The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-22

flying start and over the usual eight
and half knot course. The twenty
one-foot sloops entered We're Adver-
tiser, Falcon, Jennie r. and Minneha-
ha, and they all began the struggle
well punched and kept close company
until the Dellwood buoy was reached.
The wind was light at the start, but
freshened up at intervals during the
afternoon.
The Bigelow halfrater Witch fairly
lolled over the line in the special class,
with Mojave and Croppie soon after
Croppie made bold bid to overtake
the others, but hardly Jared well III
the gentle breeze.
Merry Girl, the Gotzian cat, with
BILLY" Morse, of Minnetonka, at the
tiller, crossed the line neck and neck
with Alfrida, Pastime third and Azure
liza, the White Bear representative Of
the cat class, in the interlaken, a poor
fourth, minute and half behind the
gun.
though, and pulled through the ruck
and promised to overtake her speedy
rival, Alfrida, but never succeeded
during the race in doing the trick.
Akela being out of the water for
some preliminary treatment, Tarpon
had for it's opponent the valiant old
Kitten, sailed by A. A. McKechnie, who
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Tarpon was slow for the gun, and
Kitten was nearly minute behind her
in getting past the starting buoy. Capt.
Fred Hopkins and his natty little Glad
rene from Minnetonka sailed about the
lake, and the movements Of the trim
little craft was much admired.
Witch reached the center buoy at
3:42, Alfrida 3:43, Croppie at 3:43:07, Mo-
jave a scant second later, and Aurelia
at 3:45 so. Aurelia appeared to have
lost ground, and Alfrida was shaping
to give her a hard race. Going down
to the Dellwood buoy Mojave forged
ahead of Croppie and started to trail
Alfrida. Gladrene having sailed down
measured her speed against Witch over
to Dellwood. The Minnetonka boat
appeared to have a shade the best of
it, although the advantage was very
slight. On the run down Alfrida also
passed Witch, who suffered from a
blanketing process. The Helmke boat
Jennie r. succeeded in rounding Dell
wood buoy first, with Siren second and
Minnehaha next. Then came Alfrida
rounding the buoy just as Gladrene
came about, and the race back to the
center of the lake between Alfrida,
Gladrene and Witch was pretty. The
advantage lay first with the Mime
tonka boat, then with Witch, which
seemed to overhaul her adversary with
the freshening wind. Neither could
catch Alfrida, however, and close after
them was Tarpon, which had over
hauled and passed Aurelia on the leg
to Dellwood. Coming back Alfrida
blanketed the Minnetonka boat, and
passed her handily, after which Witch
cleverly made up some of the ground
lost by going a trif1e too far to the
leeward. Alfrida was racing for keeps.
and pulled further away from Aurelia
and passed even Advertiser, which had
a start of some ten minutes at the out
set
The sight was a pretty one from
Dellwood buoy back to the center, and
thence to buoy No. 1. Alfrida rounded
the buoy at 409:40 with Gladrene at
her heels, shortly followed by Witch,
at 4:11:45. Tarpon revealing in the light
wind was rapidly overtakfng the boats
which started ahead of her and came
around at Alb, Mojave a minute later,
and Croppie and Aurelia neck and neck
at precisely All. Merry Girl rounded
to minute after that and Pastime
was last of the fleet. The boats started
off to beat back to No. 1 buoy close
hauled against the wind. Capt. Hop
kinS sailed his Gladrene alongside of
Witch, and the pair made a neat race
of it, neither having any advantage to
boast of. Alfrida led the procession to
the buoy and made off for the long leg
to Wildwood. She was holding a beau
tiful course, and led the way with Jen-