The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-02
Michael Ahead Thirteen Laps In
Race With TaylOre.
FRENCHMAN WAS GAME
KEPT UP a GOOD HEART IN A
LOSING RACE.
Taylore's Saddle Broke In the Tween
tieth, and Time Lost In Exchang-
ing Gave Michael Clear Lead OF
a Mile-Other Events at Madison
Square Garden

New York, Jan. Jimmy Michael Oh
Wales again demonstrated his super
iority as a middle-distance wheelman
tonight before a crowd of over $4,000
people in his 25-mile match race with
Eduard Taylore, France, on the board
track at Madison Square Garden.
"RilIv'' Young, who had Taylore I'M
der his careful supervision in training
for this race, said tonight, after tne
race was over, that his man shoulo
have started with a higher gear than
"a. But the work of his man, AFTER ne
exchanged his broken machine LOT one
eeared to 104, was not up to MS lraln-
e,.'s exDectationS, and there is no red-
sonable doubt from his work that Mich
aeI can give a mile in % to the 5french-
man and beat him easily at that
Men. women, boys and girls throhgeu
every available inch of Madison Square
Garden tonight for the regular moor
bicycle races, which were held under the
auspices of the American Cycle RACING
association. The board track was ar
ranged so that the riders hao 10 eo t,a
ten laps to complete a mile, ana the
measurement was youched for by three
city surveyors.
TEN IHOO0ANII.
At 9 o'clock it was estimated thae
10 600 people were in the big pulloIhs,
and then there were fully hair as many
more clamOring for ADMISSION at lne
entrances. The trial heats in the pre-
lininaries began at o'clock, and the
finishes in every instance were very
close In the first heat OF the pest
two out of three races OF the one-nile
scratch race between Jean Gougoltz OIL
Erance and Nat Butler of Boston, the
Frenchnan won by half a Wheel from
the Boston man, after very not race
in 2:29 1-5. 49,, e,.r+
and second heats, Arthur A. Chase, the
English rider, spun around the track
in a mile paced exhibition, which ne
covered in 1883 %, paced by two tan
Tho Tbc second race between Gougoltz
and Butler was paced by Freedman OF
Portland, Ore, and Butler won IN
hard drive by six inches. Ilnle-
PA As. r,,,-o.
of Saratoga and James Warburton OF
TTno1and was then the next on the
programme Elkes caught ms man
| easily after traverSing one mile anu
one lap. Time-2:47 1-5.
The third heat of the match was then
run off. Butler had the pole ana caught
the nacer while the Frenchman was
bieb on the bank. For eight laps But
Ter held the lead by half wheel, ana
at the beginning of the ninth the PAGER
droDDed out and Gougoltz cut loose
In the last two laps the Frenehman out
generated the Boston man, ana a1ter
a hard squirt Gougoltz won by three
quarters of a wheel, thus winning the
race.
The big event of the evening was
the Tayiore- Michael race. Taylore
won the pole on the toss. The French
mans gear was "a and Aiichael's 106
The riders got on the scratch line at
1920. Tavlore rushed off and caught
the pacers IN the first turn with
Michael two lengths behind. Taylore
rode like a WhirlWind and at the end OF
the first mile led Michael by length
In the first lap of the second mile
Michael forged ahead and at the end Of
the third mile he was one lap to the
good. In the fourth mile Michael gained
a Ian. and in the fifth he had the same
distance to his credit.
Taylore was out-classed in the eighth
mile and Michael passed him for the
third time Time at the end OF the
eighth mile for Michael 16:07.
Taylore lost his pacemakers in the
tenth mile and at the beginning of the
eleventh Michael was close up to him,
and passed him, then being four laps
to the good.
GREAT EXCITEMENT
The spectators by this time were
worked up TO the highest pitch of ex-
element The Frenchman was evil
IDENTIFY beaten, but he stuck 70 his NoTF
and was seemingly not disheartened
when Michael passed him on the tkir-
teenth mile for the fifth time.
Michael ran UP another lap 10 his
account in the fourteenth mile. In the
seventeenth mile Taylore rode around
after Michaeis pacemakers for three
laps, but the effort weakened him con-
siderably, and he had to lay up, and
Michael ran ahead another lap al the
end of the 18th mile.
TayIOre's saddle broke in the twenti-
eth mile and in exchanging wheels he
lost two more laps, thus giving Michael
a clear lead of mile. The wheel
which was substituted for Taylore's
damaged one was geared to 104, but the
French rider was unable 10 cope with
the superlative efforts of the Little
Wonder" and the Midget gained an
other lap at the close of the twenty
third mile. From this to. the end of the
race Michael went so swiftly that it
took all the starch. out of his rival and
Michael finally won by IS laps Time
by miles: