The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-30

ers and scrubs, l was going at a fearful
speed and was confident of showing up
well TO the front at the finish when
rider in front of me who ought to have
been among the spectators instead of on
the track managed to make his vince!
slip and twist so that ne was thrown and
fell with the wheel under him.
There was no chance of my turning
cut, and so ! plunged into the mid
die of the rock. going over the ham
dlebars in heap. Before | had time to
disengage myself. the rider behind me
came crashing into the wreckage. and
then another and another until the
track was a bewildering mass of human
ity. struggling kicking and swearing.
with the wheels. in all shades of eccen-
trio shapes. mixed up in the snarl.
1t was some time before the trainers
and others who rushed TO the rescue
could upravel the tang.e, and when they
did so. / was picked from somewhere at
the bottom of the heap. on top of me
had been couple of tandem riders with
their machine. No bones were broken.
but my cuticie had been badly scraped.
and was mass of bruises and con-
tusions ] tried 10 go on. but had to give
1t up. | was comptely used up and for
the first and last time up to date. In my
life, | had to limp from the track and
give up the race.
me in this country. The worst was while
i was training at Saratoga, on a two-lap
track In the Casino. How IL happened /
have never been quite able TO tell but
my wheel went from under me and | was
shot into space. Strange to say. the fall
on this occasion did not hurt me at all.
1t simply upset my stomach so that
was unable TO ride.
This is one OF the worst features of a
bad fail. Bruises I can get over. and cuts
can be plastered up 50 that | can afford
10 laugh at them. but the upsettfng OF
the stomach is too much for me II is a
failing that it. is impossible to recover
from in hurry. My trainer always has
a heavy task before him when n han.
pens. II seems to urn my inside com
pietely around In sympathy with the
fall. and makes me sick. so that I can
not put on my best speed
Few days before one Of my races with
Chase had n most peculiar fan
While bending over the hanadlebars AMI
speeding for ali / was worth | turned th.,
wheel in some way and went up into the
air. turning a complete somersaiIIf and
landing on my feet. not bit the worse
Tor my experience. | came through IL
without q scratch. but & : usual my stouu-
acb was somewhat shaken 40.
Another fearful fan that | had was in
Boston on the 18th OF June last. IL was
me hiAht before my race with Duffy
and was training hard and riding nv
best or "a track one-third Of A mile T.,
length | was being paced ny a sexfetfe
and having got in behind it was feeling
ike riding the race OF my life Al that
Time we had whOoped up the sp.ed uptil
the wheels must have been fyfEg around
the track at a I.s5 clip Suddenly tn.
spohes q one q the sex,ette's sbee!s
which had been caFeiesSly ieft Inose
came oul without "a seconds warning. the
whote machine went to pieces. and the
"nole rack Mas full Of riders and whiz-
zing wheels. whirring around with all IN.
Wild abandonment OF machinery denrIv-
co suddenly OF its guiding power. Into