The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-21
CYCLING.

with Jimmie Michael will not be as easy
this season as it was in '97, but lie il
confident that his pacing system il
superior to any other in this country.
During the early part of the week
Farnwa!t and De Moulin rode an un.
paced third mile OH the tandem on the
Woodside Park track in 81 seconds flat.
This is two-fifths of a second faster than
the worlds record for the distance.
W. f. Becker has expressed desire
to race Starbuck fve-mile pursuit
race.
Jimmie Michael who has been work
ing out twice day on his wheel at
Manhattan Beach track for the past
fortnight, will change his training head
quarters to the new Waltham track, near
| Boston, next week.
What has become of the century run
craze SO prevalent last season? As can
well be imagined the business has been
run to the ground. Comparatively few
runs are announced for the season out
side Of the regular annual events.
Meets are being booked rapidly at the
National Cycedrome, Ambrose Park.
The next affair will take place on May
2S, when Freeman, the winner of the
Twentieth Century trophy last Saturday,
will contest with Jack Robertson, cham
pion of England.
A match race on triplets is being ar
ranged between Sager, Swanbrough and
Burns Pierce on the machine, and Kaser,
Gardiner and Miller on another. An
other match just effected will be between
Henshaw and Kent on tandem, against
Gougotz and Lamberjack. Both
matches will be at one mile, and will
take place in june
Word was received this morning to
the effect that Edouard Taylore will
come to Philadelphia on Tuesday next
with his army Of pacemakers. Manager
Kennedy left for Waltham, Mass, to
superintend the shipping to Philadel-
phia of the new multicycle which Tay-
lore will use in his championship races
during the coming season. In Taylore's
outfit of pacing machines there are five
quads, four quints and three sextets, all
built to the little Frenchma1's order.
Taylor is in prime fettle for his twenty
mile match race with Frank Starbuck,
which marks the opening of the racing
season at Willow Grove on May %.
Starbuck is putting on the finishing
touches at Willow Grove and confidently
expresses himself as being sure of beat
ing Taylore.
Tom Linton, who is riding in America
this year, was the first rider in the
world to ride 70 miles and subsequently
81 miles, in the hour. He is ambitious
to add another mile to the present
record, and before the close of the sea-
son he will, assisted by fast pacemakers,
make the effort. He is confident that
he can ride 80 miles in the hour.
Bald will make his first start of the
season tomorrow afternoon at Manhat-
tan Beach in the one-mile national L. A.
W. Championship.
Eddie McDuffee, the present Joint
holder of the worlds mile paced record
Of l.95 % made last fall, paced Bliss of
Chicago, for the mile record three years
previous to that time and aided Bliss to
lower the mark to 1.54. McDuffee is
now preparing to take another slice off
the mark and feels that l.:33 is possible.
W. w. Hamilton, who held the record
Of l.39 Is from the spring of '96 until
along in '97, was a pacemaker himself
Tor Dirnberger of Buffalo, in the spring
If '95, when that rider lowered the
'ecord from 1.47 2-5 to lao at Louisville.
The bicycle track at Point Breeze,
which has been under the ban for some
line, was yesterday reinstated and ar
'angements will be made shortly to
lold first-class race meets there. Big
prizes will be offered.
A cablegram from London states that
he one-mile, paced, bicycle record of
80 2-5, held jointly by Eddie McDuffee,
If Boston, and j. W. Belts, of London,
las been broken by J. Platt-Betts, who
,ut recently returned from Australia.
The new time is 1876 flat. Platt- Belts
4lso lowered the quarter, half and three
quarter miles, and the one kilometre
ecords during the performance. His
inc for the quarter was 90 seconds, the
lalf 46 So; three-quarters, Ito So, and
he kilometre, So 3-5. The record was
,roken on the Catford track. The tim
ng was by Pembroke Coleman, official
OF the National Cyclists
Union, and is official.