The record-union., 1897-06-07
down GO WORLDS RECORDS.
Three Of Them Smashed on the New
Bicycle Track.
Otto Ziegler Broke Two, and J. E.
Wing the her-Yesterday's
Great fleet.

One mile, scratch, professional, SIN
gle-paced, competition-2:O5 80.
One mile amateur handicap, competi-
tion-2:08 40
One mile professional handicap
2:06 %.
Three worlds records smashed on the
new three-lap cycle track yesterday!
And in scorching weather, with the
mercury close TO 100 in the shaded
The Olympic Circuit riders didn't do
a thing but trample in the dust rec
ords that had withstood for months the
assaults of the best riders in the lana,
and the feats were witnessed by close on
5000 people, fully if not more than hall
of whom were ladies.
The new track at Oak Park certainly
had a most suspicious christening yes
terday, and by this morning its fame
will be heralded far and wide over the
country, and even beyond the seas,
through the agencies of the telegraph
and the Associated Press.
1t is said that the track at Louisville,
Ky, and the one at Fall River, Mass,
are the only ones on this continent that
compare with the Sacramento track in
point of speed, and this fact is certainly
a big feather in the cap of the Capital
City, a credit to Mr.. Morton, the enter
prising builder and proprietor, and to
the Capital City Wheelmen, under
whose direction it has been placed.
The audience was largely composed
of the better classes of people in the
city, and everything passed off in the
most orderly and quiet manner posi-
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old residents of the interior sweltered-
and fans 1uttered merrily in the grand
stand, while those who occupied eX-
posed places on the ''bleachers" had
to resort to umbrellas, Japanese para
soils, broad fans and every possible de-
vice to protect their faces from the
scorching rays of the sun that beat
down upon them.
But the wheelmen did not seem to
mind it, though they rode bareheaded
and with arms and legs exposed to the
blistering sun. Indeed, they said the
heat was better than cold for record
riding, and the results seemed to justify
that view of it.
Otto Ziegler, who used to be known as
'"The Little Demon''-but who is any
thing but a demon, except in the fury
of his riding-must have very kindly
feeling for Sacramento, for it was over
Agricultural Park in this city that he
three years ago lowered the worlds one
mile, flying start and paced record tc
1:50. and at once sprang into fame
Yesterday he lowered the worlds rec
ord in the single-paced mile (scratch)
professional to 2:05 2-5, and in the han
dicap to 2:06 3-5. Ziegler is a great ia
vorite here, and received a great oVa-
ton at the hands of the spectators.
The mile competition amateur handi-
cap fell to J. E. Wing of the Olympic
Club Wheelmen Of San Francisco. He
won the second heat in pos 40, and
the final in 2:10 80.
Jacob Hirsch of the Capital City
Wheelmen, who won the second and
final heats in the two-thirds of a mile
amateur scratch event in 1:2S 40 and
! 30 10, would have given Wing a
hard battle in the mile handicap, and
perhaps have beaten him, had it not
been that he failed to qualify in the
second heat in consequence of losing
one of his toe-cIips. The accident
threw him out of his pace and he
dropped to the rear. But "Jakey'
had previously done some sensational
riding In the second heat of the two
thirds of a mile he began to sprint a
hundred yards from the outcome, and
the way he shot past Wing, the Olym-
pic crack, was a caution. He repeated
the performance in the final heat of the
same event, this time having for his
opponent Z. F. Russ, another Olympic
crack.
Visiting wheelmen declared that as
pirants for amateur championships will
have to keep their eyes on the speedy
Sacramento lad, who bids fair to lead
all of them in the amateur class.
Just before the last event Mr.. Fowler
of San Francisco gave an exhibition Of
trick riding that astonished even the
most experienced wheelmen. Fol-
twenty minutes he occupied the pad
dock and went through all manner OF
eVolutions. He was over and under
the wheel like a rubber ball; he rode il
backwards, standing, projecting from
the handle bars, hanging on at full
length from the saddle and in a dozer
other ways. One of his strangest feats
was making the bicycle bound clear OF
the ground both wheels in the air, and
he all the time in the saddle Another