The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-13
saw JENNIE'S HEELS
THAT IS WHAT OTHER WHITE
BEAR SLOOPS DID YESTER-
DAY AFTERNOON
AND IN A NINE-KNoT BREEZE

Jack Ordway's BronchO Walks
Away From the Larks, but VIII
Have to Win Another Race Be-
fore He Can Claim the Cup
Judges Boat Was on a Vacation,
and Starting Gun Out of Order.
The White Bear Yacht club races yes
terday afternoon were what the "jolIy
tars" called exciting. In order to en-
JOY the really sensational features of
yacht race one must be aboard one of
the larks, cats or sloops. Standing on
the porch of the Dellwood club house
and watching a dozen sail boats scurry
up and down the lake half a dozen
times without being able to tell where the
boats are going to, or which one is win
ming, does not thrill an outsider with
much admiration of the sport The
yachtsmen, however, and residents of the
lake who are interested in the racing
enjoy it, and as the crowd is usually, and
was yesterday, made up of those who en-
JOY above all else a yacht race, every
! body was satisfied.
| 1t was 8 o'clock when Secretary Nor
ton, of the yacht club, took his posi-
| ton on the lower deck of the club house
at Dellwood and with megaphone gave
boats, or rather to the shippers and
crews as to the course to be sailed over
for the race. The. cannon generally used
to notify the yachtsmen that the race
was about to start was out of condition
owing to the supply of powder having
been exhausted, and one of the assistant
commodores neglecting to replenish the
arsenal The small steamer used by the
judges was also on a vacation, so the
judging Of the race had to be decided
from the club house. Secretary Nor
ton never lets trifles of any kind bother
him and spoke Of the putting breeze
| from the nor nor west which he said
was blowing at mine knots" an hour
! These observations from such authority
had the effect of greatly exciting the
crews as we'll as the spectators The
race, it was decided, should be sailed
over the inside course, or from a buoy
| to the right of the club house to the
! center bouy, then to the island and back
to the starting point. The "Iarks" and
cats" were to sail the course over
twice and the "twenty-one-foot soops'
and the "twenty-foot specials" were to
make the circuit Of the course three
times.
The cats" and '1arks' were started
at S:15 and the "sloops'' and specials"
five minutes later. The Alfredo in the
open class cats, owing to it's speed,
was given handicap of eight minutes
Within ten minutes after the start
the htteen boats were sailing down the
lake in a bunch The Alfredo lead the
| rest by some distance showing that
the allowance given the other crafts In
the class was none too much In the
specials the Harriet E crossed the
line first, followed by the Wierdling
The Keewaydins skipper misunderstood
the commands through the megaphone
ana lost minute and a half in getting
away. In the ''twenty-one FOOT sloons
the Jennie R crossed the starting line in
advance, with the Falcon, Pastime and
Hornet length apart The 'Iar<s"
were Off in bunch, with the Broncho
slightly in the lead
Rounding the starting buoy which
marked the first three knots the Alfredo
was the first, eight minutes ahead of
the Secret; the Bonita, the third entry
in this class. having dropped out of the
race on the first round. The Harriet
b was in advance of the Wierdling on
the first round of the course, a minute
and thirty-fiVe seconds, and the Kee-
Waydin was half a minute behind the
Wierdling. In the twenty-one-foot sIoops
the Pastime had gained on the Jennie
r, and completed One-third Of the race
half a minute before the Falcon, which
was twelve seconds behind, and half
minute ahead of the Jennie R. The Hor-
net was five minutes astern of the Jen-
ME r. in making the first round of the
course. OF the larks the Broncho was
the first to cross the line on the first
round, nineteen seconds In advance of
the Chippy. The Mud Hen was six min
utes after.
Halfway down toward the center buoy
on the second round the skipper of the
Alfredo, imbued with the true spirit of
a sportsman and desiring to make a
race, instead of a procession, put about
and sailed back toward the fleet which
he had left behind. This undoubtedly
lest the Alfredo the race, for while the
boat finished first six minutes before
the Secret, the time allowance of eight
minutes which the Alfredo gave it's COM
petitor, gave the Secret the race The
Broncho increased it's lead on the Chippv
on the second round of the course and
sailed over the line the winner, three
minutes and twenty-five seconds ahead
of the Gypsy, with the Chippy third, half
a minute behind. The Mud Hen was
seven minutes behind the Broncho.
In the twenty-foot sloops the Harriet
f. maintained the lead on The second
round of the course, and passed the
buoy which marked two-thirds of the
race sailed five minutes and twenty sec
onds ahead of the Keewaydin, which
was second, just seven seconds ahead
of the Wierdling.
The race between the Jennie R. and
Pastime was close on the second lap of
the course, the Jennie R. passing the
line just twenty seconds in advance Of
the Pastime, with the Falcon a minute
astern of the Pastime. The Hornet was
not over the line on the second round
until ten minutes after the Jennie R.
The Harriet E. was not troubled in the
last lap of the race, and finished first
in its class, five minutes ahead of the
KeeWaydid, which crossed the line fifty
two seconds before the Wterdling. On
the last leg of the course the Pastime
skipper had trouble near the island buoy
and was passed by the Jennie r. and
Falcon, the Jennie r. beating the Fail
con home by three-quarters of a second.
The Pastime was third. and the Hornet
a bad fourth.
The race in the twenty sloop
class was for the Dellwood cup, and in
the Iarks for the Taylor cup. Jack Ord
way of fha RrOpcho will have IN