The San Francisco call., 1898-08-12
GARDINER BADLY BRUISED
KNOCKED OUT OF THE GREAT
 AMERICAN HANDICAP.
Continued Record Breaking and Sen sational Finishes Mark the Second Day of the
 Racing.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

IlIilSuSS HldTheu lIlt ScCOAlA Ne"J national meet of the League of Amerl- can Wheelmen. One serious accloeht knocked Arthur Gardiner out of the final of the Great American SlVo0 handicap race, and nearly placed plucky "Bilr' Martin hors de combat. This happened at the close of the sec ond heat of the contest. Martin was at the front of the bunch and appar- ently a winner, when he slipped over the pole and slid along the track. Gar diner went over him, Ed Stevens fol- lowed and then Lou Coburn went down in the heap. Cooper and Mcfarland were in the finish, but escaped from a spill, Cooper dismounting from his wheel, as white as the wheel itself. Gardiner could not ride in the great final, but Martin did ride to show his pluck. From sixty yards he gained fourth, leading the back bunch over the tape.
 Bald, Freeman, Becker and Cooper followed Martin, who took his hands off the bars and sat up to relieve his poor strained back as he made his finish. After circling the track part way he dismounted, for he could ride no further Martin was the hero of the meet, for he came out to ride as badly
 
 seen on the track this year.
 Fred Costello, the St. Louis anna teur, who qualified to-day for the great five-mile amateur championship, took the handicap, with Maya of Erie, sec ond, and L. s. Hall. Philadelphia, third. This same trio ma~l>zshe back mark men look foolish in their third heat by working together.
 Owing to the withdrawal of Gardi- ner, Bald went from scratch alone, his great rival, Cooper, having twenty yards. The race was a pretty one, but the generosity of the handicapper to- ward the eX-amateur, who has beaten Peabody, in giving him 250 yards en- abled the limit men to prevail and to prevent the back men closing in the time they had cut out. Bald finished fifth in 4:09, a new handicap record by nine and four-fifths seconds. He broke it also in the heat, doing 1t in 4:15 2-5 very handily. The new rule allowing handicap records in class by them selves is the explanation of why these arc handicap records.
 Gardiner and Martin were not the only big men to fall, as Collett, the New Haven amateur, fell in the five-mile championship through the foul riding of C. S. Porter, the Detroit amateur. Porter was disqualified for the meet and censured by the chairman. Col lett. however, took the quarter-m mile championship, his third win in the championship contests, and with his partner he made 1t four by cleverly winning the handicap championship for tandem teams at the mile distance. Earl w. Peabody, the Chicago amateur, took the f1ve-mile championship by a good clean-cut win, and Ertz and Kraemer followed him across the tape.
 It was the Eddie Bald of old that shot into the lead in the final of the half-mile national championship, his first win of a championship race at a national meet since 1895, the start of his career Gardiner claimed to have been crowded over the pole by McFar- land who took second to Bald, with Freeman third and Cooper fourth, and protested the Californian to the chair man of the racing board. The protest was not allowed.
 As a close to the great day of sport, Harry Gibson did mile. paced, in 1:45 3-5 the quarter in :26 2-5, half in :53 2-5, and the three-quarters in 1:19 3-5. He was paced poorly by a triplet and a quad.
 Summaries of the afternoon races were as follows:
 Quarter mile, national championship, semi inaI-E. c. Hausman first E. l. kraemer' F Is. Also ran: J. P. Rogers, Philadelphia,
 Semi -fnal-George Schofeld, Brooklyn, first; :32 3-5. Last eighth :13 S-5.
 Final heat-G H. Collett, New Haven, first, E. C. Hausman New Haven, second, Edward eighth, ;i5 s-5; Also ran: 5I, KrasmsTI na.,,,a, l championship, final heat-McFarland. San Jose, first, Cooper. Detroit, second, Major Taylor. ''so Second heat-Bald ea Buffalo. first. Gardiner. Time, 1:o1 8-5. Also ran in order named: Ed Stevens, Buffalo, John S. Johnson. Minneapolis, Joe Werner, Philadelphia. Last eighth in
 Final heat-BaId first. Mcfarland second, Freeman third Cooper fourth, Gardiner fifth.
 One mile tandem. championship, amateur Hausman and Collett, New Haven. first, Pea body and Llewellyn. Chicago, second, Ertz and Kraemer third. Time, POS.
 The great American s1ooh handicap distance list two s200 to second S75 to third, $25 to fourth and special prizes for the heat to make the bal Freeman (2o yards) second, Eaton (4O yards) third, Oldheld GOO yardsl fourth, Mccarthy. (world's record) Also ran: Tom Butler C60 yards) Mertens (s0 yards), Fisher 10O yards). Bird CPS yards), Coburn GAO yards). Davis G50 yards), Stevens q75 yards), Vannest (2OO yards) Hall t25o yards).
 Cooper (20 yards), second; Martin (6O yards) third Mcfarland GAO yardsl, fourth; Ed Stew yards) dead heat for fifth Time, ffs 4:fs 1.S. eGO Also ran: Cabanne (60 yards); Kimble (So yyagrds); var P0utseh Memphis 600 yardsl; Gadke N - Lavin. Chicago d5o yardsl; Lou Coburn d75 yards); Mus. Milwaukee G75 yards); Wing (2O0 yards); Phillips (250 yards).
 Third heat-Otto Maya (250 yards). first Cos tello (225 yards), second, turned professional to ride in this race: L. S Hall. Philadelphia t275 yards), third; l.. O. Watson, Indianapolis q5o yards) fourth; c; Wiley q25 yards), fifth. Time 4:07 3-5. Also Major Taylor Sscratoh); John J. Johnson (2o yards); Q; L. Ter. Chicago (so yards) Hadhed (sO yardsl Aker GOO yards); Brown Chicago CPS yards) Vernier GAO yards); Meirstein. Sioux City Q7s yards); McKeen. Greenvine. Ohio GOO yards)
 Final heat-F. l.. Costello, St. Louis (225 yards),, first; Otto Maya, Erie; Pa, t25O yardsy, second: l.. g. Hall, Philadelphia (275 yards), third; "Plugger Bill Martin, Lowell t6O | yards) fourth: Eddie Bald (scratch), fifth; H. l B. Freeman Portland Or, (20 yards), sixth Becker (s0 yards) seventh; Cooper (20 yards), l eighth. Time of race 4:06 1-5. Time of Bald, | 409, championship record.
 Five-mile national championship amateur l Peabody, Chicago, first; Ertz. New York, sec l ond: Kraemer. Newark, third; Rodgers, Phil
 Final, one mile amateur handicap-c. V l Brown (125 yards). won; J w Donnell (10C | yards), second Herbert Zeegler GOO yards), | third. Time, 2:o5
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