The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-08
RELIANCE CLUBS RACES,
Exciting Bicycle Contests at
the Oakland Trotting
Park Track.
EDWARDS BEATS FOSTER.
Souires, Jones, Downing and Ed
wards the Winners Fast
Riding the Rule.

The races of the Reliance Club wheel
men at the Oakland Trotting Park yester-
day afternoon attracted large crowd and
were well contested. The inside trotting
track was used, which is 100 yards short of
a mile, SO the riders were started thatmuch
back of the scratch.
The meet had been well advertised and
attracted the fastest racers from all the
cities around the bay. An intense rivalry
now exists between the various clubs and
racing teams, and the different events are
always fought out to the bitter end. There
was no exception to this rule in the
races yesterday, and the finishes were all
close and exciting.
The one mile scratch. class B. brought
out fine list of starters, nine in all; but
because no one would set the pace the
time was very slow. The crowd was
punched the entire distance until the last
quarter-pole was reached, when the final
squirt began. Foster looked a sure winner
all the way coming down the stretch, but
in the last few yards Jones came from the
rear with rush and beat him out. Burke
was third, and Edwards, Hall, Slater and
the rest were right behind him. The time
was min. 1917 sec.
Referee Plummer put time limit OF
2:35 on the final heat of the mile scratch
class A. When the race was run off, the
time was so slow that Announcer Knapp
stated he would be ashamed to tell what It
was, so the heat was ordered run over
again. Bates (Reliance) and Chapman
(Olympic) on tandem, paced the second
final and made the men ride fast to keep
up with them. Squires,. OF the Acmes,
proved the winner, and his time, 2:18 LIS,
was good, everything considered.
Two accidents marred the days sport.
In the final of the mile scratch, class A,
J. A. Delmas, the popular captain of the
Garden City Cyclers, fell and dislocated
his left shoulder. In the fourth heat of
the mile handicap, class "A, E. G. Brown of
Oakland fell, but was not seriously in
jured.
The two-mile handicap, class B, was the
race OF the day, as it brought together all
the crack men of the coast. Hall, the
limit man, set all the pace for mile, by
which time the riders were well punched.
On the last turn the play for position be-
gan and the final sprint commenced. Eos
ter and Edwards were fighting it out neck
and neck. The others were all right along
side. Edwards, with magnificent burst
of speed, won by inches from Foster, with
Russell Cushing third. The time was
5:O7 As. Edwards victory was evidently
very popular one, for he was loudly ap-
| plauded as he went to his training-room.
The surprise of the day turned up in HI.
| Downing of San Jose. 1t was his first APP
pearance on track, but he won his heat
in the mile handicap, class A, from eighty
! five yards, and won the final heat in clever
style. He is good rider and will bear
| watching in future.
| Messrs. Agnew and Brouillet of the
Acme Club tried to lower the tandem mile
record, flying start, but could do no better
than 2:11 AS. The record is second
| lower than this.
| The following is a summary of the
events:
! One-mile scratch, class A: First heat-o. B.
Smith, Garden City, first (time, 2 :43 35); G. H.
Crafts, Acme, second; L. Alborelie, Bay City,
third.
2:35 3-5);J II. Dieckmann Jr. Reliance, second;
n. Alderman, Petaluma, third.
Third heath. Downing, Garden City, first
(ti1ne, 2:52 1-5); C. D. Gooch, Y. NJ. C. a., Sec
ond Jesse Ives, Reliance, third
Final heath; w. Squires, Acme, first (time,
2:1s l,5]; j. H. H: D u e JT;, Reliance,
o1e mile D. s eoos class h C. a. s ad Jones'
Olympic, first (time, 3:1O15); w. F. Foster,
Olympic, second; w. A; Burke, Acme, third.
One mile handicap, class A; First heaseG. W.
Jesse Ives, Reliance, 60 yards, second; B. H.
Elford Y. NJ. C. A, 65 yards, third.
Second heat-P. M. LefeVre, Acme, 30 yards,
first (tjme, 2:20 2-5); Percy Burr, Y. NJ. C. A.
rs yards, second; f. wilkins, Crescent. third
Third heat-C. d. Bates Jr., Reliance, %
yards. first (time, 2:2115) G. H. Crafts, Acme
80 yards, second; f. FL. Seward. Garden City,
So yards, third.
Fourth heath. Downing, Garden City, 95
yards, first (time, 2:24 1-5) Z. C. Barley, I'm
perial, go yards, second; P. r. Mott, Reliance,
% yards, third.
Final heath. Downing, Garden City, s5
yards, first (time, 2:30 4-5); P. NJ. Lefevre,
Acme, So yards, second; Jesse Ives, Reliance,
60 yards, third
Two-mile handicap, class B-W. J. Edwards,
Garden City, scratch, first; w. F. Foster, Olym-
pic, scratch. second; Russell Cushing. Garden
City, l25 yards, third. Time, 5 :07 as.
Tandem trial, Agnew and Brouillet, AGNES,
mile. 2:11 As.
The officials were: Manager, L. A. Peck
ham, r. A. c.. referee, S. Plummer; judges
H. Gilbert, Y. M. C. A., E. B. Jerome, r.
A. c., A. C. Thornton, o. G. W.; timers
G. N. Ravlin, o. G. W., George F. Niece,
A. G. W., George HI. Strong, r. A. c.. !;
scorers-A. j. Breiling, 4. A. c., C. r..
Griffith. r. A. c.; clerk, Thomas Ather-
stone, R. A. c.; starter, f. III. Hersey, r..
A. c.; announcer, Wilbur F. Knapp.
| The racers all left for San Jose imme-
diately after the races, and will compete at
the big meet of the Garden City Cyclers
| there Monday.