The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-04
TOM COOPER THE VICTOR
WTTR rom BUTLER HE sHARES HONORs OF sPRINGFIELD MEET.


 The Several Events, Professional and
 Amateur, Beautifully Contested-The
 Detroit Rider Develops Wonderful Speed
 and Breaks Away From the Field as if on Wings-Eddie Bald, Otto Ziegler and Walter Sanger Do Better Work Yester. day Than in the Previous Days Contest The Latter Materially Improved in Form Amateurs Develop Great Speed.
 Springfield, Mass, Sept. s.--The greatest honors of this years Spring. field meet have gone to the two Toms. Yesterday Tom Butler won handily from all the flyers in the half-niile and the mile international; to-day Tom Cooper had everything his own way and surprised everybody by winning the half-mile open and the mile record race-the two big professional events. Bald gave Cooper his hottest rub. That was in the half-mile open From his $24o of prize winnings Cooper will have 1AO RebJ LIE, tiiS PoV l1i1S W'A4S1A Referee Robinson imposed upon him yesterday for fouling Bald Every one was glad to see Sanger get at least little something for his hard work during the tourney" The third position that he took to-day was the only thing he touched. He seems to have lost partly because of had handi- capping and partly because of poor Judgment in measuring his field. One of the surprises of the day was the talk ing by F. c. Hoyt of this city of second place-wofth S100 to him-in the mile record. Hoyt orly this season ranked as professional, and did brainy and brawny work. He foxily picked Coop CT for winner and hung to his rear wheel with skill and grit that finished him ahead of Sanger and the others.
 The half-mile open was one of tha best races of the tournament and the manner In which Cooper pulled out ahead of a field in which were all the fastest cracks of America, excepting Bald, was most admirable. The speed of the race was particularly fast, and Tom Cooper crossed the tape in 100 1-5. | which is the track record and also the mark in scratch race. The fight be- tween Cooper and Bald for first place was equalled by that between Zeigler l and Cabanne for third. The money | went to the Californian. Bald was rather more unfortunate than he was yesterday, for besides making second place in the half mile open he did noth- l ing, having failed to qualify in the rec 1 ord race. Caba.lne rode pluclxily and Arthur Gardner deserves considerable credit for the ay in which he rode the l half-mile handicap He beat Sanger out from the scratch in good shape and l finished third in the fast time of | 1:02 3-5. @ 1 Amateur honors were evenly divided between c. c. lngraham, the Dixon. I H., man and A. M. Curtis of Meriden, Conn. E M. Blake of Keene rode we'll 1 in the half-mile handicap and won 1t. In the record trials Messrs. Ivers, Ran- denbc&g and Munger, pedaling trips | let" covered the half mile with flying start in 532-5 seconds, thereby clipping | numerous seconds from the record of one minute flat as made in '94 by Mur- phy, Kennedy and Saunders. The half mile handicap, amateur rec- ord, was broken by E. M. Blake, who 1 WOH HIS IdCc III ]. .UUsaC-O. T lC T GNOlA heretofore was 1:01, made in '95 by Frank Byrne at San Jose, Cal. Taken as whole the tournament has been as completely a success as any ever held in this city. The races have been uniformly fast, considerably fast-' CT than those at Louisville. Therd have been no serious accidents. l The summaries:
 | Half mile open-Wun by c. G. IngraA ham of Dixon, Ill.,; A. M. Curtis, Meri- den, second; Joe Harrison, of Asbury Park, third. Time 1:03.
 | Half mile handicap, professional Won by w. F. Saunders of Boston, 50 yards; George l.. Bates of Springfield 60 yards, second; Arthur Gardiner. of Chicago, scratch, third. Timess 1:O1 3-5.
 I Mile record race, amateur-Won by A. M. Curtis of Meriden; c. c. lngra- ham, second; R. F. Ludwig, of Chico- pee, third. Time, 2:0S Is.
 | Mile record, professional-Won by Tom Cooper of Detroit; r. c. Hoyt of Springfield, second; w. c. Sanger, third. Time, 2:05 1-5.
 | Mile, 2:20 class, professional-Wo I by H. D. Hutchins of Dorchester; Wat son Coleman of Springfield, seconda F. B. Wienig of Buffalo, third. Time, 2:07 2-5
 Half mile handicap, amateur--Won by E. M. Blake of Keene, 15 yards; w. L. Lewis of Westboro, Mass, 45 yards, second; c. C. Ingraham of Dixon, H., scratch, third Time, 100 3-5
 Half mile open, professionalism by Tom Cooper of Detroit; B. c. Bald, second; Otto zeigler, third. Times l 100 1-5.
 Mile handicap, amateur-Won by r. A. Gately of Boston, 25 yards; w. L.. Curtis of Westboro. Mass, 75 yards, second; w. H. Mimic of Chicopee, third. Time, 2:15 2-5.
 | Mile handicap, professional-Wo by w. F. Sanders of Boston, 95 yards; J. B. Bowler of Chicopee, 1905 yards, second; c. J. Lewis of Northampton, I135 yards third Time, 2:03 2-5.