The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-22
WHITE BEAR BOAT
BEATS 'TONKA CRACK.
Alpha Wins Her Three Races IN
Seawanhaka Trials and
Trims Wihuja

1t was a boat of another color that
won the honors in the second days trials
of the Seawanhaka challengerS on White
Bear yesterday afternoon. Turn about Is
fair play, even in the yachting game, and
the MinnetOnka boat tasted defeat twice
yesterday. winning once. Alpha was the
queen of the day winning all three OF
her races, and Beta won one and lost one.
Moccasin and Gamma, although making
a good showing, did not manage to win :.
The wind had sheered around several
points towards the north from the day
before and was blowing decidedly squally
about twelve miles an hour when the
boats tried for the first race. During the
other two races it moderated consider
ably.
Yachting sharps, who had a strong lean
ing towards Wihuja after the Monday
choice since witnessing the trials yester-
day. The White Bear boats showed i'm
provement in form all around and are
nicely working into good racing shape. 1t
is more likely than not that the trials
may have to be extended a day or two
before anything like decision is finally
reached.
So far as can be cleaned from the races
thus far sailed Wihuja seems to be the
peer of the other fellows when the wind
pipes, but in a moderate breeze they all
have a chance with her and in a light
wind they can beat her.
Judging from the efforts Of the White
Bear Yacht club to construct fleet of
boats whose chief virtues are power it is
looking for boat which will stand the
strain of heavy pressure and win out.
There is not the slightest question of Wi
huJas ability to stand up and to foot, yet
the improved form which Alpha showed
yesterday puts her bang up with the Mini
netonka flyer and forces her into the
reckoning.
The races yesterday were closer and
of a more spectacular turn than those
of the day before. In the first race
Alpha sailed against Gamma and won.
RPf9 sailed q inCf
sin, the boats finishing as named.
In the second race Alpha sailed against
Gamma and won. Beta sailed against
Wihuja and Moccasin, the boats finishing
as named.
In the second race Alpha sailed against
Beta and after one of the most spirited
ished one minute and fifty-two seconds in
the lead. Wihuja beat Moccasin and
Gamma.
In the third race Alpha, Wihuja and
Gamma took part, Alpha finishing first,
Gamma second and Wihuja third.
First Race Starts
The preparatory gun for the first race
was fired at 2:42. The course was laid
out from point on the southwestern
part of DellwOod to Wildwood a distance
of two miles, with the first leg to ieeward
and the return to windward. Alpha, Capt.
OrdWay and Gamma, Capt. WEIGH, were
the first to start. Alpha went over the
line ten seconds in the lead and showed
the way down to Wildwood. They round
ed the buoy twenty seconds apart, WEIGH
having lost ten seconds on the run down.
Back into the wind Alpha opened more
water and made the two miles of wind
ward work in 26 minutes and IL seconds,
while it took Gamma q minutes and IS
seconds.
Wihuja, Beta and Moccasin were en-
tered in the next division. Wihuja set her
spinnaker in the lineup and crossed the
starting line two seconds ahead of the
gun and the judges called her back re-
curing her to re-cToss, which she did,
losing one minute and thirty-six seconds
in doing so. Beta and Moccasin were well
under way with spinnakers flying and
shooting down on a straight line to the
Wildwood mark. Wihuja set a hot chase
after them and caught Moccasin before
rounding Wildwood but Beta increased
her lead off the wind by minute and
five seconds. AS the boats hauled into
the wind Wihuja began to close on Beta
and made up minute and eighteen Sec
onds. Beta was too far away, however.
for the Minnetonka boat to overtake her,
and they finished in that order. Mecca
sin struggled on the windward leg and
lost time.