The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-04
ELKEs DEFEATS TAYLoRE.
Hour Wheel Race Between the Two
Champions.

New York, Dec. 3.-The indoor cycle
season, which was begun at Madison
Square Garden tonight under the au-
spices of the American Cycle Racing
association, attracted an immense at
tendance, nearly 10000 A banked board
track, measuring ten laps to the mile,
has been laid down around the edges of
the arena.
The programme was made up of six
events, the principal of which was a
special match race between the worlds
one hour champions, Edouard Taylore
of France and Harry D. Elkes of
Glen's Falls, N. Y, paced by tandems.
George Schneider of this city won
the honors in the final heat of the one
mile amateur indoor championship very
easily.
Nat Butler of Boston won the profess
sional indoor championship at a mile
very handily from Walthour of At
lanta, and Goldman of this city Head
strom, the Brooklyn man, who finished
fourth, had a bad fall in the final lap,
but pluckily remounted.
As the programme was too lengthy,
the finals in this event and the trials
and final in the half mile professional
handicap were postponed until some
evening during the coming week, in or
der that the one hour race between
Taylore and Elkes could be decided be-
fore midnight
The petroleum motor tandem, which
was to have paced Eddie McDuffee of
Boston in his one mile exhibition, was
rendered useless by the bursting of a
tire. The motor, it is claimed can
cover a mile in less than a minute on
a large track, but on the ten-lap track
it was impossible to test the machine
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turns.
The last event, the one hour match
between Taylore and Elkes, was begun
a few minutes before II O'Clock. The
men were paced by tandems and the
prize was a purse of 81, 200, $500 of which
went to the loser. The men started
from opposite sides of the track.
The American rider was the quicker
away when the pistol cracked. and at
the end of the first mile he had gained
nearly q, quarter of a lap on the French
man. Elkes kept on gaining steadily.
and at the beginning of the ninth mile
he was almost two and one-half laps
(One-quarter of a mile) ahead During
the eleventh mile EllIes still further in
creased his lead, and Taylore, in his
efforts to keep up, rode away ahead OIL
his pacemakers. El1es kept forging
ahead. and when he had completed the
fourteenth mile ne was three and one
half laps to the good. He seemed to be
flying around the track. and soon had
another lap to his credit, forcing Tay-
lore to leave his pacemakers again,
the French rider lacking on behind the
American for a couple of Laps Fixes
passed the twenty mile mark in 1918 Is
and was then more than half a mile
ahead.
He was eight laps to the good at the
end of the twenty-fffth mile, and the
watch of the timers indicated 54:4S 2-5.
Encouraging cries greeted Ellxes on
each revolution, and he continued to
gain to the end. When the pistol ended
the race. EllIes had covered twenty
seven miles, 1,014 yards in the hour,
while Taylore was more than a mile
behind
The hour record held by Ellles on an
outdoor track is thirty miles, 1920
yards.
One mile, scratch, professional, in
door Championship of America, final
won by Nat Butler, Boston; second,
Robert Walthour Atlanta; third, F. r.
Goodman, New York; fourth, Oscar
Hedstrom, Brooklyn. Time-2:42