Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-05
PEDESTRIAL.
THE Go-As-YoU-PJEAsE MANIA BREAKS
OUT HERE
A six-days woman's Match and Some
thing About the Preliminary
Tramp Tonight.

The go-as-you-please mania has existed
here some time among amateurs. Tonight
we are to have the professional business in
full blast at the Pavilion, Sixth and NJ streets.
The arrangements have long been in progress.
and expert managers from San Francisco
come here to see it through. They announce
that it will be ''the" tournament of all
others, which it is to be hoped will prove
true. Ii we are to have any kicking up of the
sawdust, by all means let us have the AL
article, the best in the market, the prime cut
and the choicest brand. The tournament is
to last some three weeks, and opens with a
match by women. large number of whom
have announced their intention of pedestrian
lzlng before the public on this occasion.
Nearly all these have been in other matches.
and most are sk;iled "go-as-you- p5i,ease-ites T."
THE FAIR ONES IN SHORT SKIRTS.
ants who have entered and the places from
which they hail. Bertha Won Berg, New
York; Sadie Donley, San Francisco; Lou Ten
pie, Nevada; Lille Denman, Montreal; Kittie
Fitzgerald, Sacramento !; Annie Gordon,
Philadelphia !; Lille Williamson, Oakland !;
Katie Buckley, SACRAMENTO; Grace Robin
son, San Francisco; Susie Wiley, Rhode
Island Alice Donley, San Francisco Belle
Walton, San Francisco Nine Tourtilotte,
Virginia City; The Unknown, Sacramento /;
Rhoda Lee, Stockton; May Grafton, San
Francisco; NJ. A. Taylor, San Francisco, and
Eva Forester, Los Angeles. Won Berg was
winner of the Watson belt in New York,
where she walked 3764 miles in six DAYS.
Won Berg declares that she will now do her
best to beat that record. Sadie Donley won
the second prize at the Mechanics Pavilion
contest in San Francisco, walking 81 miles
in six days; and Alice, her sister, won the
fourth prize.
THE PRIZES.
The prizes offered and which induce the
contestants to test their powers of endurance
are four in number, thus apportioned First
prize, 90 per cent. of one-half net proceeds
and gold medal second prize, so per cent.
of one-half net proceeds and a silver medal :;
third prize, 123 per cent. of one-half of net
proceeds fourth prize, y percent of half net
proceeds Whatever of risk there is then in
regard to the sum of each of these prizes is
assumed by the pedestrians, while the man.
agement has only to look to the expense and
the mutually of interest between the walkers
and the manager is such that both will be in
clined to do all that can be done to attract
the public and swell the receipts. From the
arrangements made, however, it is evident
that while the pedestrians have severe
struggle before them, the endurance of the
management will also be tested and that the
worry and risk of the latter will quite equal
the physical strain of the former.
THE RULES
Under which the contest will take place are
from the Code of the Pacific Coast Pedes-
trian League, an organization of recent birth,
but which is said to number ALREADY a very
goodly number of members. The special
specifications are seventeen in number, and
for clearness and rigidity may well challenge
the admiration of the grave and reverend
legislators who are about to engage in the
task of lawmaking. A summary of the
laws of the sawdust track applicable to the
present race may be thus given
Contestants are to go as they please and
without any assistance. At 9:45 P. NJ, all
contestants leave their tents, place themselves
in columns of twos-with the head of the col
umn under the scoring wire-and at the word
of command given, they will start at 10 p NJ
precisely, the start to be made with the left
hand to the inside of the track. Contestants
! will be allowed to reverse their course at any
time, provided it is done under the scoring
wire, by giving verbal notice TO the scorers at
the time of reversing; i'll such case contest
ants must take the outside of the track.
Two contestants going at less than twelve
minute gait will not be allowed to travel side
by side 4 contestant must keep the pole
when more than sixteen feet behind the one
Immediately in front, and in passing others
going in the same direction she must take the
outside of the track. Any contestant leaving
the track five minutes or mora must notify
the caller, so that the actual walking time
may be correctly ascertained. No contestant
will be allowed to approach nearer than six
feet to another Immediately in front of her
without stepping far enough out from the
pole to pass without touching, and after
passing she must not return to the pole
again until she is at least six feet ahead.
No contestant will be allowed to willfully OBJ
struct, or in any way interfere with the pro-
gress of another, or in any manner to aid or
assist another on the track All the contest
ants on the track must keep themselves neat
both in their person and dress, and no pro-
fame, vulgar or indecent language will be al
| lowed on the track, nor in or around the
tents. No contestant will be allowed to stop
or converse with any person while on the
track, except on the outside, Immediately in
front of her own tent Contestants, when
taking refreshments while on the track, must
move to the outside, so that their attendants
can keep the space allotted to them between
| Cle DenCS anu UTaCk Willie waiting upon Ufleln.
! On the first violation of the rules contestant
will be reprimanded by the referee for the
second offense two laps will be taken from
her score for the third offense one mile will
| be taken from her score and, for the fourth
offense she will be ruled off the track. The
| decision of the referee is to be final, and there
| is no appeal from his ruling.
| TRACK AND HALL.
! The Pavilion appears to be admirably
suited to the purpose for which it is about to
| be used. Both halls will be utilized, the
| track running out of the main hall through
one of the arches on the south into the lesser
room and being brought back through a CORE
spending arch on the north. The track is
! very nearly in the form of true ellipse. The
| longer sides are upon the north and south.
| 1t is eight feet wide, and curbed with inch
plank six inches high. Between the curbs is
a layer of three inches of river sediment,
which has been rolled down smooth and
hard. On top of this is dressing of two
| inches of seasoned sawdust From each curb
rises a stout railing, breast high, with occa-
sional gateways. Yesterday while examin-
ing the track tall woman, dressed in mourn
! ing throughout, was observed leaning upon
the outer railing and meditatively gazing
over and upon the elliptical walkway.
"What do you think of the track,
| Madam -
"Why"
"You are a contestant in this match 81
"Yes, sir"
"Then your opinion as to the track,
which has so much to do with the sue
cess of the race, will be respected?'
"Well sir, | think it the best track ]
ever saw or heard of.
Z" In what respect"
st is made correctly. I never stepped on
a better walkway. Then this railing is just
right"
% How so? Was not the track proper
one at San Francisco!"
"Oh, the railing there was only knee high,
and people would stand along the rail and
lean over it, and puff smoke often right into
your face"
This was Madame Tourtilotte, who says
she is of German, Scotch and English ex
| traction. Of such a stock she should inherit
excellent qualities for endurance. Miss
Buckley is of the hardy Irish race, as also, il
is supposed are the Misses Donley. Mis-
Wiley boasts that both her beauty and shel
strength comes of the Scotch and French
blood which courses in her veins, while the
/ enduring qualities of Bertha Won Berg are
drawn from the Teutonic race, from which
she springs.
FIFTEEN LAPS TO THE MILE.
The track was built by earle & Croly, after
a survey by Engineer Pierson, who. laying
his line is inches from the pole, makes the
linear measurement of the ellipse 352 feet
I This reouires that 10 circuits of the track bs