The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-12-26
GRIT EVERY INCH OF HIM
The Welsh Wonder Easily De-
feats the English Champion.
NOTHING CAN TIRE HIM
A Thirty-Mile Race Over a Ten-Lap
Track at Madison Square Garden.
Chase Was Not in 1t at
Any Moment.

New York, Dec. 25.-Jimmy Michael
of Wales, the recognized champion
middle distance bike champion. met
Arthur A. Chase, the middle distance
champion of England, tonight at Mad
ison Square Garden in a 30-mile race
over 10-lap board track, and won so
easily despite a bad spill, that the BIZ
cycle experts are guessing Just how
good the little ''rarebit' is. Pluck, en-
durance, stamina and every other quail
ity that goes to establish the possession
of grit, seem to be embodied in every
inch of the Welshman. Nothing seems
to tire him.
The building was thronged to its ut
most capacity when Michael, the mid
get, and Chase, the leviathan jumped
on their wheels for a few preliminary
spins around the track, which meas
ured one foot over the necessary dis
tance to make it ten laps to the mile.
At the turns the board track was
banked" as high as 10 feet from the
level of the boarded floor of the garden.
1t was announced that the winner
would get 25 per cent. of the gross re-
ceipts and the losers end would be Is
per cent. The managers of the show
guaranteed that the winner would get
from the crowded condition of the
house the amount of money which the
cracks got was far in excess of the
guarantee.
Both got on their marks at 1915
o'clock and before they mounted their
wheels they shook hands. 1t was an
nounced that in case either man fell
during the first four laps, the riders
would be recalled and this precaution
took effect in the first lap. Chase got
tangled up with his leaders after the
race was started at 1915 O'clock and
at the end of the lap the men We're or
dered back to the scratch mark.
Chase won the toss and took the pole.
He started out at a rapid gait, but the
little Welshman soon overlook him and
at the end of the second mile was over
a lap ahead. Michael gained another
lap in the fourth mile and the specta-
tors cheered the Little Wonder" voci-
ferously. Michael was simply invin-
,cible, and at the finish of the fifth mile
he had gained 9noSfer rap.
Both men We're picked up by their
tandems very cleverly. Michael kept
up heartbreaking pace. and at the
finish of the seventh mile was five laps
to the good At the finish of the eleH-
enth mile, Michael spurted and gained
another lap, which put him six laps
ahead.
In the fourteenth mile two of Mich
aeIS PAGERS went over the bank, but
We're not seriously injured. In the
fourth lap Michael ran high up on the
Madison avenue turn. and both men
fell in d heap, their PAGERS also taking
a "cropper." Michael remounted his
wheel and got another lap to the good
before Chase recovered himself AT the
end of the sixteenth mile, Michael was
13 laps ahead.
In the twenty-sixth mile Chase fell
heavily at the Fourth avenue turn and
was unable to go on with the race. He
ran into two tandem teams and was
badly cut up. In the smashup Chases
bike was broken. He borrowed Taylors
wheel, but had to leave the track. Had
Chase been able to continue, however,
he probably would have been beaten by
about two miles. Summary: