The herald., 1893-06-18
THAT ROAD RACE.
SOME REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT
THE EVENT.
A Review OF the Probable Status and
the Time That Will Havo to
Be Made Expectations
That May he Upset.

Now that the Fourth of July Is so
near every one is getting interested in
the big bicycle road race to Santa Mon
lea, which takes place on that day,
starting at 8 O'Clock from the corner OF
Second and Hill streets. Every one ex-
poets to see tremendous field of start
ere, and rattling hot race for the whole
1St4 miles, but when it comes 10 pick
ing the winner the best of them hesi-
tate.
The race has always been won by
dark ho~se ever since the '91 race, when
Will Tufts scooped both q ct place ami
best time in hour and IL minutes, and
it is dollars to monkey wrenches that
some unknown handicap man will win
the Sterling safety given by Russell q
Co. for first place and find himself COW
cred with dust, court plaster and glory,
while the ''eure winners" retire to some
secluded spot and with the aid of 'com-
pute your own speed" table, try to dis
cover where they are at.
OF, course, the scratch men are most
likly to win the $140 bicycle given by
the Pacific Bicycle company for best
time. But as Carson Shoemaker, the
Riverside phenom, says the winner will
have to beat 2 40 gait, it seems to the
average rider that the winner will have
earned the prize when he gets it. The
names OF the handicappers are to be
kept secret until each has taken out an
accident policy, although Paul FlAmmer
does say he caught II. G. r. Smith, one
OF the handicapperH Of last years race,
hiding in the brush near The Palms last
Aa tahtnO n tho hnua
they went by.
Riverside will send some likely start
ers, including Jasper Shoemaker, who,
with only Eve weekH riding, ran away
from the bunch at Riverside last fall and
won hands down, doing the 1874 miles
in 61M minutes.
From the city of orange blossoms
comes Jimmie Cowan, the holder of the
worlds mile maiden record, who is in
record breaking condition. and will see
the corner OF Utah and Second streets,
Santa Monica, as coon as most of them
ON the fourth.
Monrovia people, as usual, pin their
faith on D. Looloo Shrode, who, barring
accidents, they think will finish in time
to exhibit the new 25-pound Elliptic
racer he will ride on that day to the as-
sembled crowd, and still have time to
dress before the others come in.
The East Side club is expecting to fur
nish its new rooms with the prizes that
Kitchen, Hughston, Lacy, ct al. win,
and guarantee to build etable to ac-
commodate Mr.. Jewell's BOBBY prize
burro, should he win it,
Walter Tyler, the pocket edition, is
looking for trouble, and expects to be
right in the game on special Cleveland
road racer. He is a likely handicap
man.
W. M. Jenkins, w. A. Burke, Gatene-
bury and Sanifer are all training hard at
the track.
Fay Stephenson has had bic horoscope
cast by the oldest astrologer in the state,
and has been told he was born under an
unlucky planet; but notwithstanding
the fact that he is suffering with Grip
pied hand, which seriously interferes
with his training. he will ride and defy
the fates.
franklin, the "Downey-avenue duet
err" has q style of training peculiarly his
own, eating raw beef three times day,
washed down with a tumbler OF warm
blood, and uses strawberr pop as a
rubbing down fluid. He expects to do
something better than 65 minutes. 1t is
expected that the time will be reduced
but little from last years time of hour.
minutes, 27 seconds, made by Frank
Waller, with Harry Cornwell second by
only seconds.
For the benefit of those wishing to see
both the start and finish of the race, the
Southern Pacific will run q wheelmen's
special from the Arcade depot, arriving
at Santa Monica in ample time, beside
having glimpse of the race at The
Palms, where the railroad runs parallel
to the course.
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