The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-29
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
10Th MINNETON<A HOATs WON
AGAIN IN yEsTERD,,aY''s TER
RIFIC GALE.
TARTAR WREstEol THE CUP
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FROM THE WHITE. BEAR CLUB
AND ITS PRETTY LAKE
RACER.
WAS DISABLED EARLY
rs
So the varuna Had Practically. NJ
Contest for the Cats, Compete
tive HOnOrs.

Tartar and Varuna are the interlake
champions, according to the dictum Of
the match races, which, however, I'M
fortunately, do not conclusively repre-
sent the actual all-around sailing quail
tiles of the boats The fact that both
the races were sailed in extraordinary
winds, while in the light breeze Of the
day when no race was decided, the
Alfrida easily outfooted her Mime
tonka competitor, cannot but be looked
upon as a dispensation of Providence
that was unkind to the White Bear
crack, to say the least.
There can be no doubt that Alfrida
would have made a much better show
ing in ordinary sailing breezes.
Nushka was also beaten yesterday
by the Varuna, breaking her mast in
the race.
1t was a race full of spirit and gin
ger; full of Incidents exciting and fas-
cinating to the yachting cranks and
one which even the ignorant land lub-
Der could thoroughly understand and
appreciate. The time made by the win
ner was almost as good as on Wednes-
broken.
The principal features Of the race
were the wonderful windward work
done by the Minneapolis boat; the
heavy wind and the collapse of the
Nushka's mast.
All boats carried at least one reef,
and even then there proved to be too
much wind for them and frequent luf-
fling was necessary. to. prevent capsiz-
ing.
On the free runs the boats were
driven along at a pace never seen on
the lake before last Wednesday: 1t
fairly made the judges gasp to watch
the flying machines and the swift
steamer Acte, the judges boat had all
she could do to equal the pace set by
the white wings. In fact, on the free
runs the steamboats, could not catch
the sloops. The terrific gale which was
blowing from the south made the wind
ward work a very exciting business.
The boats were constantly on edge
with Minnetonka's waves washing over
hanging over the windward rails like
a lot of bats hung under the caves of a
barn.
The course sailed was the short tri-
angular one and the start was made
toward Crystal bay on a three-fourths
stern wind. At 2:55 the sloops were
started. Alfrida got the best start
again, leading Tartar across the line
by four lengths. Like two white pig
cons they shot down the course, neither
seeming to gain or lose a foot They
were almost upon the Crystal bay be-
fore the cats were started at 8 o'clock.
Nushka got away a little ahead of
Varuna, although the latter had gained
the. greater Roadway by reason, OF her
position. The two cats were off in the
wake Of the sloops and hardly a boat
length apart. Alfrida rounded the first
buoy ten seconds ahead of Tartar, but
in the last quarter of the second leg,
Tartar managed to work off to wind
ward and crowd AIfrida off to leeward
from the Lookout buoy. The result
was that Tartar rounded first by five
seconds and obtained a. lead which she
never let go for an instant The third
leg, back to the club house was hard
windword work and on it Tartar gained
two minutes and nine seconds
On the second leg free run Varuna
"stubbed her toe" and kept piowing
her nose under the waves Nushka
easily walked away from the Tonka
boat on the free runs, but was beaten
by Varuna on the Windward work, for
although Varuna finished the free runs
one minute and seven seconds behind
NuShka, she was two. minutes and
eleven seconds ahead at the end Of
the first windward run, when she
swung off at the home buoy for the
second time. This more than covered
the one minute and two seconds time
allowance she had to give Nushka
The interesting part of the race was
finished after the first time around. The
boats held their then relative positions
for the rest Of the race ofThe wind was
constantly increasing and was esti-
mated twenty-five miles an hour at
o'clock. White caps were running
high and the boats were luffing fire.
quently. On the second free run Nush-
ka was seen to be in distress, her port
stay having parted, sallowing her
mast to lean to starboard. Almost as
soon as she began the Strain of wind
ward work a few minutes later the
mast snapped off shorthand she was
towed back home by the Victor.
Alfrida was gradually losing place,
and while occasionally gaining a few
seconds on free running, found only a
temporary advantage and Tartar
crossed the finish line a winner by six
minutes and forty-three seconds
Tartar finished at thirty-five minutes
and fourteen seconds past O'clock
making the eleven miles. including
windward work, in one hour, forty
minutes and fourteen seconds.
Varuna made the race in one hour,
fifty-five seconds and tairty-fve Sec
onds
By the winning of these two races
Tartar wins the two pennants- offered,
one for each race, and also the Inter
Peterson, the Minnetonka builder, who
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