The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-14
Brilliant Racing Yesterday at the
L. A. w. Meet.
M'FARLAND IS A WONDER
NEW CHAMPION MADE THE
MILE IN 1:5S 2-5.
East Against the West In a Five-mile
Pursuit Race and the West Won
Quad Mile Record Smashed to
Smithereens-New Record For
Two-mile Amateur Handicap.

Indianapolis Ind, Aug. 19.-The ma
tional meet of the l.. A. W. was closed
today and the racing was brilliant. 1t
furnished more surprise and more
broken records. Eddie Bald was beaten
out in the semi-final of the one mile ma
tional professional championship, as
We're Tom Cooper and Arthur Gardiner.
F. A. Mcfarland, the new champion,
won in record breaking time, lowering
the one mile single paced competition
mark from 2:01 to 1:5S rs. Major"
Taylor was but three inches behind in
the wonderful finish, and ''Old Kahn
| tuck Kimble but tires width back
of the Dark Secret
Frank l.. Kraemer of Newark, n. J.,
put a erimp into Peabody and won the
one mile national amateur champion
ship. The winners of the first and sec
ond in the semi-finals were allowed to
start and it gave fast field. Kraem-
er, however, had worlds of speed and
he dealt it out freely. He crossed the
tape a full length in front of Earl
Peabody, the Chicagoan. The time was
2:04 3-5.
The two mile amateur handicap
event saw another broken record, and
Kraemer, the one mile national cham
to finish within the money, he cut the
record to All.
The third record to go to smithereens
was that of a quad mile. In a trial
against time a team, composed of Van
Colt, Horton, Lishner and Bennett,
cut the record from 1:47 to Las 3-5.
In the two mile tandem professional
race James Bowler was substituted for
Johnny Johnson, whose injuries re-
ceived on the previous night were too
severe to permit of his riding. Plucky
''Plugger" Bill Martin was out steer
ing his mate, w. Z. Mertens, of Mime
apolis and the pair won the event in
4:57 1-5, doing the last quarter in "a.
Martin all but tainted after finishing
and had to be carried from the track.
The interstate pursuit race, teams
entering from Illinois and Indiana, in
the west, and Connecticut and New
York in the east, was won by New
York. The distance completed was six
and three-siXteenths miles and the
time 13:43 3-5.
EAST AGAINST WEST.
The long-talked of race of the east
against the west was well contested,
and the western riders captured the
event. The cracker-jacks of the meet
were represented.
Mcfarland was in the western team,
as was Gardiner and Bald in the east
ern aggregation. The west wiped up
the fasteners. Three of the western
team stayed to the finish. Stevens was
the only westerner to give up, while all
of those from the east quit except
"Plugger" Bill Martin. II required only
four and three siXteenths miles for the
westerners to stop their eastern rivals.
The time for the five miles by McFar-
land, who finished it out after passing
Martin, was 1923 %.
The standing of the first seven of the
national circuit riders at the close of
the meet tonight is as follows: E. L.
Bald, 129 points; Mcfarland, ia;
Kimble, 80: Cooper, So; Gardiner, 70;
Freeman, 46; Stevens, IL.
First Race, One Mile, Professional,
National Championship, Semi-final-
Mcfarland, San Jose, first; Fisher,
Chicago. second. Time-2:1O 1-5 Also
ran, Monroe, Memphis: Bald and
Gardiner; Barney Oldfield, Toledo.
Second Race, Semi-final-Kimble,
Louisville, first; Stevens, Ottumwa,
Ia, second; Mayor Taylor, Indian
apolis, third. Time-2:O4 40. Also
ran, Jay Eaton, Elizabeth; Tom
Final Heat-McFarland, first; Major
Taylor, second; Kimble, third; Stevens,
fourth; Fisher, fifth. Time-1:5S %.
Worlds single paced competitive re-
cord. breaking 2:0l by Gardiner at
Louisville in August, 1886.
One Mile National Championship,
Amateur-F. L. Krawer, Newark, first;
Earl W. Peabody. Chicago, second; E.
C. Hausman, New Haven, third; C.
Mertz. New York, fourth; George H.
Collett, New Haven, fifth. Time
3-5
Two Mile Amateur Handicap-George
Walther. Dayton, 20 yards. first;
Archie FERGUSON, Terre Haute, $50
yards, second; J. d. Syophani, Chicago, !
225 yards. third; C. w. Donnavan, Chi |
cago. 250 yards, fourth; J. A. Nelson,
Chicago, 100 yards, fifth. Time-4:11.
Two Mile Tandem, Professional
Martin, Lowell and Mertens, Mime
apolis, first; Tom Butler, Boston and |
Becker. st. Paul. second: Mcfarland, |
San Jose, and Stevens, Iowa, third. |
Bowler. Chicago. and Ben Monroe, |
Memphis, fourth. Time-4:57 is.
East against west, five mile pursuit |
race, five men to team, won by west |
by e-sixteenths of mile in 1923 1-5 |
for the five miles. Western team; Nc /,
Farland, Mertens, Becker, Gardiner !
and Stevens. Eastern team: Bald, !
Eaton, Martin, Vernier and Hadfeld.
Interstate team-pursuit race, |
three men teams. No limit !
New York team: Ertz, Kraemer and
Schofield won. Time-13:43 3-5. Dis |
Other teams: Illinois-Peabo body, !
LleWellyn and Stefani.
Indiana-Pease, Bates and Gordon.
Onnecticut-Hausman Collett and |
Van Colt.