The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-20

fallen victims 70 accidents az the turn az
I-yfnxton or have become discouraged.
but nGnefS-Jxo come back IN good orCsF
with five miles 10 their credit. cross the
scratch tine anS plunge down the long
hill towards NilIburn. The three leaders
are Hollis Sotsen and Warren. all e--n
n1ea. who have PASSED the ssyen-u minute
bunch and are making The pace Interest
centers IN Alexander the winner o. last
years rare and one az the scratch men
File has worked his way well up the line.
passing more than ora-thirts 81 the han
dicap rnen on the first five miles. Soon
the word is passed along They are COM
ing" and over the hill ths,f roll. The three
youngsters still IL the lead. evidently
helping each other along by alternate
pacing. Goodman a i've and a half min
ute man. pedals hravefy along the road
all to himself slowly but surely cutting
down the minute handicap which they
have Moiifor, q five minute man. and
Firth. a TWO and half-u,inute man, are
also pushing their way 10 the front. while
Alexander. the scratch mar. works MS
way ahead OF bunch after bunch. max
ing better time than any man in the race
when they come hack from IrvirgtoTs. a.
ter the third turn with afjeen miles run.
only sixty-nine men are still in the race.
The three leaders stilI hold the race well
IN hand. and il is evident that their
head work" viii give one of them the
race ard the others positions. barring ac-
eidents. Goodwin. Militor and Firth are
keeping up their work while Alexander
Is making the best time OF all. hut II IS
evident he cannot overcome the six and
half-riinute handicap OF the youngsters
in the lead Back again from Milhnrn
with twenty miles registered and the or
der is unchanged. save that Alexander
has now passed all but ten OF his handi-
cap competitors. His two scratch corn
panions have long since abandoned the
race. Now they are off for Iryington and
then back on the two and half milo
home stretch. Everyone expects pretty
race between the three leaders who they
fear have been working for common
purpose, but now must contest for in
dividual supremacy. They are not dis
appointed, for in they come. a bunch OF
four now. for Goodwin. OF Brooklyn. has
made a winning sprint, and HOW leads the
bunch hundred yards away from the
tape. But his lonesome unpaced plug
cing along for twenty-five miles has not
fitted him for the final squirt, and he cam
not hold his ground. Soden, of Newark.
closely followed by Warren push past
Goodwin. and the race is won by the
Newark boy. Molitor and Firth fol-
low the bunch of leaders over the tape
end Alexander comes in seventh. The
others straggle in fifty-seven survivors in
all of the original loe. aud men and wheels
are a sight TO behold. All are speckied.
some dauhed and a few literally coated
with rich red Jersey mud. In spite of
the condition of the road good time was
made Sodens time was l 21:0i 2-5. while
Alexander. who won the time prize, made
the course in 1:17:0s Last year, with a
good course, his time was los and frac-
ton.
am OF for Europe in the Westernland.
for Antwerp direct and thence to Zurich.
Switzerland.
GEORGE f. COTTERILL