Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-16

In professional races. but aS thCrc arc to be class A and class B races as we'll many of the best known amateur riders in the ountry will race nt the garden. Among the class E riders who will probably Cun- test for prizes arc Sanger. Johnson, Bliss. Bald, Mcdonald, Tyler. TaNis and C. M. and w. F. Murphy.
 The programme is the most interesting ever outlined for q bicycle meet in Madi son Square Garden. Instead of the usually tircsome six days go-as you-plcasc race, which cannot flil to shorten the life of each competitor who manages to keep his wheel wabhling around the track for nearly week, n number of short distance races between class X, class B and profCs- sional riders will he held each day, and the only long distance race of the week in any way resembling the previous six day tournaments will bc n 2I hour intcrna- tional championship race on Dec. l. As many of the short distance events will Le handicaps, nearly every swift rider enter cd will have chance of winning, and the races will not he of an unplcasantly one sided character. The programme follows:
 Nov. =, ClasS A-Onc milo safety racC for novicCs. scratch; half mile safety race for men with mile records uf 2;31 better. scratch class B. mile safety race, 2:l5 class: halt mile heat race. first prize to bc awarded Ia the man making the fastest heat thrCc mile lap 
 scratch: five mile safety race, scratch. Nov. 2s. Glass A.-Onc mile safety race. 2:i( class: two Inilv safety race, handicap: class B, one mile safety race. scratch; five mile safety racc for the indoor championship, scratch: one milo safety race. handicap; professional one
 mile safety race scratch; ten mile safety race, scratch.
 Nov. 29 (morninGl Glass A.-Half mile safe ty race for boys II and l5 years of age; one
 mile safety race for boys l5 and 10 years Oi age, scratch: one milo safety race. 8 minute class. Afternoon, Cl:ss Alive mile indoor championship race, scratch: ono mile safety race, handicap; class B, two mile safety race scratch; two mile safety race, handicap; pro fessional one mile safety race, scratch; two mile safety race, handicap.
 Nov. %. Glass Alone mile indoor champion | ship race scratch: two mile safety race, handi cap: class F. orc milo indoor championship race, scratch; five mile safety race, scratch I professional two mile safety race, scratch: ,:
 mile indoor championship, scratch.
 Dec. l. Glass A.-Half mile safety race scratch: ere mile safety race, handicap; clas: B, two mile safety race. handicap: one mile lap race, sCra.-h professional five mile safety racr, scratch; two mile safety race, scratch
 24 hour international championship race | scratch
 Dec. 2. Glass Alone mile safety ry,c,, scratch: class R, five milo safety rlCC, sCrIt". | professional un" mile safety rl"r, scratch: tw' mile safety race, scratch; ten milo safety l racc, scratch.
 George Banker, the swift young Pitts
 burg rider who has been SO successful ir | France, and who stuhhornly disputed | with Wheeler tho honor Uf finishing sec
 ond to the great Zimmerman during tho past season, Is under contract to ridC
 abroad and will not participate in tho Gar | den tournament. While in Paris thu | usual orlcr of finishing in tho big races no matter how many competitors were cn | tercd was Zimmerman, Wheeler and 1 Banker or Zimmerman, Banker aud 1 Wheeler.
 | X number uf months ago llurct, tho ! French champion. made new 2i hOui I record of lJ7 miles l, 622 yards and should | be n formidable competitor in the coming | 24 hour race. Edwards k the best mar
 at present representing England in thu | professional ranks, with tho possible cx
 ccption of Harris. He has won about 3(
 races this season. but was no match fol l Zimmerman. LOuvCt, the French cham I pion, is annthcr swift rider who has bee:
 beaten by the steel li'nbcd Jcrscyman.
 The coming tournament will bc held un
 der the auspices uf the Metropolitan As
 E Hildick is president. Charles X. Shoe
 han, ex-prcsiClcnt "t the association, vii
 manage tho tournament, which give
 promise of being tho most successful even
 of the kind ever held in the Garden. Zim
 mernau is one uf the most popular rider
 America ever produced and he and Wheel
 CT are sure to rcCrivc n royal welcome q
 the hands of their old amateur friends. | EARLE II. EATON. | -Hett.r stnl.-