The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-27
THE CYcLERs THANKSGIVING.
A Lively Afternoon of Events at the
WheeIman's Track.

WheeIman's Track.
THE crowd at the bicycle races yester-
,sy afternoon at wheelman's park, was
not so large as was expected, but still it
presented respectable proportions.
THE races opened with the mile novice
There were more starters at this than in
any other race, D. 3. Hull Charles Moeh-
,snbrock. S. A. Crawford, W. T. Doty,
s,pmund Berg, H. G. Clark and Weichel-
baum. Berg won by a good lead with
welchelbaum second and Moehlenbrock
third. Time 1903 As. The prizes were
nair of cuff buttons to the winner a BIZ
cvcle lamp to the second man and a tur-
key to the third.
/ U. Kinsey and H. Leopold rode the
next race, the milo professional for $40 to
the winner, and s. to the second man.
Kinsey won easily In 2;42 4-5
In the half mile handicap for amateurs
william Newman won in 1903, starting
from twenty yards in front of the line.
Berg came in second, starting from
scratch, and Sullivan, who had thirty
wards, showed up third. The first, sec
ond, third and fourth men won, respect
lively, a scarf pin, sweater, silk muf-
fer and box of perfumery.
Four boys under Is, entered for the next
event, half mile for young riders. They
were Lester Karow, Willie Bardlev. !
Murphy, and Tracey Epstein Epstein
won the first prize, cyclometer, In 1871
% Johnny Murphy got second and a
sweater, with Lester Karow third. win
ming a walking cane.
W. H. Connery, A. L. Myerson, L. Deu-
cett and William Newman entered the
ouarter-mile amateur race, which was fin
ished in 30 As seconds, with Connery first
Deucett second and Newman third.
The prizes were bicycle stand, first. a
Messenger saddle, second, and a bicycle
pump, third.
Dub, Rosenheim and Putzel rode an ex-
hibtion quarter on Dayton triplet in the
fast time of 261a seconds, making the fast
est quarter, according to the watches of
both time-keepers ever ridden on the
track.
The two-mile amateur brought Connery.
Moehlenbrock and Deucett to the line. Con-
merry won in 5:4514, with Deueett second and
Moehlenbrock third. The prizes, first, Sec
ond and third, were a turtleneck sweater. a
fair Of bicycle shoes and bicycle lamp.
Knsey was paced half mile for the
southern record by a triplet team, com
posed Of Williams, Connery and Gross. No
body seemed very certain as to what the
southern record was, but it was the opinion
that Kinseys half in 5714 seconds had
broken it,
The next event was a leisurely contest
for a half mile, between D. " Hull and A.
Myerson Neither rider seemed in hurry
until the final stretch was reached, when
Myerson got speedy and ran in ahead of
Hull in 1A2A
Newman, NJ. Goldberg, s. Berg and My
erson tried the mile race for the four-min-
ute class and ran in with Newman, Berg
ana Goldberg in the order given, in 24S
with Myerson last. Newman won a pair
of shoes and Berg won a sweater.
The final event was the two-mile profess
sional race in which Kinsey ran away
from Leopold, winning in SIG. The first
prize was $40 and Leopold, the only other
entry, got the second prize of s..
The officials for the races were:
Referee-W. Z. Grady.
Judges-R. D. baltimore and H. C. Nc
Fadden.
Starter-R. D. baltimore.
Clerk Of Course-Frank williams.
Umpires-C. c. Dixon and ID. o. Gron,
Announcer-T. C. Darst.
Time Keepers-Dr. Bouten and William
baltimore
No accidents occurred, with the excep-
ton of one to S. A. Crawford, who ran
over the banks, breaking his wheel.
The weather was fine for racing The
WIN Wllch pew SUN breeze in the fore
noon lulled before the races began. The
track was in good condition and in every
way the events went with snap The num-
Der Of people who went out would have
N been greater had there been more direct
means of reaching the track. The aban-
Ioament Of the Electric railways Thun-
uerDoN line leaves no way of getting to
'Ae track except by the shell road. A line
OF ousses was run from the Cathedral GEM
elery station of the coast line In connec-
uon with coast line cars and carried out
nose who did not go in carriages. The
cychhg contingent, of course, went awheel