SANDERS CUP TRIALS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 67, 12 December 1932, Page 5

SANDERS CUP TRIALS

First Race This Evening The first of a series of races to determine the Wellington representative for the Sanders Cup contest, to be held iu Lyttelton early next year, will be held on the harbour this evening. There will lie four boats competing, Sue-lem. Betty, Miss Josephine,-and Lavina, and the race is expected to start from Point Jerningham at. 5.30 o'clock. It will also finish at Jerningham. The course will be. chosen by the sole selector, Mr. J. Moffat, according to the prevailing wind, but it is probable that a triangular and a windward and leeward course will be chosen for alternate races, as has been the case iu former years. Sue-lein is a new boat this year, and the trials will provide a good opportunity of trying her out. Betty is well known for her success iu the past, having won the Sanders Cup three times in succession for Canterbury and once for Wellington. Miss Josephine is a prominent boat at Paremata, ami Lavina, which was only built last year, has been raced with a fair measure of success in local races. It is interesting to note that the four boats competing this evening are the only ones of the so-called Rona-Jelll-coe class that have fitted the new moulds. WIN FOR COLLEEN First Canterbury Trial By Telegraph —Press Association. Christchurcli, Dec. 11. The first. Sanders Cup trial, sailed on Saturday, was won by Colleen, sailed by George Brassel, the Canterbury skipper last season. Irene was second aud Avenger, last year's winner of the Cup, was third. Other starters were Huia and Usher.