The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-27
WOFFE AND BERG WINNERS.
THE AUGUSTA ROAD RACE RIDDEN
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

wOne Captured the Race and Berg
the Time Prize-A Lack of Numbers
for the Riders Rendered the Work
of the Judges and Timers Difficult.
A Number of Finishes Not Record
ed-A Collision Between Morgan
end Newman Caused Some Excite
ment.
The hve-mile cycle road race run on the
Augusta road yesterday afternoon was
won by Edward Wolfe, with two minutes
handicap. Slgmund Berg, scratch, won the
time prize.
The race was not devoid of accidents
and there seemed to be a lack of manage
ment, which was unfortunate. This was
not the fault of the officials, but was rather
due to some of the preliminaries not being
properly looked after. Some of the Off
GERS did not show up at all, and their
places had to be filed a few minutes be-
fore the start.
No numbers had been provided for the
riders and the numbers used in the Spald-
ing road race were sent for. There were
not enough of these to go around and
several of the riders were without num-
bers. This, of course, made 1t difficult
for the judges and timers to obtain the
finishes and time Of the riders.
The riders came in mostly in punches
and as some of those without numbers
were unknown to the judges 1t was impos-
sible to get the correct finishes of half a
dozen men with the confusion incident.
Mr.. Alvin NJ Bell and Mr.. w. H. Lyon
were judges at the start and finish, and
Mr.. JOS w. Heffernan and Mr.. w. G.
Sutlive were timers.
The following is the order of finish fur
nished the Morning News:
First-Edward Wolfe.
Standardization Thomas.
Third-W. E. Guerard, Jr.
FOURTH NJ. Wilson.
Fifth-Robert Hunt.
Sixth-Yates Thompson, Jr.
Seventh
Eighth
Ninth-A. D. Krenson.
Tenth-Joseph Dillon.
Eleventh.
Twelfth-Sigmund Bers
Thirteenth-W. F. Veigneur.
Fourteenth
Fifteeenth--Peter G. Leist.
Sixteenth-Frank w. Williams.
Eighteenth-Harry Fricke.
THE names or numbers of these riders
were not caught.
The names of the riders whose finishes
are not given in the foregoing table are
the following: L. b. Billingsley and De-
vereaux Bacon, scratch; F. del
Barrio, one and one-half minutes; John
Lueders and w. c. Folger, two minutes,
| and Edward Barrett, two and one-half
minutes Morgan and Newman collided
about 200 yards from the tape and neither
| finished.
While the order Of finish given is off,
cial it does not correspond with that of
some Of the on-lookers or of some of the
| riders in the race, and there will most
| likely be some kicks coming. The time
| of the riders was so indefinite that it is
| not given, but the unofficial time of Berg,
the winner of the time prize, is given as
1888.
The accident to Morgan and Newman
was unfortunate The accounts of the
| collision are conflicting 1t occurred about
| 200 yards from the finish and just as the
| scratch men, who were all in a bunch, and
close up, were beginning to sprint.
Newman, 1t appears, was riding a little
| ahead Of Morgan, and in sprinting, his
wheel wobbled and Morgan ran into him.
| Both riders were thrown heavily and were
| badly bruised and scratched. Newman got
| several bad cuts on the arms and legs
| but neither man was seriously injured
| Morgan jumped up and struck Newman
| in the face but the latter was so dazed
that he apparently did not notice it. Nor
| gan claimed that he was fouled by New
man, end entered a protest with the
| judges on that ground, but after some dis
| cussion the protest was withdrawn. The
collision was purely an accident, and 1t Is
| absurd to think that it was a foul.
There was a large crowd to see the race
| and the road was lined with people for
half a mile Two policemen were on duty
| and kept the crowd back fairly well.
Charlie Murphy, the Brooklyn crack
acted as starter, and got the men off in
| good time. Just before the start he re-
quested the crowd to keep back and gave
the Instructions to the riders. He was
also of great assistance to the officials
| Tom Cooper, Mother" Webb, Kennedy
Ingraham and Longhead witnessed the
| race.
| RELIEVED TO HE A CROOK