The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-27
SWEDE WINS" THE RICE
END OF THE BICYCLE HIPPODROME
AT TOMLINsON HALL. $
A Big Crowd Coaches TiIlie Ander-
sons Finish mt Increased Prices
CLAWS Indigestion.

The 'lady riders" who for the past week
have been chasing each other around the
track in Tomlinson Hall, finished their mad
career last night to the satisfaction of
themselves, the management and some of
the audience. Everybody doesn't know a
hippodrome when he sees it, and there were
many who sat with buiging eyes and rising
hair when the Terrible Swede" made her
terrible finish and was announced the win
ner of the 'six-night ladies' bicycle race"
There were rather more people than usual
at the hall, owing, in some measure to a
brass band which perched itself on the por-
tlco and for half an hour before the start
poured its seductive strains into the ears
OF the housewives and domestic husbands
doing their marketing on the plaza below.
Many of them yielded to the temptation
and passed within to gaze on the 1.-the
limbed riders. so that at many homes the
cabbages and spareribs for Sunday dinner
arrived somewhat late
Inc management was alive to the posi-
bilities of the closing night, and raised its
prices from %, so and Is cents to so, "a and
81 They figured on the basis that if an
nour and a half Of riding is worth a quar-
ter two hours and a half of the same is
worth SV cents For the robust and be-
1ASH1O0 HoluS rOue an nour longer than
usual to make up the ten hours required.
Although 1T may have been part of the
programme, it was with much regret that
the management announced the withdrawal
or Lizzie CLAW from the race. She has been
suffering from Indigestion. According to the
rules printed on the programme she thus
toSC her snare of the vast treasure alleged
70 De appropriated for prizes, as she has
Iaiieo 70 ride the necessary two hundred
a foil 1Cf1
limit, and the alleged $500 prize money will
nave to be divided among Anderson yag-
ner and Fiering 80
one or the graceful things about the car
nlvaI was the allowing to Miss Wagner the
TOUR laps lost by her Friday night owing
70 an accident to her wheel Miss Anderson
suggested the generous offer Miss Wagner
as generously accepted it, and the other
muscular beauties intimated that it didn't
GU no ICE with them. 1t didn't cut any of
tnat substance with Tillie either, for she
won anyway.
The race last night was at times inter-
estlng, though the fair pedalers exerted
themselves only systematically until almost
Time Tor the finish. Feiring had to leave
the track once by reason of bursted tire,
put otherwise lost little. Peterson showed
ner usual lack of staying ability and lost
several more laps. The race was between
anderson and Wagner, and the girl with
the sleeping-car name was favored by
many. But Tillie was too much for her
rival. She took the lead when the pistol
was fired for the last four laps and fin
lshed wheel length ahead. She won" the
race in the same hall year ago. A
large bunch of yellow roses were laid at her
Feet by some of her admirers. The score for
the six nights follows:
Anderson, I'll miles, laps; Wagner 211
terson, $50 miles, IL laps; CLAW, 159 miles,
IL laps.