The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-14
CAPTURED BIZ TOM COOPER AT
THE LOUISVILLE l.. A. w.
MEET.
A FAST OPEN MILE MADE.
TOM BUTLER LANDED THE MONEY
WHILE BALD WAS IN A
POCKET.
FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE PRESENT.
Great Interest Taken In the Events
at Fountain Park-Summary
of Days Races.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 13.-Tom
Cooper won the best and fastest heat
of the year at Fountain Ferry park
this afternoon, winning the two-mile
national championship race for anna
tours and professionals in 4:26 3-5, or
just rs of a second slower than the
time in which he won the two-mile
championship last year at Asbury
Park, defeating Arthur Gardiner To-
day his competitors were the fastest
men of the year-Bald, Nat Butler,
Mcdonald, Gardiner, Ziegler, Bliss,
Eaton and Ackers. This, aside from
the mile open professional, was the
principal event of the opening day of
the national l.. A. w. racing meet.
The weather was not unpleasantly
warm, and this fact, together with the
high class card, brought out a crowd
of about 5000 people. Local interest
centered in the two state champion
ships, the quarter and half-mile both
of which went to Carl Thome, a Louis
vile boy, who has come into promi-
nence this season. c. C. Ingraham, of
BiXon, ILL.,, outclassed his fields in the
other amateur events, the two-mile
handicap and the half-mile open, win
ming both with ease
The battle of the giants came in the
mile open professional. The only
prominent men who failed to qualify
in the trial heats, which were run in
the morning, were Arthur Gardiner,
Fred Loughead, ]. P. Bliss and A. D.
Kennedy. The men began to string
out as soon as. the pistol was fired,
Paid in q,
Buffers well back There was scarce
ly any change until Sanger started on
his run from ninth place on the back
stretch of the last lap The others
were slow in making their sprint, Bald
missing the opportunity to tack on as
Sanger passed him. AS they punched
at the head of the stretch, Tom But
Ter set a hot chase for Sanger, but
Bald was pocketed. Sanger had made
his start too early and was not equal
to the terrific pace at which Butler
came home. The latter landed the
money, comparatively easy winner,
Bald finishing in his pocket at fourth
Scratch men did not figure in, the
mile handicap for professionals. It
was another scalp for the Buffers,
Nat, with a thirty-yard handicap, win
ming in a close finish from D. Ken
nedy, of Chicago, who started from the
fffteen-yard mark.
In the two mile national champion
ship, Cooper had the pole The pacing
was done by Staver and Winesett on
singles. Cooper caught the pace
makers within so yards and Bald was
on his rear wheel, while Finkey Bliss
filed into third place, the others strung
out in Indian file. Thus they pedaled
for five laps. At the last quarter Eaton
made his sprint from last place. Nat
Butler lacking onto him as he passed.
These two challenged the leaders at
the head of the stretch but the great
pair had the race well in hand. 1t
was a battle royal between Cooper and
Bald to the tape. Bliss clinging to third
place like grim death. Cooper started
in upon such a squirt as he has seldom
been called upon to make, doing the
last twelfth in :07 As. This won the
race for him and with it the first nat
ional championship medal awarded at
the meet.
Johnny Johnson took his usual shy
at the records, but he is too fat to ac-
complish any of his old time feats. He
made a half mile behind a trip1et in
SO As. A. j. Nicolet rode his giraffe a
quarter in SO 3-5 to the amusement of
the crowd. Two record attempts were
made by triplets, the best performance
being a mile in 1852 2-5 by local team
First. mile invertebrates R. Ne
earthly, st. Louis, wen, D. A. Dougherty, St
Louis. second, E. Grooschel Louisville. third;
time 2:37 2-5. julius Luchsinger c. F. Byers,
G. E. Drabelle Charles Ritnaur Goodwin
Speen, w. H. Neidner, H. S. Parsons aleo
started.
Second race L. A. w. state championship,
quarter mile. amateur-First heat Karl
Thome won. H. w. Middendorf second Stuart
Leathers third, ]. L. App fourth; time "a.
Second heat: p. j. Bornwasser won Ed.
Filchner second. W. H. Seaton third; time
"a 3-5. Final: Karl Thome won, w II.
Middendorf second, P. ]. Bornwasser third;
Third race, mile professional, 2:15 class
First heat Stevens Bernhard DeCardy,
Cox. House; time 2:32 2-5 Second heat: ].
Jesse Curry; time 259 As. Final: ]. A.
Newhouse won E. G. Johnson second. w.
DeCardy third, s. G. Cock, fourth: time
2:13 3-5.
First heat: P. J. Bornwasser Louisville,
scratch, won; w. F. Lum, Montgomery, Ala
so yards. second; Clarence Hamond, St. Louis
so yards third. Time 5:13 3-5. Second heat
F. L. Eberhardt Salina, Kan, scratch, won
J. j. Howard, St. Louis. scratch, second; Jo-
seph Lindley, Trenton, n. j., so yards, third
Time, 5:34 is. Third heat: C. C. Ingraham,
Ixion, ILL.,, 60 yards, won Lou Coburn St.
Louis, % yards, second; e. W. Peabody, Chi
cago, so yards, third. Time, 4:57. Final: c.
G.. Ingraham won, v. E. Dupree second w
E. Lum third, E. W. Peabody fourth. Time,
4:54 80.
Fifth race, one-miIe, open, professional
First heat: ]. Coburn won E. C. Bald sec
ond Owen Kimble third; F. c. Screin fourth.
Time. 2:1s. Second heat: Otto Ziegler won,
Nat Butler second w. c. Sanger third w
Coburn fourth. Time 1926 2-5 Third heat
Tom Butler won, j. A. Newhouse second, F.
II. Allen third. Jesse Curry fourth. Time
1851 Is. Mcdonald allowed to qualify on pro,
test. Final heat: Tom Butler won. Sanger
second, Nat Butler third, Bald fourth. Time.
2:03.
Sixth race half mile, amateur-irst heat:
Karl Thome, Louisville, won; Ed McKeon,
Greenville, Ohio, second: P. J. Bornwasser.
Louisville, third; time 1:15 T. Second heat:
Ed D. Fichtner, Louisville, won; W. F.
Lum second P. J. Howard third; time lis
20 Third heat Eberhardt won Ralph
Samburg Port Huron, Michigan second IN
graham third; time, 1:19. Fourth heat: Lou
Coburn won; Peabody second Louis H. Smith
Nashville, third, T. r. feathers fourth; time
ia. Final: Ingraham won; McKeon second
Lou Corburn third, Bornwasser fourth time
Ills.
Seventh, mile handicape; professional:
First heat: Nat Butler won; Charles Hotter
second, ]. p. Bliss third, E. T. Acker
fourth, Con Baker fifth; time. 2:94 As. Second
heat: F. B. Rigby won; Starbuch second,