The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-12
Gardiner Knocked Out of the Great
American Handicap.
NEW HANDICAP RECORDS
EDDIE BALD WON THE HALF
MILE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Coliett Won His Third Championship
In the Quarter Mile Contest
Peabody of Chicago Took the Five
Mile Championship-Johnson and
Butler Fail to Make Showing.

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. n.-More
record breaking and more sensational
finishes marked the second day of the
national meet of the League of Ameri-
can Wheelmen. One serious accident
knocked Arthur Gardiner out of the
final of the great American $1,000 han
dicap race, and nearly placed plucky
Bill Martin hors du combat. This
happened at the close of the second
heat of the contest, Martin being at
the front of the bunch and apparently
a winner, when he slipped over the
pole and slid along the track. Car
diner went over him, Ed Stevens fol-
lowed and then Lou Coburn went down
in the heap. Cooper and Mcfarland
were in the finish, but escaped from
the spill, Cooper dismounting from his
wheel, as white as the wheel itself.
Gardiner could not ride in the great
final, but Martin did ride to show his
pluck From 90 yards he gained
fourth, leading the bunch over the
tape. Bald Freeman, Becker and
Cooper followed Martin, who took his
hands off the bars and sat up to re-
lieve his poor, strained back. as he
made his finish After circling the
track part way he dismounted, for he
could ride no further. Martin was the
hero Of the meet, for he came out to
ride as badly a cut up and Jared man
as has been seen on the track this year.
Fred Costello, the st. Louis anna
teur, who qualified today for the great
fiVe-nile amateur championship, took
the handicap, with Maya of Erie sec
ond and L. Shall of Philadelphia third.
The same trio made the back mark
men look foolish in the third heat by
working together and keeping out Of
the way well.
Owing to the withdrawal of Gardi-
ner, Bald went from the scratch alone,
his great rival Cooper, having 20
yards. The race was a pretty one, but
the generosity of the Handicapped
toward the eX-amateur, who has beat
en- Peabody, in giving him $50 yards.
enabled the limit men to prevail and to
prevent the back men closing in the
time they had cut out. Bald finished
fifth in 400, a new handicap record by
nine and four-fifths seconds. He broke
it also in the heat, doing it in 4:15 %
very handily. The new rule allowing
handicap records in a class by them
selves is the explanation of why these
were handicap records.
Gardiner and Martin were not the
Only big men to fall, as Collett, the
New Haven amateur, fell in the five
mile championship, through the foul
riding of c. S. Porter, the Detroit anna
teur. Porter was disqualified for the
meet and censured by the chairman.
Collett, however, took the quarter-mile
championship, his third win in the
championship contests, and, with his
partner, he made it four by cleverly
winning the handicap championship
Tor tandem teams at the mile distance
Earl W. Peabody, the Chicago anna
teur, took the five-mile championship |
by a good, clean-cut win, and ErtZ and |
kraemer followed him across the tape /
1t was The Eddie Bald Of old that |
shot into the lead in the final of the |
half mile national championship. his |
first win of championship race at |
national meet since 1895, the start of |
his career Gardiner claimed to have |
been crowded over the pole by Nc |
Farland, who took second to Bald, with |
Freeman third and Cooper fourth, and !
protested the Californian to the chair |
man of the racing board. The protest |
was not allowed.
In the second days racing Kimble of |
Louisville did nothing, and Taylor |
called to qualify for the championship |
and for the great American handicap, |
in the former owing to being third in |
the slowest heat, and in the latter ow-
ing to the loafng tactics which he and |
other back mark men put up. Stevens
and John S. Johnson and Tom Butler
again failed to show in the races of the
day, and Cahanne did nothing.
AS close to the great day of sport, !
Harry Gibson did mile, paced, in
l AS 3-5, the quarter in OPS 2-5, half in
O:53 2-5 and the three-quarters in
1:l9 S-5. He was paced poorly by a
triple and a quad
Summaries for the afternoon races
were as follows:
First race. quarter of mile, national
championship, semi-inal-E. c. Haus-
man first, E. L. Kraemer, Newark, sec
ond. Time-0:92 4-5 Last eighth.
O:12 2-5. ]. P. Rogers, Philadelphia, and
2. S. Porter, Detroit, also ran.
Second semi-final-George Schofield,
Brooklyn, first; Edward Llellwyn,
Chicago, second. Time-0:32 3-5. Last
eighth, 0:13 3-5.
Final heat-G. H. Collett, New Ha-
ven, first; e. G. Hausman, New Ha-
ven, second; Edward Llellwyn, Chi
ago, third. Time-0:31 3-5. Last
eighth, 0:13 So. Kraemer also ran.
Semi-fnal, half mile professional, ma
icnal championship-Firs heat, Nc
Tarland, California, first>-Gooper, De-
rot, second; Major Taylor Indianap-
Ills, third. Time-1:O2 3-5. Last eighth ,
Els So.
Final. one mile. amateur handicap j
:. V. Brown, 125 yards, won; J. w. s
)onnell, 100 yards. second; Herbert
segler, 100 yards third. Time-2:05.
MICHAEL DEFEATS TITUS. /,