YACHTING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23689, 22 December 1938, Page 4

YACHTING

By Rudder

FIXTURES December 26.—Macandrew Bay regatta. January 7.—Vauxhal] Club. Oliphant Cup. January 14.—Broad Bay Club's races. January 19.—Sanders Cup contest at Bluff. January 21.—Nees Memorial Cup January 28.—Port Chalmers Club races February 4.—St. Leonards Regatta. February s.—Combined picnic. February 11.—Port Chalmers Club races. February 18.—Ravensbourne Regatta. February 25.—Otago regatta, at Port Chalmers. CORNWELL CUP REPRESENTATIVES By winning the resail of the eighth race, over a windward and leeward course at Port Chalmers on Saturday, T. S. Camp and W A. Carrington became the logical crew to further Otago's challenge for the Cornwell Cup at Plimmerton next month. Todd who had also won two races, was ahead of Camp in Oakie by 52sec at the end of Saturday's contest, the latter seeming not to'get the feel of his craft up till that stage. During the latter part of the race, however, Camp was making good use of short boards, caught up on the leader, and after an interesting battle of tactics weathered his opponent. He then sailed right away from the others, to win easily by 3min 38sec. The winning crew is a fitting combination to represent the province. Camp, who is a pupil of the Otago Boys' High School, is 17 years of age, and weighs 9st 61b. A member of the Port Chalmers Yacht and Motor Boat Club and the Mussel Bay Aquatic Club, he commenced sailing dinghies at an early age, and has since met with marked success at regattas and club fixtures on the harbour. Last season he gained victories in the Takapuna class race at the South Island Championship Regatta, the R. A. Ward Memorial Cup race the junior yachtsmen's race and Cording Cup contest. He was also runner-up for the club championship cup. Carrington, the for'ard hand, who Is a club mate of his skipper, is 16 years old, and weighs 9st 101 b. He has been associated with Camp for six years, and is a resourceful and alert boy in his important position in the boat. They work very well together, and have a thorough understanding of each other's work.

Camp's own boat, Rima, has also been chosen as the representative boat. The crew will leave Dunedin on January 10 for Plimmerton.

JUNIOR YACHTSMEN'S RACE

Sailed in a fresh southerly breeze on Saturday afternoon, the Ravensbourne Boating Club's race for junior yachtsmen proved as successful and popular an event as it has done in past years. Eight boats came to the line as follows:—Waiata (A. Divers), Eileen (A. Cuthbert), Lynette (F. Pettit) Evelyn (R. Todd). Ripple (A. Booth). Eunice (E. Kibblewhite). Irex and Leone. „ , , Ripple crossed the line first, closely followed by Eileen and Evelyn, but on the beat up to the Three Legs Waiata forged ahead to round some three minutes ahead of Evelyn, followed by Eileen. Ripple. Lynette and Eunice, with Leone and Irex a long way back. Waiata's lead was reduced slightly on the run to the leeward buoy, but she was still first round Eileen, which had closed up on Evelyn appeared to run too far past the mark, and lost time in getting round. The beat back to the Three Legs saw some interesting racing. Waiata opened up a bigger lead from Evelyn, which in turn sailed away from Eileen. Up to this stage Ripple had been going

ensures that every player, no matter how many or how few games he plays, bears a fair proportion of the cost of the balls used in friendly games. In Canterbury it has been the custom for players who practise regularly together to supply balls in turn; others who play together less frequently either toss for the "honour" or pay half the cost each The custom in Auckland, apparently, is for each player to supply one ball, an eminently fair method. LAWN TENNIS UNION The positions of the teams "in the various grades after five series of matches are as follows:

' Ladder Placings The present placings on the ladder are as follows: Men's Singles.—l Callander. 2 Taylor. 3 H. Facer, 4 Gibson. 5 R. Facer, 6 Ross. 7 Donovan. 8 Jackson, 9 Luke. 10 Dickey. 11 Copland. 12 Hey. Men's Doubles. —1 Taylor and Callander. 2 Craig and Gillions, 3 Sims and Gibson. 4 Facer and Jackson. 5 R. and J. McVie. 6 Ross and Brown. 7 Mason and Hanning. 8 Donovan and Meinung. 9 Hey and Nevin. 10 Luke and Dickey. 11 Hoare and Robertson. Ladies' Singles.—l Miss Bullen, 2 Mrs Hoare. 3 Miss Sparrow. 4 Miss Ballintyne. 5 Miss Brown, 6 Miss Wilson. 7 Miss Facer. 8 Miss Stevens. 9 Miss Valentine. Ladies' Doubles. —1. Mrs Lawry and Miss J. Carr, 2 Misses Bullen and Jarvis. 3 Mrs Hoare and Mrs Robertson, 4 Misses Sparrow and Brown. 5 Misses Ballintyne and Ross. 6 Mrs Craig and Miss Stevens, 7 Misses Stewart and Connor. 8 Misses Stewart and Facer, 9 Misses McKinlay and Hughes. 10 Misses L. and J. Colquhoun. 11 Mrs Pearce and Miss Divers. Ladder Matches Recent ladder matches have resulted as follows, the challengers' names being given first:— Dickey beat Copland 9—5. H. Facer lost to Taylor 7—9. Craig and Gillions beat Facer and Jackson 9—7. Craig and Gillions beat Sims and Gibson 9—7. Miss Stevens lost to Miss Facer 5 —9. Misses Connor and Stewart lost to Mrs Craig and Miss Stevens B—9. Whitcombes for Tennis.*

well, but her skipper made the < listake of hugging the Peninsula instead of working the retaining wall, where there was more wind. Waiata rounded the Three Legs for the run home with three minutes and a-half in hand from Evelyn which was two minutes and a-half ahead of Eileen. Then came Ripple, Lynette and Eunice, Leone and Irex having retired. The leader held a good breeze down to the finishing line and crossed six minutes in front of Evelyn, with Eileen one minute further back. Waiata. which was well handled by A Divers, had enough in hand to win the race on corrected times by one minute from Eileen (6min). with Ripple third. The result, with corrected times, was as follows: Waiata (scr), 4hr 18min 32sec .. .. 1 Eileen (6min), 4hr 19 min 32sec .. 2 Ripple (9min). 4hr 19min 54sec .. 3 Evelyn (4min), 4hr 20min 31sec .. 4 Eunice (llmin), 4hr 21min 21sec .. 5 Lynette (smin). 4hr 30min 25sec .. 6 MACANDREW BAY REGATTA The regatta season on the Otago Harbour will be opened on Boxing Day with the popular Macandrew Bay fixture, and the attractive programme drawn up indicates that, provided the weather is fine, the regatta should be as successful as in previous years. Besides four races for yachts and two for motor boats, there will be swimming events conducted by the Otago Centre, contests between the R.N.V.R. and the Sea Scouts, and a demonstration by the last-named. The entries for the yacht and motor boat races, which are good, are as follows: Z Class Dinghies (start 12.30 p.m.). —Runa, Oakie, Val, Popeye, Kathleen. Pupuki, Taioma Sunray. X Class Dinghies (1.30 p.m.).— Heather. Winifred, Eileen, Betty. Val, Lynette. Evelyn, Colleen, Rada, Aloha. Eunice, Avenger. Ripple Z and I Class Dinghies (2.30 p.m). —Runa, Oakie, Val, Popeye. Kathleen, Pupuki, Taioma Sunray. Sunbeam, Melody, Koneke, Ranui, Vagabond Pegety, Lady Luck, Janice. All-comers' Yachts (3.30 p.m.).— Miti. Dawn, Waiata, Foam, Vera, Kia Ora, Shadow, Melody. Speed Boats (2 p.m.).—Sabre (7min) Sadie K. (6min 30sec), Sunshine (smin), Fury '4min). Scorpion (2min> Miss Victory (scr). All-comers' Motor Boats (3.15 p.m.i —Tui 111 (14min), Huana H2min 40sec). Te Tiki (llmin), Waitiri (9min 20sec). Min (Bmin), Matangi (smin 20sec), Marna (4min 40sec), Marews (3m in 20sec), SylVia (2mfn), Restless (scr). CLASS COLOURS The association at its meeting on Monday night set the class colours for all future regattas, and they will come into force after the Macandrew Bay fixture on Boxing Day. All clubs should take notice of these colours, the flying of which will be strictly enforced. The colours are as follows: —Allcomers' yachts, navy blue; X class yachts, red; Z class dinghies, white: 13ft and under 18ft, green; 13ft and under, yellow; motor boats over eight miles an hour, blue and red; motor boats under eight miles an hour, red and white; speed boats, blue and white. All flags must be at least 12 inches square. RACING AT TIMARU The Timaru Yacht Cup, in conjunction with the Caroline Bay Associa : tion, has made arrangements for a series of races over the Christmas holidays as one of the many attractions provided for visitors at this season of the year. There will be three official races, on December 26 and 27. and January 2, as well as a ladies' race on December 31. and the Caroline Bay Association has again offered a cup to be won outright by the boat gaining the highest aggregate points in all the events. A challenge cup has also beeu offered for a special race for 14-footers. and there will also be a number of sweepstake events. There is now an impressive fleet on Caroline Bay, mostly small yachts, the official register at the beginning of the season showing a total of 17. Included in the fleet are the two 14-footers Squib and Yvonne, which both raced for many years down here. It was in Squib that C. Pettit. this year's Sanders Cup skipper, learned his sailing of X class boats. There are also four Z class dinghies, as well as a new Idlealong and a 12sq. metre sharpie. X CLASS v. IDLEALONG A much-argued Wellington yachting question, whether Idlealongs can equal the 14-foot Sanders Cup boats in heavy weather, received a definite answer (states the Sports Post) in one of the Cup and Idlealong trials in a fierce and gusty north-westerly wind that was almost a gale. Sailing conditions could hardly have been more difficult, and the crews and boats were tested to the utmost. Of the nine entrants in the X class, three boats finished the course. Of the 14 Idlealongs, none finished. The figures speak for themselves. Some crews did not bother to turn out. Not the relative merits of the two classes of boats, but the advisability of holding the races at all in such heavy conditions was the question that arose in the minds of many of the spectators. • The very fact that several Idlealongs did not go to the starting line shows that some crews thought that the risk to gear was not worthwhile, especially as the series even then was obviously to be fought out by only the two leading boats. OCEAN YACHT RACE One of the greatest ocean yacht races of all time will start from Treasure Island, site of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco Bay, on June 18 next. It will be the Honolulu Race, conducted by the Trans-Pacific Yacht Club, which has sanctioned the start of the race in 1939 from San Francisco instead of Santa Barbara. The race of more than 2000 miles is expected to attract close on 40 entrants, including the defending champion, the Dorade. owned by James Flood, of San Francisco. The start of the race from the site of San Francisco World's Fair will be one of the features of the sports programme at the Exposition, and the event will be open to all eligible yachts of all recognised clubs of the world, and entries already include nearly a score of craft from Pacific Coast clubs, and from Europe,. Australia. Hawaii and South America A large list of beautiful trophies will be offered, and impressive ceremonies are being planned for the departure of the sailing craft on their long water race to Hawaii.

A Grade P. W L. D. Pts Aotea .. . 5 5 — — 10 Ravensbourne 5 4 1 — 8 Kaikorai 5 3 1 1 7 Forbury .. . 5 3 2 — 6 Fire Brigade 5 2 3 — 4 Kensington . 5 2 3 — 4 Tokotoru 5 — 4 1 1 St. Leonards . 5 — 5 — — Intermediate Aotea .. . 5 5 — — 10 Concord .. 5 4 1 — 8 East Taieri . 5 4 1 — 8 Kiwi .. 5 4 1 — 8 Dundas .. 5 2 3 — 4 St. Kilda Meth. .. . 5 1 4 — 2 Kaikorai 5 — 5 — — Green Island . 5 — 5 — — B Grade Aotea .. . 5 4 — 1 9 Musselburgh . 5 4 1 — 8 St. Leonards . 5 3 1 1 7 Ravensbourne 5 3 2 — 6 East Taieri . 5 2 3 — 4 Macandrew Rd . 5 ] 4 — 2 Normal .. . 5 1 4 — 2 Tokotoru 5 1 4 — 2 C Grade Holy Cross . 5 5 — — 10 Anderson's Bay 5 5 — — 10 Aotea 5 4 1 — 8 Kensington . 5 3 2 — 6 N.E.V. Baptist 5 2 3 — 4 North Taieri . 5 2 3 — 4 Wylie's Crossing 5 2 3 — 4 Forbury .. 5 1 4 — 2 Glenavon 5 1 4 — 2 Ravensbounre 5 D Gi *ade 5 Aotea .. . 5 5 — — 10 Kensington . 5 5 — — 10 Concord .. • 5 5 — — 10 Dundas .. 5 3 2 — 6 Musselburgh . 5 2 3 — 4 Green Island 5 2 3 — 4 Anderson's Bay 5 1 4 — 2 Kiwi 5 1 4 — 2 St. Kilda Meth. .. . 5 1 4 — 2 Holy Cross ■ 5 — 5 — —