The record-union., 1897-05-05

sweeper and the second a table cover.
THE BUSINESS MEMS RACE.
The business mems wheel racial
for sweet charity-drew an immense
crowd and wheels We're thick as leaves
on the lawn of the park. The judges
were State Controller Colgan and Supe-
rior Judges Johnson and Hart; referee,
Judge Catlin: timer, Judge Hinkson.
| What these grave and sedate seniors
don't know about the bicycle and the
art of riding is we'll worth knowing,
and they manifested it throughout.
Colonel E. R. Hamilton was starter
and for that office he brought his
bright smile and a seven-foot muzzle-
loading musket on the ground, a pow
der horn and a grin of determination
that so frightened rider Darlington
that he complained of the stomach ache
and retired. The threat of those
judges and that musket evidently
knocked out Frank Miller, H. Vein
stock, E. w. Hale and Harry Bennett,
who also defaulted. 1t was stated that
all four took to the woods early in
the morning.
The first pair to 60 one lap, was DR..
f. f. Tebbets and Secretary Ed Smith.
Tebbets tipped the scale at 344 and
Smith at $40, whereupon Tebbetts
claimed a handicap for the four pounds,
but the judges ordered the men up, and
up they went. 1t took six Capital
City stalwarts to hold the wheels per-
pendicular with the men up.
When the gun of Colonel Hamilton
shook the leaves off the cottonwood
trees Smith spurted and his starter
fell with a dislocated shoulder from the
effort to give him a good send off.
Tebbets cried out hold on" but his
starter sent him all the same. Then
there was hot work, for the next three
minutes and thirty-nine seconds, but
Smith rolled in winner by a box of
cigars and Tibbets came in on a
hurdle later. Smith soon after put up
his prize for the benefit of the society,
with w. H. Sherburn auctioneer, and
Russell Flint bought. it. However,
this was not accomplished until the
judges got in their work. Chief JUS
tice Colgan said the board decided it
was no race; that the men loafed, and
the thing should be done over Ref
cree Catlin upheld the decision and
cited presidents in support. Smith,
however, said go again didn't co.
and marched off with the cigars.
Then came Judge S. Scion Holl and
Superintendent O. w. Erlewine Colonel
Hamilton's gun flashed in the pan, but
the racers went just the same leaving
two strained starters behind Erlewine
came in winner in 2:45. The Judges
announced that it was no GO first be-
cause Erlewine mad been seen talking
to one of the judges on Monday, he
did not wear feather in his hat had
no regulation uniform on and couldn't
ride little bit. AS for Judge Holl,
Chief Justice Colgan declared that
racer Wore too many ribbons in his
| bonnet, but Referee Catlin said they
were club ribbons and rulable under a
decision he cited from Ill Mass Rep.
PIP. 264-o. ErleWine walked off with a
buggy robe.
Then came a race between A. Cas-
SELF, $40 pounds, and F. w Day, 341
pounds. They went like a whirlwind at
rest, with Casselli in the lead, he hav-
ing wrung in an 81 gear on Day and
wearing two inches more length of leg
than the stub-and- twist job printer.
who competed with him. He got home
in BIZ and won a buggy whip. But
NAi~ Jb0SCS NClC dll DIOhcH UP. t1fSL
they claimed that Hamilton's gun scar
ed Day, second that Casselli wore a
handkerchief at his throat, that is dis
allowed by the rules, and third, that
Day should have won the race because
his legs are shorter than Casselli's.
Referee Catlin disagreed with the
judges, and while Colgan and Catlin
We're arguing the case Casselli walked
| off wit ba g..
The final was between c. A Luhrs
P. Flaherty and ]. A. Woodson. Luhrs
mounted at 316, with a sweater weigh
ing half as much more. and a smile
that was so aggravating that Flaherty
entered protest, saying no man could
run against that grin. Flaherty got
: on thesaddle at 31S pounds avoirdupois
and when Woodson began to strip and
!. got down to his shirt and pantaloons
Flaherty roared and wanted that 100
pound fellow handicapped 800 yards
When the men went off Luhrs led
Woodson saying there was so much of
the merchant and the landlord that
when they once got started they
couldn't stop if they wanted to.
The men came in 2:44, Luhrs a
long first. Flaherty lost his wind on
the second turn and took a cross-cut
road, and at last accounts had not ar
rived at the score. Luhrs won a buggy
| whip. put it up 1t auction at the hands
of c. G. Wright, and Judge Hinkson
bought it for the benefit of the society.
The Judges declared that the whole
thing was job; that the managers OF
the society overruled them without
ryhme or reason; that the races were
put up things, and they resigned their
commissions on the spot, though Judge
Hart suggested an appeal Colonel
Hamilton shouldered his gun and walk
ed off. and Judge Catlin innocently
asked, rs it all over?" 1t was a splen-
did bit of fun, and While the thousands
of people enjoyed it, they did not have
half the merriment out of it that the
participants did.
The games We're managed by Tom
Scott. j. NJ Anderson and w. H. Sher-
burn, and we'll managed These. gem
tlemen entered into the spirit of all
that was done, and We're children with
the children for a day. The games
were too many and the participants too
numerous to justify any detailed ac-
count of them. The following winners
we are able to announce, each being
entitled to a prize contributed by gen.
erous and whole-souled merchants of
Sacramento who appreciate fully the
good work of the society:
Boys race. under 16 Won by
Charles Baker.
Girls race, under 16-Won by Edna
Kicker and Maude Erlewine
Boys race, under 10-Won by How