St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-16

Among the Small Cats-Gen-
eral News of Saturday Dished
Up for Globe Headers.
| 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 l6 minutes and 81 seconds behind
her. The Dyer boat crossed the finish
line after l hour and 40 minutes
and seconds. The Hemerschotf made
1t in l hour, SO minutes and 81 seconds.
Phelps Alpha did not sall.'Ceok, Cham
pion and Longs &C. l.. G., :" with her
heavy fir keel replaced by lighter one,
did well by coming in third. while
Frank AnSOn'S Water Witch captured
fourth place.
G. j. Bintliff's new boat Omega, upon
being measured, proved just too short
to sail us 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 a fair
test, it being her first race.
First place among the big cats is dis
| puted by the Mabel and the Pearl. The
sailing record gives the former boat
2:14:11 and the latter 2:13:03, but Nee.
! 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 McMullen'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
10 weather. Regatta day. as sure as it
has come around, has brought a fine
breeze for sailing, and not once has
storm interrupted the race, or falling
wind delayed the first boat in over the
minimum two hours and a half. YeSter-
day was no exception 10 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-thirteen of them big siOopS-but
| only twentX-One came out, the list of
dead, wounded and missing" includ-
| ing the Advertiser with a broken main
halyard,
The Atlanta Disabled,
| the OriOle. Siren, White Wings and
Vreda withdrawn.
a start was made for the Crystal hay
buoy-a windw ard leg, the Onona get
| ting away first after the special class:
the Mystic and Ida, rugged sloOp, shortly
| after; then the c. l.. c., Aurora. Water
Witch, Apukwa, with 10 Brisway at
the tiller; the Kite, showing good
seamanShIp in huggipg the line
Advertiser in silk dress,
White Wings. Aurelia and Ortole. The
Omega alone started i'll sec0nd-class
Sloops. Columbia, Mabel, Atlanta. b.
mta, Burgess Vreda, Pearl and Curlew
went over in order in the firSt-caSS cats
kttrel, Cupid, COQuette and King Bird
made the-SecOnd-claSS cats, and the Kid,
Hermes and COQuina started in The
order named i'll the special class.
l he 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
Thing Of Life.
Sne was no less than leg ahead when
she crossed the finish line, after having
sailed taultless race. Ward Burton
held the tiller. The Kite raced from the
the Crystal bay to the Spirit island buoy
with man on her bowsprit to keep
her nose in. On her way 10 the home
buoy, the first time around, there was a
fight for 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
bunch, showing what tuSsfe there
! had been among the old boars.
| The Kite and Z. L. C. crossed the
| finish nearly together after a little race
for the buoy. RamSey's Columbia and
Nee. Reeves Pear rigged cat were over
at the same instant, followed at a more
lelsurely pace by Capt. Eustis and his
! tat 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 i'll order of actual
time made is as follows:
FIRsT-CLAss sLooPS.