SANDERS CUP CONTEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 876, 21 January 1930, Page 14

SANDERS CUP CONTEST

NEXT WEEK'S RACING week today the first race for the 3930 Sanders Cup contest will begin on the Waitemata Harbour, and interest in the interprovincial fixture is waking ranidly. Having practically finalised arrangements—the last details will be rounded off at a meeting of the Auckland Yacht and Motor-boat Association on Thursday evening—those directly charged with the responsibility of making a racing success of the contest are now out to make it go socially as well. Judging by the intentions of many clubs, the visiting crews and their supporters will receive a spontaneous and warm-hearted welcome. In past contests on this harbour, boating men have risen to the occasion right royally, and nothing has been spared that would tend to express the unity existing among yachtsmen throughout the Dominion. It is pleasant to note that whatever individual opinions yachtsmen in Auckland may cherish about the trend of the Sanders Cup contest, and its ultimate value to New Zealand yachting, they are able to sink controversy when the contest is at hand. Evidence of this spirit of sportsmanship may be taken from the private subscription lists opened among members of clubs which in themselves are financially or on 1 principle unable to support the contest this year. As to the contending provinces, domestic difficulties have now happily been surmounted, and there is every prospect of healthy rivalry, in which the highest ideals of yachting traditions will be kept to the fore. On the business side, a number of controversial remits will be presented 'at-the Dominion Yachting Conference. As far as possible, these will be held over until the bulk of the racing has been put through. The purpose is that delegates may thus have time to get to know one another, and therefore be in better trim to see opposing ‘points of view. Contentious questions, the text of which are now well enough known, and which spring from Otago, and Canterbury, must be thrashed out fearlessly and exhaustively if the contest is to be placed on more enduring footing than at present. Remits which have been sent forward from South, notably that suggesting the contest be held at the centres in rotation, deserve adequate examination, though their proposals may at first tempt one to impatience. To sum up, let us now go all out to make the contest a, success, no matter what our personal views may be. One Auckland club Jias a motto which seems to put the spirit of yachting in a nutshell: "Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.”