HAIL, WELLINGTON!
Clyde Is Promising Craft For ; Next Sanders Cup c (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christclmrch Representative). j . Any phantasmatic mind pictures the Sanders Cup boatmen r had conjured up concerning- the placid waters of Akaroa were ; rudely shattered, and they went home disillusioned, but wiser I men.
HPHE weather which was experienced | 1 for the 1929 series was easily the vilest attending any contest since the competition was initiated, and this J year will go down as a record for capsizes and undecided races. Frank Cloke, the owner of Avalon. L was a member of that boat's crew, and | was the brains of the business, but was ! not m command, owing to the stir the • Royal Yachting -Souadron of Auckland gave the yachting game through their agitation for an under-twenty-one ' crew m Sanders Cup contests. A. Willetts, the Avalon's skipHiiiminiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiinimiiiimiiiiimiimmmimiiiimimimimimmmminiA
Clyde was runner-up with two wins— the only wins Wellington has ever scored— and with a little luck they would have made things interesting for Avalon m the last race.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 16
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171HAIL, WELLINGTON! NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 16
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