The herald., 1897-07-12

count of the great three-cornered race
at Philadelphia:
The great three-cornered match at
Philadelphia between Eddie Bald, cham
pion of '96; Tommie Cooper, who dis
Iputed Bald's title to the championship
last season, and Earl Kiser, the new star
on the cycling armament, was won by
Kiser in two heats, in both of which he
romped home with lengths to spare. 1t
was clearly Kiser's race after the first
heat, for it was then that he opened on
his great rivals, passing Cooper after
that rider had started his sprint, and
maintaining a lead on Bald, gained
when that rider went over the polo to the
sod and back again. The second heat
was as interesting as the first, Kiser
starting from right in front of Cooper,
and opening two lengths on him, while
| Bald, trying to pass Cooper on the sharp
turn, landed on his side on the sod.
Both races were single paced, the first
in 2:12 2-5, the latter in 2:16 2-5 Albert
Mott, chairman of the racing board,
refereed the races. The ball grounds
quarter-mile track was used, and it
seems that the first reports sent out of
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misleading. The track saw more tum-
bles in one day than occurred along the
entire New York state circuit. Men
fell in all kinds of places, and one man
broke a section from the fence as he
went through it in a fall of a half a
dozen together. The track Is four-cor-
nered, and at these corners is rise of
six inches over which the men shot out
of their saddles with the force of the
| impact
Charlie Wells is in sympathy with the
people of California in their secession
movement, and delights in telling of the
success out in that country, writes Ed
Spooner in Sporting Life. But Charlie
does not want this made known, as he
is afraid that the racing board may fire
him for sympathizing with the strikers.
! Wells likes to come east once year and
spend the summer, and he can do no
such thing If he becomes an outlaw, for
Charley always earns his way by racing
on his annual trips. So it came about
that the big Californian, native SON of
the Golden State, was not pleased when
he was literally quoted lately. But
Welsis good fellow and Messrs Potter.
Mott & Co. are not the hideous ogres that
Wells pictures them after reading the
clippings from his home papers over and
over. And Messrs. Potter, Mott & Co.
could they but find time to attend some
of the Sunday race meets in California,
would find the outlaw racing men and
their outlaw hackers, the secessionists,
as they are called, quite as nice fellows
as are found in the east. When the rae
ing board will reinstate a blacklisted
track to keep it out of the hands of the
secessionists, it will surely not fire CAL
| ifornian on suspicion that he carries out
lawry concealed on his person, and for
fear that he may inoculate some of the
other racing men with the deadly virus.
Two thousand two hundred and sew
enty-seven new members were added to
the rolls of the League of American
Wheelmen week before last. This is a
good showing and indicates steady
growth of the organization.
War correspondents returning from
Greece are loud in expressing the con-
victions that the bicycle is one Of the
most valuable assistants a man engaged
in that work can have, says an
editorial in the New York I1meS.
Few of the correspondents had
them, for they had expected a
campaign among mountains where
only rugged bride paths exist, but as
soon as the retreat over the plains OF
Thessaly began the wiser members of
the brotherhood sent to Athens for their
wheels, and found them of great use on
the level roads between Larissa and
Volo The Greek soldiers were not
tempted by the bicycles, to whose use
they were almost entirely unaccus-
toned, but the repair kits were fire.
quently stolen, and much trouble result
ed. mot only did the wheel" says one
correspondent, "prove much faster. even
on the Greek roads, than either the Greek
horse or carriage, but to sling it on to a
train or steamer was the work of mo-
ment, and horse is by no means so
easily manipulated. On three important
occasions my stuff reached England at
least whole day in front Of that sent
by any other English correspondent, and
it was due to the bicycle every time -