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FOREST^^AND^ STREAM. 
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haa passed Henrietta and Aderyn, the rest strung out. 
At the turn they stood Anita, Caroline, Argo, Henrietta, 
Anita having a lead of nearly one minute over Carohne, 
the others rounding to about thirty seconds apart in the 
procession. 
For the fifth leg the skippers took different courses 
and those who made the longest tacks to starboard 
seemed to lose by it, among these Harriet, Henrietta, 
St. Paul and Mahoohoo, Problem now coming up and 
passing the three boats that were next ahead of her. 
It was on this leg that the duel became bitter between 
Anita and Caroline. They stood off on the port tack 
and then began a series of short tacks, tit for tat, all 
down the leg. This was much to Caroline's likmg and 
she cut down Anita's lead and finally challenged her, 
laying a course across the bows. Caroline was too 
anxious and the wily Davis made her luff, but she hung 
on and came back again, so that at the turn she was a 
scant thirty seconds astern of Anita. Aderyn was one 
minute thirty seconds back of Anita, Argo two minutes 
later, and then Henrietta, sha^dng the buoy close, ahead 
of Imp and Harriet H. 
The run home, reaching, was an exciting continuation 
of the due! between Anita and Caroline, and would have 
been a still hotter matter had the wind held steady all 
through the leg. As it was, under the shifting condi- 
tions of the air off the high bluff, Caroline actually took 
the Avindward berth away from Will Davis, which is 
considered a hard thing to accomplish. It gave her no 
eventual advantage, for as she came on Anita caught a 
better puff of air ahead and slowly forged on, while Caro- 
line lay almost becalmed. Thence in it was a luffing 
match, with all the skill of both clever skippers in play. 
Caroline got a bit of a breeze and crawled on and on, so 
that within a hundred fathoms of the home stake it 
seemed that she lapped Anita, though it was claimed 
that she did not. Aderyn now got some wind and closed 
up a bit on Caroline, but no one had eyes for anything 
but the blood-curdling, waiting, crawling duel between 
the two Winnebago boats in the lead. It was no longer 
a matter of seamanship, but a matter of luck. The boat 
first to get a slant of air would be the first to cross. 
Fortune favored Anita, which caught enough wind to 
carry her slowly over in advance. Anita finished four- 
teen seconds ahead of CaroHne, Aderyn. which had laid 
a long course and got a nice slant of wind, crowding up 
into third place within four seconds of Caroline, bene- 
fited largely by the scrap between Anita and Caroline. 
Argo came in for fourth place. Times: 
Anita 2 03 42 Harriet H 2 08 04 
Caroline 2 03 56 St. Paul 2 OS 05 
Aderyn 2 04 02 Tuanita, Disqualifiea......2 09 27 
Argo -.2 04 54 Meteor 2 10 33 
Henrietta 2 06 12 Duchess 2 12 16 
Problem .....2 06 33 Algonquin 2 13 13 
Mahoohoo... 2 06 52 Lassie 2 15 30 
Imp 2 07 30 Louise... 2 22 04 
There were no mishaps in this race, except that at 
the start Juanita, the one-time Bald Eagle, fouled one 
of her competitors at the line, going over before the 
gun and then getting into trouble when she came about 
ior a second try. 
The Seventcens. 
There was nothing but Attila in the second class, and 
she administered another decisive beating to her asso- 
ciates. From the position on the observation boat not 
much could be told of the little ones, as the twenties were 
followed closely. It was easily to be seen, however, that 
the championship is a hollow thing for Attila. That she 
will win to-morrow is accepted as a matter of course. 
To-day Annie did not finish the course. The official 
times of the seventeens were as follows: 
Attila 2 07 44 Sox ....2 19 52 
Neola 2 16 38 Flying Fox 2 20 21 
Sakita 2 19 27 Trami) 2 21 32 
Thursday — Third Championship Race. 
The interest was raised to yet greater pitch to-day. A 
third winner was produced in the first class, Aderyn, 
winner last Monday, which to-day proved a very dan- 
gerous one for the best of them, though she has reached 
the dignified old age of one year. Problem took away 
the honors from Caroline in a weird drifting finish for 
second place. The whole finish in this race was unsat- 
isfactory, it being a fluky wind for Aderjm and a still 
more fluky one for Problem in second place. 
In the seventeens Attila made it three straight for the 
championship, as was expected, there being but a languid 
interest in this affair, so far foregone. To-night Attila 
was bought by Mr. B. B. Felix, of Fox Lake Y. C. 
The Start, 
The weather was fair and warm, the faint wind S.W., 
the start being made to windward, and the course set 
being the long run up the lake to the buoy opposite Will- 
iams Bay, thence home, the race being thus windward 
going out and nearly free for the run home. 
The boats crossed the line in the following order: 
Aderyn, Problem, Juanita, Mahoohoo, St. Paul, Duchess, 
Anita, Imp, Caroline, Meteor, Lassie, Argo, Harriet H. 
Back of the first-class boats the seventeens were started 
in this order: Attila, Sakita, Tramp, Sox, Neola, For- 
tuna. Three-fourths of the way in on the home leg 
Attila again showed in among the 20-footers. 
In the line-out of the big fleet after they spread across 
the line at the gun, St. Paul, Anita and Louise stood far 
inshore on the port tack. Adern kept well out in the 
middle of the bay, followed by Caroline and by Meteor 
and Duchess. The in.shore boats seemed to have made 
a mistake and did not catch the slant of wind they ex- 
pected for their long tack to the Narrows. Mahoohoo 
was sailed as though she intended to go ashore on the 
point, and everyone wondered what was the idea in 
standing so far inshore. The example of Aderyn might 
have taught the inshore boats a lesson. She caught a 
better breeze out in the open and forged steadily ahead, 
pointing up splendidly and apparently being out on a race 
all of her own. She did not tack once until she had 
gotten far out into the Narrows. Her only rival was 
Caroline, who pointed well up. Duchess and Meteor liad 
their measure taken, but the bunch was far astern of 
these, well strung out. No one spoke of Problem and 
the latter was not at any early stage of the race a feature 
in the game. The first and second boats stood on this 
tack for over twenty minutes. Meteor at the Narrows 
found, her jib was pulling her head off and tried to use 
a storm jib, the change doing her no good at the gait 
which was then going in the first flight of the twenties. 
Caroline was first to go about at 11:28, Aderyn going 
about at 11:29. 
They had to beat through the Narrows, and at this 
point Duchess again showed in the game. The main 
interest was already centering in Aderyn and Caroline, 
Anita, winner of yesterday, being far back among those 
who had misjudged the fickle Geneva wind and that had 
lost their chance in the race on that account, and engaged 
in a scrap with St. Paul. Caroline made up a lot of way 
under this split tack work, and fought Aderyn as hard 
as she had Anita the day previous. It was thought at 
that stage that Caroline would win. The wind was 
fresher when the boats passed out through the narrower 
part of the lake and began to figure on the turn. 
At this point, well within sight of the buoy, a peculiar 
thing was going on. Far up to windward above them 
all and sailing so close to shore that one could have 
tossed a biscuit from the boat to land, the game little 
Problem came edging rapidly along, as independent of 
the others as though she were out for a leisure sail. 
GUs Amundson, her designer, had her tiller, and Walter 
Dupee, her owner, was tending sheet. She was doing 
lovely work and all the guest boats and pleasure steamers 
saluted her repeatedly as she came right in among the 
gallery and held on high into the wind until she had the 
buoy well in view. At this point Argo retired from the 
race and went to her dock. 
Sudden interest now attaching to Problem, which had 
come up out of absolutely nowhere, speculation began 
as to her chances to win. Her work free in light wind 
was reviewed, and she at once became a hot favorite for 
winner of the race. Her stock rose yet higher when it 
was found that Avhen she went about at last and stood 
over toward the buoy she crossed the bows of both 
Adryn and Caroline. This was at 12:01. 
Meantime, Caroline and Aderyn were chopping away 
at short tacks and it was seen that Caroline had earned 
first place over Aderyn, for she crossed Aderyn's bows 
twice as they rushed desperately near on opposite tacks. 
While they fought it out Problem made a spectale of 
them both by rounding the buoy five minutes ahead of 
them at 12:25:13. Problem at once broke out her bal- 
loon and set a great pace back for home, going almost 
hull down before the nearest rival got around the turn. 
Caroline displaced Aderyn at last and was about the buoy 
at 12:30:13, Aderyn at her heels in 12:30:17. 
Straightening out for the run home, Caroline set her 
balloon jib and made chase for Problem, that was slip- 
ping down the lake like a ghost. Aderyn here appar- 
ently deliberately threw the race away, for she stood 
far inshore on a port tack, and went back on practically 
the same line upon which Problem had come up when 
she made her big gain on the first leg. Problem and 
Caroline kept down the middle of the water. Now Ma- 
hoohoo came up out of nowhere in particular, and Louise 
for her first time got a brief look at the leaders. Ma- 
hoohoo shaved the buoy too close and apparently fouled 
the cable with her board, for she lost a lot of time and 
lay still for the best part of a minute, going about at 
12:38:15. Duchess made it in 12:39:12 and Lassie, an- 
other unexpected appearance, in 12:39:28. Mahoohoo 
on rounding to broke out spinaker and Duchess a bal- 
loon jib. At this point the little Attila again showed, 
out of her class and well in among the big boats. 
• Caroline and Problem both winged out now, and at 
this Caroline, which is tipped to be a rough water 
boat, showed she could do a thing or two in the light 
wind as well and began to gain very rapidly on Problem. 
Far off to their leeward was Aderyn, but the latter now 
began to surprise everybody by beginning to come up in 
the front position, apparently having caught the breeze 
which she sought inshore. The race was thus still un- 
won and might go to anybody. The three leaders as they 
approached the Narrows on the return began to draw 
closer in together and there was a prospect of a gj-illing 
finish. Such, however, was not to be the case. 
The wind, which had been none too steady on the way 
out, now became still more faint and freakish. It seemed 
to come not in any steady, even quantity, but in long 
slants and streaks, which might or might not strike any 
given boat, even closely as they were now placed to- 
gether.' It was not, therefore, a yachting finish which 
now came off, but a mere drifting match, in which luck 
was the determining factor. 
Problem had a bit of trouble with her spinaker at the 
start of her run home, but it then began to draw better, 
and she footed it handsomely for a mile or more. Caro- 
line also broke out her spinaker and seemed to do as 
well at this free work as vaunted Problem. Caroline be- 
gan to crawl up on the latter slowly but steadily and had 
the air held at this stage would have passed her. They 
seesawed away in exasperating fashion, Aderyn meantime 
sailing fathoms to their inches in the air she was getting 
now. At 12:56 Aderyn passed Caroline, and at 12:57 she 
drew on ahead of Problem, every inch of her canvas 
drawing; It was now getting too close to the home 
stake for many incidents of this sort to happen without 
some one getting a beating, and at this point Aderyn 
was picked to win. 
Caroline still hung on Problem's _ stern and bitterly 
fought for the lead. She crept up in a slant of wind, 
lapped Problem and blanketed her, but the next moment 
lost the puff which drove her up. At this time Aderyn 
was a hundred fathoms in the lead of both. Problem 
had just enough wind left in her shaking sails to push 
ner nose on in advance of Caroline. A half minute later 
Caroline again tried for it and passed Problem by a 
nose for the first time on the home run. For six minutes 
Caroline held the leading position over Problem, with 
no gain to mention, the jibs of both boats filling and 
collapsing almost alternately. Then Problem got a 
breath of fresh air and at 1:14 she lapped Caroline. At 
1:16 she passed Caroline, her canvas now drawing full, 
Caroline lying becalmed a biscuit toss away from Prob- 
lem. Problem challenged Aderyn for the lead, the lat- 
ter now having a turn in the doldrums. Now the spin- 
aker of Problem seemed to be of more hurt than help, the 
wind .shifting a point or so, and she took it in. first 
Aderyn and then Caroline following thist maneuver. 
They now all three lay in irons. A steamer gave Prob- 
lem and Caroline a bit of wash, from which Aderyn was 
more free. All this time the wind was fresher back up 
the lake, as it had been for these three leaders, and Ma- 
hoohoo, Duchess and Louise came bowling on dgwn 
into the field of vision. 
At 1 :26 there came a little rippling puff of air upon the 
\yater, wrinkling up the surface into tiny ripples, in a 
line which gradually worked on out from shore toward 
where the three boats were lying, less than a quarter of 
a mile from the line — indeed, only a few hundred feet. 
It was seen that the first boat to get this puff would be 
the winner. Aderyn, lying slightly in advance, was the 
lucky one, and she got under way, leaving Problem and 
Caroline becalmed. Then the little wrinkle on the water 
reached out as far as Problem and the latter drew away a 
few feet from Caroline, which lay further out in the 
lake by a dozen yards. There it failed and faded away 
and Caroline was lying idly waiting while Problem be- 
gan to travel. Meantime Mahoohoo came boiling on 
down in a stronger .flaw. It was too late for any hope 
for Mahoohoo or for either of the two boats which had 
fought for an hour so stubbornly for the advantage. 
Aderyn crossed the line a trifle in advance. The sailing 
times for the ten or eleven miles course were as below: 
Aderyn 2' 28 32 Henrietta ,.,..2 40 32 
Problem 2 29 27 St. Paul .....2 40 47 
Caroline 2 30 35 Anita ..2 43 48 
Mahoohoo 2 32 20 Meteor .2 49 13 
Duchess 2 35 55 Imp 2 51 46 
Louise 2 36 07 Harriet H 2 54 07 
There was thus another winner in the field and there 
are to be three boats in the final contest to-morrow. 
Surely it is an even thing among the Western boats this 
year. , ^ | ^ j 
Attila Wins in Second Class. 
It was so empty a contest in the little ones that the 
judges did not even keep the time on any of them except 
Attila, who won her fourth race of the week with amus- 
ing ease, the sailing time over the same course as that of 
the twenties being 3:00:01. If ever the old nautical joke 
about there being "no second" was true it was in this 
case. The new owner of this fair craft may feel that he 
has got a winner. If the closeness of the 20ft. competi- 
tion continues to-morrow as it has all through the week 
the man who owns the winner dare not say that he 
actually has a winner, for. there are two or three others 
which are nearly as well entitled to the name, so very 
even is it between them. For instance, Caroline to-day, 
after her technical defeat, remains quite in the class with 
either Aderyn or Problem, and would be as safe a boat 
to back as any of the three for a series of a dozen races. 
The Annoal Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the Inland Lake Y. A. was held 
to-night at the "headquarters" at the public library, 
though why the title of headquarters was given this place 
is a mystery, as no one has been able to find there any 
member of the local club, which is host of the meet this 
year. The meeting began with practically only visitors 
present, Mr. Taylor talcing the chair at about 9 o'clock. 
The following clubs were present by delegate or proxy: 
White Bear, Green Lake, Delavan Lake, Pine Lake, 
Lake Beulah, Fox Lake, iVIilwaukee, West End, Ocono- 
mowoc Lake, Oconomowoc Y. C, Chicago, Lake 
Geneva, Neenah, Pistakee, Pewaukee, Oshkosh, Noda- 
way and Saddle and Ccyle. 
The rules were suspended and Saddle and Cycle Boat 
Club, of Chicago, which had no formal delegation pres- 
ent, was allowed to vote through two unofficial repre- 
sentatives. 
The first thing taken up was the vote for place for the 
next meet, and here there was a hot fight. It was known 
that Pewaukee Y. C. wanted the m.eet, and Com. Con- 
way was there to take it home in his pocket. Upon 
the other hand. Green Lake Y. C. was equally eager to 
get the 1901 meet and had a strong delegation solid. 
Com. Conway held proxies from most of the lower clubs, 
his defeat being due to the vote of Fox Lake Y. C, 
which did not vote as did its near neighbor, Pistakee 
Y. C. 
Oshkosh and Neenah each put in a feeble bid for the 
meet, both admitting that it might be the turn of some 
other club now, though it is conceded that Winnebago 
is the best sailing lake in the Association country. Com. 
Conway explained that Pewaukee could offer good hotel 
and I restaurant accommodations, would take care of all 
boats daily and receive and ship same, and would board 
the crews free and furnish a guest steamer, a band and 
other features. Com. Conway alluded feelingly to the 
near location of Waukesha, whose water has made Wis- 
consin famous. He showed maps of Pewaukee Lake and 
made a strong case. 
Mr. Edward Rosing spoke for Green Lake. He said 
he was not there to try to buy the meet, but could offer 
good boat accommodations, boats hauled free, good 
hotels and the best sort of a sailing course. The informal 
vote that was taken showed Green Lake with 7 votes, 
Pewaukee 5, Oshkosh i, Neenah 5. Com. Libby with- 
drew the name of Neenah. On the formal ballot Green 
Lake received 10 ballots, Pewaukee Lake 8, and the 
meet goes to Green Lake. Com. Conway moved that 
the vote be made unanimous and it was so ordered. 
Sec'y Carpenter now came in and his report ensued, 
showing that the Association has a balance of $100 or so 
with all bills paid. Two new members were admitted — 
Cedar Lake Y. C, of Indiana, and Saddle and Cycle 
Boat Club, of Chicago. 
Com. Gilbert, of Neenah, suggested September as a 
better month than August for the meet. It was decided 
to refer the time of the meet to the executive commit- 
tee, the latter being advised to set a date in September 
when the moon was full or nearly so. 
Professionals Barred. 
Rather important action now followed. Com. Ord- 
way, of St. Paul, moved that henceforth the by-laws 
should prevent the admission of any professional sailor 
into the competition as skipper or member of crew. 
Com. Ordway said; "We want to get back to the pure 
Corinthian basis on which we started, and which ob- 
tains in the East. I know it is a temptation to use pro- 
fessional help in this way, and one likes to see his boat 
developed to her best possibilities, but it is far more im- 
portant that we develop young sailors of the amateur 
sort, who will order new boats of these same profes- 
sionals and sail them for themselves. By a profes- 
