Evening star., 1896-12-26

any Inducements made for fhim. He has
been riding a wheel since 1889. and has an
excellent reputation. - =,
The Ir..h chsnlss,on.
Teddy Hale. the Irislman, champion, js
native Of Wales, and tweighs 100 pounds.
Though his age is given as, tthirty-six, he
is several years older than that. He vas
1888. when he held an iunbr6ken sequence
of championships Of Eusopes snEnglani and
the world. His first notable performance
was the riding Of q century On an ordinary
inside of six hours, andotn 1884 he won the
championship for one hundred miles on an
ordinary In the time oks 6.51. 90. The next
year on safety he made othe same dis
tance In 512.00 He rode In good form un-
til 1887. when he begani to change in form.
and since then has been regarded as
back number, being used mainly for pace
making. He had not seen a. machine for
four months, so Piummer claims, when he
entered the six days race at Madison
Square Garden.
Tom Linton is regarded as the star Of the
whole aggregation, and Is known better,
perhaps, as q middle distance rider. He
commenced his career last December in
Paris, beating records from 81 to 63 kilo-
meters. He won the 80 kilometers race In
Paris last February, beating Lesna and
other French cracks, and establishing rec
ords from % to AZ kflometers. In April he
made ten miles In 20.12 2-5, and in May
rode five miles in 9.47 As. He rode thirty
one miles and three yards in the hour on
July Z, but his best performance for the
hour was made October II, when he rode
th1rty-one miles five hundred and eighty
two yards. On July he succeeded in rid
ing ten miles in 1s.41 3-5, lowering his own
worlds record.
The other members of Plummer's string
are sam Linton, who Is twenty-six years
old, just six years older than Tom; Tony
Johnson, brother to John s. johnson, the
Well-known American racer, and James
Warburton of Paris, aged eighteen, son
of Chubby Warburton, the celebrated run
ner and trainer.
Long Distance Rider.
In the American crowd Albert Shock is
perhaps one of the best known. He is
thirty-nine years of age and a native of
this country. He is the ex-champion long
distance rider. having made 1,60O miles In
1888 In six-day go-as-you-please race,
which was broken few weeks ago by
Hale. He rode 142 hours when he made his
record. During his cycling career he has
competed in twenty-five six-day races, and
his speed and endurance is shown by the
Iact that he won eleven of them, and never
entered in a race of the kind without get
ting place for the prize money This is
record that has never been eQualed
He has a wonderful power of endurance
and can sit on wheel, it Is said, for sew
enty-tWo hours on a stretch. In the last
race he rode fifty-four hours at one time
and all this time without sleep. He is coo,-
headed in race and never complains He
keeps correct tab on the score of all the
riders, and takes in everything that goes
on He has been known to recognize
1r,ends sitting away back in the audience
Whiie riding. He has held the New York
Gnicago record. though he has done but lit
tle record road riding. He covered 1,76s
miies IN the recent six-day race, or 1866
ilies better than his record, and that too,
IN the face of the fact that for the first two
Gays ne was sick and riding in poor form.
place. III VI
FRANK Waller. perhaps better known as
the frying Dutchman, on account of his
S German extraction, is thirty-seven years
OF age Is five feet ten Inches tall and
weighs l6o pounds. In 1891 he made an
american twenty -four-hour road record at
Alameda, Cal, covering 365 miles, In the
faris-bordeaux race in France a distance
or about 3o4 miles, he came in second, GET
ting the same place in, 1.-The, oParis-Dfnant
race, distance of over 200 miles In Sep
TENDER of this year he rode, against the