The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-07-14
run rwo ROAD RACES
Under tho Auspices of the Wheeling Vince
men Yesterday Afternoon,

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men Yesterday Afternoon.
The thirty.mile and tfteen.mile road
races, under the auspices Of the Wheeling
Wheslmen, that have been talked over
and looked forward to with such pleaaur.
able antiCipstlOns by the bicycle boys Of
the town for several weeks past, took place
yesterday afternoon according to the pro,
gramme, The events were not the howl.
ing successes they had been expected to
be owing to the failure Of the expected
entries to show up.
The local club had looked forward to
seeing from seventy'hvs to ons hundred
out.of,t0wn wheels in town, and each race
having from fifteen to twenty entries ex-
elusive Of the Wheeling boys who were
expected to enter, The entries from out
OF town were Conspicuously few, and the
Wheeling boys either lacked the nerve or
the enterprise to turn out as they should
have done after all they have said and
caused to be said about the affair,
The emily wheelmen from out OF town
who are in the city are w, ID, Banker, II,
Fleming, H., and l.. Il, Shopp, oikhs ALE.
gheny Oyclers; O. 4. Seidell and j. u.
KauCher, Of the Keystone club, OF Pitts.
bur9h, and John V, Stephenson C'Long
JOHNNY OF Greensburg, and Will +, Lewis,
Of Johnstown, Pa,
TIE THIRTH'NILE RACE,
1t was 1911 o'clock u, NJ, when DR.,
Ballard started the ~thirty-mile race from
the intersection Of EotF and Sixteenth
streets, fdf West Alexander and return,
via the National road and Sixteenth
street, They returned rs follows; W, D,
Banker, on a 53-inCh Columbia light road
ster, arrived at 4;2S4; time 1884,
!. A. Baall on a Victor at 4;2Si time
1860,
CHARLES seldell on a 5l,inch special Star
at 4;4Si time 3:l69,
Q, Dswey on a bOinch Rapid at 5;l3!i
time 3;42,
W, l.. Wright on a 5l.lnCh Columbia
light roadster at 5:22!i time S;5lt.
+. j, LIE NJ, Hupp only rode twenty,
four miles; he did it in 1926,
THE FIFTEEN MILE RACE.
The fifteen mile race was started from
West Alexander at 1903 o'clock, L, Il,
Shoup was tho winner in 1;20} on u 81.
inch Expert Columbia, DR., Morrison Of
this city, was second in 1889 and DR.. @. L,
Mason third in 2:2O3 on 4 54.inch Rapid,
Mr.. Wright and DR.. Mason went in
merely to ill up the entries and with no
intention Of winning. BeNll was only two
minutes behind Banker at West Alexan.
der, but lost coming back by being run
into by q farm wagon. Nearly all had
"headers' at some point on the road,
Considerable mud was encountered as the
result OF the heavy rains early in the
morning. Col. A. A, Franzhoim acted as
referee and gavo most valuable assistance
ia arranging matters that had been
entirely overlooked. Mr.. l, q. Dillon
was an efficient time keeper. There was
a crowd Of gentlemen and small boys
principally small boys-on Sixteenth
street to witness the finishes, all OF which
were tame, the men being too much
strung out. viii Wright was SO deter
mined not to win that he stopped at q
farm house aud ate his supper. The boys
that made the distance in good time were
we'll tagged out. There were moro prizes
than there were winners.
This morning at 10 o'clock tho hill climb.
ing contest will take place on Wheeling
hill. 1t ia hoped that there will bs a bst-
ter turnout than there was yesterday.
Several Of the local Cyclers who put in the
afternoon yesterday t%rundling between
the finish and Fulton might Just as we'll
have entered the races and made them in.
teresting, The great scheme would have
been to have held them on the Fair
grounds where n could have witnessed
the sport from beginning to end.