Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-08

| New York last night
 Miss Nellie J. Roach, the only child of Mat
 thias Roach of Atwater street, died yesterday
 after long illness of consumption. The fu-
 neral will take place fromiSt. Francis church
 Tuesday.
 l. THE BICYCLE TOURNAMENT. LA Good Days sport at the Park l. But a Bad One For Fast Time | Hendee Makes a Half Mile and l. Draws Out-FOur Falls and Seye-
 raI Bruises.
 The two thousand interested in bicycle
 races who were present at Hamilton Park
 Saturday to witness the first days races of the Yale Bicycle club tourney were not dis appointed The track was in the best condi- l ton possible, Bob" Winston, the English professional athletic trainer and one of the ! best track builders in the world, having had a gang of men on the tra ok all the forenoon scraping and rolling it down. The \ strong wind which blew across the Park, however, prevented any records being
 broken, although some good riding was done ' during the afternoon. By o'clock the l grand stand was crowded and many people | were unable to obtain seats, but lined the | railing on each side of the track and anxious l ly waited for the riders to appear for the l first event of the afternoon, the three-mile | record race of the. ten minute class Promptly at 2:30 the American band struck up popular air, and H. S. Kavanaugh of Cohoes, N. Y., c. B. Ripley of East Hart ford, D. E. Hunter of Salem, Mass, F. c. Jackson of East Hartford, and E. A. Hoff- man of New York city appeared on the track, each wearing letter on his back, and fol lowed by his trainer who had the ,.Ij jx,su A fo1ry ,fc appearance of the riders on the track, Starter C. L. Hyde fired his pistol and the riders shot forward, Kavanaugh immediately talk ing the lead with Hunter second and Hoff
 man third. Kavanaugh kept the lead until ! on the homestretch of the third lap when Hunter spurted and took first place, which l he retained until the end of the race, winning l first prize and four laps in minutes A 1-5 | seconds, with Kavanaugh taking second | prize and two laps in 9 minutes A 4-5 sec onds
 G. E. Weber of Smithville, N. J., L. B. l Hamilton of Yale college, G. H. Illston of
 s55fGsa bpoet1Tn rRa "A were s tRs Rich ra.ps ef l who appeared on the track for the next race, which was a one-nnile open. The riders started well, Weber, who rides Star bicycle taking the lead closely followed by Hamilton Yale's champion, on his light racer, while
 the rest of the riders were following one another close behind. Hamilton appeared to let Weber have it all his own way, and allow
 ed him to keep the lead until within 200 feet of the finish, when the former spurted, pass ing Weber and running over the tape first thus having won the first prize in 2:45 3-5, with Weber second.
 The one-mile professional exhibition tan dem race of w. 0. Palmer and Frank Thompson
 5oth of this city, and members of the Ram blers" Bicycle club, for record, was the next thing on the programme. The riders both appeared on the track in suit consisting of white trunks, blue jerseys and stockings Shortly after the start one of the chains used for running the wheel broke and another start had to be made, after which the riders
 made very pretty mile run and record of 3:12 for themselves.
 In the one mile handicap the starters were B. J. Smith, of Yale college, who was al lowed twenty seconds start; H. F. Stockder and F. F. Ives, of Meriden, who were al lowed eight seconds; H. J. Hall jr., of Brooklyn, N. Y., who had five seconds, and A. B. Rich of Brooklyn, who was the given to start Smith started and Ives, who had only eight seconds handicap, by mistake started also, but was ''called back" and did not go over the line on the start again until Hall, the fourth man, who had five seconds, started Rich, the scratch man, started well in the rear, but before the half was passed he had drawn up to the front, which place he kept winning the race in 2:5S 2-5. He was, however, set back for making foul and the race given to Stockder, the second man,
 whose time was 3:06 35.
 Dr. N. F. Tyler, of the New Haven Bicycle club, took the lead on the start in the two mile race without hands, closely followed by
 F. F. Ives, Meriden, with H. E. Bidwell, of
 Hartford, the only other man to enter the race, in third place. The riders were al lowed five seconds start before they had to
 ride without hands, and when word was giv- H. | AI,as, ,l1 h., Tl-1a l., hands behind his back and got down to his
 work, keeping well in the lead until within a
 few yards of the judges stand on the last
 half-mile, when Ives pulled to one side and
 passed the doctor, winning the race by half . wheel in 6:39.
 There were six entries for the one-mile race of the 3:10 class, and the entries were:
 H. H, Stockder of Meriden, E. A. Hoffman, jr, of New York, 0. B. Ripley, of East Hart ford, F. c. Jackson of East Hartford, c. H.
 Moore of New Haven and H. s. Kavanaugh of Cohoes, N. Y. As soon as the riders got
 we'll started down the track Kavanaugh ran in ahead and took the lead with Hoffman second and Moore last. Kavanaugh held the lead and by the time he was coming down the homestretch he had put quite distance
 between himself and Hoffman. Kavanaugh's brother, who acts as his trainer, saw he was beating his record ,and shouted to him to slow up. This Kavanaugh attempted to do by
 
 and took a bad header, but he was on his feet in an instant and started to run his machine over the line, but his wind
 was gone and Hoffman rode in ahead of him,
 winning the race in 3:07 1-5, with Stockder second.
 After the latter race the people on the grand stand craned their necks toward the stalls and eagerly watched for the appear ance of George M Hendee of this city, who
 was to try and break the mile record of the world, 2:39, made by Sellers some time ago. Hendee soon appeared on the track and was greeted with round after round of applause from his admirers. Frank Westervelt of Springfield, Hendee's trainer, followed the latter on to the track with twenty-one pound racer Hendee made 8 good start and finished the half in 1:20 and had started on his second when Westervelt be- came satisfied that Hendee could not lower the record on account of the strong wind blowing and so called him back, much to the disappointment of the spectators. Hendee will try again this afternoon and when he puts the record down he will put it down to stay for some time to come.
 Illston, Hunter, Hamilton, Hall, Rich and Kavanaugh appeared on the track for the twenty-mile race for the. $1 ,500 Pope cup, which has to be won three times to be held for good and is now held by Hunter, who won it once. Kavanaugh had both Agms skinned and a bad sore in the palm of his hand, but he mounted his racer and pluckily started off with the others nlston took the lead Hunter second, Hamilton third and Kayanaugh fourth Nothing of account oc- curred until on the homestretch of the first half of the fifth mile, when Kayanaugh drew out to one side and passed Hamilton and Hunter and started to run into second place, but he turned too short and missing his pedal xl.<.xr o1