The Washington times., 1895-06-01
BICYCLtSTS IN DISHOHOR
Road Race Scandal at Chicago
Involving Many Contestants.
DID NOT RIDE THE COURSE
Strong Evidence Going to Show That
Riders by the Scores Cut the Full
Turn at Evanston -Fairmon and
Emerson May Re Disqualified as
winners-Fast Time Looks Bad.

Chicago, May 31.-A mammoth scandal
to-day ended the career of the worldfamous
Chicago road race. In less than twenty
four hours the celebrated race as an iusti
tuition has plunged from the pinnacle Of
rank as one of the greatest cycling events
on the globe, TO place much lower.
Sworn statements made to day put
nearly 0per cent Of the participants in the
SO called race" on record as coutemptu-
ous sneaks. How many more of the re-
maiHdeT of tie racers will so into the
same class. is yet to be determined, while
the race Itself is left free from doubt in
only one particular, that it was a whole
sale fraud, on a scale probably never be-
fore equalled in the history of cycling
races. OF, for that matter, in races Of any
kind.
The result, IL is generally conceded to-
night, will be to put a blot on the cycling
fraternity everywhere as sportsmen, and
for years leave in bad odor every event
fostered by Chicago cyclists wherein sim
ply the honor aud manhood are depended
upon as part Of the capacities of the cou
testants
CUT THE COURSE.
The trouble in brief is that this year the
race was not a straightaway and that
the 450 contestants literally by dozens
and scores deliberately cut the course
instead of going round the full turn at
Evanston. 1t is claimed that only thirty
one of the first hundred TO finish, among
whom was the winner, Homer .Fairmon,
were noted as having passed the limit
mark at Evanston, and that no note was
ever made Of the other sixty mine men
at that point.
The fellows mot in Tho first hnudrod
are supposed to have done even5worse, and
comparisons of bicycling, with Roby, Ind.,
and winter racing" were common enough
to-day for anybody
w. F. Morgan, OF the firm OF Morgan &
Wright, is greatly interested in the outcome
of the investigation for it was at his sug-
gestion that II has been started.
when l. saw some of the figures that
were recorded as the time in which the
race was run" said Mr. Morgan to day,
II knew something was wrong. Fred
RaU, one OF our employees, to whom the
second time prize was awarded, is credited
with better time than either Bainbridge
or Decardy, two scratch men that | know
can ride RaU to death in five miles, es-
pecially when they pace one another, as
they did yesterday.
ADMITTED HIS FALSE RIDING
when L saw Rau to day he admitted at
once that he never rode over the course.
He said he was taken sick half way out
and was lying on the grass a good part
of the time. and that when he rode in he
never claimed to have ridden the course.
There are other men who claim to haYem made
better time than either Bainbridge or De-
candy, who, / am willing to bet, would
not be able 10 ride five miles with these
men before they would be lying alongside
of the road
IF there is anything I detest it is
cheating i'm sports of that kind and this is the
last race in which they are such a large
number entered that / shall have anything
to 40 with unless il is a straightaway
course"
Aside from the scandal in regard to the
race asa whole Referee Thomas F Sheridan
had his hands full to-day receiving protests
from scores of riders in the race against the
awarding of prizes yesterday TO Fairmon
and Emerson, the first prize aud time prize
winners, respectively.
LOOKS BAD OR EMERS ON.
1t now looks as if neither of these men
will be given the place which was assigned
to him yesterday. However Fairmon
may come out, it is almost certain that
Emerson viii be disqualified as time
winner. All the testimony goes TO show
that Emerson did notrde the course.
at looks pretty blue for Emerson's
IudhAeSs bdld MI oB6lIh1u" IucAc
lot of evidence here which goes 10 show
clearly that he did not make the turn.
or course il is possible a mistake was
made On the other hand, we have in
Vulnerable witnesses ready to swear that
Emerson never got as far as the turn.
''Rosback says that on his return from
Evanston he saw Emerson standing by
the roadside with his wheel. Emerson
called out to him that if he wished
be would pace him. All this looks bad
for Emerson.
1.-The circumstantial part of the evil
dence lies in the remarkably rapid time
in which Emerson must have ridden over
the course if be is entitled to the prize.
The time given him was 52:14, and it
is almost impossible to believe he made it
in that fast time