SANDERS CUP CONTESTS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 27 July 1933, Page 10

SANDERS CUP CONTESTS.

AN ENQUIRY FROM 1 AUCKLAND. | | CANTERBURY'S DECISION. j An enquiry from the Auckland Yacht and Motor-boat Association as to whether Canterbury was to be represented in competition lor the Sanders and Cornwell cups next year pro- j duced much discussion at last even- j ing's meeting of the Canterbury Saii- | ing and Power-boat Association. No action was taken, except to reter the Auckland association to the New Zealand Yachting Council, which represents the Otago, Wellington, Canterbury, and Southland associations. Mr Curtis said that the Auckland association knew very well that the Canterbury association had no intention of doing what was asked m the letter. Auckland, said Mr Curtis had deliberately ignored the New Zealand Yachting Council, and had slighted the Canterbury association and those other associations affiliated to the council. He suggested that the letter be referred to the New Zealand Yachting Council. The letter from Auckland was going behind the council altogether, and he wondered what Auckland would think if the council had written to individual Auckland clubs without consulting the association. Mr A. Round asked whether individual clubs, irrespective of what the association was doing, could enter for the Sanders and Cornwell cups. He thought that the Sanders cup would carry more weight than, say, an "X class boat, and Sanders cup contests meant a lot to Lyttelton. Mr Curtis traversed the events which had led up to the New Zealand Yachting Council being formed, with the support of all the Dominion associations, except Auckland, which had j refused to join. Unfortunately the Sanders cup and the Cornwell cup had been dragged into the matter by Auckland, by whom both these cups were owned. The cups had been given to Auckland when there was no Dominion governing body. Unfortunately Auckland had tried to use its ownership of the cups as a threat against the New Zealand Yachting Council, and the council had decided not to be bludgeoned, and to run contests of its own. Whether clubs should enter for the two cups was a matter of loyalty. The clubs had to choose between selfgovernment of the sport or domination by Auckland. Were every club to be loyal, he thought there could be no doubt as to the ultimate result.

A Motoring Precedent. Mr W. H. Browne said that a guide to the spirit existing in Auckland was to be found in the fact that the motor association there had tried to take over the functions of the governing motoring body in New Zealand. Mr Curtis said that the New Zealand Yachting Council was running a class, similar in every other way to the old Sanders cup contests, excepting that it would not be for that trophy and that the final decision would be with the New Zealand Council instead of the Takapuna Boating Club. Eight crews would probably compete. All that could be done was to inform Auckland that the Sanders cup would be returned as soon as the date for its return came round, and that the New Zealand Council would run its own contest at Lyttelton in 1934. , A member: How do we stand about two different New Zealand championships? Mr Curtis said that Auckland certainly had no right to call its contests New Zealand championships when only Auckland competed. The council, comprising Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, and Southland associations, had a much better right to call its contests [ New Zealand championships.