The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-31
MAHTO, XENIA and PASTIME
WERE WINNERS AT WHITE
BEAR LAKE YESTERDAY


and Pretty Contests Were the
Rule Rather Than the Exception
Tuesday Moonlight Parade
of the Yachts on the Lake VIII
BE Given.
The yacht race at White Bear lake
yesterday afternoon had it's Hobson
ana Merrimacf in the person of Capt.
| Carl Hobson Lindquist and the moni-.
tor Ina. Before the bombarding fleet
could be given the signal, the dispatch
poat had been run out to port and sunk
IN bed OF weeds, and, had 1t not been
Tor the timely action Of Waiter Schley
! morton, in transferring the gallant
crew OF judges and newspaper men
TO the pleasure craft Secret, there
Would nave been no race. and many
yachtsmen from the rustic shores Of
pointed.
AS 1T was, the five minutes delay
only served as an incident Of the race.
Inc victory of ]. E. SINNERS twen-
ty-foot sloop Mahto over the four other
ooats IN the tWenty-foot class was well
earned, and the Mahto only crossed the
finish line in front of Ramaley's after
We!i-contested race, winning over
| Wlerollng by a margin of one minute
ana hfteen seconds. Yesterdays trial
was her first in a good steady wind,
ana her victory is largely due to the
excellent seamanship of Mr.. Skinner
and his victorious crew.
Inc tWenty-three-foot sIoops were
conspicuous by their absence from the
race yesterday. Akela has been I'M
oergolng repairs for some time, but
VIII make her first appearance in her
new tackle in the pennant race next
Saturday.
Aurelia, however, sailed the course
yesterday, keeping the other boats
company.
In the seventeen-foot class Xenia
! won against field consisting of the
Goblin, sailed by Sam Bum, and Crop
pie manned by Commodore Harry
| Drake. The result in this class was
In no wise certain until the last tack
! on the homeWard arm of the course,
when the Xenia, in rounding the cen
ter, gained slight lead, which, in
| creased by four minutes over Croppie.
the last boat to finish in this class.
The result of the race with the seven
teen-footers was somewhat of a sur
prise.
The contest in the twenty one-foot
class yesterday included field of four
and was one of the bestsailed races
the lake. G. HI. Taylor's Pastime won
by less than one minute over Capt.
| G. w. Rodenbergs Jennie r. Capt.
Rodenberg sailed a fine race, as did
Capt. Van Week and Capt M w.
Owens, sailing the Falcon and Hornet
respectively. The result of yesterdays
race in this class will awaken new in
terest in the so-called twenty foot
class, which is in reality the cat class,
| with very few changes in the tackle.
The four boats are all we'll matched,
and the races yet to be sailed will be
marked by some lively contests in this
class.
The judges yesterday were w. S.
Morton, R. B. De Lano and w. J. Muir
| ry. The starting gun was fired from
the deck of Capt. Merrills Sc
cret, five minutes late, and the yachts
left the post by classes at intervals
| of five, minutes.
tie between in the following order:
Hornet, Falcon, Pastime and Jennie
R. The wind was blowing a good,
strong seven-knot breeze, and did not
change to any material degree during
| the race.
Scarcely had the Secrets ten-inch
! gun given the signal for the cruise of
the -footers than three little
fellows crossed the line together, with
| Croppie little the best Of it,
In the twenty-foot class, around
| which interest centers during the alb
sence of the big fellows from the game,
| good start was made, the boats get
ting off with considerable Roadway to
their advantage. After the race had
been we'll begun the gun boat Maud,
with Capt. Young on deck, took on
board the judges, and followed the
races in the place of the marooned
| Ina.
1t was pretty race all the way
around. AT the center buoy, on the
return tack from Dellwood the boats
rounded towards Clark street in the
| following order: Mahto, Jennie R,
Wierdling, Falcon, Xenia, Aurelia,
Hornet, Raven, Yankee, Goblin, Crop
pie and Keewayden.
Capt WEIGH of the Keewayden.
the center buoy had been turned, AS
he experienced considerable difficulty
with the gaff Of his mainsail
| AT the Clark street buoy on the turn
to Wildwood, Wierdling outsailed Pas
time and the Jennie r, completing this
arm just behind Mahto a position
which she kept during the remainder
Of the race The following was the
order Of the boats at Clark street
buoy: Mahto, Wierdling, Pastime,
| Yankee, Jennie R. Falcon, Xenia, Ra-
ven, Hornet and Goblin.
The regatta committee met aft
er the race and took up the
|
test, on the judges decision Of last
| Saturdays race declaring it no race
1t was claimed that the Aurelia COM
pleted the course within the time limit,
which would have made DR.. Welch's
Keewayden the winner. The regatta
committee sustained the decision of
the judges on the ground that the Au-
relia was not in the race unless she
started with the twenty footers, and
! in that event she did not complete
within the time limit, as no time al
lowance is given in this class
The summary Of yesterdays races
are as follows:
G-Foot Shops
Captain. Start Finish. Time.
Falcon, Van Week go. 1920 5:065s TAG IS
Jennie, G. w. Rodenberg 3 20 5:0s:2} 1860
| Pastime, c. H. Taylor. :. 20 5:28 1923
Hornet, NJ. w. Owens. =. 1920 5:13:25 1853 rs
| 17-Foot Shops
Croppie, Tracy Lyon. .s:'5 5:o9:29 1870
Xena, H. T. Drake. 49,. 1925 5:06:12 1:41:12
0-Foot Shops
Yankee, L. P. Ordway. g 80 4:55 :33 1:25 :39
Weirdling, F. M. Doug
Mass Lass Skinner 4:5a52 1862 q e
Raven. 6. NJ. Griggs $50 1856 ISIS
Keewayden, ]. NJ. We,ch. $50 Did not finish.
The White Bear Yacht club will give
moonlight parade on the lake Tues
day evening. Commodore Drake has
notified all the yacht owners on the
lake, inviting them to decorate and IL
Illuminate their craft for the occasion
! Those Wishing to go out In the even
ing can take the 1880 train and return
| at 1890.
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