The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-19
MARK FOR FIVE MILES,
AMATEUR.
FIRST DAY OF STATE RACES
EXHIBITS SOME VERY PRETTY
SPEEDING TO AN AUDIENCE
NOT DESERVING 1T.
HARLEY DAvIDsoN's WHEEL,
Rides an Exhibition Mile Faster
Than lit Has Been Made Here
Before.


One-mile novice-F. l. Parker FIRST; H. Per-
kins second. Time, minutes
Chenille, open, amateur state championship
ID. F. Carmichael first William Martin Sec
ond; George Sudheimer third. Time, so 2-5
seconds.
Half-mile, open, professional state cham
pienship--W. Becker, first; B. b. Bird, second
r. H. MeCIeary, third. Time LBS.
One-mile, amateur handicap-William Mar
tin, scratch, first; A.. H. Jones, SO yards,
second; III. Perkins, SO yards, third. Time
2:42 LIS.
Quarter mile. unpaced, flying start exhibit
tion-Harley Davidson. Time, 26 1-5 seconds.
One-mi1e, open, amateur state championship
ID. F. Carmichael, first; George Sudheimer,
second; William Martin, third. Time, 7:17 3-5.
Two-mile, open professional state cham
pionship-R. H. MeCleary, first; W. Becker,
second; B. B. Bird. third. Time, 5:S4
F1ve-mile. open, amateur state champion
ship-D. F. Carmichael, first; George Sud-
heimer, second; Scheiber. third. Time,
1905 LIS.
Two state records, the five-niIe
amateur and the duarter-mile profess
siona1 unpaced with flying start were
lowered at the bicycle meet held at
Hamline yesterday afternoon under
club by special dispensation of the l..
A. w. racing board. The races were
all sanctioned by the League Of
American Wheelmen, and the new
records will stand as official for the
state, while the others go to the credit
of the riders as made in legitimate
trials.
While the races were well managed.
the usual long waits between events
being conspicuously absent, and the
weather all that could be desired from
the spectators standpoint, 1T Is safe
to say that smaller audience never
witnessed race meet ON the Hanline
track This fact naturally precluded
great amount of enthusiasm, and the
small number of entries in each race
In a. measure curtailed the interest in
the different events, though on the
whole they were we'll contested and the
finishes In several were sufficiently
close to enthuse the onIookers for the
time being at least.
The track conditions were not as
favorable as they might have been
from the fact that strong west wind
made the work in the back stretch
particularly trying and no doubt IN
terfered to a considerable extent with
the time III Hi OI TIE IdCCS 1A6t IIiC
record was lowered in the ffve-n1ile
amateur under such conditions is
greatly to the credit Of the riders and
shows that they were out to go the
distance in almost phenomenal time
under favorable circumstances. AS 1T
was, the time established, 12I-5,
clips IL As seconds from the previous
state record of LIT. The other record
breaking event was the quarter-mile
flying start unpaced, by Harley David
son, the Canadian champions who
made the distance in :26 LIS, lowering
the former record by rs of second.
The races were started promptly at
1870 o'clock. the first event on the card
being the one-nile novice race. There
were but two entries, F. L. Keller and
H. Perkins, who rode a pretty race
from start to finish. Keller won with
a fine squirt on the last eighth by little
more than length, in minutes.
The one-third-mile race for amateurs
brought out three fast riders in Car
michael, Sudheimef and Martin, who
made the sprint in the above order in
so 2-5 seconds, while the half-mile pro-
fessional was pretty contest between
Becker. McCleary and B. B. Bird. Bird
had the misfortune to break his wheel
at the start and was compelled to ride
the race on a borrowed machine. The
men got OIL together anu IOuC HOt
race to the tape with Becker first, BIRD
second and McCleary third.
s. William Martin. A. II. Jones and III.
Perkins started In the one-mfle anna
teur handicap with Martin on the line
and Jones and Perkins fifty yards up
the track Martin caught the other
men by the time the half was reached
and led to the tape. The real race was
between Jones and Perkins, who made
a hard fight for the place, which went
to Jones by only wheel.
After Davidson's exhibition quarter
mile the one mile open amateur again
called out Carmichael, Sudheimer and
Martin. 1t was one of the best races
Of the day and each man rode the en-
tire distance for all there was in him.
There was no loaffng and Carmichael
only a wheel length back for second
place and Martin tapping him for third.
The two mile open professional was
another battle between Bird, Becker
and McCleary. McCleary and Becker
are team mates and from the start 1t
looked as though it would be anything
to beat Bird Each of the other men
took turns at the pace making, but
Bird refused to be killed off and stuck
to the leader throughout the race. The
first mile was done in 2:46 with Bird
leading across the line, Becker second
and McCleary third The positions
were about the same to the back stretch
where the fight to be in first began.
Down the stretch was seen the prettieSt
race of the day. The men were bunch
ed until half of the last quarter had
been done and then Becker went to the
front by the length of q wheel with
McCleary after Bird for second place
the same distance back. The finish was
hot, but the above positions unchanged
when the tape was passed in 2:46.
There were four starters in the five
mile open amateur race, Carmichael
Sudheimer, Schfieber and Martin. From
the start it looked as though 1T might
be a decidedly close contest, but Mar
tin dropped out at the end of the first
mile and on the last mile Schneider
was only riding for third place because
it was his, no matter where he finished.
The race was between Carmichael and
Sudheimer, and for the first four miles,
the men alternated in their positions
next to the tandem. During the race
the pace makers caught the riders at
the mile, but on the last mile a tandem
cut in at the three-quarters and Sud-
heimer followed its hot pace to the line
where the regular machine came in
fresh Sudheimer was somewhat blown
and Carmichael caught the new tandem
which he held to the finish winning the
race handily. Sudheiner was only
short distance back, but Schneider had
nearly a quarter of mile to go when
the others crossed the line
{ Charles Hofer, who was entered in
the professional races was on the track,
but did not start in any of the contests.
He offered no explanation to the judges