The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-13
AKELA WAS FIRST
BUT CAPT. MEAD, OF THE TARPON,
SAYS THAT HE WAS
FOUhEBs
COLLISION AT DELLWOOD
MARS THE BEAUTY OF A LIVELY
RACE AT WHITE
BEAR
a5-.A&le
PASTIME LED THU KITTENS,
&G. 81
Having Lead of Nearly Nine Min
utes Over the AristOcratic Bonita
Sailors Get a Soaking.

D.,
| equipped with a new mast and sails,
showed her qualities to a fleet Of white
| winged craft in the third race Of the
season at White Bear yesterday and
crossed the line first in point Of actual
time, about three minutes ahead Of
Merry Girl, sailed by Paul H. Gotham.
and Alfrida, with Jim" Elmer at the
helm. Akela's victory was incomplete,
in that George H. Mead, sailing Tar
pom, entered a protest against Capt.
Griggs for having in some way run
into Tarpon while rounding the Dell
wood buoy.
Although they vigorously deny it. it
is suspected that some Of the thorough
going spOrtsmen are responsible for the
presence on the train of Weather OBJ
server Lyons, whose absence on a for
mer occasion is held accountable for
the rather dreary weather which mar
red the race last Saturday. At all
events Mr.. Lyons Respondent in top
hat and the consciousness Of having
dealt out an ideal day, was in evidence
and vouchsafed the information that
the wind was blowing south by south
west, about sixteen or eighteen miles
an hour, and further )that it would
probably freshen up as the day pro-
crossed. The doughty yachtsmen who
were overturned in the race are no
doubt Of the opinion that the observer
knew what he was talking about. The
magnificent weather, the stiff breeze
ard the surroundings foretold a hot
struggle between the different boats in
the four classes which started, the rival
ry between the winning .Akela and Tar
pom being responsible for number Of
wagers as to which would cross the
starting point ahead of her competitor.
But for the mishap referred to, they
would have come in much closer to-
gether, as the mix-up resulted in Tar
pon's losing considerable ground,
which she could not make up.
When the pleasure seekers found the
Thermometer recording summer heat,
they donned vari-colored shirt waists
and duck skirts and hied themselves
backwards. In spite of the fact that
many went to the lake on their wheels,
the afternoon train was kept until an
additional coach or two could be taken
on to accomm odate the crowd. When
Ramaley's was reached the sails were
already up and waiting to be sent out
for the contest The race was the
third of the year, an open contest for
the old White Bear Yacht club trophy,
and there were fifteen entries divided,
into four classes. There were two cats,
five starters in the special class, four
sloops in the twenty-one-foot class, and
the same number in the twenty-three-
foot class Capt. Harry Drake, Tracy
Lyon and Charles Stickney made up
the regatta committee, while R. B. De-
lano was official judge and timekeep-
err This last official was stationed in
the Stickney house boat, from which
he had a view of nearly all the course,
and from which he fired the prepara-
tory gun at 3:11 o'clock. The course
was eight and one-half knots and lay
from a line from the judges boat to
the Lake Shore buoy, out to buoy No.
1 at the foot of Clark street, thence to
the center buoy, thence to buoy No.
2 at Dellwood, back to center buoy and
No. 1 buoy, back again to center buoy,
then to Wildwood (buoy No. 81, back
to center buoy, next to buoy No. 1
and home to the starting line
The regatta committee provided in
each case which side of the buoy the
beats must go, and save for the trifiing
misunderstanding at Dellwood, on
which no two of the yachtsmen exact
ly agree, there was no difficulty what
ever during the afternoon.
When the starting gun for cats was
fired at 3:15, Capt. Sam Appleton, with
the Bonita, a number of ladies on
board. crossed the line closely followed
by Pastime. Capt Taylor. Pastime
soon overhauled Bonita and beat her
in by some six or eight minutes
The gun for the specials at 1920 called
out Croppie. Tracy Lyons f1at-bOt-
toned half-rater, for her maiden race;
MojaVe, Nelka, Jennie R. and Mime
haha. The last named, with Gene
Ramaley sailing her. was tipped to
win this class, but after rounding the
center buoy, coming to the home buoy
for the first time a puff of wind blew
her over. tumbling her skipper and s.
w. Brundage and Dr. Burdette into
the drink. She was soon righted and
came in to the pavilion with a very
wet crew and no time taken
The Jennie R. also quit and turned
in for home. leaving the struggle for
the other three. Mojave came in first
having been gone one hour, twenty
eight minutes and fifty-two seconds,
beating out all the twenty -one-foot
sloopS except Gotzian's trim little
Merry Girl, which consumed one hour
twenty-one minutes and twelve sec
onds. This is a very creditable per-
Torrance for the Merry Girl and eX-
cells the actual time made by Corona.
DIR. Welsh's boat Tarpon, Capt. Mead.
and J. P. Elmer's Alfrida; all of them
in the twenty -three-foOt class. A
glance at the official time will show
that Merry Girl was not very far be-
hind the leaders
The Gotham boat was first to finish
and was given a big hand when she
crossed the Imaginary line of the pa
Vilion. This bit of work easily gained
for her first honors in the twenty-one-
foot class. 81 : u
Corona, Tarpon, Xlfrhia and Akela.
in the twenty-three1foot class, started
off in the order named within two
minutes of each OTHER Akela having
won last position by SOME faulty jock
eying at the line. She cr6ssed the buoy
on the wrong side and Twas forced to
put about and try over again. The
quartette crossed the finish line in
group strung out TORS about three
minutes their relative positions almost
completely reversed: Akeia crossed the
line a winner in 11f:52. 9Alfrida, next,
having used in all 1 s1 ~; Corona third.
with 1:23:0O, and the unfortunate Tar
pom, the winner Of last Saturdays
honors. last in her classsqn d:24:44, act
ual time. V8Ie
Asformal protest was lodged with the
regatta committee as stated above by
the captain and crew Of the Tarpon.
It Is insisted on their part that they
were run down by Akela when at
tempting to round the Dellwood buoy,
which they had to leave on their star
board side. 1t appears that Akela had
slight lead rounding the buoy. but