St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-28
RELEN'S FAST GAIT
1T CARRIED HER 25 MILES IN 7e
MINUTES AND so Sec
ONDs.
FORMER RECORDS BROKEN,
ltlsl1L
ACCORDING to- THE ACCOUNTS
KEPT BY THE MANAGEMENT
LAST NIGHT.
ANYWAY 1T WAS INTERESTING,
For From First to Last Both Riders
Were Within a Wheels
Length.
ANYWAY 1T WAS INTERESTING

Even If Miss Dottie Farnsworth stood as
the victor of the great six-night race at the
auditorium, she was not able to add new
laurels to her crown by another victory in the
twenty-five mile race at the auditorium last
night. There seems little reason to doubt
that Helen Baldwin is the superior of any
woman now on the track for short distance
racing. She left the track at the end of over
an hour and quarters hard racing last
night, apparently as fresh as a daisy, while
her rival dropped from her wheel almost in
state of collapse. 1t was only for few
minutes though and the same rousing cheers
that had greeted the smiling victor welcomed
the vanquished as she stepped forward. and
extended her hand to the gay companion who
had just beaten her in a hard race.
The race was one well worth seeing, If one
likes that sort of thing. In order that none
who desired to see 1t might be deprived Of
the pleasure the race was held until O'Clock,
and within a few minutes 1t was apparent
that, hgurativeIy speaking, blood was to be
strewn along the track.
There were no murders, however. The
most serious disaster was the loosening of
Miss Farnsworths stocking. precipitated by
first five miles. The wrinkled meshes prom
ised to become entangled with the gear of
her machine, and to prevent any accident,
she was taken from the track long enough to
fix 1t up, and credited with the six laps which
Miss Baldwin made while she was off her
wheel. This magnanimous Offering ELECTED
the first enthusiastic applause, as the Mime
apolis girl trailed in again behind the leaders
wheel. -
At the end of the ninth mile the Mime
apolitan made another squirt and went to the
front, but it was kept up only long enough
to secure the lead and clip few seconds off
the current mile. At the ten miles, which
was made in five seconds less than half an
hour, it was announced that the records made
at Minneapolis had been broken by between
two and three minutes Miss Farnsworth
was then in the lead, which she held until
toward the close Of the twelfth mile, when
the little girl in blue from the Pacific slope
pedaled a little more vigorously and the Ma
poleon went to the front again. Little more
than mile had gone when the thing was
reversed again, for at the thirteenth mile
Miss Farnsworth again took the lead while
Miss Baldwin trailed. At the fifteen miles.
made in 1922 1t was announced that the rid
ers were six minutes and a fraction ahead of
the Minneapolis record for the same distance,
and again wild cheer went up. At that
announcement Miss Baldwin again spurted,
and her cleaning spokos were seen visible
only through the whirling wheels of the
Farnsworth bike, and then a little ahead
again. This lasted until eighteen and half
miles were chalked up, when Miss Farms
worth again took the Lead Things went
quietly until they were within few laps of
the twenty miles when Miss Baldwin made a.
hard but ineffective effort to secure the lead.