The evening times., 1898-07-25
THE mD1AHAro11ssHxHr.
Mayor Taxwart Vow In Charge of 1
A. W. AMairR.

Indianapolis, lad. July 2s-Special.-At
the last meeting Of the executive commit
! tee of the 'S5 Meet Club the resignation OF
| D. n. Parry as president Of the Cub was
1 received and accepted. Mr.. Parry was
called to Europe last week on account Of
| the Illness OF his con and Will be unable
| to be present at the meet. Since he took
charge of the Organization last December
on his shoulders has rested nearly all Of
| the responsibility OF making the meet a
success, and 1t is probable that no other
| meet club was so thoroughly organized
as the '9S Meet Club of Indianapolis. Mr..
| Parry was forced to leave JUS. about the
| time he could have reapsd the full benefit
| of his labors, and his resignation was ac-
| cepted with regret. and vote of thanks
| sent him for the energetic manner In
which he had taken hold of the work.
: Thomas Taggart. the popular mayor
| Of Indianapolis, was at once elected
president of the Meet Club. to succeed
| Mr.. Parry. and c. c. Foster, chairman
| of the accommodations committee. Sc
lected to succeed Mr.. Taggart as. vice
president. When the mayor accepted the
position he said, inasmuch as Mr.. Parry
and the members Of the executive COM
| mittee had done all Of the work neces-s
| sary to make che meet a success, he saw
no reason why he should not enjoy the
honor of being presiden. of the Meet Club
| during the meet. He was looking at
| things In that way. and at the same time
he is prepared to give whatever time is
| necessary to comple,e the work. and
while the visitors are in the city he. will
follow the same plan he did at Philadel-
phia last August. and be at the service
of the citys guests throughout the week.
The members Of the executive committee
feel that 1t Is no small honor for the
mayor of Indianapolis to accept the pres
idency Of the Meet Club. 1t has thorough
ly identified Indianapolis with the meet
and places the burden OF proof OF MAJ
ing II a success on .he city itself.
Thomas Hay chairman of the badge
committee, has ordered badges for the
officials and committeeman for the meet;
also those for the newspaper men The
appropriations made for badges will b,
confined largely however. to the souvenir
badge for the decoration of the officials
and visiting newspaper men, the local
committees being supplied with simple
and inexpensive badges. designating the
various committees to which they belong.
Chairman Foltz of the race committee
has selected the officials who will have
charge Of the race program. and invita-
tions will be sent them this week.
Albert Sahm, chairman of the finance
committee, reports the subscriptions for
the entertainment fund are being rapidly
collected and the Meet Club will soon have
sufficient funds at its disposal to cover all
expenditures. The entertainment feature
have all been decided upon except that
for entertaining newspaper men. This Is
a matter which has been worrying the
press committee not a little. The men,
bers expect, however, to get together
this week and make their plans for the
newspaper men.
The entry blanks for the national meet
races are in the hands of the printers
and will be sent out this week. Chair
man Foltz has made an addition to the
regular entry blank. which will be of
much benefit to the newspaper men. This
is in the form of stub attached to the
blank containing an outline description
Of the riders. the name Of his wheel and
gear used; and a request that photo
graph accompany the blanks.
1t is thought that members of both the
American and National track associa-
tion teams will attend the national meet.
The American team has arranged cir
cult which will take in Buffalo. Cleveland.
Detroit, Chicago. St. Louis, Indianapolis,
Louisville and Cincinnati. The plan of
the team for giving their races in the va
rious cities will be to make up full pro-
gram of amateur and professional events
and one middle-dstance event in each
meet. Fred Titus and either Major Tay-
lor or Edouard Taylore will compete. The.
National Track Association will go as far
west as Denver, and while in that city
Will engage in a number of trials at the
record. Linton, Coulter and McDuffee.
will take part in these record-breakin
trials At Indianapolis the riders in these
two teams will probably enter in all of
the regular events. and the pace-makers
attached to these teams will form the
greater number of the entries in the two-
mile multiplet handicap.
Twice Chairman Foltz, OF the race COM
mittee, has decided on the manner in
which the 2-mile multiplet handicap will
be run, and both times, after further
consideration, he has changed his plans.
1t has now been suggested to run the
race as originally intended making 81 a
straight multiplet handicap, the single
wheel barred. This will confine the en-
tries to the tandem. triplet, quad, quint
and possibly sextuplet. 1t has been sug-
gested that the race be made even more
interesting by fixing the handicap mark
at certain intervals from the tape and
make them both the same in trial heats
and finals. but changing the position of
the team In every heat. There will be
four trial heats.
If more than that number of any one
style of machine are entered special trial
heats will be run for those, four qualify
ing for the trials. The new plan sug-
gests that that in the first heat tan
dems be put on the scratch, with the
bigger machines at the 'front.' the largest
having the limit for the second heat re-
verse that position. In the third heat
put quad on scratch and triplet at the
limit sandwiching the others in between.
In the fourth heat put rriplet at the
scratch and a quint in front. This plan
would change the position of the ma
chimes in each heat.
To make the race even fairer. the men
composing the different teams will draw
for positions in the hats that is. the four
taEJem teams draw lots to see in which
hea: they run. the four triplet teams the
| same, and so on. In the trials the teams
could take the same positions in which
| they started in the trials. This will
ent machines than anything else. for
| dangerous to attempt. This race Is ar
! ranged more with an idea of testing the
| ability of the different machines than it
| is of the riders who will man them. The
| plan for running the race this way Is
now being considered. If decided upon 1t
| may he made a special feature in the big
| race program. as it will be the first race
| of that character that was ever run un-
| der similar conditions. 1t will also fur
nish an opportunity for the crack pacing
teams of the two associations which will
be represented here during the meet, to
! test their ability in open contest
There Is some talk now of making an
additional feature to the race program
of triplet race. There has always been
dispute among the racing men as to
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