The evening times., 1895-11-28
ROAD RECORD SMASHED
F. G. Thompson. KNOCKS Over Two
Minutes off, Causes Time.
OVER THE CONDUIT ROAD
Performance Dope In the Sterling
Twenty-mile Road Race, II.
? Rhodes, with Nine Minutes Handi-
cap, Gets First Prize-Wrenn, Ball,
Smith and Mudd Finish Well Up.

q. Thompson, the fast young cycler
| of the Washington Road Club. distinguish
ed himself this morning by smashing all
previous records over the twenty IN lie
| course on the Conduit road to smithereens.
He chopped M less than two minutes and
thirty-one seconds uIr OF the record of 80
minutes 36 seconds, which was made by
C. Il. Cause of the Washington Road Club
at their last race over that course. Thomp-
son had a handicap of two aud one-ha!f
minutes, and covered the distance in 0i
minutes seconds, Corrected time.
This time is remarkable. insomuch as 1t
beats Thofupson's best record over the same
course By at least seven minutes. 1t also
throws INTO the shade the time made by
Fred Sims ut the race held by the Dupont
Cycle Club. Sims started from scratch
and simply equalcd the record made by
Cause. A protest was filed, however, claim
ing that lac had been paced, and the record
was no tallowrd.-
HUNDREDS on HAND.
The event IN which yonn2 Thompson dis
tinguished himself was the twenty mile
Sterling road race. There were fully 500
cyclists on hand when the first man
was sent away from The starting point
at the first reservoir al 1l:20 O'Clock.
This number had considerably increased
before the first man finished, the road
being lined for several hundred feet near
the finishing tape with an enthusiastic
and hoisterous crowd OF dcvotees OF the
wheel.
out OF the forty-thrce entries for the
event only one man. f. S. Byrnes. failed to
start. They were sent off without any
accidents. The first thing of the kind and
the only really serious one of the day
h1ppcnel about two miles from the start,
when nearly dozen of the contestants
became entanGied while descending a
t.s,..u - "a.
II. b. Beii cane out OF the upset some what
the worse for wear, having one OF the ped
ais OF his machine broken, and his right knee
badly cut He was able 10 ride hack 10 the
finish, however, where he was Conveyed
home in a carriagc-
SURPRISE To AL.
The winner o. the ri rst prize, J II. Rhodes,
tr., unattached, was somewhat OF II sur
prise TO all. He WIS one Of the niue-minute
men, but finished well in hand and ap-
paren.iy fairly fresh. Indeed, the day Yas
so Perfection theasIk,rt thai but few of the
showed nlucn fatigue.
Wren, Sn,ith, Ma6dy Bell and seperal
others II the men who had but a few
inmates handicap finished well up in the
bipcii. Mudd. wh0 had half riinute
and Fan. who started from
scratch. rode the entire race together and
finished within Z second uf each other.
Patrol Judges ard markers were si;iti,,n
all along the course and at the turning
points tn see that all OF the men went over
the course and HE prevent any attempts
5t pacing. Some few were heard 10 CAIN
that Thompson CID not cover the entire
,D'irsc. but it s-d.1btrul II they can sub
staMiate their stlteireats.
The officers of the race were: joseph r. 4
Mctiirr, referee: Harry Jones. George T.
Boyd, Frank ]. Wissncr. judges; W. l.
Lembkcy, John W6erner, William Jose.
timers; William -aose, Handicapped, and
starter.
The order OF The finish, with the handi-
caps and corrected time, are given below
run, ErNr.rr