The times., 1898-09-11


races five men are given a scoring. The
winner takes six points. the second man
four points, the third man three points.
the fourth man two, and fifth man one
point This makes a total of sixteen
points in each race, AT the national meet
of the league provisions were made for
giving score of 90, 40. 80, 20 and 10 points
for the five men finishing in order men
toned These big scores. of course made
a big showing inrthe table 1t proved
ruinous to Arthur Gardiner. Up to the
time of the indianapolis meet he was
away in the lead in the matter of score,
but at that meet a number of other riders
managed to get away ahead of him.
Fioyd MacFarland, the lanky Californian,
for instance, scored total of 100 points
at this meet. bringing him far in the
lead of Gardiner, and just behind Eddie
Bald, who now leads.
At the meet in this city on October 6,
the national championship race will be
for distance of two miles. The scoring
will be six, four, three, two and one for
the first five men. Owing to the struggle
for positions. ii is likely that this race
will be entered by all of the crack riders,
who will fight hard to maintain their
present standing, and IL anything to gain
an advantage on the others. For this
reason the race ought to prove decidedly
interesting When the circuit was in this
city in June. the national championship
race was for distance of only one mile
and there were so many entrants that it
was run In five or six heats. The event
was made more interesting than usual
because only the winner of each heat
qualified for the final and the second man
in the fastest heat. 1t is quite likely that
the coming race of two miles will be
run on exactly the same lines, and the
struggle for positions will be great
One thing that is not exactly relished
by the race meet promoters in this city
Is the fact that national circuit race
has been scheduled for Baltimore, shortly
before the Washington meet At the Bal
timore races. which will be held on the
Coliseum track, a quarter mile ma
tional championship has been arranged.
This is all right. but in the matter of
scoring, the same number of points are
allowed as at the Indianapolis meet.
sixty for first; forty for second, and so
on down to ten points for the fifth man.
Why Baltimore should be given this big
score is hard to understand, unless be-
cause the town happens to be the home
of the chairman Of the racing board of
the League of American Wheelmen. The
circuit chasers are looking for the
events with the big scores, and all will
certainly visit the Monumental City and
then come over to Washington. In one
sense the Baltimore meet will act in the
nature of an attraction for the local
event, bringing over, perhaps, larger
number of riders than would ordinarily
be the case.
1t is just becoming evident to many
that big Improvement is exhibited in
the condition of a good many of the local
riders Since they have been training and
working hard for sprint events. and left
off entirely training as members of pac-
ing teams, the showing made for them is
most gratifying While Sims now has
practically everything his own way, it
does not look as though he will continue
to be high man and win everything. To
those who attended the race meet Labor
| Day afternoon one thing that attracted
considerable attention was the general
! ali-around riding of the men. Moran.
| Counselman. Cause, ana Throop did good
work. The two Kraemer boys, one of
whom was entered in eacn heat. as fast
| riders as they may be, were absolutely
| unable to compete successfully enough TO
| qualify for the final In connection with
this matter a neat trick of the official
| Handicapped was not observed by the
! general public. Had the rwo brothers
/ been placed in one heat they could have
| helped one another along. with the result
| that at the end of the mile one or the
| other. or perhaps both, might have been
able to qualify. They could have worked
! as a team in the one heat Some handi-
| cappers make 1t a practice to put all team
men in a single heat and let them fight II
! out among themselves. Handicapped
1 Simpson did nothing of the kind. He
! separated the brothers and each one rode
in a different heat. having TO rely on in
dividual speed and headwork to qualify
They We're outmatched by the locals
| however, and neither one was able to be
| come eligible for the final heat.
A. C. Moran showed the form in which
| he was riding by winning his heat and by
! finishing very close second in the final
only very few inches behind Fred Sims
| In the sprint OF his heat c.. E. Cause was
| able to beat out Steenson for second
| place. In the second heat of the same
| race-the mile open-Counselman finished
| a strong second. closely tshind and al
most abreast of Fred Sims. Little Pat
Throop took second place, while Wilson
Kraemer. and McNorton, another outside
| man, were unable to qualify.
In the amateur ranks E. L. Burton. who
several amateur events carried off the
honors. He succeeded in taking the mile
handicap, and then won the handicap OF
| the Arlington Wheelnen two-miie race
from the thirtyyard mark. Little Jamie
| Alexander rode quite well and managed
to get second place in his heat of the mile
handicap, finishing fourth in the final
starting from the sixty-yard mark
Through a misunderstanding of the
| judges he came very near losing his hon
| orS.
If the present plans of the Park Bi
| cycle Club are carried out there will be
carnival of bicycle racing in this city late
in the season, when the weather becomes
too cool and windy for riding up north
| AS a record course the track of the clul
| is getting a big reputation, and for tina
| reason many riders of note are anxious
to go after records, the most desirable
course being selected for that purpose
| The Willow Grove track at Philadelphi;
| is set down as the fastest cycle oval IL
| the country, with the Park track a clos
second. Indeed, 1t is believed by many tina
for record breaking purposes the loca
track is far superior to any other In tn
country. 1t has never been given fai
opportunity to show its full capabilitie
in this direction. Mr.. J. D. Lasiey, tn
president of the Park Club informed
Times reporter that plans were now un
der way to have large number of cracl
riders come to this city from all over tn
country and try for existing records. A
the early part of theR season 1t was con
templated to erect. ci&b house for sthei
accommodation, but tl1fs did not materi
alize. Instead. the riders will be accom-