San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-06-02
A CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS
The Worlds Record of Jack Prince,
Who is Now Here.

SenU III Une Guy, Is HdIlNc VI
England, being born in small
town called Langley Green, in the
Midlands. He is 80 years of age,
stands five feet, ten inches and
weighs, when in condition, 112
pounds. He is very muscular, and
measures twenty five inches around
the thigh, fifteen and one half inches
around the calf, and forty-four
around the chest, with an eXpan-
sion of eight inches. His muscles
are hard as steel. He has been
training all winter in the south,
and therefore is in good condition
for hard race.
He commenced riding bicycle
at the age of Is, and won the first
race in which he entered. He
| raced as an amateur for about two
wears, and in that time won forty
medals and nineteen cups, besides
| a large number of watches and mu-
steal boxes. Mr.. Prince is also a
clever musician and singer.
His first professional race was at
Wolverhampton, when but Is
wears of age. Prince won this race
bv one yard after hard struggle.
He is the only man living that
ever won three WOlVerhamptOn
handicaps in succession. He de-
feated Keen and Cooper for the
championship of England, and
Charles Teront, the champion of
France, giving the latter 30 yards
start. He also defeated w. j. Nor
gan, the champion of Wales and
4S-hour champion of the world;
Richard Howell, at one time Eng
lands champion; w. w. Woodslde,
the champion of Ireland II. W. Eek,
champion of Canada; Ned Reading,
the famous soldier rider of Fort
Omaha, and many others, and is
| therefore the champion OF cham
pions. He is now riding faster
than he ever did in his life.
Prince came to America in 1882
and has been an American citizen
since 'S4. He claims Omaha, Neb.,
as his home. He has travelled from
| the Atlantic to the Pacific coast,
meeting all corners, men or horses,
any body he could make a match
with. He has run under the stars
and stripes for over nine years
and has been the American proIes-
sional champion for the past seven
wears. He holds over 400
miles of Worlds records which
were made in his great seventy
two hour race in Minneapolis in
1888, when he defeated Schoch, the
German champion, for $1,000
side, making the unprecedented re-
cord of 1,O43 miles in three days,
which stands today as the worlds
best record.
He came south last November
and his first race in the south took
place in Atlanta, Ga, against fast
| trotting horse for 5000, which he
won. He was defeated in st. Au-
gustine, Fla, and in that
race, although defeated, he
beat the best twenty-mile COM
petition record ever made in a
race by any professional bicycle
rider in the world. His time was
fifty-eight minutes and twenty-siX
seconds, and he had no pace
makers. In Orlando, Fla, recently
he made a worlds record for
quarter-mile in thirty seconds. In
a twenty-mile race at Tampa, Fla,
he made the last mile in two min
utes and twenty-eight seconds.
His twenty-mile record is fifty
nine minutes and tifty-nine seconds
on an eighth-mile track.
The wheel Mr.. Prince rides is
geared up to seventy-twO inches
and is a full racer, only weighing
twenty-four pounds. He stated
to reporter for the LIGHT
| that he is open to race
any man living. He has
only been riding the safety wheel
since last June, all his other races
being won with high wheels. He
believes his chances for winning are
good.
He expects to be in Chicago next
month to take part in the great
bicycle races at the Worlds fair,
for which he is now principally
training.
Mr.. Prince is loud in his praise
concerning the climate of San An
tonic, and says that it is the finest
for athletic training purposes he
has yet experienced. He will re-
main in San Antonio about two
weeks and train for the races
at Chicago. On his way to the
Worlds fair he will stop at Oma-
ha, Neb., to take part in bicycle
racnS At -ChicaGn he will enter