New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-28

hill. the speedy youngsters who have been repre-
sentns the Mercury foot club on the circuit
When the suggestion was frs: made that tho
club send a team on the circuit, influential mem
bers decided to call n meeting. TO which were III
vited the several riders who were to make up the
team. Knowing that the L. a. W. would not per-
NIT a club to pay the expenses OF EideT' the
Young men or their fathers were called IN, ana
the question was put TO them II they would pay
ALI the expenses Of the boys II the club would send
a man along TO look after them. The riders agreed
to the proposition. and they have paid their own
EXPENSES or the expenses have been paid by their
families.
Powell has caused a sensation on the circuit Tor
ne has turned out to be rider OF unusuai
strength The circuit started at Fredona on June
g. and It wound up at Manhattan Beach YESTERDAY
Powell has shown his wheel to his rivals
right through the State and he Is one or the BEST
not the strongest, amateur riders In the country
to-day Young Powell will. It is said. come irto
fortune Of about half a million dollars when he Is
twenty-one years old He Will be twenty on De-
cember 49, He is the son OF DR.. Seneca D. Powell
who is a prominent physician practising In New
York and is ex-presidenr of the County Medlcal
Society and at present chairman OF the Board OF
Censors OF that body.
DIR. POWELL AS A WHEELMAN.
The doctor Is advocate OF the wheel as an
exercise and in this respect does not neglect 10
take his own medicine, his 3O22 miles ridden IN
1895 attest. In addition. he liz the owner or the
Yacht Loafer and spends much OF his time In the
summer racing in the vicinity ol HIS eou"''' "e
at New-London.
Powell who vas to be one OF the racing Stars at
the Kings County meet at Manhattan Beach yes
terday, was unable to ride owing TO an accideht a'
the State circuit meet at Albany on wednesday,!
In the one-mle amateur race Powell was run ih'o
by Tucker of Syracuse. and thrown from his
-hpnn VI, krr VA
to blame as he was into by green r'oer
named Hilfrank of Castleton, ~ y. Powell val!
not be seen on the track for some time. Underhill,
another member of the New-York ~ :. team
fell with Hedstrom at Utica, and he vas so badly
cut up that he has not raced since. With Powell
temporarily disabled, the Riverside Wheelmen nyer'
Goodman will have an easier time OF H.
YOUTHFUL CHAMPION
Dr. Powell IS chairman of the Bicycle Committee
and a member OF the Board of Governors OF the
New-York A. c. His began racing in 1882, and
won the nterschoastic championship and half
mile junior championship OF America that year. He
won several races in 1893, defeating among others.
F. F. Goodman the intercollegiate champion In
1894 he won every school race except at the s. l. A.
A. games where he fell, and also won the New-Jer-
sey A. c. and New-York A. c. mile and two-mle
handcaps Powell won the !. s. A. A. championship
in 1885, and the championship OF Greater New-York,
and the mile handicap al Plainfeld doing 2l5 from
the ffty-yard mark In his heat. He has started In
over thirty races. and unplaced but once. not
| including seven falls.
His frst appearance In athletics In the 100
yard dash for boys under Is years old. In the Cutler
| Athletic Association games April %. 1891, In
| which he medal. His first BICYCLE race was
in the following year. May 6, at the same school
games when he the one-me bicycle race In
sO6 breaking the school record by ~ 3-5 and
the interscholastic record by sec His next race
was in the interscho.asc games. May g. 1892 when
ne won the one-mie In 2:53 breaking the inter
scholastic record by sec. In the De La Sale games,
two DAYS later he rode the mile IN 2:i5I. break
ing the scholastic record 1924 sec. Five days
later in the Interscholastc Athletic League games,
which were open to all schools within sixty miles
OF New-York City. on q muddy track after win
ming his heat leading by several yards in the home
stretch in the final his wheel slipped and he fell,
but he got up and finished third. In the Kings
County Wheelmen's one-mi.e. June Is. he started,
bu. his tire blew up in the first hundred yards;
but on July g. In the Riverside Wheelmens meet,
he won his heat In the mile novice. but was ruled
out Of the final (as not being novice; and In the
half-mle safety championship OF America for boys
under sixteen he won his heat and the final. both
With ease; and in the mile handicap with 1865 yards
S Ssing sgss rs rs got '"''' place. the "''' s
EARLY VICTORIES
Thus finished a remarkable first year on the
wheel for boy only fifteen years OF age; five frsts
thirds and one unplaced twheel Droken) IN eight
races all but OF which were scratch races. In
1Ss3 in six races in which he started. he won twice
once (one-mie scratch race defeating +. F. Good
man. intercollegiate champion.
His frs; race in 1894 at the Wilson e. Kellogg
games in which he the mile scratch in
2:4Gl-5, defeating w. H. Blake, OF the Riverside
Wheelmen the indoor champion of NewYork City
In the Cutter athletic games at Berkeley Oval, be-
sides winning the mile bicycle. he won second med
ais In 22Oyard dash. in the high jump and In the
broad jump.
the Trinity School athletic games. which he won,
in his hea. breaking the scholastic record In the
interscholastIc games May g. after winning his
heat in 2r as breaking the interscholastc record
the man front OF him In the final heat fel throw
Ing him down and breaking his wheel. He won his
next race, which at the De La Sale games,
having in his heat defeated George Rupert who
won the interschoastlc championship In which
powell was thrown. The time Of the heat was
2:Ss ~ beating Rupperts time In the nterschoastlc
games 2 AS sec. He successful In the mile
handicap at the New-Jersey Athletic Club games
one behind him. lie won by ten feet. doing the last
quarter in 81 20 At the Crescent Wheelmen's
games June he won his heat in the three-quarter-
mic safety scratch. and was second TO Ray Daw-
In final.