The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-28
ADAMS BEATS ISAAC BAIRD.
A Great Five Mile Bicycle Race at
Columbia.

The Two Bairds and Adams the Only
acknowledgements of Savannah
Wins the Half Mile open-Farmer
Beats Out Adams, Baird and Con-
nerat in the One Mile Open.
Columbia, S. c., June 27-The inter
state bicycle races, under the auspices of
the Columbia Association, which oc-
Cured this afternoon attracted a larger
number of fast wheelmen than any meet
ever before held in South Carolina. With
the exception of two accidents in which
riders we're painfully hurt, the affair
was entirely successful. The time gen
orally was not fast. The chief event was
the five mile race between Isaac Baird, of
Charleston, champion of South Carolina
John Baird his brother, and George
Adams, of Jacksonville.
The events were as follows:
First Race-One mile novice Riley. of
Greenwood, won, with Chlppey, OF Green.
wood, second.
Second Raoe-Half mile open. R. V. Con
nerat. of Savannah, won in 1912 2-5, defeating
Farmer of Savannah, second, and Adams Of
Jacksonville, third, ana Osborne and Bolles,
of Savannah and Atlanta respectively.
Third Race-One mile, for the 1925 class 1t
was won by Riley, of Greenwood with Ryt-
tenbourg, Of Sumter. second.
Fourth Race-One mile open. Adams
Isaac BAIRD, Connerat, Bolles, Osborne and
Farmer entered. II was won in superb styIe
by Farmer AZ is, with Baird second in >: 43
and Bolles third.
Fifth Race-One mile for 3-ninute class
Roach, Of Columbia, won in 3:15 5, with
Pope. Of Columbia. second. In this race w
f. Gonzales, of Columbia, lost his pedals and
fell. sustaining severe COMMISSIONS.
Sixth Race-Quarter mile open. It was left
to the three Savannah men. Farmer was in
the lead when he fell and was severely
bruised. Osborne won IN 80 seconds defeat
ing Connerat about six inches
Seventh Race-Two mile handicap 1t was
won by Bolles IN 5:l2 3-5, with Connerat sec
ond in SIP As.
ADAMS BEATS BAIRD.
Then came the event of the meet. the
five mile open race. Twelve men had en-
tered for this, but all except the Baird
brothers and Adams dropped out. The
first part of the race was ridden slowly
All knew that great rivalry existed be-
tween the elder Baird and Adams, and all
knew, too, that there was going to
be a race worth seeing. They did
not expect however, to witness any such
a battle for supremacy as the last half
mile was. Isaac Baird started off pacing
the race pretty soon after the start, and
set pretty stiff pace Then his brother
took the pace and kept the stiff pace up.
They kept this up for mile or two,
and then Adams did a little
pacing himself. Then they slowed
up, and from that time on the
three riders alternated at the pacing
business Everything went along
smoothly until the nineteenth lap was
started. Then Isaac Baird put on ire
mendous squirt and literally flew past the
other two riders. Adams didn't expect
it, evidently, for Baird got lead of about
80 feet before he began to hammer away
at his pedals, but when he did, they re-
volved. He started after Baird like light
ming. Round they came, and just after
the turn of the last lap was started,
he began slowly but surely to
lessen the distance between Baird
and himself, although Baird seemed
to be going as fast as it was possible to
go. Just as they were turning into the
last eighth he crawled up very nearly to
Baird. Then both men seemed to do their
utmost. Baird had the pole and Adams
had to take little of the slope of the
track. He went around, however, and
down the home stretch they came. Adams
had passed Baird by a shade and no one
knows when or how. At any rate he
rolled over the line nearly a wheels
length ahead. John Baird had dropped
out of the race soon after the
lastrquarter was begun. The time was
1851 2-5, and Baird's time was 16 81 40
The last quarter must have been ridden
in about 30 seconds. This ended the
events of the day, and there was vocifer-
Gus cheering as Adams came in, most of
the riders will go to Sumter to attend
the meet there tomorrow.