Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-20
MATTHEWS vs.. ALLEN.
The State Champion to Ride Against
the Pluckv Little Woman
Who Won the Six Gays Bicycle
Race Last Week-Wheeling Was
Defeated Yesterday by Fort
Wayne Results of Other
Games In the National and Inter-
state Leagues-OtherS Sport.


The great match race is to start at
the ball park tonight for a series of
three heats of rs miles each evening.
Mr.. w. N. Matthews is a very clever
and promising young rider who is
known throughout the State as rec
prd breaker. He has come to this city
7 to stay until his fate is decided-either
as winner of the much coveted purse
of $500 or the defeated champion, and
by the little English girl, otherwise
Mr.. Matthews was training on the
track yesterday morning, just as the
little girl expected, so she hurried
over the river, donned her green
sweater and jumped on her famous
little blue Peerless racing machine,
and they both rode like demons, test
ing each others sprinting and pacing
abilities for about twenty minutes,
when they both dismounted
satisfied if he could go no faster than
that, she thought that the purse would
just fit her up with new winter cos
tune at his expense. But Mr..
Matthews is of the same opinion, al
though he says Miss Allen resembles
a piece of machinery and never seems
to tire, ard admits that she will keep
him hustling more than many of his
male competitors. There is now
great problem to solve, namely, which
will be the lucky one
Up to the present time Miss Allen
has been heavily backed by her many
admirers, so some very fast riding sis
sure to result from this race, which
will be bitterly fought by both par
ties, and it is safe to say that some
records will be broken. 1t will be
race worth seeing, also "a purse we'll
worth riding for-$300 in gold, of
which 5000 goes to the winner and
500 to the loser.
Below are some of Mr.. Matthews
numerous records:
Mile race against a sex-triplet at
Pittsburg, September u, 1896, win
ming by a length in 2:03 is.
Ten mile State competition record;
time, 26 fiat.
Half-mile State record; time, so As.
Five mile State competition record;
time, 11:46.
Two mile State competition record;
time, :13 1-5.
One mile State championship, 1896
and 1897.
In 1895, he won ten first, five Sec
onds and one third. In 1896, IS firsts,
nine seconds and three thirds. IN
1897, % firsts, 10 seconds and five
thirds, out of As starts He has de-
feated such riders as Helbling, Wal
tiers and McLain, of Pittsburg; Connell,
of New Castle, Pa; H. B. Scott, G. G.
Aughenbaugh, P. J. McIntire, Harry
Woods, of Cleveland; Glen Milley, A.
L. Banker, George Helms and Claude
Doty. Won first place in a ten mile
road race at Wellsburg from the two
minute mark over l.. r. Dillon, of this
city, after having ridden only two
weeks His time was 80 minutes, Dill
lon taking first time in 20 minutes;
won first time and place at Wellsburg
July 4, 1896, in five mile race, time,
1885; rode 25 miles and 800 yards in
one hour, unpaced, at Wellsburg, Sep
TENDER 2, 1897; rode quarter mile ex>
hibition, unpaced, in :29 1-5, at New
Castle, Pa; took second place from
10 yard mark in the two mile handicap
race in which the State record of Penn
sylvania was broken in 1895, time,
4:0S2-5.
He holds the mile track record at
the Washington, Pa, track, time,
2:06; the mile track record at Steu-
benville, o., time, 2:05 Is; half mile
crack record at Sharon, Pa, time,
$50 rs mile track record at Shenley
Park track, Pittsburg, time, 2:03 1-5
All of the above records are standing