The herald., 1895-05-19
Fritz Lacy Rides rs Miles in
1887 3-4
. AND WINS THE CRACK RACES
Ulbricht Finishes Second-Schmidt
Badly Injured
Jenkins and Hatton Fail Oat Eariy-A Fast
and Slow Race and Much Of the Usual
Cry of Fraud

pam ySoooAN"y anu PiCdoCu oHC uuiOho ny
tearing across the line in :03 III, beating
the park twenty -fve-mile track record of
LOS 51la and smashing the League Amer
lean Wheelmen's worlds record OF
1:1O4 "a 3.5 held by L. S. Mentjes at Chi
cago. So hour, minutes, ~ seconds is
the Athletic parK track record for future
riders to run against.
Emil Ulbricht came in second. In the
stretch on the last lap Godfrey Schmidt
was struck by Ulbricht's wheel and was
hurled from his saddle off the course and
into bunch of tandcms, sustaining se-
we're injuries and smashing one tandem
into a wreck and fixing another for the
repair shop. Bill jenkins fell out in the
last of the third mile; William jenkins
fell out in the last OF the fourth; Phil
Kitchin and Walter Foster failed to run.
The track was fast in the first and last
and good in spurts between, but i'll many
miles the racers loafed and the crowd that
swarmcd around the track and field was
frequent in its expression OF a surmise that
the whole match had been jobbed. But the
management said nay, nay. and the
whole thing did look improba BILE, al
though Ulbricht was openly crowded sew
cral times and Jew grotesque rulings
were made under rules that were appar-
entity impromptu.
fierce set-to IN the dressing room between
Cuban bloodhound, belonging to Mr..
Watts of the l.. A. A. c., and bulldog,
the Columbia teams mascot. The bull
got the bloodhound by the throat and
they were rolling, snaring and growing
around on the floor among bicycles, men
and paraphernala until their owners
seized their legs and pulled them apart
The odds were about even, but fight
could not be arranged on the spot.
aFt or han fbo
lined up at sciatch Spiers and Tom pkins
led the race on a Rambler tandem. At
the start the men took their places. Lacy
leading, Ulbricht, HaGton. Jenkins and
Schmidt The pace was terrific. and as
the procession went humming around
the quarter mile track it was evident that
the killing pace would quickly tell. The
first quarter was made in :s6A, the Sec
ond :09H. the third :43 and the mile in
2:17ll. The second mile was a flying
fourth Ulbricht flew ahead of the tam
dem. but Lacy caught him and the
srowd cheered as they all got in a hot
bunch and strained for place. On the
fell out. In the fourth mile the pace was
500 much for Will jenkins and he, too,
lell out.
This broke the procession and the field
eunched as the tandem under Billy Burke
Ind Casey Castleman picked up the pace,
and amid the cheers OF the cycers strove
for lead. Ulbricht caught up, but Lacy
stayed close and kept his hold on the tan
dem's wheel. 1t was a pretty play. For
the next four miles the tandem led, fol.
lowed in order by Lacy, Schmidt and
Ulbricht. In the eighth mile Ulbricht
got inside to pass to front, and on the
bank he was crowded off the track into
the field. sd 4 "a
His rivals called foul and demanded his
recall, but he stayed in the race after the
referee had called him off the track. u
BRIGHT was cautioned and the referee told
him if he passed the tandem again he
would be ruled off. In the tenth mile the
tandem ridden by Freddie Holbrook and
Billy jenkins picked up the pace, and
the three miles were knocked off in mon
otonous procession. In the fourteenth
mile the .andem broke down and LETT the
track, and in an instant Ulbricht was fly
lightning squirt, but Ulbricht passed again
and the three men loafed along for tho
tandem. Lacy saw the tandem led out,
and before the others could grasp the sit
uation he whlzzed by Ulbricht and was
fifty feet in the lead in time to pick up
his old hold on the tandem's wheel.
THAT was an elegant sneak" remarked
a clubman, and as the phrase expressed
the thing well, the crowd agreed emphat-
ically.
The procession was in order, Lacy, Ul-
brieht and Schmidt Ulbricht was
crowded out. Schmidt cut in ahead of
him, then Ulbricht cut Schmidt out. ard
for six miles the procession whirled
around the track. In the twentieth mile
Ulbricht sprinted for lead but failed, and
had to go last.
The twenty second twenty-third and
twenty miles were closely con-
tested. neither man squirting. bkt each
watching for the opening that would give
the lead.
In the twenty-ffth in the second lap.
the tandem was rung off the track and a
red hot half was run. Lacy's fine sprint
ing qualities showed up IN fine style and
like a swallow. Turning into the stretch
Ulbricht ran into Schmidt's wheel. and
as Godfrey was dashed among the tan
dems at the side OF the tack, 1.-THE
Dutchman" sailed across the line 60 feet
behind Lacy. Lacy was carried on his
friends shoulders to his dressing room,
while poor Schmidt bleeding and bruised.
was served to same way, but on a
''stretcher" of hands. On every hand
Ulbricht was accused of foul in running
Scmhidts friends were loud in lamentng
that in sight OF a possible second place,
an envious rival fearing defeat had run
MIN down. But Ulbricht's friends de-
it rested.
Schmidt's spread eagle plunge against
the bicycles luckily broke them instead
of crushing in his chest. which was
bruised ana ScTapeu. Ills rlSnC ankle was
deeply gashed, apparently by u pedal. and
his left ankle was scraped He was badly
Jared ana may be incapacitated for some
time. The Stearns and Syracuse people
we're delighted iGto transports over their
victory and embracing was the order of
the moment.
the time by miles was officially de-
dared as follows:
First, 2:17k; second, 4:3s1z; third.
sixth, 14:1sM seventh, 16:49%; eighth,
17:2lA; ninth. 81 10 81; tenth, "a :32 elov-
enth, 26:i55; twelfth, % :32M; thirteenth,
80 :13l4 fourteenth, "a ;49A; fifteenth, 81 20;
sixteenth. 80 :52 1-5; seventeenth, 1927!
eighteenth, a. 100 1-5 nineteenth. AZ :32;
twententieth, :05; twenty first, 52 :i3M
twenty second. 55:19L; twenty third,
57:51M twentyfourth, 6O:S7; twenty
fifth, 63:07A.
There was much talk about having
Walter Foster of the Olympic club Of
San Francisco suspended for not appear
ing in the race as he had agreed. Captain
TO. Hall of the Wheelmen's Training
league. under whose auspices the races
were hold. holding the following entry,
telegram:
SANTA BARBARA, CAL, May Is. '95.
M. X. Cowan. 427 South Spring street.
Los Angeles: Enter me in twenty five