The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-14
BICYCLE RECORDS BROKEN.
BRILLIANT RACES THE LAST DAY
OF THE NATIONAL MEET.

Mcfarland Defeats Bald, Cooper and
Gardiner - ''NIaJOr" Taylor and
"OId Knintuckr KimbIe Up Close
at the Finish Krnemer Wins the
One and TVyO-MiIe Championships,
Cutting the Record In the Latter.
Quad Mile Record LOwered-The
Eastern Wheelmen Badly Beaten
by the Western Men-Standing of
Circuit Chnsers.
Indianapolis Ind, Aug. 13.-The annual
meet of the National Leauge OF American
Wheelmen was closed to-day, and the rae
ing was brilliant. It furnished more sur
prises and more broken records.
Eddie Bald was beaten out in the semi
final of the one-mile national professional
championship, as were Tom Cooper and Ar
thur Gardiner f. A. mcfarland, the new
champion, won in record-breaking time,
lowering the one-miIe single paced compe-
tition mark from POI to 1853 2-5.
Major" Taylor was but three inches be-
hind in the wonderful finish and "Old
Kaintuck" Kimble but tires width back
of the Dark Secret"
FRANK l.. hIdEUltG Oh NGHdLht IN Jst put
a crimp into Peabody, and won the one
mile national amateur championship. The
winners of the first and second semi-finals
were allowed to start and Ii gave fast
field. kraemer, however, had worlds of
speed and he dealt it out easily In the
last quarter he pushed to the front and
pedalled in a manner down the back stretch
l.
crossed the tape fun length In front Of
Earl Peabody, the Chicagoan. The time
was 2:05 3-J.
The two-mile amateur handicap event
saw another broken record, and Kraemer,
the one-mile national champion, registered
1t. BY the pluckiest kind of work he sped
around the oval and, although he failed TO
finish within the money, he cut the record
TO All.
The third record to go to smithereens was
that of a quad mile. In a trial against
time team composed of Van Colt, Horton,
Lishner and Bennett cut the record from
1:47 to :45 80.
In the two-mile tandem professional race
James Bowler was substituted for Johnny
Johnson, whose injuries received on the
previous night were too severe to permit of
his riding Plucky "Piugger Bill Martin
was out steering his mate, w. E. Martens,
of Minneapolis, and the pair won the
event in 4:57 is, doing the last quarter In
"a Martin all but tainted after finishing,
and had to be carried from the track.
In the interstate pursuit race. teams en-
tering from Illinois and Indiana In the
West and Connecticut and New York in
the East. The New York team won. The
distance completed was six miles and
three siXteenths, and the time 1913 3-5.
The long-talked race of the East against
the West was well contested and the West
ern riders captured the event. The crack
ajacks of the meet Were represented. Nc
Farland was in the Western team ae was
Gardiner and Bald In the Eastern aggre-
gtion. The West wiped up the Fasteners.
Three of the Western team stayed to the
finish. Stevens was the only Westerber
to give up while all those from the East
quit except Martin. 1t required only cour
and three-sixteenths miles for the West
erners to stop their Eastern rivals. The
time for five miles by Mcfarland. who
finished 1t out after passing Martin, was
1923 is.
Chairman Mott tonight gave out the Of
fetal standing of the riders in the national
races: Bald, 125 points; Nc
Farland, ia; Major Taylor, 109; Kimble, 80;
Cooper, IS; Gardiner, 70; Freeman, 46;
Stevens, Al.