The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-10

time was 2:05 which is a new class mile
competition record for this coast.
P. Metcalf of the Imperial Club then
tried for the coast half-mlle record:
paced by G. J. Panario and j. s. Egan on
q tandem. The time was 80 40, but the
record is faster than that-:56 as. He
tried later in the day, and made it in :oS.
The last race of the day was the five
mile National championship, with medals
for prizes, which all the riders coveted,
however, owing to the prestige attached to
winning a championship. The starters
were E. c. Bald C. S. Wells, Tom w.
Cooper, J. F. Staver, c. M. Murphy, ]. F.
Ives, G.. A. Nissen and J. NJ. Campbell.
The..aarace was paced by three tandem
teams, Benson and Dow, Delmas and
Moody, and j. Smith and Cushing alter
mating.
All the riders jumped for the tandem,
and Bald caught it, as usual. Then fol-
Ives, Nissen, Staver. This order was
maintained for the first mile at Il hot pace,
the time for the mile being 2:1S. There
was no change in position the second
mile, the time of which was 2:15. In the
mile Ives tire blew out and he was forced
to quit. At the commencement of the
third a splendid change of tandem was
made. Campbell, Nissen and Staver
dropped out, and Wells. sore from his
fall in the one-third mile, also gave it up.
The time for this mile was 10 3-5. There
were only Bald, Cooper and Murphy left
to fight 1t out, and the hot pace did not
seem to worry them. When the third
tandem team dropped in Murphy crawed
up alongside and caught it very prettily.
Cooper third. Time of fourth mile,
2:17 As.
The ride for home was the best seen here
in long while. Murphy, Bald and Coo
per, side by side, came tearing down to
the tape together. Murphy had the better
OF 1t by couple of inches over Bald, how
ever, with Cooper no further behind in
thlrd place. The time for the five miles
was ii :01 1-5, Which was very fast riding.
Bald coveted this race, as he already
holds the quarter, half and one mile Ma
tional championships. He said it was a
little out of his line to ride such long
race, but his position at the finish and the
time made indicate that he is speedy at
even that distance. The last third of the
race was ridden in ;39, and the last mile in
2:01 2-5.
J. L. Edwards, the Olympic class A
rider, then tried for the one-mile paced
record, with the assistance of tandem.
His time was 2 minutes fat.
This ended what was voted to be the
best cycling race meet ever held in Califor-
MIA, and the Eastern riders all said they
the treatment they have been accorded
here. The following is the summary:
One third of mile, scratch, class B: First
heat-E. G.. Bald first, w. N. Randall second.
Time, 40 As.
Second heat-E. H. Kiser first. C. NJ. Murphy
Third heat-T: W. Cooper first, C. S. Wells
second. Time, :46 As.
FfnalaC 5. Wells, California, first; E: C.
Bald, Buffalo, second; c. NJ. Murphy, New
York, third. lime. :43 %.
Two-thirds of mile, handicap, class A: First
heath B. Freeman, 10, first; P; G. Alexander,
Second heath. H. Hammonds, 50, first; j.
E. Edwards, 10, second; j. E. Willoughby, 40,
third Time, ;2s.
Third heat-P R. Mott 80 first; V. A. Ben.
son, So, second; n. Alderman, Is, third. Time,
1927 Is.
Fourth heat-George H. seig, 20, first; r. R.
shearman. 80, second; Ray Hogg, 65, third.
Final heath. Downing, scratch, first; H. B.
Freeman IS, second; V. A. Benson, So, third.
Time, ! :2S 2-5.
one-mile handicap, class B: First neat-R. E.
Dow, 100, first; William Schefski. IS, second
+. A. Moody, 100. third Tony Demas, 115,
fourth. Time, 2 %.
Second heat-W. NJ. Randall. 100, first; 6. A.
Nissen, so, second; ]. F. Staver. go, third j.
W. Campbell So fourth. Time, 2:23 Is.
Final heat. NJ Campbell, S. first; w. NJ
Randall, 100, second; Tony Delmas, 115,
third. Time 21S 3-5.
one mile open, class A: Firstheat-Floyd Nc
| Farland first, n. Alderman second. Time.
2:24 2-5.
Second heat-Hardy Downing first, Jesse Ives
| second. Time, 2 80
| Third heat. L. Wing first, H. W. Squires
| second. Time, 9 80.
Fourth heat-P. r. Mott fist, H. B. Freeman
| second. Time, 2:25.
Final heat-F A. Mcfarland frst, Hardy
| Downing second, H. B. Freeman third. Time,
2:05 coast record).
Five mile National championships. NJ
Murphy, New York, first; E. C. Bald, Buffalo
second; Tom w. Cooper, Detroit, third. Time
11:01 Is.
The racers will go to San Francisco Mon
day to attend the Bay City Wheelmen's en-
tertainment ana dance that evening, and at
the middle of the week will go to Southern
California to race there. The prizes won
yesterday and to-day were distributed to
the winners at the chrysanthemum show
tonight, and tomorrow evening the riders
and visiting wheelmen will be rendered q
banquet by the Garden City Cyclers.
SPALDING.