The Officers of the Shanghai Yacht Club are to be congratulated upon their efforts to restore the Club to the im-
The Monthly Cup and Club competitions of the S, M. Police were held at the Rifle Range on Tuesday in good weather, The ranges were 200 and 400 yards and though the weapons wed were carbines, some good scores wore registered.
The results were as follows "A" Cras—l, Inspector Lynch (63): 2, Sgt. Young (60): 3, Sgt. Goddard (58): 4, Insp. Boorke (85): 6, Const. Simpson (53).
"B" Crass—l, Const.
Coglan portant position it held in the social and sporting life of the Settlement in former: times, It is many years since the Club] was at its zenith we cannot expect to see a repetition of the sensational race carried out under its in 1865, when two members, going to Canton for the ten season raced from New York with 100 ton schooner yachts for a side wager of G. $20,000. In recent years the tendency has been towards small boats, suitable for inland waters: bt gradually the inland waters fare being shut off. Sitai Lake, favourite resort of the Yacht Clab, has been made unavailable by" low bridge Tee ie ae oe Re i erected for the Hangchow railway: and Miers 49) 5 5. Sat; Alton (50).
49) 5 Sgt. Alton (50). although the Huangpu Conservancy marks are improving the lower reaches, Lynch (e3)" am ]in future the aim must he towards Cogiea oe Crom Cev—Comt. Sunday's race for the snjremacy Cev.—Const, 8e*going boats.
asuresitios Paize.—Sgt. Young i the Huangpu, yn paver THE POLO CLUB, The Polo Club tonrmament was inaugurated on Tuesday afternoon but muggy weather, and matches of two chakkns ench were played between "A" Team and" B Team, and between "© Tean_and "D" Team. and racing wax splendid. Fifteen entries from the warships in Port provided a large Sold -that aroused great interest in the event. The Clutha X was played at the disposal and a were received on board by Commodore Seitz and the officers of the Yacht Club.
Mr. Burkill's or "EH" Team stood out for the nonce and that fine exponent of the game officiated as umpire.
The ground was soft and slow in spite of the efforts of the new pains-ing Secretary, whose operations with the roller hace been in evidence during the week.
In the first chukka "B" certainly had the best of the game, Colonel Watson at two being the life of the side. Just at the end, howerer, Keylock scored for "A" off a miss by McEnen. "B" should have scored more than once.
In the second chukka Watson went three and a noticeable improvement followed. The game was looser, and the little that the men knew of the game was forgotten in anxiety to equal up the score, Watson and Drakeford Six of the competing boats, towed steam-launch, went ahead, the remainder tied on to the tender, which steamed upstream to point seven miles above the Loongwha Pagoda, where a halt was made for tiffin, After ample refreshments and comfortable rest the fired at 3 pam. Five mi as the boats lined up for the start, it was seen that the American represent had crowded on every inch of sail that could be carried. One in particular, the Helena gig, appeared to be fantastically rigged. It seems that two sets of sails were made use of. Th first consisted of two leg-of-mutton sails reversed and sewn together: with the other the coxswain inadvertently sewed the two broad ends together. "A sprit was then put in and in a trial it was found to work well. Accordingly it was used in that shape for the ra as the end proved, with success: during the race she appeared tobe actually sailing ahead of the wind, The innovation was the subject of much interesting comment after the race.
The course selected was: Start from the Clutha X, sail upstream two miles and return to the Loongwha Pagoda; a total distance of eleven miles.
The Cadmus dinghy, with Captain Majendie at the helm, swept first over the line, followed by the Cadmus whaler, 8. M. S. Luchs cutter. U. $8, Villalobos cutter, I. C. Hai Shin cutter, and the remainder too close together to distinguish, The 1. Kuen On gig had gone over the line before the start_and was accordingly disqualified.
With a light variable breeze blowing fromthe South-West, the boats raced up stream at a fast pace, The Clatha X remained at the starting point, but the Press representatives were given n passage along the course in Mr. Dunn's fast petrolinm Munch, Erin, and the fortunes of the contestants could be followed closely. First ronnd nark-boat was the Helena launch, ch was followed closely by the Cadmus ler. the Cadmus dinghy, the Villalobos whaler, the disqualified Chinese boat, the Cadmus gig. the other Cadmus whaler, the Lucha cutter and the Vein etter, in that order king the turn the jibing, filled. The sail was at once lowered and the crew baled her out, Int whilst that wax being done she drifted nearly a mile upstream, Re-entering the race she tninde x gallant effort t0 recover lost ground and her remarkable progress was subsequently the most interesting feature of the race, Meanwhile the Helena dinghy had gone on ie remainder of the race. Captain Majendie's little dinghy did famonely until about half-way through then the wind lulled and she fell back. During the latter part of the race the American boats were far in the lead, and finally they gained the first three places, both in elapsed and corrected tim The British boats sailed well, bnt they were rigged for stronger winds and could not live with the fancy-rigged Atmeriean boats. Nuamerons launches and yachts watched the race from various parts of the river, and the winners were heartily cheered for their clever work.
Daring the race the Kuen On boat capsized. A Iaunch had to go te her assistance and it took in tow two other boats that had given up the race, but the remaining twelve all finished in fairly good time. When the leading boats had arrived Commodore Seitz, made a brief in which he said that they had had a very enjoyable day and had seen excellent racing between boats of many nationalities. It was usually said that the American eagle soared, and to-day it had soared into first, second and third places. There was no question that, with that weather and tide, the best boats had nal fi
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