The San Francisco call., 1898-08-14
DEFEAT OF EDDIE BALD
MCFARLAND WINS THE MILE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Western Wheelmen Easily Victorious in the Pursuit Race Against
 the Crack Riders of
 the East.
Special Dispatch to The Call

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 13.-The national meet of the League of Ameri- can Wheelmen was closed to-day. and the racing was brilliant. It furnished more surprises and more broken re- cords. Eddie Bald was beaten out in the semi-final of the one-mile national professional championship, as were Tom Cooper and Arthur Gardiner. F. A. Mcfarland, the new champion, won in record breaking time, lowering the one-mile single paced competition mark from POI to 1:5S 2-5. Major" Taylor was but three inches behind in the wonderful finish, and "Old Kaintuck" Kimble but a tires width back of the dark secret"
 Frank L. Kraemer of Newark, N. J., put a crimp into Peabody and won the 3 one-nlile national amateur champion ship The winners of the first and t. second in the semi-fi finals were allowed to start. and it gave a fast field. Krae- rher however, had a world of speed and he dealt 1t out freely. He crossed the tape a full length in front of Earl Peabody, the Chicagoan. The time was 2:O4 3-5.
 :. The two-mile amateur handicap
  :. Kraemer, the one-mile national cham pion. registered 1t. Although he failed Q to finish within the money, he cut the record to AT.
 The third record to go to smithereens was that of a quad mile. In trial against time, a team composed of Van Cott Horton, Lishner and Bennett cut . the record from AT to 1;45 3-5. : In the two-mile tandem professional Ia Fowler was substituted for Johnny Johnson, whose injuries re- ceived on the previous night were too "seVere to permit of his riding. Plucky ''Plugger'' Bill Martin was out steering his mate, W. E. Mertens of Minneapo- . lis; and the pair won the event in 4:57 l-5, doing the last quarter in "A. Martin all but tainted after finishing and had to be carried from the track.
 The interstate pursuit race, teams : entering from Illinois and Indiana Tn :: the West and Connecticut and New . York in the East, was won by New York The distance completed was six D. and three siXteenths of a mile and the : time 13:43 3-5
 '.The long-talked of race of the East against the West was well contested ard. the Western riders captured the event The CrackerjackS Of the meet . were represented.
 Mcfarland was in the Western team, as were Gardiner and Bald in the East ern aggregation. The West wiped up the Fasteners Three of the Western team stayed to the finish. Stevens was the only Westerner to give up, while ' all of those from the East quit except '"Plugger'' Bill Martin. It required only four and ree-SiXteenthS miles for the Westerners to stop their East erh rivals. The time for the five miles by. Mcfarland, who finished 1t out after passing Martin, was 1923 1-5.
 The standing of the first seven of the national circuit riders at the close of . the meet tonight is as follows: E. c. ble 99, Cooper S5, Gardiner 73, Freeman 46, Stevens Al.
 =. .To-day's summary follows:
 one mile. professional. national champion ion 3I6 32ge 1S %0n Also 'sGi rsn Monroe Memphis Bald e. e Second race rni-fnal-Kimbe. Louisville, first: Stevens, Ottumwa: Ia, second; Ma jor " aIso '4r Tan! Jay Eaton. Tom Cooper Detroit Final heat-McFarland, first; Major Taylor. sfthG fiftR. Tine I:58 25 Worlds single competI tive record. breaking record of 2:O1 by Gardi- !. One mile national championship. amateur-F. Il. Kramer. Newark first; Earl Peabody. Chi- tbiT9 tSgG sseu e NJ Erts New York, fourth George : H .Coliett New Haven. fifth Tirne 2:o4 3r5 :,Sar .uavton (2f0 yards). first; Archie Fergu- , son, Terre Haute t25 yardsl' second; J. D. nsvsn. Chicago (25O). fourth: J. A. Nelson. Chi ." cago ClO0). fifth. Time All Two mile tandem, professional-Martin.
 Lowell and Mertens. Minneapolis, first; Tom
 ButIer Boston. and Becker. St. Paul second; McFarland. San Jose. and Stevens, Iowa, third: Bowler Chicago. and Ben Monroe Memphis fourth. Time, 4:57 1-5
 East against West. five mile pursuit race. live men to team; won by West by 6-le of a mile fn 1O:23 1-5 for the five miles Western :fea'n-McFarland. Mertens, Becker Gardiner . and Stevens Eastern team-Bald, Eaton, Mar fin: Eerner and Hadheld
 '.Tnterstate pursuit race amateur, three men teams. no limit. New York team.Erts kra- J, uiaar and Schofield won. Time, lS;4S S-S oL(iss DIS tance six and three-sixteenth miles other ;tearas-IIIinois Peabody, Llewellyn and Ste :. fanfs. Indiana. Pease, Bates ana Gordon' .. Conn eicticut Hausman, Collatt and Vancot Fires Still Raging on Boulder Creek SANTA CRUZ. Aug. 13.-Forest fires are raging in the gulches near Boulder Creek. ~. l,o thrPafened and