St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-16
The Race in Minneapolis Opened, With
Many Well-Known Men in
the Contest.
Some Good Work Done By All, and Some
Records Broken at the Very
Outset.
Oarsmen From ST. Paul and Winnf-
peg Form an Association and
Adopt Rules.
4 Novel Idcn--Thc 81. Paul Lacross
Club Enthusiastic--Co College
Base Ball League.
Smashing Moro Reoords.

The most notable skating event that ever
took place in the world began i'm the Wash
! ington rink yesterday afternoon. The
starters included all the famous skaters and
champions of the DAY. They are:
). Il. Snowdeu OF Boston, the champion
long-distance skater of the world, who has u
record of l,l6G miles. He brings with him 10
act as his trainer, Crowley OF New York.
William Boyst, the champion one-hundred-
mile skater Of America, of New York city.
His brother viii act as trainer. Boyst has a
long-distance record of I.liS miles. Snowden
aud BOyst were first and second men in the
celebrated six-days skating race in Madison
Square Garden, New York city.
X. A. Skinner OF Boston. the champion
speed skater OF the world. He brings Nathan,
the trainer all the way from Denver, Col, TO
help him in the race.
Judge Carruth. the champion one-hundred-
mile skater OF the Northwest, who has Stevens
for his trainer.
L. J. Gamble of Moline H., champion of
the Sucker state.
R. C. Bromley Of Des Molnes, the champion
OF the West.
L. d. Mclean OF Minneapolis, trained by
Simpson.
Charles Cole, champion OF Minneapolis,
trained by Fred Shaw, the bicycst.
Ed ONen OF Minneapolis, who viii have
Albert Schock. the bicyclist, rs his trainer.
Charles w. Smith of Chicago. the champion
IL. u.
the nose-billiardist.
Record after record has been broken and
to the surprise of every one. 1t was not
expected that the record for 100 miles made
recently at the Washington rink by Judge
Carruth would be reached by any one in
this race. Still it went by the board with
the rest SnOwden. the leading man in the
race, passed the one-hundTed-mile post in
hours, Al minutes and 20 seconds,
thus beating the record of 6, 46, 50
by minutes. 10 seconds. a most wonderful
performance, especially as il was the first
day OF the six. Owing to the shape of the
tack as originally laid ont not suiting the
the contestants the curb had TO be torn uD
and the track reSuryeyed. This took over
an hour and half and the race could not
be started at , p. M, as intended, but was
started at S:4S p. M, which necessitatod
the men skating till ll:4S p. IN. 10
MAKE TIE EIGHT HOURS.
A few minutes previous to the start the
men appeared on the track and were loudly
cheered. Each contestant has Judge. and
w. NJ. Woodside. the bicyc,ist, was chosen
referee. At the time mentioned WOodside
called them TO the starting point, and after
cautioning them against fOaling one an
other, etc. by the report Of a pistol he
started them on their journey. From the
first jump il was apparent that no time
would be lost. Skinner took the lead,
closely followed by the rest. The
variety of colors In the contestants cos
tunes. and the band playing lively
Quickstep made a very brilliant and inspir-
ing scene. Lap after lap was placed to the
mems credit, all of them skating as if it
was ten mile instead of a slx-days race.
AT IL o'clock quite a lively discussion took
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manager of the rink. 1t seems the contest
ants, while skating around. came to an
agreement TO all stop work for the day at
IL O'clock, but when they attempted to
carry the scheme into execution. the referee
ordered them TO go and skate the full eight
hours, and manager Eek said if they did
not go on he would close the rink and dis
continue the race. This had the desired effect.
They resumed their journey and kept it up
until time was called. Snowden, present
holder of the championship of the world,
demonstrated that he is a stayer and the
most graceful skater that has ever visited
our city, He is the favorite for first place,
yet it is hard to pick the winner
at this stage of the game.
Gamble. Carruth and O'Neil are all pushing
SnOwden hard. and Skinner is doing some
great wolk. Fer that matter every man in
the race is doing big work, and indicates
that they are all skating for first place.
Smith, the Milwaukee boy, quit after going
nineteen miles. lie was the only man in
the race using a common skate.
the rest all having ball bearing
racers, and Smith found that this
advantage at once put him out of a place.
All the men seem in excellent condition,
and during the day INDUCED in several
lively spurts. and, Notwithstanding Snow
den's remarkable speed, but a few laps
separated him from Boyst, Carruth and
Gamble at the finish. Cole, the Mime
apolis boy, is now at the foot of the score.
He lost several miles by having TO
leave the track on account of sickness, but
during the evening said he was feeling
much better and thought he could cut down
the lead the rest had opened up. During
the third hour the bushing in Sknners
skate became loose and he was off the
track some time in making the change.
He says he will close up the gap to-day.
though.