THORNDON DINGHY CLUB.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 172, 14 April 1908, Page 4

THORNDON DINGHY CLUB.

' v,-.. ■: o ;• .... .... V- ■ ;TV V^r, On Saturday afternoon 1 two races wero got Yoff by the above Club. Tho which' . Bye boats..entered,-.was trophy 'pre- , sented; by Mrs. B: Stirling. 1 The placed boats'were; Mr. B. Stirling's Vera : (36min. to complete- the/course), ,1; Mr. 'E. Bailey's Thelma (36min.),' 2;>and Messrs. •J. and F. Scott s Jtona (41min.), 3. "The seoond race, for Iwhich five'boats;h'ad '. also' entered, was .for' three .trophies* l presented .by tho Port Nicholson Yacht - Glub; The placed boats were: Mr. B:,. Stirling's Vera (34min. to complote tho course), 1; Mr. E. Bailey's Tholma' (33itnin.), 2; and Messrs. J. and F. Scott's Bona (44mm.),.3. The ■ liona met with a . mishap, which'delayed her considerably.:';; Mr;' A. Smith 'car- - . rjod ont tho. duties of starter, judgo, .'and i . timekoopor, and Mr. M'Keevcr framod tho handicaps. ■ ' — - ■■ v Next Saturday week . the Oates's/ Challenge Clip -will be decided.: Woman's defiance of the cold'is'a source of constant wonder :to men, who shiver in, many thicknesses of "clothing while women go ijlitholy about in thin raiment oblivious of tho cold, as though thero wero no sitoh ' ■ things as grip or. prienmoniii... And .they don't dio of those diseases any more frc- . . qucntly than tho_-,mori do,.;.despite the J fact ; . that , they are designated . the weakor sex. — ; ' " News Letter. " San Francisco-