SANDERS CUP EVENTS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20219, 1 February 1934, Page 11

SANDERS CUP EVENTS.

Contest Crews to Arrive To-morrow. It was during the course of the last Sanders Cup races that a new governing body was formed, but Auckland stood out. In the past. inter-provincial yachting contests had been carried on for trophies vested in Auckland and under rules made in Auckland; and the only say the other provinces had had was the recommendations of annual conferences of a few days’ duration. The New Zealand Yachting Council was formed in Lyttelton on the evening of Thursday, February 2. 1933, when delegates were present from all interested places. This year the Sanders Cup contest will be run by the new body for the first time. The first race will be started on Monday, February 5. Most of the crews will have arrived by to-mor-row and a civic reception will be given them by the Mayor of Lyttelton in the Council Chambers to-morrow evening. The competitors are: V J ll „- (Southland) — H - Hansen (skipper), W. Pollock, jun., A. Hamilton and H. Gough. Eileen (Otago)—l. M'Grath (skipper). Kennedy, M’Laren and Cuthbert. Lavina (Wellington). —N. D. Blair Julian J ' Harlen ’ J> Eliott and R. Irene (Canterbury)—E. O. Sinclair (skipper) F R. Forman, H. S. G. T. Fisher and H. May.

Programme for Contest.

a meeting of the committee of the held at U rTtt U and . Motor Boat Club, ueid at Lyttelton last evening th»» hofsi r> rrt« ep ? r J e ? Jr hat arrangements had S?f n ,,E?«?] pleted , for a clvic welcome to rnUf yachtsmen at the Borough SSi «i , J.. C t a 2 Ib I PS at 8 pm - to-morrow. The club had also arranged for a dance i be . h f, ld , on Saturday evening in the club hall for the entertainment of the visitors. The commodore, Mr C. E. brown, presided at the meeting, win °5 visiting delegates \\ill_be held at 9 a.m. on Monday at the Council Chambers, and the first conference of the delegates to the New Zealand Yachting Council will be held at the same place on Tuesday night. On Sunday a picnic will be held at Pile t>a>, boats and launches leaving the ferry launches* jetty at 10.20 a.m and the Yachting Club’s shed at 10 30 am the forenoon a girls* yacht race'. Tak »Puna race will be held. At 11.30 a.m. a tug-of-war for provincial teams will be contested. In the afternoon tliere will be a free-for-all race from Ripa Island to the Pile and back, a delegates' race and Takapuna race. Mi n i Monday the visiting yachtsmen will be the guests at a social evening given by the Pioneer Sports Club, and later they will attend a dance at the Tudor. On Wednesday a smoke concert has been arranged to be held at the club hall at Lyttelton at 8 p.m. At the conclusion of the contest the presentation of the Sanders Cup will be made in the Harbour Light Theatre. Saturday’s Regatta. The programme for Saturday afternoon’s regatta will include the following races:—2.3o, speed launch handicap, over 12 knots; 2.45 p.m., yacht handicap, lift and under 26ft; 3 p.m., yacht handicap, under 14ft; 3.15 p.m.. power-boat handicap, under 12 knots; 3.15 p.m., Canterbury 14-footers championship; 3.30 p.m., yachting for Class i A keelers.