The herald., 1897-07-06
WON ON AFOUL
The Team Race Goes to
Santa Ana
HAMLIN THE CAUSE OF A FALL
Los ANGELES TEAM DISQUALI-
FLED FOR LOOKING BACK
A Fair Crowd Attends the Bicycle
Races at the Santa Monica
Track Yesterday


three days celebration of the South
California division, l.. A. W., and fair
crowd attended the bicycle races at the
Santa Monica track. The chief drawing
card was the twenty ve-mile team race
for the division cup, for which three
teams of three men each had entered.
At the last moment the East Side Cycling
club was unable to produce its team,
and the Santa Ana Athletic club and the
South Side Cycling club teams were left
to fight the battle alone. good race
had been looked for, and the fizzling out
of the contest was a great disappoint-
ment. The decision of Referee H. Bert
Ellis, in giving the race to Santa Ana,
was an eminently proper one and met
with the entire approval of the grand
stand.
The first race called for wac the mile
for Santa Monica riders only, for which
Rodgers, Clark and Hasse competed
The referee placed a limit of 2:25 on the
distance Hasse went out first and set
an excellent pace for the first third Of
a mile, making the distance in 45 sec
onds from a standing start. Clark picked
up the pace at the end of the turn on the
second lap, Rodgers hanging on, Hasse
tiring and slowly dropping back. Rod
gers went out in front of Clark on the
back stretch of the bell lap, and at the
beginning of the turn jumped for home.
Clark tackled on to his rear wheel and
half way up the home stretch came out
from behind his pace and gave challenge
to Rodgers. The effort was good one,
but it came too late to win, the judges
deciding a dead heat between yhe men.
Time, 2:19 2-5.
The third of a mile open for amateurs
drew out a field of five, of which F'urman
was the star, the others being Brother
ton, Rodgers, Hasse and Clark. A limit
of so seconds was placed upon the race.
Rodgers started to the front at fast
gait, with Clark hanging on. On the
back stretch the field punched, Rodgers
falling back. Furman let out his sprint
on the turn, Clark tacking on. The
latter, however, could not hold the pace
Furman set and dropped slowly back
Furman winning handily by an open
length, Clark getting second place from
Hasse. who was a poor third. Brother
ton and Rodgers sat up in the home
stretch. Time, "A
The next event was the twenty-five
mile team race. The dropping out of the
East Siders left only two teams to fight
for the ei ,. Bundy, Glenn and Engla
represe' 70. the Santa Ana Athletic club,
and Ru-A., Furman and Hamlin made
up the team of the South Side Cyclins 8
club. The finish of the first mile
showed the game that the South Siders
intended to play. They would line up
across the track on the sprint and
simply shut the Santa Ana men out.
Glenn and Bundy were successful in
beating out Hamlin on the first sprint,
but that was all they could o. The Los
Angeles men, however, were constant
ly looking back, and the fruit of this,
bound to come some time on a track,
soon made itself visible. AS the teams
were sprinting for the tape at the enc
of the fourth mile, Ruess and Furman
were leading, and Hamlin was passing
Glenn and Bundy. Hamlin looked back.
his wheel swerved and down he went.
With crash Glenn went over him, car
rying Bundy with him. When Glenn got
up it was found he had a broken collar
bone, rendering it impossible for him to
ride further. When this fact became
known the referee declared the race at
an end, deciding that the Santa Ana
team was entitled to the cup because
the accident putting them out of the
race was caused by an infraction of thg
racing rules-the one forbidding a con-
testant to look behind him. The grani
stand received the decision with up
roarious applause but the South Siders
implanted a terrific verbal kick 1t did
no good, however, and the cup went tc
Santa Ana.
"A coasting contest was held TO fill in
time, the starters going to the top of the
bank and coasting down as far as the
wheel would go. E. F. Clark, on a
Tribune, went nearly a sixth of a mile
with the start he got from a twenty foot
bank; Arthur Morgan, on Duquesne,
was only one length behind, and would
have gone further if he had not been
forced up the bank to avoid another
rider, and "Svengali" Berry was a good
third
SUMMARY
One mile, Santa Monica riders only
Guy Rodgers and E. F. Clarke dead heat
for first place, e. A. Hasse third Time.
2:19 2-5.
OHc-tHlio iHlie opeH, dHld leur-W +.
Furman first, e. F. Clarke second. E. A.
Hasse third. Time, 0:44.
Twenty five mile team race-Santa
Ana Athletic club team won on foul
Coasting contest-E. F. Clarke first,
Arthur Morgan second, M. F. Berry
third.
CONDEMN HIS UTTERANCES