through on their way eolith. Both tho Linnet and Murihiku arrived on tho Maori. Speaking oi tho racing, Air A. Hound oaid that' tho teats woro rather disappointing. Wellington harbour was a bad ono from °a yachtsman o point of view, as tho wind was invariably flukey. "I am not saying it becausb Linnet was beaten, X givo every credit to tho Rona'a drew for excellent scitmaitship. but at tho saino tiruo tho luck v.a3 with, them. If a gust of wind struck tho boats it waa suro to do so in such a way that tho Rona would bo holped and perhaps tho Linnet u,nd Murihiku would be carried off tho course. On ono occasion Bona and Linnet wcro together about 100 yards off a buoy. Tho Rona caught tho wind and rounded tho buoy, but Linnofc drifted" round about 20 minutes later. Ono thing was quite clear,'' concluded Mr Round, "and that is that tho Rona typo is not tho fastest. Linnet, Murihiku, and Peggy mado a better showing than tho others, which wcro of tho Rona tvpo, except the Rona herself. Linnet could do to tho Rona type boats what she did to The Secret, tho local Rona typo boat, outsail them every time. The Otkgo crowd wero evidently disgusted with June's perfotmaiic*, for they sold her to a m«snber of tho Heretaung-a Yacht Club." The yachtsmen all deplore the lack of enthusiasm far yachting in Wellington. "There were not as many npeclstore at tho tests its there were present at tho trials in LytteHon, and then iaey were nearly all visitors," aaid one yachtsman. Tt is stated that r)*3rt year's tests will probably bi> held in Southland at Half "Moon Hay, Stewart IslandWELLINGTON CRITICISM. (BT&eua. t6 "thh tzzss.") WELLINGTON, January 2a luSrw that the Sanders Cup contest has ended, iLtaJ tho yachtsmen havo gone back to their homes, criticism, centres mainly about tw 0 points: (1) the unnuitability of euoh baats for sailing in, oven moderately rough weather, and (3) tho want of sportsmanship and tho bickering- that has gone on in these oonteaia up to tho present. In regird to tho latter issue, a, yachtsman Writing in Uio "Wellington tost" says: "That Uiu fiymp'-ithiois oi all tnu> Bpoxujmou wui bo with uho itojia. in tho Jesuit oi aaturday uiorning'o raco will, 1 think, not bo disputed. That an accident at the starting point—an accidont of a trivial natuiro in no way affeoting tho chances uf any ono of tho competing boats—should at tho finish, of tho race have boon seized upon as the grounds of a protest against winner seems oiraago. Equally strango is tho fact that the bailing Committee took no loaa th»n thrco hours to decide tho protest, ae one result of wbioh. delay, ad vantage was lost of .an. afternoon, tho weatier oenditiona of which were ao near perfect as could bo far; ai truo sailing test. It is fairly evident to all who ha-vo followed tho Sanders Cup contests since their inception that thoro has crept into thorn s. feeling (not general, but evident in certain quarters) which scorns opposed to tho principles of true sportsman«hip, a feeling which it ia eincerely to bo hoped will not be allowed to continue if in future the contests are to bo held in tho spirit in which all such, contests ehould properly bo hold." *