The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-12-04
ONE HOUR CHAMPION
WHEELMEN CONTEST
Elkes, the American, Easily Out
Pedals Taylore, the French
,:..-. Crack

NEW YORK, Dec 3.-The indoor cycle
season, which was begun at Madison
Square Garden tonight under the
auspices of the American Cycle Racing
Association, attracted an immense attend
ance-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 spe-
cial match race between the worlds one
hour champions, Edouard Taylore of
France and Harry D. Elkes of Klenns
Falls. n. Y, paced by tandems.
George c. 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 Atlanta
and Goodman of this city. Headstrom OF
the Brooklyn men, who finished fourth,
had bad fall in the final lap. but pluck
lily remounted. AS the programme was
too lengthy the finals in this event and
the trials and final in the half-mile pro-
fessional handicap were postponed until
some evening during the coming week.
in order that the one hour race between
'IayloTe and Fixes could be decided be-
fore midnight.
was to have paced Eddie McDuffie 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 minute on large track,
but on the ten lap track it WAS impossi-'
bic. TO test: the machine at full speed
owing to the number of turns.
The last event, the one-hour match be-
tween. Taylor and E.nes, was begun few
minutes before IL o'clock. The men were
paced by tandems, and the prize was
purse of 1920, $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 anu at the
end of the first mile he had gained near
ly a quarter of lap on the Frenchman.
Fixes kept on gaining steadily, and at the
beginning of the ninth mile he was al
most two and a half laps Ga quarter of
mile) ahead.
During the eleventh mile Eikes still fur
Their increased his lead and Taylore, in his
efforts to keep up, rode away ahead of his
pacemakers. Elkes kept forging ahead
and when he had completed the fourteenth
mile he 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 Taylore to leave his pace
makers again, the French rider lacking on
behind the American for a couple of laps.
Elkes passed the 2O-mile mark in 1918 3-5
ahead. He was eight laps to the good
at the end of the twenty-fifth mile and the
watch of the timers indicated A:4S 2-5.
encouraging cries greeted Elkes on
to the end. When the pistol ended the
race Elkes had covered 81 miles 1914 wards
in the hour. while Taylore was more than
a mile behind.
The hour record held by Elkes on an
outdoor track is "a miles 1920 yards
The one-mile scratch professional indoor
championship of America final was won
by NAT Butler, Boston; second. Robert
New York: fourth, Oscar Headstrom,
Brooklyn. Time. 2:42 As.