St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-06-17
LITTLE SHY ON WIND.
The Minnetonka Fleet Sails Under
disadvantages.

Disadvantages.
Had the wind not failed. the Mime
tonka Yacht club fleet would have yes
terday afternoon sailed its first pennant
race. As it was, the lace was started
aDd carried along until the last tack of
the second round, so that after all it
really amounted to contest. The
spectators at the club house and OH the
different steamers and pleasure boats
had opportunity to see some very pretty
exhibitions of sailing, and critics some
chance to watch the new boats out for
the first time and TO pass judgment OH
their merits.
The race was late in starting, but the
judges i'll their steam launch, the
Helena, finally managed. to get the
different classes off, and they went
across the line IN the following order:
The seventeen-foot specials AMI the
twenty-foot cats; the twenty-foot
sloops and the twenty-three-foot cats,
and last the twenty.three-foot sloops.
All of the boats got off we'll to-
gether, the sight as they stretched
away on the first tack being a very
pretty one. Among the frst-ciass
sloops there was the usual manGuvering
to force rival boats to cross first, but the
Argot finally took the lead, tine C. l..
T.. following. The Alpha was one of
the last to cross, and, as she had run
over the time limit, had to pay the PEN
atty with handicap.
AS the boats stood on the second tack
the breeze freshened. and the result was
a very pretty fight between the Marie,
the Kite and the G. L. C. On the
third tack the fleet was pretty we'll
ctr hut IN hao 70 ;.fo
class held we'll together.
On the second round each sloop as
she made the club house buoy winged
her jib and made use of every advan-
tage to catch the failing breeze. Among
the first-class sloops the Marie came
about very inditferently, and as result
was olanketed and passed by the Kite.
On this the Kite secured big lead, and
when later she caught a puff of the
light air she Increased it by JIbIng just
in time to make the buoy at Point Look
out. The other boats followed her ex-
ample In jibing, but she held her own.
On the last tack the wind failed ell
tirely, and the boats lost SO much time
that the race was declared off before
they could make the finish line.
Inc feature of the race-Or, rather, of
what race there was-was the appear
oIiCC VI IllO uCW UUdlS VI luS u6eL,
Among the tirst-class sloops the Marie,
the new Dyer boat, quite held her own
with the Alpha and Kite, two of the
recognized leaders of her class, coming
i'll at the finish meek and neck"
with them. The Pysche. among
the new second-class sloops, at
tracted general attention from the
speed she exhibited III light
airs and the closeness with which She
worked to windward. She looks like a
champion. and ought to push some of
the older members of her class. Among
the smaller boats the Mouse and Seno-
rita were the closest watched, though
to the seeming disadvantage of
the latter boat. She was passed
by the Mouse in fair and open trial of
speed, but as it was the first race i. can
not De taken as all absolute standard of
the fleet are some of them very speedy,
and in finish race these two new boats
would probably experience hard sailing
i'll crossing the line ahead of some of
the old timers.
I The race, according to the rules of
the CLUB, will be sailed on next Satur.
day. The Judges yesterday were Mai.
w. d. Hale, G. j. Bartleson and Mrs.
Fred Hopkins. The course used YES
teIday was the ''shorter triangle"
course. the boats sailing twice around
the Point Lookout and Crystal Bay
club house buoys, and beginning and
flushing in front of the club house.
Coming events at Lake Minnetonka
will be the Royal Arcanum picnic on
June % at the Lake Park, with an at.
tendance of from LOCO to 5000 excur-
sionists; the grocers' picnic, June 20,
at the Hotel st. Louis. with about the
same number in attendance; yacht
race and the race between the Mime
sofa and University of Wisconsin crews
Saturday afternoon June 90. and the
formal opening of the Lafayette hotel
Oh the evening of the same day.