The evening world., 1894-05-30
new RECORD
AT M|LBURN.
Barnett Makes the Twenty.
five Miles in the Fast
Time OF 1.11.1S. .
PREVIOUS RECORD 1.15lO.
More Than $4,000 People Wit
messed the Start and
Finish.
LAST YEARS WINNER LEFT.
Hundreds Of Pretty Women in
Boomers Rode to the
Scene.
LAST YEARS WINNER LEFT.

HILTON. N. j.. May So.-The Irving
ton-Milburn race course was the Mecca
of all enthusiastic wheelmen In the
vicinity of New York to-day.
The roads leading to Orange and
Newark by which the course is reached
were swarming with cyclers almost
from sunrise, and at an hour when most
people in the city were thinking of get
ting their breakfasts the pretty five-mile
stretch of road between the little vii
lagos Of Milburn and %Irvington was al
lagos Of Milburn and ~Irvington was lined
with spectators from end to end.
The day for the great annual 25-mile
handicap road race, given under the
auspices of the Metropolitan Associa-
fion Of Cycling Clubs. was perfect.
The Clerk Of the Weather had been
good to the wheeimen. The sky was
Just overcast enough to make 1t COM
Portable for the races. There was a
light breeze from the west. not strong
enough to interfere with the making of
good time. and the road was In almost
perfect condition. the rain Of two days
age having laid the dust completely.
This Is the sixth of the annual road
races, and the interest In the event has
increased with every successive season.
This year 1t Is the aborbing topic among
wheelmen In this vicinity.
The number of entries Is greater thar
ever before. and the competitors are
drawn from a larger number of clubs.
The full list corrected up to this morn
Ing contains the names Of 157 contestants.
, with handicaps ranging from 40 seconds
to . minutes. a year there were 14O
competitors.
The scratch man is W. F. Murphy. of
brother, Z. N. Murphy. won the time
R%w slss iass 's %ii;ss e0ix IN iis.st the distance
This record is bound to be broken this
year. for not only has Murphy beaten
caps have equalled 1t.
Some OF the other cracks who will have
Z chance to distinguish themselves in TO-
Wells. Fred Hawley and F.. q. Mcdonald,
Of the Kings. County 'Wheelmen, which
club, has furnished the largest number Of
Mort Scott. of Newark; George w. Coffin,
Of the Atalanta Wheelmen, and F.. b.
Marriott. Of the South End Wheelmen.
ever. and the most careful calculations
may be upset before the day is over.
At II o'clock this morning there. was
little wooded hill back Of %irrvington,
which 10 the place Of start.
Fully 10000 people a gathered there.
in addition to thu, thousands who were
Many had come on their wheels all
the the T sSs a fsG% New e, ferk % sn Se Rr9Gkl snd
Paterson had sent big DELEGATIONS.
The Oranges, Montclair. Passaic, Hack
ensack and Englewood were well repre-
Nn Tho 1rRna NJ rtp"
Among the New York clubs which
sent. out large c~ontingents were the
Harlem Wheelmen;, New York Tourist
York Athletic Club. the Crescents. the
New York Wheelmen, the Century cycle
Club and no end OF unattached riders.
Not a few, OF the lanies had wheeled
All the way from New York City, as was
the Ease with a number OF members OF
among them Mrs; Henry f. Westbay;
of whom are enthusiastic wheelwomen.
In the grove which borders the road
on either side OF the star wheels were
stacked up by the hundred. Many OF
the riders in the club delegations were
ladies, most of them in the latest and
most attractive costumes, among which
the bloomer style was conspicuous.
Chief Marshal Heath. of the Tourist
Wheelmen,. SAID that the turnout to-day
of people present was fully double that
or any previous annual race. The ofl-
GERS OF the day were as follows:
Referee-T. Il. Potter, Brooklyn Il, c.
Judges-A. T.. Hilbick, President NJ. A.
A.: G.; Z. Gentle. e; A. {. C.; ". z. NJ.
WI C.. Won ~Lengerke, Atalanta w.
L. B. Whymper, K. c. w: II. Strugnell,
II. c. w. Fred Keer. II. C. W; c. A.
Timers-cJ, i, Fitch, r.. W; A. schwal.
bach. L, Burris. l.. I. w; +. Floyd. OBJ,
C.: w. c. Nellis.
starter NJ. l.. Brlagman, X. G. W.
Clerks of the CyEvso-L. G.. Miller, NJ,
Wv. A. Drlbbie, \. W: L, A., Powers,
SCORERS. p. Prlal NJ. y. C.; =. II.
Campbell. n. Il. e.: w. D.. Collender,
+. NJ. knowles. Orange 4. G: W. V. Bel
KNAPP, \. ". a. r. Merr!et. J. ]. Prial,
NJ. A.. Heath. y. y. T. W, wat Chief
Marshal, and with thirty assistants was
one OF the busiest officials OF the day
llo.ulAGed on >4ta Iuys