The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-12

OId-Time Exhibition of Speed md
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Heats.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. u.-More
record breaking and more sensat ionaJ
finishes marked the SECOND day of the
national meet of the League Of Amer
dcan Wheelmen. One serious accident
knocked Arthur Gardiner out of the
final heat of the American 81 900 handi-
cap, and nearly placed plucky Bill Mar
tin hors du combat. This happened at
the close Of the second heat of the
contest, Martin being at the front of
the bunch. and apparently a winner
when he slipped over the pole and slid
along the track. Gardiner went over
MIN, Ed Stevens followed, and then
Lou Coburn went down in the bean
Cooper and Mcfarland were in the
finish, but escaped luckily from a spilI
cooper dismounting from his wheel as
Wh1te as the wheel ITSELF Gardiner
could not ride in the great final. and
Martin did ride to show his pluck. In
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 hars
and set up to relieve his strained back
as he made the finish. After encircline
the track part way he dismounted for
he could ride no further. Martin was s
the hero of the meet, for he came ont
to ride as badly a cut up and iarred
man as has been seen on the track this
year.
Fred j. Costello, the st. Louis anna
teur who qualified today for the great
hVe-mile amateur championship. tooiy
the handicap, with Maya, of Erie, sec
md HoI
third. This same trio made the back
mark men. look foolish in the third
neat by working together and keeping
out of the way. Owing to the with
draWal of Gardiner, Baldwin went from
scratch alone, his great rival, Cooner
having twenty yards. The race was a
pretty one, but the generosity of the
handlcapper toward the ex-amateur
who has beat Peabody, in giving him
25O yards, enabled the limit men 70
prevail and to prevent the back men
closing in the time they cut out. Bald
finished fourth in 400, new handicap
record by 9 4-5 seconds He broke if
also In the heat, doing Ais rs. very
handily. The new rule allowing handi
cap records in class by themselves
IS the explanation of why these are
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 fouling
OF Z. S. Porter, the Detroit amateur.
Porter was disqualified for the meet
and censured by the chairman. Col
lett, however, took the itquarter mile
championship, his third win in the
championship contests, and with his
partner he made it fourth by cleverly
winning the handicap championship
for tandem teams at the mile distance.
Earl w. Peabody, the Chicago amateur.
took the f1ve-nlile championship by a
good, clean cut win, and Ertz and
kraemer followed him across the tape.
1t was the Eddie Bald of old that
shot into the lead in the final heat of
the half-mile national championship,
his first win of champion race at a
national meet since 49,. the start of his
career, over four years ago. Bald was
determined, and rode the race of his
seasons career. Gardiner claimed to
nave been crowded over the pole by
Mcfarland, who took Second to Bald.
with Freeman third, and Cooper fourth. =
and protested the Californian to the
chairman Of the board 90
The protest was not allowed Tn tha
second days racing Kimble. of Louis
Vile, did nothing, and Taylor failed to
qualify for the championship and for
the great American handicap, in the
former owing to being third in the
slowest heat, and in the latter owing
to the loafing tactics which he and
other back mark men put up. Stevens
again failed to show in the races of to-
day, and Cabanne did nothing.
AS close to the great day of sport,
Harry Gibson did a mile, paced, in
1:45 3-5; the quarter in :26 2-5 half in
:53 rs and the three-quarters in 10 3-5.
He was paced poorly by triplet and a
quad.
TRIAL HEATS.
Trial heats at Newly oval this NOM
ing were as follows:
Quarter mile championship. result. P.
Rogers Philadelphia, first: F: s.. Robbins,
heat, six starters, resuits@E. W. peaboiy.
Chicago, first; E. c. Hansman, New Haven,
Conn. second Time. ts4 3-5. Third heat,
four sta a.4 Llewellyn, Chicago, first;
"a 20. Fourth heat. five ,starters-G. H.
s Porter Detroit seaond Fine Fine 80 JUS; s5
ark. N. j., first; George Schofield, Brooklyn.
N: Y. second. Time, :33 %.
Half mile. professional. five starters. first
Time :22 Is. Second heat, six furlongsWF.
A. Mcfarland first, Gardner ssecond Time,
1:22 1-5. Third heat, seven starters-E c.
Odno HrSI, Joe WERNER second. Time, 1:24 10.
Fourth heat: seven starters-H. B.. Freeman
hrst. Earl Stevens secondj Time LA As.
Firth heat, six starters-Mai Taylor first,
w. E. Becker second. Time. -1:29 2-5 Sixta
heat, four starters-John Fisher first, John S.
Johnson second. Time, las. Nat Butler was
shut out. - f-.a = - -
The mile handicap, amateur, was run as
follows: First heat thirteen starters-John
P. Rogers, Philadelphia, scratch, first; l..
.: Gordon, Indianapolis, 40 yards, second;
Charles Porter. Detroit, 20 yards, third; f.
s. Robbins Middietown o., 80 yards, fourth.
lin lime IA Second heat, twelve starters
". T. Broadway. Richmond, Ind. 125 yards.
first; Harry Moorehead, Indianapolis, $50
yards, second; George Watther, Dayton, 110
yards. third; j. W. DonneM Chicago, 100
yards, fourth: Time, 2:06 rs. Third heat,
ten starters-C. v. Brown, Chicago. 125 yards,
hrst Archie Ferguson, Terre Haute. 125
yards. second; Herbert Ziegler, Chicago 100
yards. third; G: R. Pease Indianapolis, 30
yards, fourth. Time 2:06 3-5. CoiIett shut
out
Five-mile championship, amateur-Mile
heats to qualify were run as follows: First
neat, seven starters: E. c.. Housman. New
Haven, Conn, first; Frank Costello. ST.
Conn. first: John P. Rogers Rogers Philadelphia
second. Time, 2:49 As. Third heat-Seven
starters: F. L. Cramer, Newark, N. j., first
! T.; W. Peabody a Chicago. second. Time,
Ertz, New York, first; Charles S. Porter,
Detroit, second. Time 4O3 Is.
AFTERNOON SUMMARIES.
Summaries for tlie41 afternoon races
were as follows: isrf
championships. 6. Hadsmon. first: F.. l.
Kraemer, Network secbnd Time 90 Ar