The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-11
BROKEN RECORDS IN
THE L. A. w. CONTESTS.
Owen kimble Surprises the Crowd
by Winning the TwO-Mile
Champion ship Race.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Aug. N.-The at
tendance at the l.. A. w. meet here is
not large, but those here are enjoying
themselves. Up to o'clock this evening
2,Sl2 league men had registered at head
quarters. Tonight a minstrel show was
given at Engiish's opera house for the
wheelmen and their ladies, and an all
night smoker, with vaudeville programme,
Is on at the park.
The Pioneers banquet occurred at the
Grand hotel tonight.
Broken records In numbers and surprises
in every contest ruled the races Of the first
day of tho national meet. The circuit
men held their own. but met defeat In the
championship contest at the hands of
man who has been continually among the
also rams on the circuit and who has
piled up only eight points in a seasons
work in the championship Owen KimbIe.
'Oli kentuck" proved the two-mi,e
champion OF America. and his win OF the
great contest was of the cieanest order
and beyond the slightest shade of q doubt.
Major Taylor. Bald, Cooper and Mer-
tens ran in the order named al the rear Of
the great man from Louisville. The fin
ish OF the championship was a shifting
race. Two pacemakers pulled the men
around and Cooper Taylor Kimblc and
Bald held the pace in the order named. II
was just as the second Of the single pace
makers dropped out that Mer,ens tried a
runaway and failed. Bald catching his rear
wheel. There he hung and the others fol-
lowed In the order named then Cooper
went past at the ball and gained the front
Major Taylor gave Cooper battle and took
the lead and Kimble started from the back
bunch. Down the back stretch he gained
the side OF the punched field and on the
back cut down 10 the pole. 1t was there
that the battle really began, and Taylor
held 10 the pole while kImble fought Just
a half wheel length 20 the good. Bald was
at the rear wheel OF Kimb,e and Cooper
as~-at the side " Bald. Mertens quit
when the fed sailed around him. and the
four game riders fought it out all down
the stretch.
They finished "a; ahou. the positions
named above. and in world record time
+7e. for single paced work.
kimbie was married only last Monday
At Louisville His win took him IN in the
points table 70 a tie with Bald and Mai
Taylor. all three men now having 80
points with Cooper al ~ points and Gar
diner. the former leader, fifth, with ss
The two-rnile champion ship and half
mile championship for amateurs both went
10 George II. Collect of New Haven. who
proved the undouhted king in the amateur
C.asS. 'ramer. OF Newark and Hausman
the tandem mate Of Collect, and Toe Ror
ers. the Phtiadelphian. carried AWAY the
honors, no WESTERN amateur being able an
parently 10 hold his own against them
But the contest in the two-mile national
championship aud the worlds record vera
overahadowed In inferes By tho rn,,i.icvcla
handicap, tn which a tandem team, thra.
tr.plet teams and three quad teams com
p~t"d, Becker. Mertcns, Martin and Ma,
Butler. the scratch team. started I'm ~
the front in the bong line which formed
early in The contest and the johnson rac-
ord-h"lding 'r-p}st team. record l:4I gave
y GOOD race The finish Was hair raising.
but not close ;he interest and exejfer,sn.
occurring as the teams shifted around -n-
position, while going AT world record rzt.
The Johnson, Monroe and Fernwalt trtn.