Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1897-12-16
MILLER RIDES IN FIRST.
ChicagOan Wins the Six-Dny Bicycle
Race in New York.

Atice new DIX.
New York, Dec. 13.-Charles w. Mil
Ter, of Chicago, is the new champion of
the bicycle track-the worlds cham
pion siX-day racer. So he was ac-
claimed Saturday night when he fin
ished the great race many miles ahead
of the worlds record made by Teddy
Hale, of Ireland, in 1896. After the end
of the racing, in the presence of the
management, the track was surveyed
and found to be 564 feet inches in cir
cult, measured IS inches from the pole,
according to the racing rules. These
figures, multiplied by nine, the number
of laps said to have made mile, showed
total of 5,07S feet inches. Accord
ingly the track turns out to have been
short POI feet inches in every mile,
and it is estimated on this basis that
Miller's record of 2,003 miles really rep
resents nearly 50 miles less. This
would bring his figures down to about
2,013 miles, over 100 more than the rec
ord made by Hale in the garden last De-
cember.
The race ended in scene of wildness
and confusion. Men went wild and
threw up their hats when the an
nouncement was made. When Miller
was lifted off his wheel all he knew was
that he was the winner. 1t was a great
race-a remarkable race. 1t is a ques-
ton whether the records made can ever
be beaten. Mans endurance has been
pushed to the utmost. Thirty-six COM
petitors started in the contest and less
than half that number were able to
maintain the strain on mind and body
and ride on its last day.
AS reward for their week of pain
and torture in covering hundreds of
miles awheel Miller will get 81 500, aside
from presents from wheel and tire con-
Germs; $1,000 of this is the winners
share of the purse and $500 more goes
for breaking the record. Joe Rice's
share of the purse will be $500, and
Schinneer will get $500; Teddy Hale
will receive $3.50 and Waller $50 less;
Pierce gets 5000, Golden $3.50. Cannon
$125, Enterman and Rivierre 500 each,
and Elkes SIS. All the riders who cov-
cred more than 1850 miles will receive
a prize, probably $50 apiece.
Charles w. Miller, the winner of the
race, spent the night at Turkish bath,
and when he reached Bartholdi hotel
Sunday he looked well. He felt in
good condition, he said, and that he was
fit to ride another six days. He GER
tainly did not look like a man who had
gone through the terrible ordeal of
working 1873 hours and sleeping only
four hours in the six days just passed.
His eyes were bright and he said he was
not in the least exhausted.
One important result of the race
probably will be stringent restrictive
measure on long-distance racing by the
League of American Wheelmen. Hith-
erto these events have been conducted
under the sanction of the L. A. W., but
A. Crissey Morrison, vice president of
that organization, declares that he will
prepare and present at the next ma
tional assembly of the L. A. w. an
amendment covering the point so thor
oughly that it will prevent any possible
countenance of such an event in the fu-
ture. Mr.. Morrison declares that from
every point of view the six-day bicycle
race should be condemned, as it is an
inhuman and Notwithstanding insti-
tuition.