The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-10


The report shall be accompanied by score
card. The referee may permit an unregis-
tered rider to start provided the rider de-
posts the fee Of 81 with the referee to be
sent to the member for the district, together
with the full name and address Of the rider.
G-Handicappers.
1. The board shall appoint seven or more
league handicappers, giving to each a special
district at its discretion, who SHALL for a
stated fee, attend to the classification and
handicapping Of racing men. Classifcations
shall be based upon the actual time made by
the man entering for the distance Of the
class race under consideration. Handicaps
shall be based upon the ability well
record of the contestants. Handicaps shall
be framed, and the men classified before the
day of the race shall appear on the pro-
gramme, and shall not be changed during
that days meeting.
q fee Of twenty five cents may be
charged for each handicap, and ten cents for
each classified entry, to be paid by the club
or promoters Of the race meeting for which
the handicapping and classifying is done.
g. Any contestant in a handicap or class
district Handicapped shall be liable to sus-
pension from the race track for such time
as the racing board may determine, except
that in closed club school races the cap
tain of such club or school may do the handi-
Gaping.
4. ImmeQlately a1ter the nanQlcapS are
made, the Handicapped must send to the mem
Der granting the sanction, a list containing
the names, street. number, city and state of
all entries to the meet.
H-ChampiOnships.
1. The National L. A. w. championship
events shall be follows: one-quarter. one
third one-half. one mile, two-mile and five
mile bicycle
2. The professional national championship
shall be determined by points won in the
national championship races run on the ma
tional circuit. At least one national cham
| pionship race (subject to the approval of the
! chairman) shall be run each day Of
national circuit meet land as many others as
desired by the promoter) at any of the DIS
| tanceS named in paragraph l. The first prize
| must be not less than $150. Not more than
one, dollar entry fee shall be charged Tor
nothing at the discretion of the promoter)
and no ore shall be allowed to start whore
regular entry made out on the proper blank.
has not been filed with the promoter. in ccm
than five entries, trial heats shall be run
until the contestants are reduced to not more
than five for the final. The first to finish IN
the final shall count six in the championsh p
table. the next four, the next three. the next
two and the next one; except at the national
meet, when the first to finish shell count unit
sixty, the next forty, the next thirty: the
| next twenty, and the next ten Shouli
any of the championship races for any Of
the omitted races will be ASSIGNED to the
national circuit and the count will be scored
as If they were run at the national meet,
! shall be published in the bulletin of the
chairman and the contestant having the
greatest number at ali distances at the end OF
the national circuit shall be declared the
champion. No excessive time limits shall
be placed on these races. and they shall be
open to the world. In the trial heats Of these
| races pacemakers shall not qualify for the
final, and no one shall be allowed to compete
in the final for any other reason than win.
ming one of the qualifying positions. If
fhera 10 between two
more, those making the dead heat may run
it over or decide by lot at the discretion of
the referee.
g. The amateur national championship races
shall be run at the national meet. The win
ners of final and second positions in the finfl1
of the quarter third. half; two-mile and
five-mile Tor any of them shall qualify foT
the one mile, and the winner of the one mile
shall be declared the cham2ion: The t tro-
shall be medals. to cost in no case more than
$50 per set of three, gold. silver and bronze.
respectively. to be struck from dies owned
by the league.
H. Each L. A. w. division may contest
under the supervision Of its division racing
board. events to be known as division oh I'M
pionships. These may be corresponding to
the national championships, or otherwise, as
each division racing board may decide.
No prize except medals, suitably inscribed,
shall be given to or received by any cyclist
competing in division championships.
Each division racing board shall have en-
tire charge of all matters pertaining to the
running Of the championships of its division:
The division championships shall be contes ed
at such places as the division racing board
may determine, but shall be assigned orry
to league clubs. Division championships
are open to any league members residing in
the division.
S. The racing board shall give at least
thirty days notice Of the location and date
of the amateur national champi pic, d.,
divisions give at least fourteen days not &c
of the location and date of the division cham
No city or county che g,pionship shall be
recognized unless approved by the division
board.
I-Reccrds.
1. TIE racing board will receive and pass
upon all claims for records. either compe-
tition time.
The standard table of recognized records
shall be ", Ia, a, 2-3, y, l mile, and all
even miles upward; no intermediate distances.
Competition record must be made at an open
meeting. Tho board will enter no competi-
tion record on its books that is not made
at an open meeting, of which at least one
weeks notice has been given.
Records against time may be made at an
open meeting, or In private, and with or
without pacemakers. Records made at private
trials will only be allowed IL at least
weeks notice has been given the chairman
of the board that such attempts are to be
made.
in records against time; standing-start only
in competition records.
2. At any such trials there shall be present
referee; who shall be properly accredit-
ed representative of the L. A. W, appointed
by the chairman upon application; three
judges three timers and. in addition at
least twelve witnesses all of whom shall
sign a statement attesting to the correctness
of the record. No private trials will be
sanctioned between June l and Oct. l. or
Jan. / and March 1.
8. Claimants must furnish a sworn state
ment from the tnekeepers. certifying that
the time claimed is correct. together with a
sworn statement from q competent surveyor,
certifying the measurement of the track. :,
When p claim for record has been proved
to the satisfaction of the board, the record
shall be published in the official organ. ard
stand rs record on the books of the board:
No claim for record made at meeting not
governed by league rules will be considered.
No claim for record made on Sunday VIII
be considered.
4. A competition record must be made in
race between men.
| S. Records made with the assistance cf
| other than recognized cycling machines, rro-
| pelled by man-power. viii be recorded sspa-
! rately.
| 8. In uupaeed events. or during unpaced