July 9, 1904.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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usual speed, while Wihuja was only touching the high 
spots. On they went to center, Seeress footing better 
after she had traveled a quarter of a mile. Wihuja made 
the buoy in an even 6m., while it took Seeress 7m. 
.On the beat to Clark street Loudon gained 20s. on 
Seeress and increased it im. and 9s. more on the two- 
mile run to Wildwood. Back to center Seeress began 
to close, and cut down the lead of the Minnetonka 
flyer im. and 6s., but lost 2s. on the fast reach home. 
Summary of races: 
Elapsed. Corrected. 
First Division. 
Beta, G. M. Griggs 0 58 43 0 59 10 
Moccasin, C. Fry 1 03 30 1 03 42 
Second Division. 
Alpha, L. P. Ordway 0 56 04 0 56 36 
Gamma, Dr. J. M. Welch Did not finish. 
Third Division. 
•Wihuja, J. Loudon ..0 53 30 0 53 40 
Seeress, E. Rees 0 54 55 0 55 25 
The following table shows the actual elapsed time 
of each of the boats between each buoy, the distance 
between second and third buoys being two miles and 
the others one mile: 
1st buoy. 2d buoy. 3d buoy. 4th buoy. 5th buoy. 
Beta 0 06 47 0 17 16 0 14 45 0 12 10 0 06 45 
Moccasin :. .0 06 58 0 18 40 0 16 45. 0 11 55 0 08 12 
Alpha 0 06 08 0 16 48 0 14 52 0 10 55 0 07 21 
Gamma 0 06 50 0 18 40 
Seeress 0 07 00 0 16 02 0 14 23 0 10 10 0 07 20 
Wihuja 0 06 00 0 15 42 0 13 14 0 11 16 0 07 18 
After a lay up of half an hour in which time Beta 
dressed herself in Seeress' mainsail and Wihuja used 
Gamma's gaff to replace her broken one, the winners 
in each of the divisions were sent down to Wildwood 
to start in an eight-mile race. The preparatory gun 
was fired at 4:39 and the starting gun 5m. later. The 
start was ragged, Alpha crossing 10s. after the gun, 
6s. ahead of Beta and 40s. ahead of Wihuja. The latter 
did not suffer by her poor start, however, for she im- 
mediately sailed up to the others and the three boats 
were well together when Alpha's jib halliard gave way, 
which put her out of the race. 
Wihuja bent down to her work in grand style, meet- 
ing the heavy puffs admirably and seeming to pull 
away from Beta every moment. 
It was a long beat of two miles to the Clark street 
buoy, and Wihuja sailed it in 25m. and 28s., 2m. and 22s. 
ahead of Beta. The Minnetonka boat lost is. on the 
run back to Wildwood, but made a further gain of 
57s. on the beat the second time up the lake, i using 
46s. as the boats made their last run to the finishing 
line. Wihuja covered the 8-mile course in 1:17:40 
actual time. Beta covered it in 1:20:12. 
The race demonstrated that Wihuja was faster on 
windward work, but lost twice on running. The first 
beat she opened a lead of 2m. and 22s on Beta, while 
the second beat she gained only 57s. Summaries: 
Elapsed. Corrected. 
Wihuja, J. Loudon 1 17 40 1 18 30 
Beta, C. M. Griggs 1 20 12 1 20 28 
Alpha, L. P. Ordway Disabled. 
Here is the time between each leg: 
2 miles. 4 miles. 6 miles. 8 miles. 
Wihuja 0 25 28 0 13 16 0 25 00 0 13 56 
Beta 0 27 50 0 13 15 0 25 57 0 13 10 
• Judges, H. P, Clark, H. C. Drake; starter, Tarbox; 
timekeeper, Dresen, 
Second Day, June 21. 
It was a boat of another color that won the honors 
in the second day's trials of the Seawanhaka chal- 
lengers on White Bear Tuesday afternoon. The Minne- 
tonka boat tasted defeat twice yesterday, winning once. 
Alpha won 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 toward 
the N. from the day before, and was blowing decidedly 
squally, about 12 miles an hour when the boats tried 
for the first race. During the other two races it 
moderated considerably. 
Yachting sharps, who had a strong leaning toward 
Wihuja after the Monday races, are not quite so. sure 
of their choice since witnessing the trials yesterday. 
The White Bear boats showed improvement in form 
all around, and are nicely working into good racing 
shape. 
So far, .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 Y. C. 
to construct a fleet of boats whose chief virtues are 
power, it is reasonable to believe that they were look- 
ing for a boat which will stand the strain of a heavy 
pressure and win out. There is not the slightest ques- 
tion of Wihuja's ability to stand up and to foot, yet 
the improved form which Alpha showed yesterday puts 
her bang up with the Minnetonka 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. Beta 
sailed against Wihuja and Moccasin, 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 contests ever witnessed 
on the lake, finished is. and 52s. 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 a point on the 
S.W. part of Dellwood to Wildwood, a distance of 2 
miles, with the first leg to leeward and the returning to 
windward. Alpha, Capt. Ordway, and Gamma, Capt. 
Welch, were the first to start. Alpha went over the 
line 10s. in the lead and showed the way down to 
Wildwood. They rounded the buoy 20s. apart, Welch 
having lost ios. on the run down. Back into the wind 
Alpha opened more water and made the 2 miles of 
windward work in 26m. and 17s., while it took Gamma 
27m. and 58s. 
Wihuja, Beta and Moccasin were entered in the next 
division. Wihuja set her spinnaker in thejine-up and 
crossed the starting 2s. ahead of the gun and the judges 
called her back, requiring her to recross, which she 
did, losing im. and 36s. in doing so. Beta and Moc- 
casin 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 in- 
creased her lead off the wind by im. and 5s. As the 
boats hauled into the wind Wihuja began to close on 
Beta and made up im. and 18s. Beta was too far 
away, however, for the Minnetonka boat to overtake 
her, and they finished in that order. Moccasin struggled 
on the windward leg and lost time. The summary: 
First Division. 
Elapsed. Corrected. 
Alpha 0 45 12 0 45 27 
Gamma 0 47 03 0 47 28 
Second Division. 
Beta 0 41 41 0 41 47 
Wihuja i 0 41 28 0 43 34 
Moccasin 0 44 04 0 44 26 
On actual time Wihuja covered the course 13s. faster 
than Beta, but the official time gives the race to Beta 
by im. 17s. 
The second race was sailed immediately after the 
first was finished. Alpha and Beta raced against each 
other, while Wihuja, Moccasin and Gamma brought 
up the other division. The course was the same as the 
previous one. 
Alpha went over the line 7s. in front of Beta. Capt. 
Griggs overhauled Ordway on the run down the lake. 
As they brought down their spinnakers and hauled 
into the wind, the two old rivals fought it out for the 
windward berth. Time and again they forced each 
other until they threatened to run up high and dry on 
the south shore. Once it was Griggs to windward, 
the next time it would be Ordway. The luffing con- 
tinued almost indefinitely, and the other boats which 
started 5m. later were rapidly catching up. Finally 
Ordway succeeded in pulling away and led to the finish- 
ing line. At the final buoy he was forced to make a 
short tack by reason of the judges' launch which an- 
chored to the mark, having dragged .the buoy slightly 
but of place. This lost Ordway at least 15s. 
Wihuja, Moccasin and Gamma went off on almost 
even terms, and proved highly interesting to the finish. 
Down they went before the wind, all three abreast, 
their spinnakers off to starboard and their mainsails 
to port. Gamma rounded the buoy first, Wihuja next 
and Moccasin third, close together. Gamma opened 
up a considerable lead. The wind had moderated some- 
what, and Dr. Welch was outpointing and outfooting 
the Loudon and Fry boats. This was true until the 
boats reached a point near the center buoy, when the 
wind grew stronger and the Wihuja surely and steadily 
crept up to the leader. She closed rapidly and, after 
a long port tack up the west shore of the peninsula, 
came about and crossed Gamma's bow. 
Dr. Welch seemed to be partly to blame for Wihuja 
overtaking him. By previous good sailing he managed 
to creep up to Alpha and Beta, which had started 5m. 
ahead, and engaged with them in the fight for the 
windward position. He was at their mercy, however, 
for they were already to windward, and between the 
two of them Welch could not pick his way through. 
In the meantime Wihuja was fairly flying along,- with 
no interference whatever. Summary of second race: 
First Division. 
Elapsed. Corrected. 
Alpha ...0 48 01 0 48 12 
Beta 0 49 46 0 50 04 
Second Division. 
Wihuja 0 42 38 0 43 15 
Gamma 0 44 56 0 45 28 
Moccasin .....0 49 10 0 49 50 
The third and best race of the day was sailed shortly 
after 5 o'clock, Alpha, Gamma and Wihuja starting. 
The course was 4 miles, from Dellwood to Wildwood 
and return. The wind at this time was blowing about 
6 miles. 
Third Day, June 22, 
The races are practically completed so far as the 
trials on White Bear are concerned, and Wihuja will 
be sent to Oskosh, together with Alpha, where 
additional trials will be held between these two and the 
two other boats which the club is building and which 
have not thus far been placed in the water. 
The Loudon brothers, who own Wihuja, formally 
turned their boat over to the special regatta com- 
mittee of the White Bear Club late yesterday after- 
noon, and Beta will be sent to Minnetonka for their 
use until their boat is finally returned to them. The 
crew of Wihuja won the admiration and friendship of 
the local yachtsmen through the skillful handling of 
their craft in the races and their gentlemanly conduct 
while on shore. 
The Loudon boat was not to share the honors of the 
day alone, for Alpha pinned a new feather to her hat 
by establishing a record for one knot, which she did 
on the close reach from Wildwood to center, covering 
the distance in 4m. and 56s., while Wihuja, which was 
leading her at the time, made it in 5m. and 34s. This 
record is apt to stand for some time, and is one which 
will require a strong wind and an exceptionally fast 
boat to beat. In nearly all her free work and reaches 
Alpha outsailed, or at least held her own, against 
Wihuja, while the Minnetonka boat proved, her superi- 
ority on windward work. 
The drawing for the line-up of the first race resulted 
as follows: Alpha was to sail against Gamma, and 
Moccasin was to sail the course alone. Alpha and 
Beta were sent oft" first, and to a good start stood away 
on a port tack to the island. Alpha was outpointing 
and outfooting Beta, and rounded the first mark im. 
and ios. in the lead. The close haul to Wildwood saw 
no change in position, although Alpha increased her 
lead by ios. Back to center Beta was making slight 
gains by reason of her balloon jib, but Ordway still 
showed a safe lead. At the center buoy they were 
more than a hundred yards apart, Beta plunging and 
staggering under her heavy spread of canvas. 
Griggs managed to keep her righted and showed 
some gains until she struck a new slant of wind to 
which her sails could not be adjusted quick enough, and 
capsized. Alpha did not finish the course. 
Moccasin, starting on the second gun, was covering 
the course alone, while Wihuja and Gamma, which 
started 5m. later, were next to show. Wihuja never 
gave Dr. Welch's boat a chance to get near her, draw- 
ing away immediately after the start and opening a 
good sized lead to the first mark. The windward leg 
did not seem to trouble Wihuja in the least, and the 
harder the wind blew the better she liked it. 
A minute and a half separated them at the center, 
but Gamma cut it down by 26s. on the haul to Wild- 
wood, though she showed a big loss on the close reach 
to Clark street. Back to center it was give and take, 
with no apparent change in positions, and on the run 
home with spinnakers flying, Wihuja held Gamma down 
without a loss, crossing the line a winner by 2m. and 
45s. Moccasin, in sailing alone, covered the course in 
54m. and 2is., which was 4m. and 41s. slower than 
Wihuja's time. 
In the next race Alpha and Wihuja paired off, 
Gamma and Moccasin, Alpha and Wihuja made the 
best start of the week, going over just as the gun 
sounded. They were both lapped together, with 
Wihuja to windward. They stood away on the port 
tack, but Wihuja, finding she could not keep her 
weather berth and pass Ordway, went about and split 
with Alpha. When they finally came together again 
on converging tacks, Wihuja's windward qualities had 
stood her well, and she crossed Alpha's bow with con- 
siderable to spare. 
Alpha Makes Record. 
To the first mark she increased it to im. and 18s., and 
adding 36s. more on the close haul to Wildwood. It 
was on the return from Wildwood to center that Alpha 
performed her record-breaking feat in her attempt to 
catch Wihuja, and she sailed the distance in 38s. better 
tune than the Minnetonka crack. From center to Clark 
street she added 17s. more, but lost 18s. from Clark 
to center, and a like number on the spinnaker run 
home. 
Moccasin succeeded in winning her first race in the 
trials by defeating Gamma in the second division. It 
was a nip-and-tuck affair for the whole distance, but 
Fry had the better of the argument after they rounded 
center, and maintained his advantage to the finish, 
winning by 31s. 
This ended the racing of the series, and the special 
cup which Was offered for the winner of the trials will 
now rest on a new pedestal in the club house of the 
Minnetonka Boat Club, which Wihuja represents. The 
summary of the day's racing follows: 
First Race— First Division. 
Alpha L P. Ordway Did not finish.' 
Beta, C. M. Griggs.... .Capsized. 
Second Division. 
Moccasin, Henry Fry 0 54 21 
. Third Division. 
Wihuja, J. Loudon .. q 49 40 
Gamma, Dr. J. M. Welch..... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.0 52 25 
. Second Race— First Division. 
Wihuja, J. Loudon 0 49 56 
Alpha, L. P. Ordway q 51 35 
Second Division. 
Moccasin Henry Fry ' 0 55 15 
Gamma, Dr. J. M. Welch q 55 46 
Course, 6 miles; wind, maximum 20, minimum 12 • 
judges, H. P. C. Clark and H. T. Drake ; starter, Tarbox; 
timekeeper, Dresen. 
Canarsie Y. C. 
Jamaica Bay— Sunday, June 26. 
c The Canarsie Y. C. held a race on Sunday, June 26. A good 
by VV. breeze made the racing interesting. The boats raced for 
prizes ottered by Commodore Northridge, Vice-Commodore Louns- 
bury and Fleet Captain Fitzmaurice. On account of low water 
in the middle of the day, it was late when the race was started. 
Jileven yachts entered, and made up a fairly good sized fleet 
ine course was from off the club house to a flagged buoy off 
Canarsie Landing; thence through the breakwater to Main Chan- 
nel; to a stakeboat near Spring Creek; to starting line The 
boats covered the course twice. The winners were Mystery, Lassie 
Klyo, Aurora, and Pauline. The summary: ' 
Sloops. 
T . - Start. Finish. Elapsed. 
Lassie 4 26 28 6 23 33 1 57 05 
" Cabin Cats. 
Win or Lose 4 35 00 6 30 40 1 55 40 
jvy 0 ....4 31 46 6 18 38 1 46 10 
Kate • • 4 32 01 6 37 54 2 05 53 
Open Cats— Over 20ft. 
Aurora 4 39 28 6 18 21 1 38 53 
Undine .4 '38 49 6 31 08 1 52 19 
Slr «i 4 36 13 Disabled. 
Open Cats— Under 20ft. 
Pauline 4 41 23 6 24 29 1 43 06 
Vision :. ...... .4 40 48 6 25 42 1 44 54 
Launches. 
Mystery 4 21 21 5 29 33 1 08 12 
luscarora 4 21 20 5 36 48 1 15 28 
Shattemuc Yacht and Canoe Ck»b. 
Hudson River— Saturday, June 25. 
The third power boat race of the Shattemuc Y. and C. C. was 
held on the Hudson River, of Ossining, on Saturday, June 25. 
Sioux was first and Teddy second in Class E. Spry won in 
Class D. 
The series cup winners are as follows: Class C — Senta, F. G 
Mead, owner; Class D— Spry, H. M. Carpenter, owner; Cl'ass'E— 
Sioux, L. H. Soule, owner. 
The regatta committee was made up of Wm. M Carpenter 
chairman; W. E. Barlow and Robert T. Dennis. ' 
The summary of the race held on June 25 follows: 
Class E— Start, 3:05. 
•p , . „, r , , F A ix }¥hk Elapsed. Corrected. 
Robin, Wm. M. Carpenter ...4 14 50 1 09 50 1 09 50 
Florence, Mezger & Dennis 4 15 20 1 10 90 110 20 
Sioux, Louis H Soule 4 12 38 1 07 38 1 01 50 
leddy, J. H. Carpenter 4 -19 48 1 14 48 1 07 36 
Isamyr A. B. Murray 4 24 00 1 19 00 1 09 54 
~ > V K. Secor 4 20 32- 1 15 32 1 07 38 
Laura, J. E. Huber. 4 27 25 1 22 25 1 08 07 
, H. B. Washburne 4 24 37 1 19 37 1 10 07 
Class D— Start, 3:10. 
Getty, Morris Vail 4 46 12 1 36 12 1 36 12 
Spry, H. M. Carpenter 4 48 41 1 38 41 1 31 23 
