AMERICA CUP RACE

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 205, 30 September 1929, Page 4

AMERICA CUP RACE

CONTEST NEXT YEAR. EOUR OUT OF SEVEN. Only a few minor details remain to be worked out in the liegotiations for tlie 1930 series of races for tlie greatest of intea-national yacliting trophies, America Cup. Making public for the first tane since Sir Tliomas Lipton's ehallenge for the famous cup was accepted on June 1, the results of their corre-spondenco with the Royal Ulstcr Yaclit Club of Belfast, Irelnnd, the America Cup conimittee of the Kew York Yaclit Club announced the date for tlie first race next year, and the major conditions of the series. Tlie first contest will he sailed on September 30, 1930, from a starting point in Block Island Sound, nine miles south-east of Brenthon Reef lightship. Four out of seven races will decide the series. with the races being held on successive week days unless one of. the contestants asks for a oneday postponement. Already two syndicates have been formed to build and sail yaclits as candidates for the defence of the cup, the committee's report says. Under the conditions agreed on, the yac-hts must have a rating of not more than 76ft. under the rules of the club; and the races will be sailed without time allowances. In the report, tlie committee expressed tlie hope that at least one movt yaclit would he buil' as a cup defender, as this "not only will aid materially in the chances of a successful defence' of' the cup, but undoubt'edly will result in the foundation of a fine class of large racing yachts in this country.