New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-16
WHEELMEN IN A BIG RACE.
OVER A HUNDRED STARTERS IN THE
CENTURY rum
THE ATLANTA BICYCLE CLUBS GREAT RACE
j. w LIXNEMAN. OF BUFFALO. THE
WINNER OF THE FIRST PRIZE.

WINNER OF THE FIRST PRIZE
The ATLANTA Wheemens annual century run TOOK
place yesterday the course being from East orange
Princeton N j.. and back. Just as the sun began 10
rise whcemen began To gather In front OF the Con-
tnental Hotel IN Newark Out OF fory-eisht entries from
the wheemcn only three failed TO appear on time.
entries from all the competing clubs only forty
did not The starting place was Ashforts Hotel Ia
Centraavc East Orange, and by 80 M. nearly all
the who started were there. Fred Keer, OF the
Ataanas starter Theodore Mereler IT, was referee
ana A. d. King A. H. Chamberlain and c. b. Matthewson
the judges The first men ~ start got on at 80
o'clock.
The first make squirt after the start was A. L.
Blauvelt "nve.mlnues'' man and although he was
the last IN his class get away he soon took the lead
and the pace for the others The nve scratch men
kept in a through several villages. The wheelmen
made fine appearance the country road, ana many
balconies and applauded the riders as cy
sped by. The weather was just cool enough Tor COM
and the kept behind gray clouds nearly all te
time during the ride TO Princeton.
l.. Rice led thu procession through South orange WIN
,. Frazer three minutes behind him. The route 70
Princeton passed through the Oranges, Mllburn Spring
Held Panteld Dunellen. New Brunswick, Franklin Park
and Princeton. The wheemen returned through
Blawenbur2 PlaInied, Belle Mead Somerviue. Bound
Dunclen. from which place the route to the
starting point the same the outward journey
l.. Rice. of Newark still led at Springfield at y 90
o'clock and a dozen wheelmcn were pressing him. " H.
Colin, Newark puncured his tire at Springfield ana
his brother him his wheel and withdrew from
the race. The rides passed Somervlle with H. A.
Saund r. in the lead 10 80 o'clock He ana Rice
were closely followed by Bath, Willis and Muchmore.
Asher Atkinson thirty.minutes handicap was the
first to reach ewBrunswick. Johnson OF the Ataantas
came IN 40 10 % followed by George Wilson and Beaa
OF Newark and Van Antwerp. OF tho Ataana, over
thirty Of the Newark competitors well the advance
Ninetyseycn " riders pass-d through Nsw-Bruns'
wick At Kingston number gave the race because Of
the bad roads.
Al Princeton there big crowd Of people at III 30
o'clock I'm front Of the Nassau Hotel. Newark citizens
were there wheels for their friends In case
Of accident A. Atkinson arrived at II 40 o'clock
o. II. Van Enburgn second and j. T. Marshall third
J. w. Lnnenan. scratch man. led A. W. w. Evans
T. l.. Walsh and p. IL. johnson. q. Horton. sauVet
+. V Balou H. H. wyle and l. F. Webb passed the
hotel about
In the run back Princeton Tho men looked tired
but la &c number kept at the work. Waller, scratch
man fr m indianapolis, broke his wheel over ooO
men and bicycles gathered on the Fast orange
roads 10 soc the wheemen in after their hard ride
j W Linneman OF the Press Bicycle Club, ot BufLo
arrived home first at rs :3j o'clock. He was a
scratch" man j. 7. Marshall OF the Atlanta Wheel
men II Newark second at jS 40. Iio MAD u
h,uoican If AZ minutes, A. W w Evars, y. y.
A. c. was third. lie had a handicap Of ID minutes
Llnneman led easily from Belle Mead T. l.. Walsh
~ the Atalantas fourth man at oil 30. and o.
H. Van Emburgh NTH at 3 rs 30. The sixth
man was f. II. Johnson Of the AtIlantas, ut 31e'I-,
and the seventh A. Atkinson OF New Drums
wick The eighth man a. j.. Bauyelt, OF tho
Newark Whcclmen, and Wyle. Of the Hudson County
Whcelnan. ninth
The star prize is 500 piano and is for the CLUB
having the most men finish inside Of II hours Their,
scores the largest number Of nshers. There ale forty
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