St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-07-05
BY The YACHT CLUB.
IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CLASSES
The Results Capsized and Her
Crew SIRE Saved by the Ban
shee.

Yesterdays exciting race of the
White Bear Yacht club was sailed
in the midst of wildly tossing white
caps. For the fourth time was the
invincible Corona the victor among
the big sloops. The little Falcon
outspeeded the Hornet, while the
Galatea, a newly risen star among
the cats, outshown both the Alerta
and the Aurelia, although this vic
tory is contested. A total capsiZe of
the Results was a sensational feat
ure of the race, and the first serious
miShap of the season. Six reeking
mariners chung to the centerboard
and rudder of the Minnetonlla boat
until dramatically rescued by the
crew of the Banshee. The sea was
too heavy for remarkable time, but
the Corona covered the course in
1:33 40, actual time. The Columbia
had the rare good luck to beat the
speedy Wollypog by Is seconds cor
rected time. The only two remaining
first class sloops, the Banshee and
Results, were, of course, unable to
finish. A broken mast disabled the
Neko, and allowed the Aurelia to
finish third and last Of the cat boats.
Although the sky was clear and
the weather hot, as it can only be
on the Fourth of July, the southeast
breeze, blowing at the rate of TWEEN
ty miles an hour, raised such black
and treaeherous looking waves,
capped by such fiercely glittering
foam, that not every boat was will
ing to put to sea in the face of GER
tain wetting. OF those that did all
but the Corona carried three reefs in
their main sails. DR.. Welch's pet
is so remarkably tractable in ali
sorts Of weather that she only re-
quired two reefs and a storm jib.
In the following order eleven boats
at last crossed the line: Banshee,
a. K. Barnum; Wollypog, S. c.
Stickney; Corona, J. NJ. WEIGH; Re-
suits, J. L. Stack; Columbia, o. L.
Taylor; Hornet, c.. NJ. Mead; Falcon,
H. Van Week; Alerta, A. NJ. Drake;
Galatea, Maj. Espey; Neko, Tracy
Lyon; Aurelia, j. Jackson. Four OF
the five big sloops got away within
less than a minute of 1925. The Co
lumbia followed three minutes later.
The last three of the four cats were
also punched at the start.
The Corona was badly set back in
the very beginning of the race by
an accidental ENHANCEMENT of her
lib sheets Although her competi-
tors had almost reached the point of
the island while DR.. WEIGH was still
matchmaking his curled up ropes
but a few rods beyond the starting
buoy, the slower sloops were quick
to find their proper place. AT the
Wildwood buoy the order was Cor
ona, Results, Wollypog, Columbia,
Banshee.
Shortly afterwards, just as she was
about to jibe around the center buoy,
the tall mast of the unfortunate Re-
suits laid suddenly down upon the
water One of her crew laid down upon
the mainsail, and the remainder
SOUGHT MOIST COUCHES
in adjacent waves. The accident was
pected squaIl. Almost Immediately the
capsized boat turned bottom upwards,
and her recent occupants hung on to
the accommodating center board in at
titudes more determined than Grecian.
Walter Hewitt had a convenient boat
hook in the approaching Banshee, and
with this instrument of salvage the six
clustered victims were carefully de-
frnr he
which they We're clinging with fingers,
toes and teeth. When they had been
taken off the hook and placed in a row
to dry, they related six versions of the
catastrophe, which pleasantly beguiled
the time until the Banshee could land
her rescued at the club house and re-
ceive the plauGits of the fair. The boat
hook is to be silver plated and care
fully preserved.
At the home buoy on the first turn
the Corona lead the Wollypog by half
mile. The wind had now increased
to a gale, as sings the sweet singer of
the Associated Press, but the Corona
merely went the faster, and constantly
increased her lead. The three sloops
maintained the same order and the
Corona finished, as already stated,
A MILE AHEAD
of the nearest boat. Although the
Hornet started only three minutes be-
hind the Falcon, the latter gradually
crept past Mead's heretofore victorious
little sloop and finished more than
four minutes ahead. The Neko unfor-
tunately broke her mast when near
the peninsula on the home stretch.
This left the Galatea, Alerta and Au-
relia to make a close and pretty race
The three cats maintained practically
the same position throughout the
course. The Alerta was one minute
and four seconds ahead on actual
time, but lost the race by II seconds
on time allowance. The result is dis
puted, however, it being claimed that
the Alerta was fouled by the victor.
Yesterdays race was for the White
Bear trophy. The first race for the
same prize was sailed June l, when the
Corona was tied with the Wollypog.
II the Corona wins it again, she will
be entitled to retain the trophy for
this year. DR.. Welch's boat now has
Tour races to it's credit for the
championship, and no other boat has
one. 1t was intended that there should
De yesterday a grand evolution of tn.
entire fleet OF the yacht club to be fol-
lowed by group photographs. The
tempestuous weather prevented This
plan being carried out The eyolutions
anu pictures may possibly materialize
tomorrow, when there will be no
regular race. A week later each class
VIII sail respectively for the Gotham.