Large Number of Entries to Participate Owing to the large number of expected entries this year in the eleventh annual race for the World Championship among life boat crews, held under the auspices of the International Lifeboat Racing Association, Ningpo—ss. Hsin Peking, s. it has been decided by the board of directors to hold two races, one for the Robert L. Hague trophy which must be won three times for permanent possession, and on which America and Italy now each have two legs, and the other for the trophy offered by the International Lifeboat Racing Association, Crews from all steamship lines may be entered in both races.
The new race will be over a course of two miles and rowed in standard surf boats as used by the United States Coast Guard. This i race ds expected to add great interest to the yearly water carnival of the mer-Chant marine men, and Coast Guard officials have offered to lend surf boats to the entrants for a period of a month prior to the racing date, September 11th, when the race will be rowed off the Bay Ridge shore in New York harbour.
This year's contest for the Hague trophy will mark the eleventh annual international lifeboat race. During the last four runnings, the event has been won twice by boats representing the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and twice by the Italian Line, Again this year, crews from the steamers Conte di Savoia and the W. C. Teagle, which have carried their flags first across the line in previous years, will compete, Mr, J. J. Kelleher, president of the International Lifeboat Racing Association and vice president of the United Fruit Company, declared that this year's race would probably attract more entrants than any previous one, it being expected that at least twelve boats would face the starter for the Hague trophy. The winners of this event will each year receive an exact replica of the cup in sterling er, the original trophy, the commission's construction pro- names with the winners' mes engraved fo remain in possession of gramme, had stated that there are ample shipbuilding facilities for carrying out the President's programme, pointing out that at the present time there are 67 ways in commission capable lo of taking an ocean-going vessel of 3000 tons or more, and some 37 7 reserve ways, or a total of 104, ca n be made ready on comparatively short notice.
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