The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-12
AN OPEN REGATTA
To-morrow's Race at Minnetonka a
Free-for-All for Any Boats
on the Lake.
Reliance Again Demonstrates Super
iority Over Constitution and
Columbia in Light Wind.

Great interest is being manifested In |
2 the yacht race at Lake Minnetonka to-
morrow afternoon. This regatta, as Well |
as the Fourth of July race. will be free
4 for-all, and any boats on the lake are
\ eligible Six yachts have given assurance
& that they will compete in the first class |
for sloops These are Hoodlum, Circe,
1 Wizard. Breeze, Highlander and Hazard.
q The race Memorial Day furnished no
good ground for an estimate of the re-
spective abilities of the boats in this class
beyond proving that Highlander, the for
mer White eBar yacht, can hold her own
with Hoodlum last years champion, and
therefore, presumably, with any of the
other four boats. Gree, Wizard and
Breeze did not compete Memorial Day,
so that it has not been possible to get
line on their speeds since their sail area
was cut down to 500 square feet.
In the second class for sloops, it is hard
to compare the boats Widow showed her
heels to the rest Of the fleet Memorial
Day but the boat was protested for car
irying more crew weight than the rules
permit. Widow has always been an &c
centric craft, and has lost more than one
race by capszng when she was leading
the bunch. What she can do in stiff
breeze, and with light crew is still un-
certain.
In the one design cat boat class at
least half q dozen Of the ten boats are
=
desiring to enter to- morroW's race should
address A. W. Strong, Minnetonka club.
and receive their handicaps. To-mor-
rows race will be started at $3.50.
Reliance, Herreshoff's latest cup yacht,
has no equal in American waters, and
probably not in the world; in a smooth
sea and light wind. In yesterdays race
off Sandy Hook. Reliance again demon
strated her superiority over Constitution
and Columbia, beating the former five
minutes and flfty-two seconds over
thirty mile course. and the latter twelve
minutes and fifty-four seconds.
The race was over the America cup
course fifteen miles from Sandy Hook to
windward and return, thirty miles around
The three boats got an almost faultless
start, crossing the line nearly side by
side. Captain Rhodes. the Constitu-
ton, however, once more managed to get
in a position to blanket Reliance, while
Columbia was in the lee of both. Reli
ance went across seventeen seconds be-
hind Constitution. while Columbia was
fourteen seconds behind Reliance.
From the first Reliance outfooted Con-
stitution, and when the latter tackled, five
minutes after the start, Reliance got the
windward berth. Inch by inch the new
boat worked up to windward, until after
a brush Of an hour the Constitution was
hundreds of yards astern. On the turn
Reliance was more than five minutes
ahead Of Constitution, and eleven minutes
ahead Of Columbia.
Constitution nearly held her own on the
run home, altho Reliance still gained
gradually. Columbia carried her spinna-
ker which was larger than those used
by the other boats, and lost it. The time:
Time
Yacht start; Finish: Elapsed;
Reliance 12:16:1S 4:06:01 $40 IA
Constitution 12:16:O1 4:11:36 355 :35
Columbia ......... 12:16:32 4:19:09 400: 81
Members of the regatta committee an
nounced last night that there would be
no race until Monday, when the yachts
will race for the Glen Cove cups off Gler
Cove. , .....,., ... -.
Two races were sailed off Manchester
Mass, yesterday ir the series to select g
challenger for the Seawanhaka cup. now
held by the Royal St. Lawrence Yach
club of Duval, Quebec. The two Manches
ter yachts. Kolutoo and Vampire. shared
the honors, each winning a race Vampire
however, won her race by the narrowes
kind of a. margin, crossing the finish lint
barely two seconds ahead Of the othe
Manchester boat, and only eight seconds
ahead of Frontenac. The first race wal
won by Kolutoo with more than four min
utes to spare. Dulce was far behind ii
both races.