The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-17
TURN OF THE WHEEL.
Four worlds Records Were Broken
ar Denver.

TURN 0F THE WHEEL
Four worlds Records Were Broken
ar Denver.
The lantern parade of the Hudson
City section tomorrow night SHOULD be
a big success. All the wheelmen in the
county, whether they belong to clubs
or not, are invited to participate by the
Hillside Wheelmen. under whose aus
pices it will be held. The Hillsides win
supply band. lanterns and decorations
and lave made arrangements 10 enter-
tain their guests after the procession.
The other clubs should lend Il helping
hand. Lantern par&des Should be fire.
uently held, and the clubs ought to unite
and by these pageantS viii accomplish
a great ceai in Increasing interest in
bicycling. and destroying opposition to
rooms CT the Hillside Wheeinien. Nc.
5I9 Palisade avenue, promptly at eight
o'clock. The route was given in The
Four Worlds records broken in one
day ands FIVE other close and exciting
races stamp yesterdays sport at the
the greatfst of many seasons. The at
tendance, too. broke the record for the
season; over ten thousand persons crowd
ed into the four grand stands. Fred j.
Titus of the Riverside Wheelmen, New
York, bore away the honoTs of the day,
and broke two worlds competitive rec
ords-the mile and the fve-mile The
most remarkable of the entire days
performances is the breaking of these
Two records in scratch races, when form
erly thu competitive records lave been
MADE in handicap events. Titus, al
though he smashed the record for the
mile. was disqualified for riding inside
Sanger, and lost a SEQ piano, the first
prize. His time, 2:f6 3-5, lowers the
.sile scratch race competitive record,
3naGs by Zimmerman last season at
Indianapolis, and also the mile compel
tive record of 2:11 2-5 by Sanger in a
handicap last year at Springfield.
The fve-rnile competitive record was
le:1s S-5, made by Titus at Lafayette
last month Yesterday, in the five-mile
1 national championship, the same sterling
3 ply of Brooklyn less than half a length.
Ziegler, the Californian. was a close
third. Here. too, pacemakers We're
for the first, 1856 for two miles, tbs for
three miles. and s:5S for four.
The mile novice race was won by
six seconds off the record, Jacquise of
Chicago running second. Pacemakers
were employed in this race also.
half-mile riding backwards, little Lee
Richardson lowering his own mark
from 2:37 2-5 to 2:35.
L.: A. Callahan. Buffalo, L; G. l..
Heller, Salt Lake City, 2; G. A. Maxwell
Wi INK nan s.sS 9 Jas. D. Park Den
One mile o~pen-Class BE. j. Titus, /;
A. I. Brown, g; W. c. Sanger, 8; E. C.
Bald, 4 r; F. .Goetz, s. ". Foster, 6;
c. r. Coulter, {; Time. 2:l0. Titus was
Disqualified
Half nssle ~open-class A Gardner,
Chicago !; T. F.: Arderssn, Roodheuse'
9: f.. H. Kayser, Dayton, o, 4. Time,
q 80 seconds.
Two mile h~andicap-Class B-F. G..
Barnet, Q90 YARDS won; A. D. Kennedy,
go yards) second. L.. c. Johnson, GAO
yards third; E: Boles, 600 YARDS fourth;
H. n: Maddox goo yads) fifth. Time,
Third of a mile Open Glass A-E. E.
anderson; ~, won; E; H; kayser. sec
f s3a: L. fins ii eat o:4a e. third' a Gardner
Five mile national championship
Three heats of one third mile each to
r. =. Titus, second; L. D. Cabbane,
Second heat-A. H. Maddox and CHI.
Callahan qualified by riding one third
Third heat-c. M. Murphy, first; r.. F..
Goetz, second; B. B. Bird, third.
Murphy. second; Otto zeigler, third;
B.. z. Bird, fourth. Time, 121s.
Wheelinen will hold a race meet. They
have received a large number of entries,
and fast time will be made. The events
are solely for Glass A riders, and this
not pocketed, and escape accidents, Will
carry home some of the prizes. Will
Darmer the plucky, but unfortunate
enough, when. Iaurels. were fairly III
his grasp to discourage a man Of or,
d fa abando eoq Wageling. ah is entered rerse in f the
mile handicap, two mile lap race, Two
mile handicap, and two mile race for
W. G. Roome is in the mile handicap
and two7mile handicap. and S. A. Cram
err of the Hamilton Wheelnirn is in the
one-uYle handicap and the two-mile
ha-dioon There are 2S entered in the
one-mile novice, IS in the one-mlle handl-
cap, IS in the two-thirds of a mile
scratch. 16 in the two-mile lap race, %
in the mile for the 2:3o class. and AZ in
the two-mile handicap.
The route for the twenty-fve-mile road
race on Labor Pay nnaer line 1he a III MaW
Jersey is announced to be as foliows-
start from Norris avenue, Elizabeth, at
field and Railway to Elizabeth, and turn
and finish in Railway at the Stone
Bridge. The rider going over this course
. in the fastest time will get the Times"
gold medal. Carl Won Lengerke, chair
man of the Race Committee. says this
handicap will be the feature of the Labor
Day road races.
Entries for the novice event at the meet
of the Union County Roadsters at Rah-
way on Labor Day, during the progress
Of the road race, will close on August q
with A. II. ehamperlaln, LOCK BOX %,
An entry for the mile novice race in the
Good Roads tournament was received
from PhoenixviIle, Pa, yesterday, by
Secretary Perrett. at Asbury Park. All
entries for handicap races at this tour
events on Monday, the 9th. Secretary
Perrett,s New York address is No. q
PARK Row, care Of the American Wheel
men," X
tional fve-mile race at Leicester yes
tcrday in 11:15 rs. Baker was second and
Edwards was third
New rules making it obligatory upon
the part of Class B racing men to live
up to the contracts originally formed
them from throwing over their old en-
ployes for an extra money inducement
k,are likely to be soon adopted by the
League of American Wheelmen.
4 Miss Amelia Van Schaick has been