The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-02
Miles.

Men, boys and girls thronged every avail
able inch of the garden tonight for the reg
ular indoor bicycle races, which were held
under the auspices of the American Cycling
Racing Association. The board trak was
arranged so that the riders had to cover ten
laps to complete a mile, and the measure
ment was vouched for by three city survey
ors. AT o'clock it was estimated that 10, 900
people were in the big building and then
there were fully half as many more clamor-
ing for admission at the entrances. The
trial heats in the preliminaries began at s
O'Clock and the finishes in every instance
were very close.
In the first heat of the best two out of
three races of the one-mile match race be-
tween Jean GougoltZ, of France, and Nat
Butler, of Boston, the Frenchrnan won by
half wheel from the Boston man after
t,ervals between the first and second heats.
Arthur A. Chase, the English rider spun
around the track in a one-mile pace exhibit
ton, which he covered in 1853 2-5 paced by
two tandems The second race between
Gougoltz and Butler was paced by Freed
man, Of Portland, Ore, and Butler won in
pursuit race between Harry Elkes, of
Saratoga, and James Warburton, of Eng
land land was the next on the programme.
Elkes caught his man easily after travers-
ing one mile and one lap. Time, 2:47 1-5.
The third heat of the match was the run
on Bus ,d, had t che pole and caught the
high on the bank. For eight laps Butler
held the lead by half a wheel and at the
beginning of the ninth the PAGER dropped
out and Gouglotz cut loose In the last
two laps the French rider outgeneraled the
Boston man and after hard squirt Gouglotz
won by three-quarters of a wheel, thus
winning the race.
The big event of the evening was the
Michael-Taylore race. Taylore won the pole
on the toss. The Frenchmans gear was
ninety-four and Michaels 106. The riders
got on the scratch line at 1920 o'clock. Tay-
lore rushed off and caught the PAGER on the
first turn, with Michael two lengths be-
hind. Taylore rode like a whirlwind, and at
the end of the first mile led Michael by
length. In the first lap of the second mile
Michael forged ahead. and at the end of the
third mile he was one lap to the good In
the fourth mile Michael gained a lap and
in the fifth he had the same distance to his
credit. Taylore was outclassed in the
eighth mile, and Michael passed him for the
third time Time at the end of the eighth
mile for Michael 1907.
Taylore lost his pacemakers in the tenth
mile. and at the beginning of the eleventh
Michael was close up to him and passed
him. then being four laps to the good. The
the highest pitch of excitement The
Frenchman was evidently beaten, but he
stuck to his work, and was seemingly not
cisheartened when Michael passed him on
the thirteenth mile for the fifth time.
Michael ran up another lap to his account
mile Taylore rode around after MichaeIs
pacemakers for three laps, but the effort
weakened him considerably, and he had TO
let m, and Michael ran ahead another lap
at tho end of the nineteenth mile
Taylore's saddle broke in the twentieth
mile, and in exchanging wheels he lost two
Laps thus giving Michael a clear lead of a
mile. The wheel which was substituted