St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16
WAS A ROYAL BATTLE.
TWENTE-EIGHT P0ATS IN THE RACES
AT MiNRET0NRA.
THE ONAwA Again WINNER.
Dispute Between the Mabel and
the Pearl-The Kestrel First
Among the Small Cats-Gen-
eral News of Saturday Dished
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In the now hotly contested fight for
the championship of the Minnetonka
Yacht club, the finest club of the sort
on any inland lake in America, the
Onawa yesterday scored a second vic
tory. Her nearest competitor, the Kite,
was 16 minutes and 81 seconds behind
Ter. The Dyer boat crossed the finish
line after l hour and 40 minutes
it in l hour, 56 minutes and 81 seconds.
Phelps Alpha did not sail. Cook, Cham
pion and Longs &C. Lie" with her
heavy fir keel replaced by lighter one,
did well by coming in third. while
Frank Anson's Water Witch captured
fourth place. ~ 90 ,s-s
G. j. Bintliff's new boat Omega, upon
being measured, proved just teo short
to sail as first-class sloop, and there
fore went in as second-class. 1t was her
first race and she sailed it in 2:27:29-
somewhat slow, but perhaps not fair
test, it being her first race.
First place among the big cats is dis
puted by the Mabel and the Pearl. The
Sdil!IS lCCOIu GIVES TIE lOTIl6E DOdL
2:14:1 and the latter 2:l3:03, but McC.
Reeve, in the Pearl, fOuled the buoy as
he finished.
Forced to DO So.
as he says, by the Columbia. The mat
ter will be decided in the regetta COM
mittee.
The Kestrel came in ahead of the
small cats, beating Al McMuIien's
kingbird by about minute. The Kid
took first in the special class.
The Minnetonka Yacht club has had
remarka lie luck this year with regard
o weather. Regatta day, as sure as it
has come around, has brought fine
breeze for sailing, and not once has a
storm interrupted the race, or failing
wind delayed the first boat in over the
minimum two hours and a half. Yester-
day was no exception TO this excellent
rule. There was booming breeze from
the northeast, but not enough to make
reefing necessary. Here and there over
the big lake might have been seen a
white cap.
TwentY-eight boats went into the bat
tle-thlrteen of them big sioops-but
only twentY-one came out, the list of
dead, wounded and missing .includ-
ing the Advertiser with broken main.
halyard,
The Atlanta Disabled,
the Oriole. Siren, White Wings and
Vreda withdrawn.
A start was made for the Crystal bay
buoy-a windNard leg, the Onona get
ting away first after the special class:
the Mystic and Ida, rugged SloOD, shortly
after; then the G. l.. c., Aurora. Water
Witch, Apukwa, with 10 Brisway at
the tiller; the Kite, showing good
nor hi
and crossing near the buoy: the
Advertiser in silk dress,
White Wings. Aurelia and 0rtole. The
Omega alone started in ,second-class
SloopS. Columbia, Mabel, Atlanta. Be-
nta, Burgess Vreda, Pearl and Curlew
went over in order in the firSt-claSs cats
Ketrel, Cupid, CoQuette and King Bird
made thesecOnd-claSS cats, and the Kid,
Hermes and CoQuina started in the
order named in the special class.
The race was without incident save a
few unimportant fouls; reported and
unreported. The yelloW-hulled OnaWa
lifted herself out of the water and flew
away from the rest of the fleet like a
Thing Of Life.
She was no less than a leg ahead when
she crossed the finish line, after having
sailed tauitless race. Ward Burton
IOlh liz Mic from tile
the Crystal bay to the Spirit island buoy
with man OH her bowsprit to keep
her nose in. On her way to the home
buoy, the first time around, there was a
hSht Tor Inches between the Aurora and
Liza, sailing almost alongside, but the
Ida crept away. Indeed, the Zoa, Au-
rella and Aurora crossed the finish in a
bunch, showing what a tuSSfe there
had been among the old boars.
The Kite and Z. L. C. crossed the
finish nearly together after little race
for the buoy. Ramsey's Columbia and
Nice. Reeves Pear rigged cat were over
at the same instant, followed at a more
leisurely pace by Capt. EuStis and his
fat men crew IN the Curlew
The race was witnessed by the largest
crowd so far this eason, and was Judged
from the Frolic by Judge f. B. Bailey,
Maj. W. ID. Hale and-Mrs. Hopkins.
The sailing record in order of actual
time made is as follows:
FIRST-CLAss SLooPS.,