New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-19
1,rGLER THE CHAMPION.
,,,FORNIA WONDER DEFEATS ALL
'. RIVALS AT DENVER.

NV OF THE MEET OF THE WHEEL
.,rx IN COLORADO - INTERESTING
EXHIBITION CONTESTS.
sug. lS-Record- breaking was confined
ps,h,on races against time at the last day Of
70 e.-,srcan Wheelmen's National meet here to-
ne hard breeze blew from the mountains
dG~;,r the backstretch OF the Denver Wheel
81 track during the races making 1t impossible
w" 40 riders to do anything especially credtabe.
'n .avv shower added to the unpleasantness. The
- ,n,rds mile Class Il. open was an exciting in
's',nnton TO the days sport. special prizes being
80 Eddie" Bald. Wells. the fve-mile record
~ and Cabanne, the dark skinned st. Louisan.
wv down the stretch abreast and crossed the
90 hut few inches apart To many 1t seemed
I'D heat, but Bald let out spare link at the
:. moment and neatly carried off the palm.
-. Class 4 mile handicap that followed de-
,,oed nothing remarkable beyond the fact that
" .cratch men took FIRST second and third. 1t
=, IN this race that the men suffered most from
y" x,nd on the backstretch, which spoiled many
s,,sm before the first lap was run.
,r,s Otto Ziegier, from the Pacific slope. then
-'.,ured the quarter-mile National championship
s,m a field of big cracks in pretty style. with
.p,ly" Taxis a close second. Sanger. with
nsndous squirt on the homestretch, won the
CLASS b half-me open. beating Wells, the San
rr.nc.can by a wheel. Fred Titus getting third
,,,,s sprint in the Glass A Quarter-niiie. bat
Gardner. the speedy Chicagoan. who can ride all
s..und any other man here. ran away at the tape
and won easily.
The one me Glass Il race for the 2:20 class was
another plum for Iiegler. who took 1t away from
a r. Boles the local favorite at the finish by
lsnsth =. ,,o o. ,owevs- was tho
,amiIe National championship. in which Sanger
Murphy. Johnson. Brown and others, among the I'm
asV gait INT the quarter. when with Johnson
IN a pocket. the eighteen-year-0d CaIiiorni Ia
S,mmsrman's. and was way ahead before any one
knew it, Then the great men went for him: But
~. rind or the will-o' thewisp were quite as easy
"a catch. Charlie" Murphy and Sanger, second
and third. never coming anywhere near the heels
VI lon sne This made three championships in three
days for newcomer who Is only a boy, ana me
enthusiastic crowd aPpladed ara hoyns as r 1ne
,hs track on the shoulders Of his fellows.
Gardner had no trG in s ~ s sak'ns the '"0''
' Tss Wind dying away. A. ID. Kennedy. of Chi.
cagO went for the two;mile standing start rec1Ta
Sas paced the INST mile by Titus and cabanne on
tandem and the last mile by the MURPHY ny
ers.sfth Of a second. Then Titus and Cabanne
brought the unpaced tandem record OF n 1s
sv, the Glass \ unpaced mile down 10 min
ii5 sec
Following are the summarizes
I,s pssIo' G $ Wells San Francisco second
i D. Cabanne. st. Louis, third. Time min.
as
ora mile ia ndicap Glass Avon by A. Gardner.
chnago. n b Bird. ST Paul, second Louis A.
csilaban. Buffalo third. All scratch men. Time
min. 10 Us sec.
ouarter.nile. National Championship-Wo by
or zierer ir san Jose; W. w Taxis Phadel-
O OSss second: RAYMOND Macdonald New-York third.
iime-3O 3-5 seconds
Ha,,.mre open. Glass B-won by W. c. Sanger.
,,ii1aukee. & s Wells San Francisco, second: +.
! T,tus New-York third Time min. II 2-5 sec
ouarter-mile open Class Avon by A. Gardner.