The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-08
MADE HER EASILY THE FASTEST
BOAT ON WHITE BEAR YES
TERDAY.
ALFRIDA WINS IN THE CATS,
ALTHOUGH AURELIA WAS AHEAD
WHEN SHE MET WITH AN
ACCIDENT.
'TONKA YACHTS MUST HEEL 1T
If They Expect to Get Away From
the Queens of the Sister
Lake.

The weekly regatta of the White Bear
Yacht club yesterday afternoon was by
far the finest and most exciting contest
of the season. 1t was true sailors
day. the fresh breeze from the south
east, a twelve miles an hour breeze,
was just a full sail wind, occasionally
curling the crests Of the waves into
whitecaps, over which the dainty yachts
buoyantly danced, tossing the milky
foam in gauze-like spray from their
bows. The day was indeed a perfect
one and the different events were close
enough to keep up the interest from
start to finish. The course was about
ten miles long, starting from the Ra-
maley pavilion to a center buoy, thence
to the Dellwood buoy, back to the CEN
ter buoy and to the Wildwood shore,
and back to the starting line.
There were four events of the differ
ent classes; the cat boats, specials, the
second and the first-class sloops, and
these were started in the order named.
In the coming interlake regatta to be
sailed in the White Bear waters, Aug.
24-26, between the representative
yachts of that club and Of Minnetonka,
there will be entries of a cat boat and a
first-class sloop from each lake, and the
knowing White Bear yachtsmen init
mate that their club will be we'll repre-
scented by the Aurelia and the Akela
in their respective classes.
By far the most interesting event of
- - rcf
class sloops, in which the Akela and the
Tarpon contested for the supremacy,
and again did victory perch upon the
silken sails of the aristocratic Akela,
skillfully handled by Capt. Griggs. The
gun on the judges boat doomed at
1925 o'clock, and both of the beautiful
crafts crossed the line q few seconds
later, the Akela getting about twenty
seconds the best of it, although the
Tarpon was possibly a trifie to wind
ward. Turning the first buoy they
center buoy, and the Tarpon drew slow
ly but surely closer to her rival, so
that when they turned for the Dellwood
leg, she was only five seconds behind.
Here the wind was directly astern, and
wing and wing they dashed down the
course. the Akela opening the gap
somewhat and both boats rapidly
overtaking the second-class sloops,
which had started five minutes in adj
vance.
1t was a beautiful sight; six boats
were punched, but out of the bunch
the Akela forged ahead and rounded
the buoy first. The Jennie was lead
ing the boats of her class, and she
tried to make the tack the same time
as did the Tarpon. and the result was
that they fouled each other, and, al
though no damage was caused to
either craft, they hung together for
fully a minute-and all this time the
Akela was bounding on her course like
a race horse; that race was practical
ly settled. The Jennie also lost enough
Roadway as to be beaten beyond a
hope, but both she and the Tarpon
continued on the course gamely.~
AS they again rounded the center
buoy, the Akela led the Tarpon by
one minute and fortytwo seconds,
and continued to increase this lead
to the end of the race; on the return
from buoy number one she was three
and one-half minutes ahead. EVGry
stitch of her silk was drawing hand
sCmely and she held to her course like
an arrow from a bow until she finally
crossed the line nearly five minutes
ahead of her rival. This was the first
time her new set of sails had been
tried, and she is conceded now to be
the fastest boat on the lake. In the
stiff sailing breeze of yesterday she
ran away from the judges boat, the
steam launch Ina.
A very pretty struggle indeed was
that of the second-class sloops The
ba fire t1on
but was closely followed in success
sion by the Jennie, Falcon and Adj
vertiser. Away they went in bunch
so close together that the shippers
could almost have shaken hands with
one another if they had not been so
advantage of wind and water. Thus
they rounded the center buoy towards
the Dellwood shore, and then the
Jennie began to draw slowly ahead,
but SO little that the advantage could
hardly be noticed from the judges
1t was in turning the Dellwood buoy
that the Jennie and Tarpon fouled, and
the Falcon at once took the lead and
was never headed. The Advertiser
was a very close second, and in the
long reach to the finish crowded the
Falcon closely, crossing the line only
six seconds behind; the Jennie came
Siren almost two minutes later still.
But it was demonstrated yesterday
that White Bear has some very speedy
catboats. Four were entered, the
Merry Girl, Aurelia, Alfrida and Pas
time. and they made the prettiest
start of the day, crossing the line in
a bunch and almost exactly at the
same time. A few rods farther the
Pastime fouled the Aurelia, but only
very slightly; no particular loss Of
time was occasioned to either by the
encounter. While headed for the CEN
ter buoy however, the Aurelia met
with a more disastrous accident, her
rudder post swapping short off, and
she was obliged to give up the race,
even while she was in the lead. This
was Alfrida's race; the natty little
craft outpointed her opponents on
every reach. and it was only a Ques-
tion of how much she would beat them
and it was nearly nine minutes. The
Merry Girl. sailed by Capt Gene
Ramaley, finished something more
than two minutes ahead of the Pas
time.
The two little sloops in what is
known as the special class, the Croppie
and Witch, made a very pretty race,
although the rightly-named Witch was
too much for her rival yesterday, end
crossed the line with four minutes and
forty-seven seconds to her good
The following is a detailed statement
of the result in each event:
First-class Shops
Actual Corrected
Time. Time
Akela, C. NJ: Griggs. :23:31 1:151e
TarDOn G. H. Mead .eS.15 1.1o.M