St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-10
HE TRIMS THE MILE WHEEL
RECORD DOWN ONE-FIFvTH
OF SECOND.
OTHER FLYERS IN THE REAR.
COULTER, MURPHY, l.. G. JOHN
SON, A. L. BROWN, ALL DE-
FEATED.
TITUS LEADS IN THE FIVE-MILE
Murphy and Maddox Were Not
Able to Keep Up to His
Pace.

CHICAGO, Aug. All the "crack''
cyclists Of the country, with the ex-
ception of the very few cash prize
professionals, whose wants are not
provided for in this instance, were
on hand at the national circuit tourn-
ament which began this afternoon at
the one-third-mile track on the South
side. The meeting is under the joint
management of the Chicago Athletic
association and the Associated Cy-
cling clubs. The flyers in attendance
include E. G. Bald, possibly the fast
est mile man of the period; G. NJ.
Murphy, Ray Mcdonald, F. ]. Titus,
L. c. and E. c. Johnson, L. D. Ca
banne, Arthur Gardiner, B. P. Bliss,
c. R. Coulter, Tom Cooper, Harry
Maddox and a host of lesser lights
and local class A men. The track to-
day was in fine shape, and the
weather promises to allow it to re-
main so.
The heats of the Glass A races were
run tbs forenoon and the racing prop
er began at 2 o'clock. Some of the
more hopeful and supposedly likely
Class A men were bowled out of the
heats in the forenoon trials. The feat
of riding a mile in competition in
1:5S 1-5, accomplished by E. c. Bald, the
Class B leader was the particular
event this afternoon. The heats of the
one mile open race for Glass B, three in
number, had sifted the flyers until
these remained: Tom Cooper, of De-
troit; Bald of Buffalo; c. r. Coulter, of
Mansfield, O.; Charley Murphy, of
Brooklyn; L. c. Johnson, of Cleveland; :;
A. l.. Brown, of Cleveland, and A. D.
Kennedy, Of Chicago. At the start
Bald made a rush and 'hitched on
first at the rear of the triplet that was
to do the pacing On the triplet were
Citizens, Holmes and Levy, and they
ground out a warm pace from the start.
Murphy, Cooper and Brown followed
Bald in order, but the others were
killed off" almost at the start. Pret-
ty soon Doc Brown gave it up, too,
and before the last lap was fully un-
der way Bald was hanging tight to the
wake of the triplet and leaving his
competitors behind. Going down the
back stretch he went past the pace
makers and finished the race alone.
He clipped one-fifth of a second Off
Johnson's Waltham time, and it was
clear that he would have reduced the
record at least another second had the
pacemakerS at the head longer pulled
him along. Bald was the king of the
meet and he showed himself to be a
peer at the mile game.
FIVE MILES, PACED.
The five-mile paced race, for Class B,
broughto out field Of notabilities, among
whom as the most likely were Titus
Maddox and Murphy. At three miles
tip procession had been narrowed to
Murphy Titus, Maddox and Monte
Scott, the pace having been too much
for Cabanne, Mcdonald and Dazey,
while Coulter and De Cardy had come
together in a. tumble in front of the
stand. AT four miles only Murphy and
Titus were really in the race, as Mad
doX had dropped out, too tired to pro-
ceed further and Scott was being dis
tanced by degrees. Two laps from
home Titus went ahead of Murphy and
won as he pleased, with no competi-
ton near him. Murphy continued,
however, and took second place, and
Scott came along later for third. The
pacing was not particularly severe in
this race, and in reality Titus was the
only one of the field of starters who
SLOHSd ~ SOOu duN dllu even
then he was not forced beyond making
a finish that was rather tame. Gus
Steele, the local diminutive wheeler,
rode mile, paced, against time, in
1:55, and could have done better had the
pacing been satisfactory.
About 1900 people saw the races, and
aside from Bald's brilliant perform
ance, the programme was somewhat
dull, except that the events were run
off in an efficient manner by the Off
cials. The more important races for
tomorrow are the one-t third of a mile
open for Glass B, the one-mile handi-
cap for Class B, and the half-mile open
for Glass A. John Lawson will make
an onslaught On the hour record, start
ing at o'clock.