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  2. The Contest for the America Cup.

    Probably there is no sailing race of modern times that created such interest at the time it was sailed, or so much unpleasantness subsequently, as the recent race for the America Cup between Lord ...

    Article : 420 words
  3. Children's Hospital Carnival at Balmain.

    On the afternoon of November 28 Balmain was en fete on the occasion of the official opening of the Children's Hospital Carnival in the Balmain Town Hall, organised by the ladies ...

    Article : 421 words
  4. THE CONTEST FOR THE "AMERICA" CUP: A SCENE ON THE CROWDED COURSE.

    "The crowd was so great that we could not see the mark-boat, and could not tell when we were near the line; and we were much hampered by steamers, especially on the race home. To-day, on the reach home, eight or nine steamers were to windward of me, and, what is worse, there was a block of steamers steaming level with me and close under our lee. I sailed nearly the whole of the distance on tumbling, broken water, in a heavy wash from those steamers. The race under these conditions is, in my opinion, absurd, and I decline to submit myself to them again. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 247 words
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