The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-08
A1IL NIlOOIlD D MILES.
The record of the race by miles is as 70

The announced purse in this race was $780,
with $3.50 to the loser. 1t was Gibson's first
professional match. He left the amateur
ranks during the L. A. w. meet last month.
Some day the history OF the messenger
boys race may be written, but Richard
Harding Davis and a dozen more veracious,
intrepid correspondents couldn't have gath
cred the entire crop of facts last night.
They will still be talking about 1t at Christ
mas time down around the telegraph offices.
All the lads had their legs barred, to lessen
their weight presumably, no matter that
they wore brogans. There was a strong
run on underwear. AS fast as the boys
could get away from work they went to
the track, and this delay caused no end of
confusion In arranging the heats Plugger
Bill jr.," as ore urchin had dubbed himself
started away with a great swagger, and
the grand stand thought he must at least
be a second cousin to a professional pace
maker But all the starch came out of his
crinoline when a little boy in black nipped
the heat from him. Then there was fat
on a bicycle and led to the suspicion that
he might be an unknown quantity, but he
really was freight train, just as he seemed
AS THE MESSENGERS RODE.
Some Of the boys came out on the track
with Turkish towels over their shoulders
and a few had found horse blankets. 1t all
looked very professional and besides the
lads had observed the Bald-Cooper tactics,
and loafed too. AS the heats were run,
these are the boys that qualified: First
heat. Alfred Harrison first, Fred Wills Sec
ond; second heat, William Harrison first
Harry Nabor second; third heat, Claude Py-
burn first, Charles Doolittle second fourth
heat, Richard Fogarty first, Arthur Dill
man second. The time for the heats was
3:O4 2-5, 3:O5 2-5, 1856, 2:4S In the final James
- A. I'll
graph Company who was permitted to
qualify from one of the preceding heats,
beat the bunch around the track and won
the medal. William Harrison was second
Claude Pyburne, of the Postal, third, and
Harry Nabor fourth. Time, 1929 2-5.
The one-mile novice was won as follows:
First heat-William Headspear first, w. c.
Baird second, j.. L: Ketcham third. Time,
$3.50. Second heat--JameS Tomlinson, Plain,
field, first, e. c. Bacon second, Ed Craw-
ford third. Time 2:3O. Third heat-Bert
2:31 20. Final-William Headspear first
Bert Ward second, Ben Doughty third
In the half-mile amateur handicap Chas
r. Pease and E. C. Pfeffer the scratch
men in the two heats. had too much to
Tomlinson, with one hundred yards adj
vantage, took the first heat, in 90 rs, with
O.. F. Andrews second and Willis Coval
G.. w. Donavan, of Goshen, took the second
heat from the sixty-yard mark, the time
being 100 10, with S. r. Murray $50 yards)
second, Ed Steinmetz (40 yards) third and
c. A. Bates go yards) fourth. Pfeffer's
time from scratch was 1:02 3-5. In the final
Donavan won, with Coval second and
Steinmetz third. Time, :02 As.
+. McWatters, a one-legged man, was
given the big advantage in the one-mile
professional. but 200 yards was not enough
for him. Pease also entered, making his
professional debut and getting little of the
money to be handed around. There was
only one heat, and Tom David and l. o.
Watson, the scratch men, soon came up
with the bunch Watson won, in 2:09 As,
With Lewis Gordon 90 YARDS second
Pease (40 YARDS third and Sam Murbarger
C5 yards) fourth.