The morning times., 1897-02-12
HANDICAP RACES TONIGHT
Sites, the Local Skating Champion,
VIII Be Scratch Man.
All the Local Experts Entered.
The Contest VIII Be Close
and Exciting.

There will be a race at the Convention
Stites, the champion of the District of
Columbia and Maryland, will give "a han
dicap to all who enter Sites has shown
his superiority in such a decided way
over the skaters of this section of the
country that the only way to make a race
Interesting in which he is entered is for
him to allow handicaps to all who are
willing to skate against him
Sites was presented with the gold medal
Wednesday as first prize in The races re
Gently held at the rink for the skating
championship of Maryland and the Dis
trict. The second prize, a silver medal,
went to Ed Hewes, who will enter the race
tonight
The race Will take place at 8 O'Clock
and will be for two miles or twenty laps.
Handicaps up to one and one-half laps will
be allowed, and this will place all the con
testants about on an equal footing, as they
will be given with view of bringing all
the men together at the finish.
As far as known the following viii enter
the race: Sites, Hewes, Frear, Morris,
Williams, Halves, LIE Mat, and Lewis.
These men are well known in this city as
good skaters, with the possible exception
of Lewis. He is a new one at speed
skating, but has shown in the short time
he has been at It that he is as much al
home on the long steels as he is on
rockers Lewis attended the carniva!
held ut the Baltimore rink, Saturday night
last, and took first prize for Washing
ton for his excellent impersonation of the
Sultan Of Turkey.
In the race tonight the handicaps Will
be announced just before 1T is started
In all probability Hewes, Hawes, and
Frear will be given the limit OF lap
and a half. Morris will probably get half
a lap, as he is counted upon as being
speedier than any OF the other entries
Morris would have received second prize
in the championship races had he not
fOUlcd Hawes in the ten-miie event
Williams and LIE Mat will probably get a
ap each, with Lewis placed somewhere il
that vicinity between the haif-lap and LAP
marks. This arrangement Will place the
men on an almost equal footing, and will
give Sites plenty OF work in order tC
win the race. 1t is believed, however
that lie will have no trouble in doing this
and barring accidents, he Will in all likeli
| hood retain his prestige as the champion
skater Of this section.
There is every likelihood that Sites will
go TO Baltimore in few days in order to
meet the fleet skaters of the Monumental
| City on their own ground. 1t has been the
| custom for the past month or so for a
| number of the best skaters in Baltimore to
attend the rink in this city. They have
| been in the habit, too, of casting remarks
| about the poor skating in Washington, and
| this has induced Sites to take up the idea
| that he will go to Baltimore and show
| the skaters of that city that they do moi
| know what speedy skating is. 1t is not
! anticipated the he viii have much trouble
| indoing this for it will be remembered how
| easily he 6istanced Shearer in the one mile
race, in the championship series Shearel
| is said to be the speediest man in Ralti
more, but Sites had lap on him in the
| mile before he had gone half the distance
| Sites will ia ke his trip in short time, anC
| will probably allow handicaps to the Balti-
| more skaters after he has given an ex
| hibition OF his speed In that city.