The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-11

Indianapolis, Ind, Aug. 10.-The at
tendance at the '9S L. a. w. meet is
nor large but those here are enjoying
themselves Up to o'clock this even
ing 2,612 league men had registered at
headquarters.
Tonight minstrel show was given at
English's opera house for the wheel
men and their ladies, and an all-night
smoker with vaudeville programme is
on at the park. TIE pioneer banquet oc-
CURED at the Grand hotel tonight.
Broken records, two in number, ana
surprises in every contest ruled the
races of the first day OF the national
meet
The circuit men held their own, but
met defeat in the championship con-
test at the hands of a man who has
continually been among the also rams"
on the circuit, and who had piled up
only eight points in a seasons work in
the championship.
owen Kimble, "Old Kaintuck,"
proved the two-mile champion of Amer
lea, and his win of the great contest
was of the cleanest order, and just
beyond the slightest shade of doubt.
Major Taylor, Bald, Cooper and Mer-
tens ran in the order named at the rear
of the great man from Louisville. The
finish of the championship was shift
ing race. Two pacemakers pulled the
Cnen around and Cooper, Taylor, KIM
pie and Bald held the pace in the order
named 1t was Just as the second of
the single pacemakers dropped out that
. Mertens tried a run away and failed,
Bald catching his rear wheel. There he
hung. and the others followed in their
order; then Cooper went past at the
bell and gained the front. Major Tay-
lor gave Cooper battle and took the
- 1, .,a1r
of the bunch. Down the back stretch
he gained the side of the punched field
and on the bank cut down to the pole.
1t was there that the battle really be-
gar and Taylor held the pole, while
Kimble fought just a half wheel length
to the good. Bald was right at the
rear wheel of Kimble, and Cooper was
at the side of Bald. Mertens quit when
the field sailed around him, and the
four game riders fought it out all down
the stretch. They finished at about the
positions named above, and in world
record time, 4;05, for single paced work.
Kimble was married only last Mon
day at Louisville. His win took him up
in the points table to a tie with Bald
and Major Taylor, all three men now
having So points. with Cooper at 65
points and Gardiner, the former leader,
fifth with 63.
The two-mile championship and half
mile championship for amateurs both
went to George H. Collett Of New Ha-
ven, who proved the undoubted king in
the amateur class. Cramer of Newark
and Hausman, the tandem mate of
Collett, and Joe Rogers, the Philadel-
phian, carried away the honors, no
western amateur being able, apparent
~, TO hold his own against them.
MULTICYCLE HANDICAP.
But the contest in the two-mile ma
tional championship and the worlds
record were overshadowed in interest
by the multicycIe handicap, in which a
tandem team three triplet teams and
three quad teams competed. Becker,
! Mertens, Martin and Nat Butler, the |
sscratch team, won. They started up to /
the front in the long line which formed |
early in the contest, and the Johnson |
record-holding triplet team, record 1:41,
gave it a good race. The finish was |
hair-raising, but not close, the interest |
and the excitement occurring as the |
teams shifted around for position while |
.roing at world-record gait. The john /
son. Monroe and Fernwalt triple team |
gained second, and the Major Taylor |
t'iplet team gained third. The time, |
. % 80 broke the record of 1852, and |
extra prize money was awarded to the
winning team.
Another record for the track was
narrowly missed in the morning, when
Major Taylor made a wonderful ride
to victory in the mile handicap in
ZOO -, the mark of Sims being missed
by but one-fifth Of a second. Taylor's
riding Of the cay in heats. semi-finals
and finals was feature. The attend
ance was about 1000.
SUMMARY.
One-half mile, national champion
Ship amateur first semi final-George
II
cease Indianapolis, second. Time
1:17. Also ran in order named: Pea
body, Chicago; Robbins, Middletown;
Stockhoff, st. Louis, and Van Colt,
New York.
Second race, semi-fnal-Joe Rod
gers, Philadelphia, first; E. c. Haus-
man. New Haven. second; G. L. Krae-
mer Reward, third. Time-1:1S Also
ran: Porter. Detroit; Heller, Fort
Wayne; Llewellyn, Chicago. Final
heat: G.. H. Collett, first; G. L. Krae-
mer. second; Joe Rodgers. third.
Hausman and Pease also ran.
One-nIile handicap, professionals.
E. Walsh, Boston (110 yards), first;
sam Murbarger, Indianapolis Q25 /
YARDS, second. Major Taylor
third; E. c. Bald (scratch),
fourth; Orlando Stevens 60 yards), |
fifth. Time-2:06 S-5: Tom Butler ESQ {
yards) and Fisher go YARDS fell. H. |
B. Freeman 90 yards), Kimble Gao
yards), Mccarthy (40 yards), Bowler /
Gao yards) also ran. I
Two-mile national championship
First seni-final: Major Taylor first, :
Tom Cooper second, T. A. Mcfarland :
third. Time-4:34. II. B. Freeman and I
[. T. Fisher also ra' Second semi :
final: A. c. Mertens, St. Paul, first; y
owen himble, Louisville, second; Bald .
bird. Time-4:33 3-5. Gardiner and \
stevens also ran in order named. r
Final heat: Kimble first, Major Tay-
or second, Bald third, Cooper fourth, n
dertens fifth. Time-4:05 (worlds
'ecord by eight seconds). n
Semi-finals, two-mile amateur ma L
ional mpionship.-First semi final: 3
:. c. Hausman, New Haven, first; T. h
). Robbins, Middletown, o., second; ]. G
?. Rodgers, Philadelphia, third. Time 4
-4:35. CT. L. Kraemer, Reward, and c. h
,. Pease, Indianapolis. also ran. Sec d
nd semi final: G. II. Collett, New Ha- a
'en, first; Lee Heller, Fort Wayne, sec
nd. Time@:47 1-5. c. S. Porter, De- T
roit; Charles Ertz, New York, and n
larry Gibson, Cincinnati, also ran in +,
rider named. Final, two-miIe anna h
eur championship: G.. H. Collett, New G,
haven, first; E. c. Hausman. New Ha- le
Ell, second; J. P. Rodgers, Philadel- a
hia, third. Time4:2S.
Multicycle handicap, professional
'ecker. Martin, Mertens and Nat But
r. (scratch), first; Fernwalt, Monroe
nd Johnson Us yards), second; Tay, Ia
u. Eaton and Bowler (25 yards), TT
bird; Phillips, Newkirk, Van Nest and OF
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