The evening world., 1894-05-30
RAU WINS AT CHICAGO
Finishes First in the Great Eight
sen-Mils Road Race
Accidents to Many Of the Three
Hundred Starters.
Police Forced to Club Persons to
Keep the Course Clear.

Dy Associated Press)
CHICAGO, May 30.-The Chicago road
race, the successor OF the historic Pull
man bicycle event. was run over the
new North Side course to-day, the finish
being witnessed by an immense throns
Of enthusiastic spectators.
The race was for the first time run
from a point on the Lake Shore Drive.
opposite the Grant monument in Lincoln
Park, north to Evanston and back 10 the
starting point, a distance OF something
more than eighteen miles.
The hour of starting was fixed at 10
O'Clock, and long before the time ar
rived the driveways and footpaths OF
Lincoln park were thronged with spec
tators. Persons in carriages, tally-hos
and park phaetons, wheelemn and pc
destrlans were clustered about the i'm
posing monument, and gathered on the
granite beach to cheer the scant-robcd
wheelmen and to view the finish.
There were 416 entries, and more than
300 contestants lined up when the hour
arrived. The veteran wheelman, n. II;
Van Sicklen, officiated as starter, and
promptly at the stroke of 10 the limit
man was started twelve minutes ahead
Of the scratch.
scratch: j. P. Bliss. Herbert Citizens:
George N. Barrett, II. II. NlIlSHlp anu
A. E. Lumsden: but Of these only the
three latter were oil hand. AS they left
the mark amid lusty cheers and sped
away after the leaders, carriages and
bicycles swung into line and followed at
q rafting gait to view the first few
miles Of the contest.
The course had been cleared by the
police and the racers had full swing in
their hot ride for cycling glory. There
was but one bad place in the route, the
crossing Of the st. Paul railroad tracks.
n there some of the riders were badly
delayed, but the majority crossed free
from the obstruction Of passing trains
and swinging gates.
successful riders exceeded $500, includ-
ing cups, bicycles and trophies.
As soon as the last starter had dis
appeared the immense crowd which lined
the course became unmanageable. Surg
i,g back and forth. straining at the
ropes and crowding over one another in
the attempt to reach a point of vantage,
pie. Ropes soon parted and police lines
3 were broken through. and in the crush
many people were knocked down and
trampled upon, although none was seri-
ously injured. The mounted police time
and again charged the surging lines, and
only after a vicious amount of clubbing
was the track cleared.
Soon disabled riders began to make
their appearance, limping down the
course and showing or carrying their
broken steeds.
Inc nrSt man DaCk was ". Llf1ltntT-
Zimmerman, the crack, and one of the
man, of the Y. NJ. c.. A., n relative of
riders who was expected to do well. He
coiided with a mounted policeman
with a. badly smashed wheel and a
The Belmont avenue turn developed
and many HS" Of the riders fell there. Three
men, E. c. g. Touch, w. H. Gross and
william Holmes met at that point and
Holmes were badly disabled.
Many minor accidents resulted from
punctured tires and buckled wheels, and
during, the hours walt for the finish 9
bleeding wheelmen limped past the
judges stand and hunted up physicians
All along the route people were ga tn
cred in the windows and on the side
walks. watching the racers and occa'
sionally urging them on with hearty
cheers. The men who dropped out OF
whelmed with offers of assistance. ant
many were sent back to the park in car
riages.
One of the most eriou accidents o.
the day happened near the finish. Lind
quist. OF the Lake View Club. was com
ing Into the final stretch at a scorchlnf
around lin A sudden swerve threw
Lindquist's wheel against two Others
The rider was thrown from, his machine
and the wheel was wrecked;
LindQuist was unable to rise from tn
twisted pile of spokes and tires and wa!
aided by friends. He was taken to thu
tent in which his club had ~headquarter'
and physicians who We're called pro
nounced his injuries very serious. HI
shoulder was dislocated and his bod!
badly bruised.
The finish was exciting. As the or.
wen. up that the men were coming tn
crowds surged forward and were beatei
back by the frantic police. who wer
barely able to keep the way clear 70
the contestants. The leaders swep
down the stretch at a terrific pace.
Az Rau shot over the tape winner o
the race. a shout OF joy went up fror
sympathy. Bezenek was a hot second
and then the men came in punched 70
the first fifteen or twenty, all pedall!n
by at a break-neck speed. Then cam
The oficiai finish was: Fred Rau, Oh!
Bezenek, +. T. Club; third, <. Wider
fourth; F, r Barrett; Z, Of C.; hftt
Rau was pulled from his wheel an
carried up and down the course on tn
shoulders of his frantic friends. to b
greeted on every side with congratula
lions. The time made was considere
northeast wind against which the me
a to pedal, and the race was unan
mously pronounced the most successful
all things considered, in the history {
h famous event.
The contest for the time prize r~esulte
in a tie between c. II. Peck, OF the Oh
cago Cycling Club. and W. Bainbridg
of the Columbia WAeelmen. Time-J4r
eSs. Peaks handicap was three minute
AMI Bainhridge's two minutes. Ere
Rau the winne of the race. is but si'
Teen years I'D. He had 7i-2 minute
handicap. AMI the race was his first on