The Saint Paul globe., 1899-07-16
DOWNED BY DOUGLASS
YACHT YANKEE AGAIN OUTFOOT-
ED BY HER SPEEDIER FRIEND,
THE CAVITE
THE THIRD CLOSE VICTORY
white Bear Yachtsmen Experience
All Kinds of Weather In Their
Races on the Lake Yesterday
Afternoon Battling and Treacb-
erOus Breezes Keep Shippers and
Crews Busy.


Cavite, Capt Douglass new twenty
footer added additional laurels to her
already enviable record yesterday by de-
feating Yankee by one minute and twen-
ty-hVe seconds, making her third close
victory over Capt. Ordway's last years
champion. At no time during the contest
was the result certain, in fact for fully
two-thirds of the race the two yachts
Travelled close together, alternating posi-
tlons Of vantage, and it was only on the
final leg of the course that the newcomer
succeeded in shaking the other boats of
the fleet before a freshening breeze. and
made good her third victory.
Yesterdays s contests between the fast
craft was rather eventfuI one in so
much that Henrietta, a new twenty-one-
loot sloop, class that Is not looked lp-
ON as very speedy, completed the course
within twelve seconds as fast time as
that made by Cavite. The weather condi-
tons, too, were rather peculiar. At times
1t looked as if there would be too much
wind to safely trust the expensive boats
TO the mercy of the elements, and again
the completion of the race was in no wise
va I>NAAh' V"AAi5 " CllG CcLIIu winch several
times settled down over the lake. The
breeze was battling and treacherous.
Aurelia and Akela. the two fast twen-
ty-three-footers. suffered defeat by Yam
kee and CaVite, Of the twenty-foot class.
1t has always been thought that nothing
could head the enty-three-footers in
any kind of sailing breeze, and in last
years races there was wide gulf be-
tween the two classes. Strange too as
Yankee. last years champion twenty
footer, and Aurelia and Akela were in the
races yesterday. The conditions seemed
to have changed materially since last sea-
son. In every race since the opening of
the season the twenty-footers have sped
away from their long rivals. while not
by very large margin have their VIC
tories been won, 1t has been sufficient to
give the honors to the newer boats of the
newer class. Henrietta, the new twenty
one-footer that made it's initial appear
ance notable yesterday by showing a
speedy pair of heels to all the competi-
tors in her class, and in fact to nearly the
entire fleet, was sailed by Samuel Shep-
herd, and is spoken of as one of the
speediest craft on the lake.
Akela made her last sail on the waters
of White Bear yesterday. and celebrated
it by defeating her old-time rival Aurelia,
after hard race, which several times
looked like a walk-away for McLarens'
yacht.
Nearly hundred yachtsmen, with their
friends, were assembled at the club house
when Starter Morton fired the five-minute
gun. There was a hustle on the dock Il
busy miA-up of duck-clad, bronzed sailors,
and tightening of stays, hauling up the
main sheets and jibs. and a general
preparation for the contest across the
crest of the merry waves that was to fol-
low Just then the lowering clouds in
the west were noticed and a sudden squall
struck the lake in the vicinity Of the
boat house. The boats all rocked violent
Iy to and fro and had 1t not been for the
timely action of the shippers In getting
their sails down, the entire fleet might
have been capsized. The squall passed
nearly as quickly as it came up, but ow-
ing to the threatening aspect the race was
postponed fifteen minutes.
The twenty-three footers and twenty
footers were started together at 1855.
Mahto, Yankee, Cavite, Aurelia and Axe
la got over the line in order named, but
the first in the procession was caught by
a little squaIl and crossed the line few
seconds before the gun and was called
back by the starter and requested to try
it over again. The crew executed the
movement as rapidly as possible, but were
handicapped by about two minutes. and
did not finish the race. The seventeen
and twenty-one footers, including Xenia.
Goblin, Falcon, Henrietta, Torpedo, Jen-