The America’s Cup

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 306, 22 September 1934, Page 9

The America’s Cup

Sir,—Your remark in the article on the above in this morning’s “Dominion” thut “the superiority of British seamanship is fast becoming a moot point” prompts me to quote from an article in the “Redbook” Magazine for September. Tlie article is by Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt Junr. (cousin of Mr. Harold Vanderbilt), and reads in part as follows:— According to my father, who won more cups, here and abroad, and knows more about yacht racing than any other contemporary ... the British, far from being ‘ignominious flops,’ are the world’s greatest builders, of racing yachts. The trouble, as my father sees if, should he laid,squarely at the feet of the individuals, o ( - t f ' le "h?'® British nation. Neither Sir Thomas Lipton nor his predecessors (Earl of Dunraven, Sir Richard Sutton. Major Charles Gifford, et al.) were bona fide yachtsmen . . . aside from their willingness to ‘choke’ several hundred thousand dollars, they had no other qualifications entitling them to carry the Cup to England. But all of this is a thing of the past. ■ I wouldn't at all be surprised if the British win this time.. For the first time since 1851 they are going to be represented by a man who knows what it’s all about.”—l am, 'etc. INTERESTED. Wanganui, September 21.