SOMERSET'S WIN

Evening Post, Issue 89, 17 April 1933, Page 13

SOMERSET'S WIN

MERCANTILE MARINE CUP

KEEN CONTEST

Very keen interest was taken in the race for the Mercantile Marine Cup rowed on Saturday afternoon. The cup was presented in i 927 by the Commonwealth and Dominion line, Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company, New. Zealand Shipping Company, and Federal Shipping Company, and if won for three successive years by crews from the ships of, one company, will become the property of that company. This,'.however, has not yet come to pass. Eight-oared whalers are used in the race. The course was from,between the King's and Pipitea wharfs to the Clyde Quay Wharf. The wind was a strong northerly, and the sea choppy. Crews from four ships competed—the New Zealand Shipping Company's 'steamer Otaki, the Commonwealth and Dominion Line's steamer. Port Curtis, and the Federal steamers Huntingdon and Somerset. One of the Port Curtis's boats was loaned to the Huntingdon. * The Huntingdon was favoured 'prior to the race, but the Somerset was the winner. The Somerset led from the start. An oar was broken in the Huntingdon's boat, but it was replaced. Tho Huntingdon caught up and passed the Somerset, but-' the latter's boat spurted over the final portion oE the race, and Won by three-quarters of a length. The Port Curtis was third, o fair way back, and the Otaki fourth. The Mahana did not e\iter a boat. \ The cup was presented at the British Sailors' Society's rooms on Saturday evening by Captain W. H. Hartman,1 marine superintendent at Wellington, for the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company. Captain Hflrtmnn was introduced by Captain A. .V. H. Hale-Monroe. The presentation was suitably acknowledged. The result and the crews are as follows:— Somerset (coxswain, W. Prince; stroke, Mr. J. N. A. Low, third officer; A. Peacock, H. Nicholson, W. Hunt, S. Barron, H. Smith, T. Potter, J. Fraser), 1. Huntinpdon (coxswain. Mr. E. R. Rae, fourth officer; stroke, T. May; second, R. Norton; No. 3, W. Joliffe; No. i, W. Salmon; No. 5, M. Campbell; No. C, C. Lees; No. 7, C. Young; No. 8, E. Mortloy), 2. Port Curtis (coxswain, Mr. 11. M. Post, chief officer; stroke. J. Wuvd; IL. Ward, D. Graham, E. McCillivtay, D. Kracft. J. Council, F. Roid, X. Rcvnolrh,), 3. Otaki (coxswain, Mr.,G. E. Mason, third officer; stroke, R.. Ramsay; S. Hounslow, W. Batstonc, If. Moulding, A. Cooper, T. Palmer, Q. Toug, S. Stones), 4.