TAREE APPEAL

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 16, 19 July 1939, Page 12

TAREE APPEAL

TO BE ABANDONED

PROTEST BY SWINBOURNE

(Received July 19, 2.5 p.m.)

SYDNEY, Tnis Day

It was announced at a meeting of the New South Wales Eighteen-Footers League that the Australian Board of Control had decided not to continue with B. Swinbourne's appeal against the disqualification of the Taree in the world championship contest held at Auckland in February.

Queensland and New South Wales members of the Board of Control agreed that although the conditions of the championship' had not been carried out it was in'the interests of interDominion sporting harmony that the decision in New Zealand should remain unaltered.

Swinbourne has protested that the board had no authority to make such a decision. He had appealed to New Zealand, he said, not New South Wales or Queensland.

As a result of the decision Swinbourne has resigned from the league,

The. Taree, the Sydney holder of the world eighteen-footer title, gained most points in the championship series at Auckland, bui was disqualified on a protest entered by an Auckland boat, "the Limerick, which alleged that the Taree committed a breach of the rule requiring the boat on the port tack to give way to the boat on the starboard tack. The trophy was awarded to the Manu, of Auckland.