The evening times., 1895-09-13
MORNING. EVENING AND SUNDAY d. TlNNES' sPoRTS EXcEL
SANGER is A VHlRLWIND
What Is Said of His Great Ride at
Springfield.
Titus New Hour Record Helps TO
Wind Up the Great Meeting in
Blaze of Glory.
Special to The Times.l

springfield, Mass, Sept. 13.-The great
meeting of the cyclists is over. The final
I work was the most brilliant ever seen here,
| and well paid the thousands who were on
| hand to see it.
The features of the day were the record
| breaking attempts, and there were many
OF them. Fred J. Titus was paced by al
most the entire Glass B field and succeeded
in riding twenty-seven miles. 1876 yards in
the hour, lowering his own record oftwenty-
six miles, 1889 yards.
Bald WIS another hero. He proved him.
self better than his competitors, but only
| after In rd struggle. One foot was a that t
! he could beat CabaDne, who ran second in
| each of the open contests, and who rode
uDpaced in the mile handicap from scratch
| in 2:16.
The race of the day was the two mile
professional handicap, in which nineteen
men started and in which Walter c. Sanger
rode one mile practically unpa ced from
scratch, pulling Starbuck up. starbuck
then pulled Sanger through the field, and
the big fellow worked through the bunch
and won from Crooks, of Buffalo, in a
hard race down the stretch in "a 40, the
worlds record for handicap riding.
The mile professional race was also won
by Sanger who RAJ five lengths away from
Tyler In the stretch, finishing in 2:05.
The open race for The worlds f1ve-mile
record was a victory for Starbuck, the
professional. who was paced by quad and
tandem teams.
Starbuck also lowered the three-mile
record to COS 4-5; the four-mile to
sos 3-5, and his time for the fivemile aver
ages near two minutes and two seconds TO
the mile, or 10:11 1-5, a wonderful per
formance, as IL was done from a standing
start, the first mile in 2:O5 and second
in 80.
John Gardiner, of Syracuse, took forty
six seconds from the five-mile paced class
A record, doing his ride in 11:03 2-5.
Gardiner fell just after crossing the tape,
striking against the fence He was car
ried from the track bleeding profusely,
but conscious and happy.
Fred Longhead, the Canadian champion,
performed the feat Of riding two miles un-
paced from a standing start faster than it
has ever been ridden from a flying start
his time being 4:5O. and the former flying
start record 4:5l Is and standing start
455 1-5 Maddox failed in his attempt
10 DTtdh tut D1llt uHDdttu
2:12 2-5.
Chairman Gideon announces in his bull
letin for this week that Handicapped
Edward woolman, of Baltimore. has been
removed from his position, and pending
the appointment of his successor the handi-
capping for Maryland will be.done by A.
G. Powell, of Philadelphia.
The Springfield meeting turned out tn
bc pretty good thirg for Sanger. In the
two days he won 5000 in cash. He was
less than ten minutes riding the money into
his pocket
1t is said that Cabanne finds about as
much from his boxing as he does in bicycle
riding He is clever with the gloves and
does not hesitate TO put them ON with almost
anybody who invites go.
II is said that Titus, Tyler, and other
well-known racing men are talking of
going Ia Athens next year to participate
in the Olympic games.
The first prize of the famous Austral
for which Zimmerman has entered has
this year been fixed at 81 ,0CO in cash.
This is part of the $40, coo, no doubt, that
Jimmy annou need was awaiting him
abroad when he slipped out of making
race with Johnson.
II looks as though Tom Cooper is liable
TO lay Bald, Gardiner, Cabanne and all Of
the rest of ther big men in the shade be-
fore the sea SON is over.
Tom Eek is surely determined tn make
hay while the sun shines. John A. john
son was billed as one of the attractions at
When he arrived in that town he politely
the big bicycle meeting at Springfield.
informed the managers of the affa air that
johnson would be under the painful neces-
sity of disappointing those who came TO see
him unless a right stiff bonus was forth
coming for his appearance.
Bicycle riders have to register their
names with the authorities at Rochester,
y. Y. The records show that there are
I3,5OO OF them in that city.
Among the professional events TO be run
off at the bicycle meeting at the Tioga
track on Monday night will be a one mile
open, one mile handicap, and fivc-mile
handicap race. johnson, Sanger, Tyler,
O'Conper, and starbuck are expected
to be at this meeting.
Sims. of this city, and E. c. johnson
got into a row at Springfield on Wednes-
day. 1t was brought on by johnson claim
ing that Sims fouled him in the one mile
handicap, class B race. Sims was dis
qualified and it made him so mad that he
went into Johnson's tent and assaulted him
The judges talked about barring Sims from
riding any more at the meeting.