Elapsed Time The Yacht Club's sailing members WiEne" were a boastful crowd on July 7—Conselee and a happy one—for, whereas most Tyne Lass other forms of outdoor sport were: Kat Lee impossible because of the rain of the past few days, there was nothing. to hinder the yachtsmen. There was a strong muster of boats in both classes, with full crews, a }good wind both out and home, and. several cruising craft were en counts lered at various parts of the course {to give the racing men an encourag-'The Tyne Lass Wins ing hail, It was unto that the race The course set was up-river: to] home for Dangku Jetty, something over 11 (Cup was a mere process miles from the Shanghai line, For though on handicaps the fi [the miscellaneous class-it counted! fainly close, Tt was a moderately, as the Sth Ordinary Race, and, with even start, both classes going off the added inducement of the race together, wi the Kut Lee, Tyne for the Vice-Commodore's Cup: on way, almost the way home, there was a good Tyne turn-out, the most noticeable -ab-through the Kut Lee and, getting a jsontees being the Wah Lee and the Detter wind inshore, 'Tweetie. 'The starters were:—Vio-50 yd. on Viking, the pai et (the Commodore), Mignon (W. ing well away from the rest. After A. Terry), Viking' (J, while, the Violet began to draw Dewar), Kut Lee (J. F. Blake), up and, when it came to. tacking! Tyne Lass (W. C.. Woodfield), and the end of the reach, the Com \Corsaire (C, Trenchard Davis), modore found himself up against a master of the art in Dewar and a Mignon Early Ahead boat which revels in it, the Viking.
The Viking was first away, but the Commodore opened the Mignon and Violet had the: ad-of novice-puszlers, ay a rewdt of vantage of being closer in to the which he went through, the Viking 'Shanghai side and within the first added a. protest flag to her eme two minutes they had gone into the lead. 'The Tyne Lass, Corsaire Jand-Kut Lee had scareely'a chance' hellishments, fon hace Committee have a knotty problem to. unravel.
The Kut Lee also walked from the beginning, for they were through on the heels of the Violet tucked away under the Pootung, Jand thereafter the race was a pro-shore and were bound to lose more Jcestion, for the Tyne Lass, beating than they coald hope to make up round the point about 100 yd. to jon three such boats as the leaders, the good, sailed right away and and, as a matter of fact, they never the bettes part of a mile of on a [did get into the race. The Mignon long leg before any' others got (leading) and the Violet. soon set round. up a big lead, but they rather over-'The skippers of the Kut Lee and did the advantage of the Shanghai Viking chortled joyously and irreverside and Wad to pinch into. the Junk Channel, allowing the Viking ently when they saw the Violet hit the mad, but the Commodore knows shorten the gap very considerably. the quickest, ways out of such dif Leaving the Junk Channel, with the jeulties and lost' little by the varia-Wind almost dead aft, the Mignon tion to sailing. 'The only subsequent }went clear away and' never again interest was in the performance of iwas seriously challenged. The Vikthe "Mignon. As her owner was} ing's heavy keel began' to tell in giving the prize, he did not sail the run and she again dropped befor it, but stared the fleet and hind.
Jeame on. some six minutes later, Across the Cement Works Reach, to saip right through and finish the Viking again made up distance second only three minutes behind very rapidly and she made certain the Mignon. On handicaps of beating the Violet on time, and Lee took third place and the Vikprobably on actual sailing, but un-ing fourth, the timings being:—Fortunately the Commodore had for-Rotten the sailing directions and,
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