The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-25
WE'RE HERE AND AKELA
TWO NEW WINNERS At WHITE
BEAR YESTERDAY

There Will Have to Be Two Days'
Racing Yet to Decide tho Con-
test In tho seventeen-Footers-
Akela Showed Her Superiority
Over the Boston Boat In stin
Breeze.
AS Contest h Between East and west-First
Hoodlum, Massachusetts, Yacht club.
Wenty-Footers-First, Mahto, White Lear
Yacht club Hqo t0 5eS0nS maz
club club; fourth. Iota. Oshkosh Yacht club; fifth,
Pistakee, Pistakee Bay Yacht club: Sixth
Gadhy, Fox Lake Yasht club
Seventeen-Footers-Rac protested nv Cant
Drake, of Xenia-F1rst We're Here. Mime
tonka Yacht club; second, Xenia white Pear
Yacht club: third. Ell Comatcho, Fox Lake
Yacht club. o
Yesterday was red letter day at
White Bear. as the third days events
of the Inlterlake Yacht association
resulted In victory for the home clubs
representatives in two Of the classes
and defeat in the seventeen-foot
class, which would easily have been
a victory, but for an untimeIy acct
cent which occurred before the race
was well started, coupled with a. foul
by Capt Hopkins sloop. We're Here.
Capt. Drake, Of Xenia the White
Bear Yacht. filed a formal protest
against the captain Of the Minnetonka
boat, Immediately following the races.
The regatta committee disalIoWed the
protest. however.
AS 1t was, Xenia was only defeated
S oy one minute and thirty-two seconds.
she sailed the entire course with a
cracked mast, in addition to having
her spinnaker torn away in We're
Here's foul.
The conditions for fast and snanpv
racing at White Bear were Ideal YES
terday, and it is due to the steady
sale Whlcn swept across the lake all
day that the White Bear club is cred
lted with the third straight victory
IN the twenty-foot class, giving Mahto.
the clubs entry, the championship of
the Inland Lake association for the
year. and the possessor Of the hand
some trophy offered by that organiza-
ton.
The result of the Hoodlum-Ake,a
race was not surprise, as both VIC
tories or the Boston champion have
oeen accomplished under circumstances
Whlch We're decidedly unfayora.bIe IL,
Capt. Grigg's craft. o..
Hoodlum, the unbeaten champion Of
t1 sunered defeat yesterday ~.
the hrst time in two seasons having
sailed nearly sixty races without being
passed.
The contest between the Hazard.
Capt. Pillsbury's crack MinnetonSa
yacht, and Mahto was one of the best
sailed yacht races ever brought off on
White Bear. VA
the field, as they did on the preceding
Gays, and at times there was but a
lew seconds time between them. Haz
ara started out to win the race, and
FOR the first two legs of the course it
looked decidedly discouraging for the
Whrte Bear boat. However. running
to windward, she made up the few
! seconds which separated her from the
leader and kept a little in advance
thereafter. She easily won in two
minutes and thirty-three seconds.
Today's racing will be limited to the
contest between seventeen and TWEEN
ty-three-foot class Hoodlum now has
two victories to her credit. and. if the
wind is light. today's races will prob
ably determine the ownership of the
trophies hung up by the association
for his class. On the contrary, If 1t
| blows good stiff breeze, Akela's
chances are excellent for taking a Sec
las mainsail yesterday. which puts
her on more equal basis with the
Boston champion.
The seventeen-footers will also bat
tie for supremacy today. and. at best,
two more races will have to be sailed.
as each Of the two leaders has a race
to it's credit.
The racing in the twenty foot class
having been completed the Oshkosh
sailors left last night for their homes.
but the rest Of the visiting yachtsmen
will stay to attend the banquet which
will be given in their honor at Ra-
maley's tonight.
2:05 the wind was blowing ten knots
an hour with quite a sea running.
The twenty-footers were started at
2:15 p. m. and Hazard Immediately
| started in to run away from the field.
She partly succeeded and was well on
| her way before Mahto got her big
| spinnaker Up for the free run to CEN
ter, Monoquet, the Indiana boat which
| made such poor showing the day be-
| fore, responded with a great burst of
| speed and to center the six big fell
| lows tore at seven-knot clip.
The seVenteen-footers were started
| at 2:20. They were all close to the line
| when the signal was given and as they
| all passed nose to nose Fred BigeIow
notified the judges that Xenia had
| cracked her mast and they were re-
| lying on her stays to temporarily avert
| it's going by the beam.
| The boats got away. dangerously
| close together. Before reaching center
Were Here caught her boom in
| Xenia's shroud. and in getting away
caught the spinnaker stay, and broke
| it. On this point there is dispute
Capt. Hopkins men say they did not
| come within ten feet of jXenia, while
| Capt. Drake says that he was to wind
ward and therefore had the right of
| way and that We're Here came too
close with the above result The rules
of the club say that the yacht to the
| 1eeward must give the WindWard boat
| way.
Mahtos sailors exhibited excellent
| judgment throughout the race, and did
| fine work to windward. She caught
Hazard at Wildwood buoy and from
| there on it was very close race. Iota
was third, but was losing distance
| to Monoquet. From Wildwood to CEN
ter Hazard lost ground. In the face
Of head wind the yachts tackled back
| and forth, and by long tack Mahto
| twenty seconds ahead of Hazard. Ord
way kept Up a winning gait right
| along. From Center to Clark street
| Hazard lost twenty-e1ght seconds, leav-
| ing her one minute and four seconds
| astern.
| The relative positions of the boats in
this class was not changed during the
| remainder Of the race, except that
Monoquet, who secured third place by
a neat tack at the finish line, defeat
ing Iota by ten seconds. The race
throughout was close and interesting,
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