WHAT IS WRONG?
SHAMROCK STRAINED?
UNLIKE HER OLD SELF
(Received 17th Sept., 9 a.m.) NEWPORT, 16th September. It is announced that 20001b of ballast was rostorod to the Shamrock last • night. Possibly other changes will be made. i "England is beginning to realise j that she can never lift the Cup under j tho present conditions and probably will J never try again," declared Commodore Ralph Grove-Baines, of the Boyal, Ulster Yacht Club.
Aboard the Erin it is believed that the strain of crossing the Atlantic under her own sail undoubtedly hurt the Shamrock, which looked to be an entirely different boat in the trial races in British waters, giving confidence in Engla.nd beyond any other challenger. Sir Thomas Lipton has produced. "Now she sails as though dragging a crab pot," state observers. While in no way representing official opinion Commodore Grove-Baines suggested that England should be allowed to build a boat in any section of the Empire, such as Canada, saving six precious weeks of the tuning up period, and the strain and possibilities of harm in the ocean crossing would be avoided.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 11
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