The herald., 1897-12-26
CHASE CHASED
But Never Caught Little
Michael
WHEEL EXPERTS GUESSING
JUST HOW GOOD THE WELSH
RAREBIT Is
WHEEL EXPERTS GUESSING
Bicycle Races at Madison Square Gar
den-Turf Results-Gridiron
Games-Athletic Notes
Associated Press Special Wire

Associated Press Special Wire
NEW YORK, Dec. 25.-Jimmy Mich
ael of Wales. the recognized middle dis
tance bicycle champion of this country
met Arthur A. Chase. the middle dis
tance champion of England, tonight at
Madison Square garden in 90-mile race
over a ten-lap board track and won SC
easily, despite bad spill, that the bicy-
Gle experts are guessing just how good
the little ''rarebit" is.
Pluck, endurance, stamina and every
other quality that goes to establish the
possession of grit seem to be embodied
in every inch of the Welshman. Moth
ing seems to tire him.
The building was thronged to its ut
most capacity when Michael, the mid
get, and Chase, the leviathan, jumped
on their wheels for a few preliminary
spins around the track, which meas
ured one foot over the necessary dis
tance to make it ten laps to the mile.
At the turns the board track was
banked as high as ten feet from the
level of the boarded floor of the garden.
1t was announced that the winner
would get 25 per cent of the gross re-
ceipts and the losers end would be IL
per cent The managers Of the show
guaranteed that the winner would get
$500 and the loser $1,000, but judging
from the crowded condition of the house
the amount of money which the cracks
far in of the
Both got on their marks at 1915, and
before they mounted their wheels they
shook hands.
1t was announced that in case either
man fell during the first four laps the
riders would be recalled, and this pre-
caution took effect in the first lap. Chase
got tangled up with his leaders after the
race was started at 1915 o'clock, and at
the end of the lap the men were ordered
back to the scratch mark.
Chase won the toss and took the pole
He started out at a rapid gait, but the
little Welshman soon overlook him and
at the end of the second mile was over
a lap ahead.
Michael gained another lap in the
fourth mile and the spectators cheered
the little wonder" vociferously. Mich
ael was simply invincible and at the
finish of the fifth mile he gained an
other lap on his countryman.
Both men picked up their tandems
very cleverly. Michael kept up heart
breaking pace and at the finish Of the
seventh mile was five laps to the good
At the finish of the eleventh mile Mich
ael spurted and gained another lap,
which put him six laps ahead.
In the fourteenth mile two of Mich
ael's PAGERS went over the bank, but
were not seriously injured.
In the next mile, on the fourth lap,
Michael ran high up on the Madison
avenue turn and both men fell in heap,
their PAGERS also taking "cropper."
Michael remounted his wheel and got
another lap to the good before Chase
recovered himself. At the end of the
sixteenth mile Michael was thirteen laps
ahead.
In the twenty-siXth mile Chase fell
heavily at the Fourth avenue turn and
was unable to go on with the race. He
ran into two tandem teams and was
badly cut up.
In the smashup Chase's bicycle was
broken. He borrowed Taylor's wheel
DuL Ildu " ledNe lIle lTdCk. Ildu CHdSe
been able to continue, however, he prob
ably would have been beaten by about
two miles. as Michael was almost that
distance ahead of him when the acci
dent occurred, and was rapidly gaining
Michael's time for the thirty miles was
64:05 1-5.
Other results We're as follows: One
mile. professonal-Tria heats-First
heat won by Jean Gougoltz, France; o
Hedstrom, Brooklyn, second. Time
2:15 is.
Second won by r. A. Miller, New York