The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-08
DAY FOR sims And SCHADD
They Carried Off the Bulk of the
Prizes at Yesterdays Meet.
Pretty Sport Furnished by Local
Riders at international Ath- =
letic Parky

The Labor Day race meet at Interna-
tionai Athletic Park, on the Conduit
road, yesterday afternoon, was pro-
nounced success.
Notwithstanding the disabled condition
| OF both sims ana Scbadc they carried OF
many Donors. and the Washington boys
! distinguished themselves In the intercity
race between this city aud Baltimore. Sims
was in particularly bad form owing to the
Injuries received while training the other
| night He bad several bruises, and ON
one OF his knees was a large boil which
caused him no end OF pain
Ihe IIrst event was the trial heats for
The nile open amateur.
Ihe second event, a twO-miie tandem
race was beautiful 1t was nip and tgck
throughout, but there was "a little surp,lse
when in the lastIap, r. Won Boecknlan and
T. A Pitkin passed their oppone nts. ana
linished first in a time or $3.50 "a
marry Greer ana George l.. Smith lin
ished second, and c. }. Ronsdville. W.
: K C., and II. W. Clum came in third.
The event which pleased the crowd the
most, however. was the one mile race
for a diamond ring. IL was between Billie
Sims OF Ihe l.. A. W, and Fred schadc.
W. II T. As the rules of the L. A w.
PfoIioit tabdein pacing unless Special
permission Is obtained and as that per
h,issio. mad not beeG secured IL W as ne.t.s-
sary TO pace tie riders single Fred got a
{ htt!e the better or the start, but alter
passing the scratch tie second time Billie
Lis4ae most of this up, and when the two
crossed at the final Sohadc had little tn
spare 1t was close contest one that
createu ihuch excitement, and made Schade
the hero Of Tie day Time, 2:i2l-5
Inc fourth event was the finishing OF
uie NILE open The SIX riders entered
were Biliy Sirns, II. W. CIun. Z. J. Ronsa-
vile, Fred Schade, Leathernury, of RaIti-
more, ana l. ~ Mudd- Again did Schate
carry OH the lauTeIs, finishing first In
- 20, with Billy Sims Just behind him
and Mudd third.
There was little excitement in the fifth
event IL was the fve-mile handicap. IL
wasannouncetithat SciIade ouldentertEis.
put ne appeared on the gro unds in his street
ciothes. ana then the crowd knew that he
was out OF IT. Gibbs, who was announced
oy henshaw 10 he also on tie scratch. was
absent. The race proceeded. with MuId
handicapped at So yards; c. E. Cause. $50
yards; Il. T. Wrern. 1su yards; George f.
smith, $50 yards; H. T. Greer. 200 Yards.
H. fritchard, 200 yards: William I. Rob.
ertsoh. $50 yards; William F. Throop. 800
!ards- r. l.. Burton, $50 yards: H. W CIum
4oo yards; {. s. Bush, 400 yards: V. a.
barber, 42o yards; +. A DuyaIi, 4oJ wards.
~ - -nooIe' 10 Iarts' H. l. Dodge. 4T5
YARDS T. Y Dirnnick, 500 yards.
fhteen laps was to lie the race II
started off prettiIy. with Moore setting
The pace hrishly. tie was closely nI-
lowed by Clunl. Barber AMI Duvall. while
nan way around the lap Cause. Smith.
6reer. and Pntchar,i formed A Dretty
bunch. which, unfortunately, came 70
grief 10 Il coilisioIo u The Sc venth lap which,
upset Gause, Smith, and Greer They re-
ihonhied and Were off again. but were
compelled TO drop out The race. lay ,,a-
tween Ciun, Duvail, Barber. and Burton.
while Moore, who had fallen in the rear.
was ma King a rapid sprint Ii finished
with Clnri, Iirst. Ed DuyaIl. second. Rrr-
Der. third and Burton, fourth.
1ue lIDdi event was the one-n.ile inter
CITY race between a team from Baltimore
and one from this city. There Were three
entries from each place LeatLcrbury Myers
and Knight looked after the affair for TIE
Monumental City, while Mudd. Sims and
Hausc dld the honors nobly for the home
team. They kept up the record, too.
AT the start baltimore had the lead and
was allowed to keep ii for two laps. Little
or DO effort was made on the part of the
washington boys to do more than follow
their competitors until tile latter half of
the third zap. when Sims made a wonder
ful squirt, followed by Mudd.
Knight seeing what was up sprinted bcau-
ifuiiy for his team, and at the finish sue
ceeded in getting first place with Mudd
second Sims, however, held third place
and Cause sixth, with Leatherbury and
Myers fourth and fifth
The three races already run made the total
score OF POINTS 81 to % in favor of the
boys.
Todays races nctted Washington IL auS
Baltimore AZ to 80.