The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-12
sEyERAn RECORDS BRoKEN.
Nearly All Crack W heemen of the Country
Were at Springfield Races.

Were at Springfield Races.
Springfield, Mass, Sept. 11.-Nearly all
the crack wheelmen Of the country took
part in to-day's races, except Johnson,
who was not in condition, Sanger
among the professionals, Bald among
the class b men and Charles r. Newton
of Stafford Springs. Conn, among the
class A men, were the stars of the day.
only a second, Cabanne got no nearer
the head than third and Brown, Nun
ply, McDuffe, Gardiner and Dirnberger
accomplished nothing.
Most of the races were not particular
ly fast, although several records were
broken, most of them in class A. The
competition mile in that class was re-
duced from 2;09 to 2;04 As by Newton,
and the competition half mile from
1:0S 1-5 to 1O2 So by w. S. Reynolds.
The f1ve-mile professional handicap rec
ord was reduced from 11:50 to II 34 2-5
by A. w. Porter, who was made a
scratch man by the withdrawal of Tyler
and Sanger.
Several attempts at record breaking
were made at the close of the races, but
all were unsuccessful. Coleman and
Landry, two Springfield riders, succeed
ed in tying the half-mile unpaced tan
dem record of So LIS seconds. Weinig
and Silvie established a professional
record of 81 seconds for the same event.
Titus tried to break the paced five-mile
record, with a quadruplet to pace him,
but failed on account of bad work of the
pacing machine.
The weather was excellent and the
track was in superb condition in spite
of the heavy thunder storm Monday
night, which would have washed many
roads, but left the CLASSY surface of the
park course better than ever. There
was little wind and the weather was
warm, though trif1e too close and
muggy for the best results. Nearly 3,00G
spectators were, present, the number Of
paid admissions being almost precisely
the same as on the first day last year
There was comparatively little enthusi-
asm shown, except when Sanger beat
one reason being that there were few
exciting finishes. The first man usually
had sure thing of it at the close, and
the real race was for second and third
places.
The arrangements for the races were
good, except that there was a little toe
much delay in running them off. The
interest was rather evenly distributed
among the different races, and the class
A men had their full share, the strong
riding of Newton and the brisk hall
mile of the 1:15 men attracting much
admiration.
The summaries: III
Mile class A, for riders within twenty.
five miles of Springfield-Wo by c. R
Newton; F. l. Elmer second, w. E. Ten.
sler third. Time, 2:13.
Half mile OPEN class B-Won by II. G.
Bald; Tom Cooper second, F. B. Rigby
third. Time, 1:o7 2-5
Mile international, professional-Wo
by w. C. Sanger; H. C. Tyler second
Watson Coleman third, Time, 2:03 2-5.
Mile open, class Avon by CIR. New
ton; w. S. Reynolds second. A. T. Fuller
third. Time, 2:04 As.
Mile open, class B-Won by &c. Bald
Tom Cooper second, L. D. Cabannt
third. Time, 2:01 3-5
Half mile, lis class, class Avon by
| w T. Reynolds; Ray Dawson second
Philip Pierce third. Time, 1902 S-5.
Five mile handicap professionalism
| by A. w. Porter, scratch; Con Baker, 81
yards, second; A. T. Crooks, 140 yards
third. Time, 1884 rs,
Mile handicap, class Avon by Chas
r. Newton, scratch; J. E. Walsh, g.
yards, second; w Fl. MINER, 70 yards
third. Time, 2:10.
Mile handicap, class B-Won by C. I
Earle 100 yards; Frank J. Jennings, Al
yards, second; L. D. Cabanne, third
| Time, 2:10.