The age-herald., 1897-12-26
BOTH MEN RECEIVED FALLS
Chase Was Seriously Injured and Vas
 Unable to Continue.
LARGE CROWD IN ATTENDANCE
The Winner Guaranteed $500 But VIII Re- ceiye Much Larger Sum-The Midget Ap- pIauded Vociterousy- Both Men
 Stuck Close to Their Pacers.

New York, Dec. 25.-Jimmy Michael, of Wales, the recognized middle distance l champion of this country met Arthur A. | Chase, the middle distance champion of England tonight at Madison Square Garden l in thrty-mie race over a ten lap track
 and won so easily, despite bad spill, that the bicycle experts guessing just how | good the little ''rarebit" is | Pluck, endurance, stamina and every other quality 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 utmost l capacity when Michael, the midget, and Chase the Levethian, jumped on their re- spective wheels for few preliminary spins l around the track, which measured one foot
 over the necessary distance to make it ten
 laps to the mile. At the turns the broad track was "banked' as high ten feet from the level of the boarded floor of the garden.
 It was announced that the winner would | get 25 per cent of the gross receipts and the loser's end would be 15 per cent. The managers of the show guaranteed that the | winner would get ,$1 800 and the loser S1,- | 900. but judging from the crowded condi- | ton of the house the amount of money which the "cracks" got was far in excess 1 of the guarantee.
 | Both got on their marks at 1015 and be- l fore they mounted their respective wheels
 they shook hands,
 Race Begins. It was announced that in case either man +ba frct | 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 1O16 o'clock and at the end of | the lap the men were ordered back to the 1 scratch mark Chase won the toss and took | the pole. He started out at rapid gait but | the little Welshman soon overlook him and | at the end of the second mile was over lap ahead. Michael gained another lap in the fourth mile and the spectators cheered | the little wonder vociferously Michael was simply invincible and at the finish of | the fifth mile he gained another lap on his countryman. Both men picked up their tandems very cleverly. Michael kept up a heart-breal1ing pace and at the finish of the seventh mile was five laps to the good At the finish of the eleventh mile Michael spurted and gained another lap, which put him six laps ahead.
 Went Over the Bank. In the fourteenth mile two of Mchaels pacers went over the bank but were not se- riously injured. In the next mile the fourth lap Michael ran high upon the Madi- son avenue turn and both men fell in a heap their pacers taking "cropper." Michael remounted his wheel and got
 another lap to the good before Chase re- covered himself. At the end of the six teenth mile Michael was thirteen laps ahead.
 In the twenty-sixth mile Chase fell heav- fly at the Fourth avenue turn and was un- able to go with the race. He ran into two tandem teams and was badly cut up. In the smash-up Chase's bicycle 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, as Michael was almost that dis
 tance ahead of him when the accident oc- cured and was rapidly gaining. Summary. First mile, 1:5sA; second, 3:55 2-5; third,
 $50 3-5; fourth, 7:56; fifth, 9:54 4-5; sixth,
 Il 57 1-5; seventh, 14:OO 3-5; eighth 16:Oi;
 ninth, 1897 s-5; tenth, 2O:Oe; eleventh,
 2205 3-5; twelfth, 24:07 3-5; thirteenth.
 261O 3-5; fourteenth, 2S:16 3-5; fifteenth,
 3O:2i 3-5; sixteenth, 93:36 1-5; seventeenth,
 5:39 4-5; eighteenth, 3S:14 4-5; nineteenth,
 4O19 4-5; twentieth 4226 3-5; twenty-first,
 44:32 2-5; twenty-second, 46:3S 4-5; twenty
 third, 4S:47 4-5; twenty fourth, 51:O0 4-5 twenty-fifth, 53:07 3-5; twenty-sixth, 55:15- 3-5; twenty-seventh, 5724; twenth-eighth,
 5934 4-5; twenty ninth, 61:49 4-5; thirtieth, 6405 1-5.
 One mile professional invitation, trial
 heats:
 First heat won by Jean Gougoltz, France;
 Oscar Honschau, Brooklyn second Time.
 2:13 1-5.
 Second heat won by R. A. Miller, New
 York; Jay Eaton, Elizabeth, second. Time,
 2:97 4-5.
 Third heat won by Nat Butler, Boston,
 G. s. Henshaw, Brooklyn, second. Time,
 2:33 1-5.
 Fourth heat won by Charles Hed1eld,
 Newark; F. C.. Hoyt, Springfield, Mass,
 second. Time, 2:20.
 Fifth heat won by J. A. Newhause, Buff
 falo; F. F. Goodman, New York, second.
 Time, 2:23.
 Semi-fnals one mile professional:
 First heat won by Jean Gougoltz. France;
 C. S. Henshaw, Brooklyn, second; Nat But Ter, Boston, third. Time, 2:25 4-5.
 Secondn heat won by J. A. Newhouse,
 Buffalo; F. F. Goodman, New York, sec-
 ond; A. F. Weinig, Buffalo, third. Time, |
 2:11M.
 (Weinig qualified by virtue of a walk
 over).
 One mile professional: Final heat won by |
 J. A Newhouse, Buffalo; F. F. Goodman, |
 New York, second; A. D. Weinig, Buffalo, | third Jean Gougoltz France, fourth. Time, |
 220 2-5
 One mile exhibition, professional: Edward | Taylor, middle distance champion of 1 France, paced by Jean Gougoltz and Lam |
 berjack, the French tandem champions, |
 and Fulford and Wheelock, the English 1
 champions. Time, 155as.