The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-08-07
Eighteenth Annual Meet of the
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CRACKS DO GREAT RIDING
Honors Evenly Divided Among Anna
teurs-Fifteen Thousand Spectators
Witness the Races-only Two
or Three Spills.

teoniut III tnt nistOfy Dl the org sdnizd-
tion In attendance. enthusiasm and
good racing. Several state records
were smashed and Arthur Gardiner.
the Chicago crack. came within two
fifths Of a second of beating Hamil-
tons record for the mile paced He
succeeded In lowering the fast mile
made by Johnny Johnson at Chicago
last year by four-fifths OF second.
Gardiner was paced by two quads, one
loaded with Wenzel, the Turville boys
and Coburn, and the other with w. T..
Bicker, Crooks and Stenzer. He crossed
the line like a flash and the time was
caught beautifully. He never ceased
his pace until the finish. made In
1883 3-5. breaking the state record OF
:4b 3-5. held by Earl Kiser. Starbuck
also took a try at the record by a quad
and triplet. For the first half he
made very fast time. but lost the
triplet. His time was 1:i43 3-5. also
breaking Kiser's record.
Both these events followed the
scheduled races Of the day. In the
latter the honors among the profess
sionals was won by +. j. Loughead of
Sarnia, Ont, who crossed the tape In
three trials, two finals and second man
in third final. In one of these finals.
the one mile professional. he broke the
state competition record of 2:04 As. by
covering the distance in 2:03 SIS. He
captured the one quarter mile CHAM
plonship In 80 seconds.
Among amateurs honors were more
evenly divided, with the best racing
done by Peabody. Johnson. Mldden-
dOrf. Schade. Krick and Miller. The
day was perfect and the sun was not
long up before hundreds of cyclists
were pedaling along the historic and
picturesque York road towards Willow
Grove, and even greater numbers were
taxing railroad trains and trolley cars
to their fullest capacity. Notwith-
standing not many of the visiting
wheelmen did not get away from last
nights smoker at the national head
quarters until nearly daylight, most OF
them were astir early. The heat from
the sun was tempered by a cool north
westerly breeze. and there was an al
most total absence Of humidity. There
were early morning runs TO League
Island navy yard, at the lower end or
Brown street; across Rope Ferry
bridge TO Paschalville. returning by
way Of Woodland avenue: West Phila
delphia to Broad street. where the coll
umns merged into an army of Wheel
men who had gone through Fairmount
park and Wissahickon drive and the
big scheduled run TO the track began.
When the head Of the line reached old
York road four miles from headquar-
tiers there were many who had not yet
mounted their wheels.
The trials began promptly at 3
O'Clock with several thousand specta-
tors. AT 12:40 there was a recess for
lunch. Meanwhile seats were rapidly
filling. and long before the hour for
resuming II was evident that the crowd
would be enormous. AT o'clock the
again. continuing until o'clock with
out the slightest hitch. During the en-
tire day there were hut two OF three
spills. and no body was hurt by these.
Tonight Willow Grove park was given
over to the wheelmen and the visitors
saw exhibitions of trick and fancy rid
ing. display of fireworks and a gen.
eral good time.
Tomorrow promises to be the banner
day. and the seating capacity Of the
track will be taxed to the utmost. The
races will begin at 3 O'Clock under the
same officials. with the exception that
ex-Chairman of the Racing Board
Gideon will be relieved by Albert Mott
of Baltimore.
The racing cracks were awake early
this morning. and after a good rub
bing down took preliminary spins on
the track preparatory to the trial
heats which were to be called at y
o'clock. The wheelmen all expressed
themselves immensely pleased with
the three-iap board track which was
built especially for this meet. The
| first three men will qualify In the
two mile handicap professional and
two mile handicap amateur. and In all
other races the first two. with the ex-
ception of the quarter mile champion
ship professional In which only the
winner Of each heat will contend for
the finals.
The first event was the two mile
handicap professional. This was In
six heats and in all there were about
80 entries. the first three to qualify.
First heat-F. J. Loughead. Sarnia.
Ontario. scratch, won: w. 4. Becker.
Minneapolis. 40 yards. second; +. ].
Titus. New York. 50 yards. third. Time
4:46 1-5.
w. c. Sanger was the scratch man
In the second heat OF the two mile race
with Arthur Lee. 80 yards. and III. X.
Steenson. Dayton, Ohio. % yards. A.
Il. winieg. 1l0 yards. won: W. c. San
ger. second. G. X. Newton. so yards.
third. Time. 5:03 As.
Tom Cooper had the tape In the
| third neat ana the nearest men were
J. A. Newhouse. IS yards. and Dock
Brown. 80 yards. Cooper. scratch. won:
Fred Sims. Washington. 100 yards.
second: ]. A. Newhouse. Buffalo. IS
yards. third. Time. sos 2-5.
Arthur Gardiner Of Chicago was the
scratch man in the fourth heat. with
starbuck the nearest at 40 yards. Gar
diner won. l.. A. Callahan. so yards.
second: Barney oldheld. 10 yards.
third. Time. 4:il 2-5.
f. c. Bald. scratch. was excused in
the fifth heat. Sam Brock and Jay
Eaton were on the Is yard mark. with
Frank Butler al 80 yards. Butler
CLOSED the line an easy winner. r.
c. Hoyt. so yards. second: VIII Cor
win. IS yards. third. Time. i.50 3-5.
Johnnie johnson was unable to start
in the sixth heat Of the two mile pro-
fessional handicap and +. A. McFar-
land was the only scratch man. with
James A. Church on the 40 yard line.
+. r. Hammer. at IS yards. and Frank
NJ. Dampman at 22s yards. Charles
A. Church won: c. 3. Wells 80 yards.
second: O. l.. Stevens. 70 yards. third
Time. s:iZ.
The next event was the one-third