St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-13
THE SECOND DAY Oft
Larger Attendance and More
Interesting Events at the
Tournament.
Winona Hose Company Wins
Again, With Fargo
Second.
A Ball Game and Good Bicycle
Races Were
Seen.
Grant Bell Wins the Heats in
the Professional
Races.

Yesterdays attendance on the firemen's
tournament at the Minnehaha Driving park
was much larger than on the first Gay and
the various contests were more exciting.
The threatening weather kept people in
doors in the morning and the forenoon pro-
gramme was therefore postponed until
$50. The first thing in the aft
were only two entries for the one mile safety
race. j. r. Stockdals and n. II. BerWin.
StOckdale won easily in 3:31.
The next event was the one-mile profess
sional race, best two in three, of which Bell
won the first heat Wednesday. There were
three starters yesterday, Clark failing to ap-
pear. Elliott set the pace, and hot one it
was, too, and Bell trailed Dingley all the
way, short distance behind Elliott, until the
three-quarter pole was reached, when Bell
and Dingley passed the Aberdeen man and
spurted up the stretch, making pretty race,
Bell winning the heat and race, with Ding
ley a close second.
The next was the mile three minute class
race for amateurs who had never beaten
three minutes. The entries were Z. J. Hale,
f. E. Stockdale Billy Walsh, Charles Skill
man and j. johnson. Hale set hot pace for
the field, which strung out behind him until
all reached the lower turn, when johnson
pulled ahead and finished an easy winner
with Walsh and Stockdale treading hard for
second, which was won by the former and
Hale fourth.
Little Carl Stockdale, who won much ap-
Rlause by his performance on the wheel
Wednesday, entered with Ralph Reynolds, a
much older boy, for the half-mile race for
boys. Reynolds won easily, but the little
fellow made him work hard until the race
was nearly finished, when he fell behind.
The event of the afternoon was the second
heat Of the five mile professional bicycle
race. which occurred late in the day. As the
race practically lay between Ben and Ding
ley. Elliott withdrew. Dingley won We'd
nesday's heat, but Bell said that it was be-
cause he (BelD rode q crank wheel and
had always pushed a Star before.
when the order for the start was given yes
terday Bell mounted his Star, and his ad-
mirers cheered. Bell adopted the same tao
tics that he did the day before, allowing
closely. Dingley made the first mile III 1923.
and the second in 1929, with Bell still trail
ing his wheel. During the greater part of
the fourth mile Bell was resting, and fell
mile. Some men, mistaking this for sign
of weakening, offered and made bets on
Dingley, but they lost, for Bell was only saw
ing his strength. Soon after entering the
his speed. and in the middle of the back
stretch came up alongside the world twenty
our-hOur champion. From that time until
the two flyers turned the three-fourths and
came into the stretch they rode rim and rim.
Then Bell spurted for all there was in him,
and soon led Dingley by rod or more. Three
hundred feet from the wire Dingley spurted
and reduced Bells lead to five feet before
Bell went under the wire winner in 16 min
utes, 52s4 seconds. The last mile was the
fastest of the five, and was made i'll the
midst of great excitement in 2:09. This
makes it horse and horse as Dingley says,
and the heat this afternoon is sure to be
hot one.
The band contest was between the Cooper's
and Normanna bands, and was decided in
favor of the latter
Winona won again in the hose race, the
Fargo team meeting with another accident
after having made splendid run. Two
members Of the Dakota company afterwards
gave fine exhibition Of hose coupling, just
to show that they could do it, Rochester
and Austin also had companies entered in
this contest and got fourth and third places.
respectively.
The Minneapolis Pompier team, consisting
of Capt. Charles Foster, of headquarters;
Lewellyn. of No. 4; Malone, No. IS; Keogh,
headquarters: Brady, No. l &; Legacy, Cataract
and Coleman of No. 10, gave another very
life net in USE aud the use of the life belts
in sliding down a slack rope from the top of
the tower.
The Eclipse and Palace mines entertained
many of the visitors with a very credi able
ball game, the former winning by score
of 10 to 9.
In the evening an immense crowd watched
the very elaborate and novel drill executed
Dy the tlamDeau clup In tull UNIFORM, with
new torches of approved pattern. Several
hundred dollars worth Of fireworks were a
part of the paraphernalia used by the Flam-
beau boys in their entertainment, and alto
gether it was a grand and glittering success
The feature of to-day's programme will be
a two-mile dash, open to all amateur cyclists
the third heat of the fve-mile professional
race, ladder climbing contest, hook and
ladder race. open to the world; several con-
ISOLATION events, and last but not least, the
burning OF a three-story wooden building,
erected for the purpose.