Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-08-16

| awheei reaching his destination at !
o clock in the afternoon. He remain
ed in the city du ing the meet. and
started home Sunday evening at O'Clock
reaching this city early Monday morning.
The Westminster Cycle Club at its latest
chose green and red tassels for the clubs
| emblem. The club made a run to Forest
Glen yesterday. The Wednesday evening
| The Ball Bearing Cycle Club selected
Jockeys for yesterdays destination. The
| club expects tc be represented in the CEN
fury run to Frederick next month.
The Spoke and Hub Club has changed its
| headquarters to 41S 10th street
/ j. F. Broadbent of the Arlingtons has
gone to Lockport, N. Y, and on his return
| winter in Washington.
Many OF the members of the Chain and
| Sprocket Club are out of town. Mr. Berg
man mas gone to Philadelphia. and VIII re-
| main there for some time, making a short
| trip to Atlantic City meanwhile. Portner is
| spending his vacation at Manassas Va
while Brady has gone to Maryland where
| ne VIII spend a season roaming about the
country. Danenhower is In New York on a
| visit va
| Recent Feats On the Wheel
| A. w. Evans, the N. Y. A. c. wheelman.
on Saturday broke the New Jersey 100
mile record by riding the distance in hrs.
l min. 421k sec. The course was from New
|
The worlds road record for 100 miles is
held by A. B. Mcdonnell. who covered the
| century in 4.4009 at Buffalo. Evans start
! ed at 1:OO.10 am and finished at 1a:O1 5,Is
Pm He was paced by two tandems The
| previous Jersey record for 100 miles was
hours So minutes. Evans on Tuesday last
covered 35o miles in "a hours making a
| new American record.
! AT Manhattan Beach, N. Y. Saturday the
| final heat of the two-,hirds-mile profes-
4 S1Onal nv
[ Quill Club Wheelmen; Major TAYLOR col
ored, Cambridge, Mass second; Fred. ].
Iitus, Riverside Wheelmen third; Walter
' Sanger, Milwaukee, fourth. Time, 1:33
/ AT the Bankers Ath..t tic Club cycle meet
IN chicago Saturday, Fred. Nelson broke
the record for ten miles. paced by almost
~ seconds His time is DOB AS and p II
| Is the old mark. He made the first mile in
FOG 80: second in Ala. fifth in 1913 Is,
eighth In 1877 is, tenth in 22O3 4-5.
| The Burley-Rnedy "Go.-
The preliminaries to the Burley-Raedy
60 at Spa Club. August IL. will be eight
rounds between Monk Robinson and lobe
Farker and eight rounds between Arthur
Jones and Will Clinton.
Wefcrs Conceded Too Much.
| The st. George Athletic Association held
its annual games on the ST. George ova,
at Gutenberg. N. J.. Saturday before Ooo
| spectators. Bernard J. Wefers was placed
In heat with fast men who had large
handicaps, and failed to get a place. The
| sensation was the 3OO-yard run. which
brought out Thomas Burke, the Boston A.
A. crack and quarter-mle champion. nj
| w. Long of the Nov York Athletic Club
and a field of tw, u lone men with big
| handicaps Burke from scratch con,
| cedlng Long one !. . and a half. At the
| oo-yaro marx Long a 4 away from Burke
ana won by . yards - minutes II Is sec
| onds.
National "uft Races.
| At the national uit bicvcle races at
| Waverly. N J., S;s day, thirty-fye men
| started in the five he handicap for pro-
fessionals. Nat Blu won from Becker of
Minneapolis. who " on the hundred-yar1
mark; Gardiner thi Oldfield fourth. The
one-mile open for Professionals was won
| by E. c. Bald, VA beat Mertens by a
| wheel, the same di u ice separating Gardi-
ner and Cooper, 20 finished third and
| fourth, respectivelyx In the haIf-mile ham
! dicap Bald failed taHset through the front
bunch. Wells worm &iser did not start
| as he was not welfs
| Elliott On ,oots Glover.
! At Rochester Sa Zday J. A. R. Elliott
| of Kansas City VIC the Kansas City Star
| cup from Sim Glo,& of Rochester in the
| match shooting at ~ live birds, by score
| of ~ to "a. Glove,fHyas out of form from
| hard practice and ¢ competition, and
| tired visibly before he end of the match.
| Elliott shot steadily nd strongly, and was,
perhaps, little fa' red in the flying of his
| birds. The contest X as over a thirty-yard
| range, sixty yards q nit, unknown traps.
Mile whe ed in LBS is.
| Eddie McDuffee sSturday afternoon rode
| in Charles River F Erk, Boston. the tastes;
| mile ever ridden b. a bicyclist, his official
time being IS Ia The previous record
| was l 80 1-5, made ~ Hamilton at Denver
| last year.
McDufee was pa Fed by a seXtet and a
| quintuplet. There us great crowd pres
| ent and the enthu SaSm tumultuous.
| The time by Quar9 Yrs was: OBS, 0:4y So,
| lib 80. 5S 1-5.
| n. A. A. 10. Officers.
| At meeting of e National Assocfa ton
Of Amateur OarsmeS in Philadelphia Satur-
| day the following Officers were elected: Pres
| ident. w. c. Jupp, s'etroit; vice president,
| Walter Simpson, N4rth Cambridge, Mass.
| treasurer, Robert III. FELTON, BROOKLYN:
! secretary, Fred r. sfortmcyer, Newark. N
| j. George H. Roo of Philadelphia was
| chosen a member A. the executive COM
! mittee. vice George. w. Statzell. who re-
| signed. The place fsr holding the next re-
gatta will be decided at the January meet
| ing of the association.
II. ID. Wrenn's 1sefent by Nisbet.
Robert d. Wrenn't defeat by the Eng
lishman Nisbet married The closing play of
tho Wyandotte tennis tourney at Chicago
Saturday. The Englfshmln performed the
feat in a three-set latch, leaving himself,
Larned and Wrenn I'd for first place. The
tie cannot be decidetsin Chicago as all the
players left on the $lft ernoon train The
club has decided to- allow the PLAYERS to
settle 1t among themselves. The standing
follows: Wrenn. Lakned and Nisbet each
won four ard lost ons,; Eaves wen two and
lost three; Mahoney sand Collins each lost
Tour. In the international series the ATneri-
cans have won five matches and lost three
two Of which were taken from Collins
MAhl ln