The evening world., 1889-05-18
LAST HOURS OF THE RACE.
THE GIRL BICYCLlsTs PREPARING FOR
THEIR FINAL STRUGGLE.

Brown and Oakcs-Ths Record VIII
Probably be Bentcn by Fifty Miles
The Winner VIII Receive Thirty-Three
Per Cent. Of the Gate Receipts.
Those who visit Madison Square Garden
this afternoon or this evening will witness q
most remarkable and thrilling struggle for
supremacy between two comely females.
Tho forty eight-hou bicycle race is drnw-
ing to a close. For forty-one hours Jessie
Oakos, the dark halrod. dreamy eyed English
lass, and Kitty Brown. her Pittsburg rival,
have led the other six far wheelwomen in q
race for popular favor, New York shekels aud
glory. but as between them it has been q
neck. and -nock affair from the start.
There have been frequent spurts between
these leaders aud their big wheels have been
propelled at dangerous speed for many a
mile. But neither has succeeded in demon
strnting n better speed than the other.
BY an accident Miss Brown lost one lap to
the pert Britishtr on Tuesday. and on Thur
day night tie Smoky City maiden VIZ ught
mapping and. Miss Oakcs gained another lap
of the eighth-mile track.
At the close of the fortieth hour, Mt l
O'Clock this morning. there was but u quar-
ter of n mile between the two beauties,
though they had boon struggling to Guido
CuCu OlueT Ill u TWCe VI Oh Iulltb.
There are hut seven hours left to the
racers, and from 2 to b o'clock this afternoon
and Sto II o'clock this evening there will he
n final struggle which will be we'll worth wit
Messing.
The pnce thus far has been nearly fourteen
miles an hour. This is nearly n mile an hour
better than has ever been done before by fe-
males. but to-night's work will doubtless be
more rapid still.
The best female record is that of Lottie
Stnnlnv the Diftahurp anrita- who has been
ill all Though this race. She covered 625af
miles in torty-eight hours and wears the
Police Gazette championship medal. But to-
| night it will he won away from her. and the
new record will be probably fifty miles better
than hers.
The attendance at the race has increased
with each succeeding day, and 1t seems now
assured that the girls will have ut least $4,000
10 divide MS their share of the gate receipts.
OF this 8s per cent. will 60 to the winner and
20 per cent. to the second.
1t Is TINT difference of IL per cent, or about
1915. which the tall and 1.-the Yankee blonde
aud the Lancashire brunette are contendlng
for.
All the girls will have q share in the divide,
even the sweet little Irish lass, Maggie Nc
Shane. having already covered the $50 miles
necessary to entitle her to participate. She
is last and will get 2 per cent.
And the girls will get their money this
| time. For the last race the riders were en-
gagged by, their managers. and the money won
went to the latter. who pocketed II all but u
few dollars. This time Mr.. O'Brien would
stand no nonsense and insisted on q con-
tract, whereby he was to pay the percentages
directly to the girls.
Charles Wendelkin, of the Madison Square
Hotel, IL the stakeholder for the girls, and
the money will be divided Monday.
At the close of last nights run the score
was like this Cakes, 671 miles @ laps;
Brown, STA Baldwin, 546.5; Arma,ndo,
5l7.2 Lewis. 5O6.4 Stanley, 4Gi.4 Woods,
1878; McShane, 352.G.