The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-23

Taylor undertook his record work
knowing full well the conditions he
must meet. He started again and
again for the record marks, and wealth
er conditions, unfavorable for first class
record work at all times, did not pre-
vent him from securing every mark for
which he started. He made but two
unsuccessful attempts, one at the mile
on a bad day and one at the three
quarters on an extremely bad day
This in itself is a record no other rec
ord breaker.eVer approached, for others
have failed again and again before ac-
complishing their object. Johnnie John
son went for the mile when it stood
at ] :39 Id twelve times and failed each
time; Hamilton tried sixteen times be-
fore he placed it at 1;39 Id; Kiser tried
a like number of times; McDuffie last
year made five attempts on one day
and countless other attempts as WELL
and he tied it only. The history of every
record camp has been one of failure
after failure, where Taylor has sue
ceeded under the most discouraging
circumstances on every occasion, but
two, and has captured two and three
and sometimes four times as many rec
ords as any other rider.
Every ride that Taylor made other
than his first official try-out for the
one-mile record was officially refereed
by Mr. Abe Powell, well known as the
official Handicapped of Pennsylvania for
years and well known for his rugged
honesty and undertaking fealty to the
cause which he so ably serves Mr.
Powells honesty was out of question
for every record ride made by Taylor
was timed by numerous outside
watches, and no one of the spectators
ever questioned the correctness or the
times. Timers were selected from the
first cycling circles of Philadelphia, and
on the more important and later rec
ords the timing was done by three men
officially named by the racing board as
referees for the district of Pennsylva-
MIA.
Lack of time and lack of weather
conditions alone prevented this colored
whirl from cutting into the record
marks much deeper than was done. He
made his trials for the shorter dis
tances first, and in mile trials later he
cut into these marks, as will be seen by
the schedule which heads this article.
At every distance he possesses the abb
lity now to clip fifths and even sec
onds off the time Weather conditions
alone placed him out of the ring, in
which he so terribly knocked out old
Father Time day by day for the two
weeks he was at work.
Taylor performed marvellous feats in
HIS DlCh-up6 Wiltu liG juniper AANHi
machine to machine, once for ten yards
then for twenty-five and seventy-fiVe
yards in succession, when he did
1871 40. He claims that it was the
chainless wheel he rode and which
gave him unlimited command of his
wheel, which enabled him to make
these leaps.
In all of his rides Taylor was tired
but once, and that after those marvel
Gus leaps in his record mile. He in
variably finished fresh, and Manager
Charlie Ward, who did most excellent
work in this, his first record camp, says
that Taylor shows not the slightest ef-
feet of his great work. Ward had new
er handled record camps before, and to
him belongs great amount of the
credit for the success of Taylor, From
the outset there was but the one hitch,
and that when new tires of the con-
strictive pattern would not hold to the
rims of the big machines.
Taylor in his list of record rides
established record of the whole which
in itself is going to stand for years
without the slightest signs of breek-
ing. There is probably no other rider