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The Decoration Day races, under tho
control of the Cycle Board Of Trade, at
tracted vast crowd of spectators, and
those who attended were We'll repaid
for their journey 10 International Atnieuc
Park. The list of entries was large, and
the finishes We're close for all save tie
scratch men In the one-miie amateur
handicap Throop's riding, in both his heat
and race was the feature of the event,
He won his heat from the 50-yard mark
III 2:O9 and the race in 2.10, which would
make the time for the mile about 2:14,
plobably the fastest time ever made on
the track.
Throop's terrific pace undoubtedly ac-
counts for the failure to qualify by Billie
Sims from the 20-yard mark, and Hal
stead from the scratch, in their heat
Schade, In his heat, had probably the
best chance of any of the scratch men
to win, as he is very quick to get Off,
and he h ad CIum, who is a slow starter,
on the 20-yard mark TO pace him. He
made a strong effort to shorten the gap
betw cen himself and the winners, but with
out success.
Referring to the criticism of the hand
fcapping for the Decoration Day meet
Mr.. William T. Robertson yesterday gave
the following sch edule OF results and state
ment:
Seventeen riders on the ITO yard mark
novices who never raced before, quail
fied 3 riders on the 160 yard mark novices
who have raced before, none qualified;
4 riders on the 100 yard mark, novices
who have raced before. 2 qualified; 8
riders on the 40 yard mark, novices who
have raced before, l qualified; riders
on the l20 yard mark, novlces who have
raced before none qualified; l rider on
the 100 yard mark, novice who has raced
before, qualified. Out Of 32 riders who
were ahead OF 100 yard mark but quail
fled. Seven riders on the s5 yard mark,
qualified: riders on the 10 yard mark,
qualified: riders on the so yard mark,
none qualified; 8 riders on the SO yard
mark, l qualified.
..Tmoop, on the 5o-yard mark, came
ont first in bis heat, and finish
ed first in the final from the same mark.
He rode what is known as head race
rode with judgment worthy of a scratch
man, and his riding was remarked upon by
all who noticed him. LII persons acquaint-
ed with the speed qualities of Throop,
Scbade, Wilson and HaIst tead admit that
Throop was fifty yards slower In the mile
tran the scratch men, but the trouble
was that the scratch men did not ride
withthe same judgment as Throop. Schade
rode with more Judgment than Halstead
and Wilson, but even be himself admits
that b could have won his heat If he had
used better Judgment. The trouble with
Wilson and Halstead was that they were
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The spectators objected because the
scratch men did not qualify, and blamed
tile Handicapped because the limit was too
large; but still. on July last. the mile
handicap limit was ITS yards, and the
nearest man to scratch was a forty-yard
mark man, and still Sims, the scratch man,
Won
IF the table shown above is studied 1t
viii be found that the handlcapping was
remarkably we'll done, the trouble was that
the scratch men did not ride DIS they
should tave ridden. This is shown by their
records.
When Handicapped takes twenty four
novice riders and so places them on three
different marks that but four of them
qualify, aud has rider from each of the
other seven lower marks each one ten
them so that fifty yard-mark man wins
the race. h,- is doing remarkable piece or
handicapping 1t is the more wonderful
when 1t is taken into consideration that
all but the two back mark men In each OF
the three heats finish edi in bunch, so close
that the judges had difficulty in picking
out the fourth man in each heat
This is piece of handicapping which
especially when it is known that but four
out of the sixty-one entering filled out
their entry blanks, as called for by the
rules, the ma jority having sent in blanks
witch nothing on them but the plain entry
Instead of throwing out the blanks and the
men frcm the race, as required by the
rules, the Handicapped, rather than spoil
the race did the work without any assist
ance but what he personally knew OF the
riders ability
The next local race meet will be held at
International Athletic Park on June II
under the direction of the International
Athletic Park and Amusement Company.
The events will be- One mile novice, two
thirds of mile open, professional one
mile open. amateur; one mile open, profess
sional two thirds of mile open, amateur,
and match race between Lawson, the
terrible Swede,' and a running horse
The interest of local cyclists 10 out-of-
town events was last week centered on
the Waltham, Mass, races on Decoration
Day, when Cooper and Bald met in two
events Bald again proved to be better
man than Cooper, and Kiser proved to be
a better man than both in the half-Inile
event.
Rain interfered slightly with the meet.
The final Of half-mile had Cooper, Bald,