MASTERLYMANDER AT HIS GREATEST

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30576, 20 October 1964, Page 20

MASTERLYMANDER AT HIS GREATEST

P. G. Mander gave a masterly exhibition of sailing today. He made a good start with clear wind and immediately tacked to starboard to get the windward of the rest of the fleet.

Only Henning Wind, the Dane, who started at the opposite end of the line, did better on the first beat

Mander rounded the first buoy the best part of a minute behind Wind but this time he did not make any mistakes as he did in the fourth race last Thursday when he was also in second place early. Tactic Paid

Then he drifted back to finish eighth, but this time he had his boat moving beautifully and was never in any danger of being overtaken. By the third mark Mander had cut Wind’s lead to lOsec and on the next beat he passed him to shoot into the lead. He favoured the port side and it paid off when he got better breeze than the Dane, and he had a short lead at the top mark.

Mander used all his skill and great experience to maintain his hard-earned advantage. On the last beat into the wind he and Wind were sailing within three or four boat lengths of one another in a fascinating tactical battle. U.S. Challenge While they were engrossed with one another Peter Barrett, the American, went out to port and made up a lot of ground. At one stage it seemed that he might even snatch the lead right bn the

finishing line, but in the last tense minutes of this great race Mander maintained his superiority over Wind, and also had a clear cut margin on Barrett. He crossed the line ssec clear of Wind, and there was another 9sec back to Barrett.

Willie Kuhweide, an extremely fine German sailer who has never been further back than sixth, came in fifth today, behind B. Kirby, of Canada, who sailed his best race in the series.

German Leads Kuhweide’s placing was sufficient to keep him well out in the lead on points and it will take a tremendous effort by Mander, or any of the other Finn competitors, to overtake him in the remaining two races. The total points after five races are: Germany 5717, New Zealand 4910, United States 4779, Denmark 4268, Australia 4060, Greece 3968, France 3809, Austria 3523, Belgium 3363. When each competitor drops his worst performance the United States moves into second place ahead of New Zealand. Germany still leads with 4867, from the United States (4678) and New Zealand (4194). The only other change in positions is that Austria moves into seventh place, with a lead of only two points over France. First Of N.Z. Team Leaves

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) TOKYO, October 19.

The Auckland oarsman, Alistair Dryden, will be the first of the New Zealand competitors home from the Tokyo games.

Dryden, who rowed in the eight, left Tokyo by air today. He had been given special permission by the New Zealand Olympic Association to return early so that he could sit for an engineerling degree.