The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-02
MAXWELL VS.. HuFEsTEILER.
THE TWO CRACK RIDERS MATCH
ED AT JACKSONVILLE.

George \. Adams VIII Try To Lower
n. v. Connerat's Record for the
One Mile Southern Record at the
Same Time.
Jacksonville. Fla. is stin in the throes
of the bicycle fever. The last meet was
so successful that the people there feel
like having another very soon.
\ special match race OF one mile, un-
paced, between +. b. Maxwell Of Column
bia, S. c.. and w. I. Huffstetler. of Orlan,
do. Fla, has been arranged to come or
Monday week. Sept. 9. At the same time
George n. Adams will endeavor to beat
the mile record Of r. V. Connerat Of this
city, made al the last meet thereof 2:1O So
At that time Adams gained the smile
southern record, 1851 20 At this meet
next week, it is stated that several other
match races may be arranged, as two or
three of the Jacksonville riders are in
good trim, and they feel like making
little speeding among themselves.
Messrs. Gross and Williams. Savannah's
fast tandem team, has been invited to go
down and aid in the pacing.
The Diamond Tournament" at Char
lotte n. c., will be the next place of at
traction for the Savannah racing men.
There will be six events. but thefmost i'm
portant ones for the outside riders are
the one-rnile open, the half-mile handicap.
and the one-mile handicap. In each of
these races the first prize is $50 diamond,
and the next a SIS one. ]. E. Carson is
| the secretary of the club. Entries close
| Sept Is. If Savannah could get up meet
soon after this one and before the next
meet of the Jacksonville club, the south
i -. nrn1I arR tod
is enough sporting spirit here if the boys
will only take hold of the matter rightly,
say those who are posted. With the ma
terial for racing men here, there should
be no trouble in getting up good meet
The Jacksonville track idea is progress
ing finely. The committee Will dispose
of $50 600 in bonds and make the improve
ments contemplated. They have secured
1856 acres of ground on the st. Johns, in a
beautiful location. Boating, fishing, bowl
ing, a road house, cycle track, one-third
mile in extent, and other features, are
comprised in the general plan. b. +. Dill
lon, Esq, formerly of this city, is at the
head of the move, and IL is due to his in
defatigable work in the matter that the
scheme went through. A grand gala week
of military sports and bicycle events is
now being talked of for this fall, possibly
| some time in December.
Washington d. c., will shortly mount
its roundsmen and special emergency
men on bicycles. In his annual report
Major Moore, the chief of the district
| police, has warmly endorsed the wheel
as an aid to that branch of the service.
1t is now almost certain that Clarence
| Saunders and Lawrence Menager will
again enter the bicycle racing ranks.
| With the return of these two men to the
path Jacksonville will then have three
of the fastest bicyclists in the SOUTH
Adams, Saunders and Menager.-Jack-
sonville, Fla, Metropolis.
| At the Tri-state fair, Toledo, Aug. q.
! Tyler defeated Johnson IN a mile race,
and Sanger rode a paced half-mile in 5Sl2
| seconds.
Tyler and Sanger will compete in a
three-cornered race with Johnny Johnson
| on Labor day at the Driving park, Buff
| faIo, for 1000 purse.
| At the Halifax, N. S., meet, Aug. %,
| Nat Butler, who is native of the place.
and Harley Davidson, rode special mile
race, the latter winning in 2:27. The men
were treated to perfect storm of Misses.
| To clear the atmosphere Butler then
rode an exhibition mile in 20Sl2.
John S. Johnson's enforced rest has evi-
/ IDENTIFY done him no harm. He reappeared
| at the Rochester, n. Y, trotting meeting
| on Thursday and rode a tandem-paced
/ half in 521a seconds, within one second of
Il MS RECORD Indue at AullllCOLHt DtnlHu u
quad. The feat is the more remarkable
because johnson had but four days
| training
johnson will endeavor to break his
track record of 1:4S 2-5 at Lynn, Mass
| Sept. Z. He will also ride from scratch in
the mile handicap.
johnson, paced by O'Connor, Steensen,
Weinig and Seavey, endeavored to ride u
mile in less than two minutes at the grand
a. -
His time was 2:O2A. He was to have re-
ceived a bonus had he gone under 1:55.
The Southern wheelmen's quarter-mile
| track at New Orleans Is being resurfaced
| with cement by the contractors who built
the Fountain ferry track at Louisville.
! The class b racing mems status changes
every week slightly. Up to Friday Bald
stood at the top with 70 points, Cooper
next, with SO. and then followed Gardener
and Murphy. with So each; Cabanne and
| Titus. As each; e. c. Johnson, 80; Bliss, a.
Jenny "a; while Zeigler, the California
| Demon" who had such promising debut
| at the beginning of the season, stood a the
bottom with only %. The other racing men
ranged downward from that point.
In a recent Florida meet prize was
offered for the fastest mile in competi-
ton. One rider made three records for
| this, one being in a mile unpaced, another
/ in the fourth mile of a 5-milc matched
race and the third in the odd quarters.
the fifteenth, sixteenth. seventeenth and
| eighteenth laps of the match race There
was some dispute as to which was the
| fastest mile under the conditions, as in
! the unpaced mile, while there were sever
| al entries only one man appeared and
| rode, the matter was referred to the l.. A.
| w. racing board. Chairman Gideon de-
! cided that the unpaced mile, as it had
several entries, even though only one man
ran, was a competitive event, and that
the mile made on the even quarters of the
match race should also be counted. He
| thought that the uneven quarters could
not be counted as ii would create a bad
precedent. Any event on the programme
for which a prize was offered was a com
peutive event. said the chairman.
Three worlds records went glimmering
at the meeting of the Colorado l.. a. w.
meet at Denver recently. r. A. Dalzell
carried off the novices mile race in
200 rs, slicing off nearly six seconds from
the best previous record c. c. Collins
brought the half-mile, class A, down to
100 As, and in the unpaced mile, class A,
A. 3. Hughes claimed another worlds
record with time of 2l0 fiat
D. A Phillips an Erie Pa, Wheelnan