Oct. 20, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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AN INTERNATIONAL TROPHY. 
Concluded from page 626. 
tificate obtained from the club measurer before 
starting. 
“A series of eliminating races will be held 
during the R. C. C. summer meet-to select the 
defending canoe or canoes from among the 
British defenders. 
“The committee is in a position to say at the 
present moment that it has informally received 
four challenges from different foreign countries, 
and as the matter has not yet been officially 
ventilated in the press, they naturally look to re¬ 
ceive further challenges after the conditions have 
been published.—Yours, etc., 
“R. F. Lawson, 
“Sailing Mate. 
“16, Mark-lane, London, E. C., 
Oct. 2, 1906.” • 
Editorially the Yachting World says: 
“Three or four years ago, the sailing races 
of the Royal Canoe Club were remarkable for 
the large number of entries, and the high order 
of skill in sailing required to win a prize in 
these little craft. Of late, unfortunately, many 
of the best men have given up canoe sailing and 
have taken to easier forms of sport, leaving the 
racing to one or two good men. who have won 
nearly all the prizes, and a few novices, who 
have had a distinctly disheartening time follow¬ 
ing them round the course. It must be ad¬ 
mitted that the modern sailing canoe is not an 
easy boat to get the best out of, even for a good 
average boat sailer, but for those who have the 
patience and skill to acquire the art of handling 
one of these tiny raters there is no form of sail¬ 
ing equal to this for bringing out the finest 
handling and the best sport. In these boats the 
helmsman is like Gilbert’s hero, who was at 
once 'the cook, and the captain, too, and the 
crew of the Nancy brig.’ Any mistakes, there¬ 
fore, can at once be traced to the true culprit. 
It is no use blaming that fool with the head 
sheets if you lose a race, because you are the 
said fool. On the other hand, if you win a 
hard fought race against four or five of the 
finest small boat sailers in the country, you feel 
that you have done every bit of it yourself and 
can justly take all the credit. No doubt, the 
difficulty of sailing canoes has proved too much 
for the skill and patience of many men who 
would otherwise have persevered in the sport, 
and that is the chief reason why the entries fell 
off when some of the older canoeists left. It 
is, however, not sufficiently realized by London 
boat-sailers that in the R. C. C. canoe racing 
there is the finest sailing to be had within half 
an hour of London all through the early part of 
the year and in the autumn, before sea sailing 
has begun and after the yachts are laid up. 
It is well known that international compe¬ 
tition is the best tonic for any sport, and this 
is proved by the fact that the club never had a 
more successful season than that in which the 
Americans made an unsuccessful attempt to lift 
the sailing challenge cup. That cup. however, 
is competed for under the condition that any 
challenger must meet the combined fleet of the 
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