St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-15

MertenS in another ten yards, but was
about four feet short of Mertens at the
finish, and he went back to the tent in
grieyous i'll humor at losing his first
race, out of six. entries. McCleary, who
stood fourth, entered a protest, claim
ing that Hofer fouled him just before
the finish, when he stood good chance
of winning,
BACKWARD RIDING.
Lee Richardson, the little trick rider,
captured the crowd with his jaunty red
velvet suit and his clever manipula-
ton of the wheel, introducing several
new tricks. A little later he went
against his record for the quarter mile,
backward riding, which was Is Sec
onds. He appeared not to have his
usual control over the wheel. which
wobbled badly, and he failed in the
attempt, making the quarter IN AZ So
seconds. The next was a, kid race
for boys sixteen and under, and there
were seven entries, all Minneapolis
boys. Handicaps were given, and A.
H. Waterman and August Berndt had
to start from the scratch. with the
rest fro1a so to 100 yards in the lead.
They never caught up and dropped out
entirely when about half way round.
Harry Hale, newspaper messenger
boy, won, with young Schwat a close
second, and Thielnan third.
The class B two-nile handicap was
another where the scratch appeared
too heavy Cabanne started alone
from the scratch, and Murphy from
the thirty-yard line. Bliss had forty
yards, Bird and Cooper seventy-five
and Becker 125 yards. Bird, Cooper,
Bliss and Becker left the other two
far in the dim distance early in the
race. and they seemed to be entirely
out of it, but they were rapidly clos
ing up, but the pace had been too
hard, and when it came TO the final
squirt it was not in them, though they
kept well in the bunch.
BIRD STRUGGLED HARD
for it, but Cooper fairly outspeeded
him, and took first, Bird second, Bliss
third, and Murphy fourth Cabanne
was fairly caught behind Murphy and
Becker, and could not get better than
last place.
The class A two-mile handicap
brought out the best field of the day.
There were twenty-five starters: Ho-
fer, Ostlund and Mertens, from the
scratch; McCleary from so yards, Mad
ison from 70 yards, Olaf Rudd and
Holland from 100, Norman, Williams
and Warren from 125, Palm, Cummings
and Johnson from 80, Howard Pyle
and L. NJ. Johnson from 175, Charles
Peterson and Max Littman from 200,
Stevens, Webb and Lampman from
225, John Nilsson from go, Waterman
and Edwards from 275, Ed Kately and
Ed Holmes 800. The men with the
long handicaps led out as if they
meant business, and it was soon evil
dent that the scratch men were out
of the race. Holmes led at the end
of the first mile, with a numerous
field in hot pursuit, and as they turned
at the upper end Freddy Palms at
tenuated figure whisked ahead, and
took them down to the half al 9. great
pace. The scratch men were still la
boring in the rear, and as they neared
the turn Mertens made a great effort
leaving his comrades far behind, and
for minute it looked as though he
would overhaul the leaders. But Rudd,
L1ttman, Johnson and half dozen
others were chasing Palm hotly for
places, and Mertens could only reach
the edge of the bunch. Palm few like
a deer, and was never headed. though
Rudd gave him a scare at the finish.
Rudd took second, Littman third and
Stevens fourth. The time of the race
was Al 2-5, but it could not be count
ed, as Palm started from the 150-yard
line.
HOFER'S FLYING FINISH.
There We're just four starters in the
tWo-m1le championship race for class
"A men. They were Hofer, Mertens and
McCleary, of st. Paul, and Olaf Rudd.
OF Minneapolis. Hofer was, of course
the favorite, until he started in the
second round as pacemaker, but he
soon slowed up, and the rest hung
lazlly behind him till the turn. Here
McCleary shot ahead, but was passed
by Mertens; then, just at the finish,
Hofer came UP with his jerky plunge,
and took the race right out from Mer-
tens hand. Mertens finished second,
McClsary third, and Olaf Rudd, the
only other entry, took a fourth prize
Percy Patterson had a star tandem
team to pace him for his half mile
against the record, to which was large
were the team, and they picked him
up in splendid shape on a flying start
at the half Starter Wirtensohn sig
nailed to the timekeepers They kept
a few feet in advance till near the
finish, when Patterson broke away from
them as though the legions of dark
ness were after him, and crossed the
tape alone. Becker and Bird were
cheered for their pretty work, and
when Patterson returned the time,
1:02 2-5, had ben announced, and he re-
ceived quite an ovation.
SANITY CITY VICTORY.
The last event of the cay, and in some
ways the most interesting, was the
ten-mile race between four men from
Minneapolis and a like number from
st. Paul. The entries were somewhat
changed, Charles Palm, the new find,
being added to the Minneapolis con-
tingent, with Peter Oestlund, A A
Hansen and L. NJ. Johnson. Mertens,
Hofer, McCleary and Dugan were the
entries from st. Paul. The first place
was to count s points, the second Z,
and so on down. For the first mile the
four st. Paul men kept a long lead, but
crossing the tape McCleary had fallen
Ddch- L ne nile was uldue III A.ot 20.
Mertens and Hofer led at the second
mile, but Hansen and Oestlund took it
away from them on the other side of
the course, and at the third mile Oest-
lund was ahead, Hansen next, then
Hofer, Mertens, and the rest in IN
dian file. And now, in spite of the
warning shouts of the Minneapolis con-
tingent, Hansen and Oestlund persist
ed in setting the pace for the rest,
doggedly forcing the pace, and keeping
it hot, without any particular interest.
Hansen evidently thought to outwind
them, and several times tried to draw
away from the field, but without sue
cess. Palm stuck in last place, and
after three or four miles had trouble
in keeping close. The two miles were
made in 500, the three in 7:47, four in
1921, five in 1904, six in 1913, seven in
1918, eight in 21:06, and nine in 1852.
Hansen was ahead the ninth time,
with Hofer and McCleary next, and
Oestlund well in the rear. Hansen led
on the last mile clear to the stretch,
but like Oestlund he was unable to
Snript In fact OeStIuDd cD11rf-d hot