KING AT COWES
RACING IN ROYAL YACHT. British Official Wireless (Received July 29, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY. July 28. The King embarked to-day in the destroyer. Crusader and left for South Sea. where his raring yacht Britannia is taking part in the Regatta of the Royal Albert Yacht Club. THRILLING CONTEST. DEAD HfcAT IN PRINCIPAL YACHT RACE. United Press Association —dy Electric Telegraph -Copyright (Received July 29. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. July 28. At Cowes, the King, wearing bright ycliow oilskins, boarded his yacht Brittania, and raced in the Solent against the Candida and Westward, and after a ding-dong battle, the ROyal yacht dead-heated with Sir Thomas Davis’s schooner Westward, which started so badly she lost smih 39sec to the Brittania at the end of the first round, but recovered brilliantly. A dead heat is very rare In a long race over a fortymile course In n. hard breeze and in a driving rain. The general opinion is that the King was plucky to sail on such a day.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19248, 30 July 1932, Page 8
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167KING AT COWES Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19248, 30 July 1932, Page 8
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