The San Francisco call., 1896-04-13
TENTH RELAY.
Fastest time-1se4, 32:O5; 1895, 2s:Ol.

What the result would have been had
Squires and Foster not fallen, may be In
doubt, but it is probable that as Wells beat
out Ziegler, he could have done the same
to them, for they are surely no faster, ii as
fast as the little San Jose champion.
Foster and Souires were carried to the
clubrooms of the Alameda cyclers, where
their bruises were dressed, and they then
went nome. Wells was carried high on
the shoulders of his delighted clubmates
down the avenue, while the enthusiastic
crowd cheered the popular Bay City rider
again and again.
Mcfarland finished soon after Wells. and
Yeoman, Reliance, next. The others came
struggling in several minutes later.
The Acme Club of Oakland will protest
against awarding the race to the Bay City
Club. A meeting was held last night and
ii was decided that a protest should be
made on account of the foul between
Squires and Foster. Captain Swain of the
Acme Wheelmen states the matter thus:
within two blocks of the finish Foster
fouled Squires, and there are good many
who think it was not altogether accidental.
According to the rules, Foster should have
attem pied to pass Squires on the outside,
and should not have attempted to 60 be-
tween him and Ziegler. When Foster
struck Squires, the Acme man was lead
ing, and as Foster was completely used up,
the race was possibility for Squlres. As
soon as the foul occurred the crowd
swarmed around and Squ1res could not
remount or do anything. l have been
told that it looked as though Foster had
reckoned on Squires falling the other way
and fouling Ziegler, leaving the route
clear for himself, but Squires fell to the
right and upset Foster"
The Garden City cyclers will also pro-
test the race and the awarding of the
trophy to the Bay City Wheelmen, for two
reasons, first: The alleged faulty ex-
change of the Bay City packet without
the prescribed limits, at the end of the
sixth relay, and second: on the grounds
that Krafts who rode the second relay for
the Bay CltyS, has not been member of
that club sixty days, provision of the
Associated Clubs bylaws. The first ground
of protest is untenable, ana the second the
Bay Citys claim they can satisfactorily es-
ia blish. But the fact remains that their
men won the great race on their own speed
and ability, and protests worry them but
little. The association road racing COM
mittee will hear the protests this week.
The Olympics claim to have complaint
against Squires, Acme, for fooling Foster,
but they are too sportsmanlike to file it.
The credit for arranging the details of
the race and bringing it off so successfully
IS due TO the road racing and records COM
mlttee OF the Associated Clubs, which con-
S1sts OF George FL, Stratton, chairman;
Harry +. Wynne and A. p. Swain.
The following officials were in charge at
the start and finish and in consequence
everything at those points went off
smoothly and without hitch: Referee,
Harlow FL. White, president. Associated
Clubs; starter, John F. McGIynn,
Olympic; clerk of course, Jules f.
Hancock, Bay City; scorer, c. W. Prentiss,
California; timers and judges-F. H. Ker-
rigan and George P. Wetmore. Bay CITY.
Charles Albert Adams and II. D. Haden,
feldtt, Olympic; J.. ]. B. Argent. Cali
tornia; j. Catanich, Imperial; F. w.
Sharp, Acme; w. E. Griffths, Reliance;
". |. Pixley, San Franaisco, and IF. S.
Hoyt, Alameda.