The times., 1898-09-04

other shores and duplicating their 1873
successes. Bald Cooper Kimble. Free
man, and Gardiner will probably COM
prise the sprinters, while Titus, Coulter,
and Starbuck are the unpaced riders who
will make the trip. and Eddie McDuffee
and Harry Elkes are the paced men. This
will be a combination that will be hard
to beat, and the French riders will have
additional reason to grind their teeth and
shout, "Abas lie Americaines." as they
generally do when their own men do not
win, as was the case when Miller won
the seventy-two-hour race at Paris re-
Gently. Bald, Cooper, Taylor and Kim
BILE able to defeat the best riders
they have in Europe Kimble and Taylor
should make the best showing according
to the French style of racing, as 1t Is the
policy of those riders I, roaf jockey.
jump, and stop for the first part of the
race, and then, by a series of ''windings,"
make long and rapid sprint, sometimes
lasting for the last quarter or third of
mile. The Americans make a good, swift
race of it from start to finish but it Is
generally the last sixth or eighth that
shows the sprint. There IS not a rider in
all Europe who could hold the fast sprint
of Bald, Cooper, Taylor or Mcfarland
in the stretch but whether the Americans
could hold out for a longer distance Is
something that no man is safe in vouch-
Sanng a pre0lctlon. 1T Is quite
however that Bald will follow the fast
sprint that can be given him by Bourril-
lon and Jacque!in and beat them on the
sprint and this seems to be the way they
will have to ride. Taylor, Kimble, and
Freeman, however, have good, long
sprints, and that will help them mate
rally.
Unpuced Riding in Europe.
The unpaced riders will share better.
Unpaced riding is an unknown quantity,
comparatively speaking, among the for
eigners. They have few men who have
the heart to stand such killing races as
have resulted of late in Philadelphia, the
home of the pursuit race. Coulter and
| Starbuck rode nearly sixteen miles,
breaking all kinds of records, recently,
before Coulter overlook the erstwhile un-
defeated pursuit rider. A week later
| Coulter and Vernier travelled over eigh-
| teen miles and promised to continue the
| race for twenty-five before finishing. and
| il was only the slippery track that gave
| the Western rider a tumble that ended the
| race Such races could not be run
against the Frenchmen. They are ner-
| vous. quick, and erratic, and If they can
| cut a killing pace for a few miles and
| win, all right, but If the phlegmatic
| Americans will keep away from them for
five miles the race is as good as won.
| Such riders as Gouglotz and Kaser, who
| learned the American style when they
were over here. can do pretty well at the
game. but there are few others who could
do it, This viii mean, therefore, that
| the American unpaced riders would sweep
the country if they hold their form. If
the team could be made up of Hamilton,
Coulter. Starbuck, Church. and Titus,
there are no riders in the world that could
defeat them. McDuffee is perhaps the
fastest unpaced rider today in America,
but he prefers the paced game and will
hardly affect unpaced riding until next
year.
Foreigners Fear Unpaced Riders.
The paced riders are the men who will
give the foreigners the most severe shock.
The wonderful rides made in this coun-
try this year are looked upon with suspi
cion by the foreigners, and they cannot
understand how it is possible that their
best rider. represented by Edouard Tay-
lore, should come to America and with
the best of pacemakers only manage to
win from erratic riders or second-class
men Taylore has won from Starbuck
and Vernier on accidents, and has de-
feated some one by the name of O'Leary,