The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-02
RAzzLEO THE FRENCHMAN
Jimmy Michael Whirlwind
From Start to Finish.
HE WINS EASY BY Is LAPS
Twelve Thousand People Pack Madison
Square Garden Full and Witness
Some Remarkable Exhibitions
of Bicycle Racing.


New York. jan Jimmy Michael OF
Wales again demonstrated his superior
fty as a middle-distance wheelman To-
night before a crowd of more than
1900 people in his a5-mle race with
Eduard Taylore Of France on the
board track at Madison Square garden
BILLY" Young, who had Taylore under
his careful supervision in training for
this race, said tonight after the race
that his man should have started with
a higher eared wheel than 80. But the
work of his man after he exchanged his
broken machine for one geared TO IVA
was not up TO his trainers expectations
and there is no reason TO doubt that
Michael can give mile in 20 TO the
Frenchman and beat him easily at that.
Men, women. boys and girls thronged
every available inch of Madison Square
garden tonight for the regular indoor
bicycle races. which We're held under
the auspices OF the American Cycle Rae
ing association. The board track was
arranged so that the riders had 10
cover 10 laps to complete mile. ana
the measurement was vouched Tor Dy
three city surveyors. At o'clock IL
was estimated that 10000 people We're
I'm the big building, and there were fuily
half as many more clamorlng Tor ad-
mission at the entrances The trial heats
in the preliminaries began at O'Clock.
and the finishes in every instance were
very close. In the first heat of the best
two out of three races of the one emile
match race between Jean Gougoitz OF
France and Nat Butler of Boston, the
FrenchmaE wen by half wheel from
the Boston man, after very not race
in 2.29 1-5.
During the intervals between the first
and second heats Arthur A. Chase. the
English rider. spun around the track IN
a mile paced exhibition, which he COW
cred In 1:5S 2-5. paced by two tandems.
The second race between Gougoltz and
Butler was paced by Freedman of Port
! land. Ore, and Butler won in hard
drive by six inches in. 2:14 4-5
A pursuit race between Harry Elkes
OF Saratoga and James Warburton of
England was the next on the pro-
gramme Eslkes caught his man easily
after traxersing one mile and one lap.
Time. 2:47 1-5.
The third heat Of the match was then
run off. Butler had the pole and caught
the PAGER while the Frenchman was
high on the bank. For eight laps But
Ter held the lead by half a wheel, and
at the beginning Of the ninth the PAGER
dropped out and Gougoltz cut loose
In the last two laps the F'renchman out
generated the Boston man, and after "A
hard squirt Gougoltz won by three
fourths of wheel, thus winning the
race.
The big event of the evening was the
Tayfore- Michael race. Taylore won the
pole on the toss. The Frenchman's gear
was "a and Mehaels was 100. The
riders got on the scratch line at 1920
Taylore rushed Off and caught the
PAGERS on the first turn. with Michael
two lengths behind. Taylore rode like
a whirlwind and at the end Of the first
mile led Michael by a length. In the
first lap of the second mile Michael
forged ahead and at the end of the third
mile he was one lap to the good In the
fourth mile Michael gained "A lap, and
in the fifth he had the same distance to
his credit.
Taylore was outeassed in the eighth
mile, and Michael passed him for the
third time. Time at the end of the
eighth mile for Michael, 1907. Taylore
lost his pacemakers in the 10th mile.
and at the beginning of the 18th Michael
was close up to him and passed him,
then being four laps to the good.
The spectators by this time were
worked up to the highest pitch Of ex-
citement. The FrenChman was evident
ly beaten, but he stuck 10 his work, and
was seemingly not dsheartened when
Michael passed him on the 18th mile
for the fifth time
Michael ran uD another lap to his
account in the fourteenth mile. In the
seventeenth mile, Taylor rode around
after Michael's pacemakers for three
laps, but the effort weakened him con-
siderably and he had to lay up and
Michael ran ahead another lap at the
end of the fifteenth mile He lost Two
more laps thus giving Michael a clean
lead Of one mile The wheel which was
substituted for Taylnre's damaged one
was geared to 10f, but the French rider
was unable to cope with the snperlative
efforts of the little wonder" and the
midget gained another lap Al the close
OF the twenty-third mile. From this on
Michael went SO swift that L took all
the starch out of his rival. and he final
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