The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-27
FLYING WHITE WINGS
PASTIME. YANKEE, GOBLIN AND
GYPSIE WIN OUT AT WHITE
BEAR YACHT RACES
WAS A FIFTEENKNoT BREEZE

Yankee Proved a Surprise, Although
Several Sailors Say That in Such
wind Cavite Is No Match for
Her-FnIeon and Pastime Fight 1t
Out ia the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Class
Inch by Inch.
There was a fifteen-knot breeze and fine
racing yesterday afternoon at the weekly
regatta of the White Bear Yacht club.
Cavite was beaten by Yankee in the
twenty-foot class. Goblin sailed home
. ahead of Henia in the seventeen-footers,
and Pastime carried off the pennant in
the twenty-one-foot class, beating Fall
con in a close race by three-quarters of
a minute
The win by Yankee was something of a
surprise, although several of the yacht
meE say on the quiet that Cavite in such
breeze as yesterday is no match for
Yankee Yankee was certainly handled
I better yesterday than Cavite, and was en-
Tilted to the race. Bobln sailed home
three minutes and fourteen second ahead
OF Aenla, although Skipper H T. Drake
explains this by saying that he under
stood the course was TO be ten instead
OF eight knots, and on the last leg, when
ABOUT half a mile ahead at the center
9cuy' he started for the Clark street
Dcuy, and did not discover his mistake
until too late.
In the twenty-one-fOot sloops the Fal-
con and the Pastime fought the race out
from start to finish, and hung together
on each leg like Siamese twins. Then
Jennie r. broke her jib while rounding
5he Clark street buoy on the second leg
one Of her crew. Holmes was sitting on
the starboard rails, and the quick suuall
. which struck the boat and broke the lib
threw him into the water He could not
swim. and, but for the prompt action of
Skipper Redenberg and D. H Sullivan,
would have been drowned. This put the
Jennie practically out of the race, and
she did not finish
A FAIR GETAWAY.
When the starting run was fired at 800
the Aenia and Goblin were first away
with but two seconds between them. The
4 siren crossed the line first in~the twenty
4 one-foot siOops, five seconds ahead of the
Jennie r., and three seconds ahead of
the FALCON. The Pastime being a minute
and eighteen seconds behind the Falcon
The twenty-foOt sloops crossed the start
. ing line in a bunch, with the Keewav-
ain IN the lead, Yankee second and Cavite
last ten seconds behind the Keewavdin
on the first leg the Keewaydin and yam
kee We're handled with much better skill
than the Cavite, and it was nip and tuck
10 the center bouy between the two
sIoops. Rounding the Clark street buoy
the tllIer of the Keewaydin broke. and
her skipper was Obliged to drop ont of
the race. At the buoy that marked half
or the race the Yankee was nearly four
minutes ahead of the Cavite. the time
Tor the four knots being thirty-seven
and a half minutes.
The Nenia, which reached the four-knot
buoy ahead of the Goblin. was in din
Guilty and was so long in rounding that
the Goblin was but forty-three seconds
oehlnd. The Pastime and Falcon passed
the four-mile buoy in the order named
with but eight seconds between them
Inc siren was six minutes later in
rounding. At the finish the wind was
elrectIy from the south and the boats
came from the center to the home buoy
with every inch of canvas they cOuId
carry. The Yankee was first home
making the eight knots in 1:5:59 five
minutes and a half ahead of the Cavite.
me Goblln beat the Xenia over the home
line by three and a half minutes
The Pastime crossed the line eight
seconds in front of the Falcon, and the
Siren was bad third. Both the Goblin
and Aenia have won a leg on the club
cup and the deciding race will be inter
esting Skipper Douglass, in speaking
of the poor showing made by the Cavite
said it might be due to a green crew and
the fact that all the ballast had been
removed from the boat
But three Iarks were entered and the
pennant was won by Matt Murphv's
Gypsie, with Mud Hen a bad second.
] Jack Ordway's Broncho met with an ac,
cident and did not finish
The following is a summary of the
races:
TWent-one Foot Sloops-