Evening star., 1898-08-20
LOCAL RACING CHAT.


meet of the season, providing for good
program of races made their appearance
Yesterday afternoon The sprint events
Will be of more than usual interest. owing
to the fact that out of four events three
are practical innovati9rs. The opening
race will be five-rniie handicap, amateur.
This is the first fivc-m1,e race on the rack
this .ar, either for professionals or anna
teurs, open to general competition. 1t is
expected that all of the local riders will
enter. and ON account of the distance some
dark horses may come to the front and
capture the event.
Another good lace will be the tandem
heat race for professional riders, in which
al of the loc;.! ner will erter, and several
from Baltimore and Philadelphia. The
race wiz be in mile heats, the winner being
judged by the best score made. As good
prizes have been offered, the race will un-
doub:edly be productive OF good speed. The
team winning two cut of three heats will
be announced the winner the other posi-
tons being judged by a system of scoring.
The event of the evening will be an I'M
limited pursuit race between Fred. Titus
of New York and Frank Starbuck OF Phil
adelphia. A purse of 500 Will be given the
winner. The race will be after the order of
the Australian pursuit race. The men will
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contest will continue until one overtakes
the other. The five-nile unpaced record is
II %. while the five-mie unpaced compe-
tition record is 11.3T. If the winner of the
race Thursdty ty will be able to lower the
record of II 05. held by Titus, an additional
prize will be offered. The events and prizes
are as follows:
First event. five-mile handicap amateur;
prizes. valued at $50, $40 and So, for first,
second and third places. respectively.
Second eveEt, tandem heat race pro-
fessional; prizes, first. S35; second, s15.
Third event, five-mle exhibition. track
record. paced by multicycles, professional;
prize, Lasley $50 trophy
Fourth event, match pursuit race, un-
limited distance. between Fred Titus of
New York and Frank Starbuck of Phila-
delphia prize 500.
The race next week will mark Starbuck' S
first appearance in this city In Philadel-
rhia he is well known and his good riding
draws well. He was in an Australian pur-
suit race at the Woodside track, about two
months ago. the introduction of that style
of racing in Philadelphia. There We're six
entries. and by the end of five miles only
two men remained, Starbuck being one and
Charles Church the other. While Church
succeeded in winning. he did not have such
an easy time and for eight and half
miles he plugged after Starbuck finally
overtaking him. after total ride of over
thirteen miles. This only serves to show
paced rider.
As a paced rider he has been even more
successful. He has defeated many good
crack middle distance men behind pace.
Perhaps his most notable perfor nance was
last year. when he defeated Jimmy Michael
In a twenty-five-nlile race at Philadelphia.
1t was the only defeat of the season sus-
tanned by the midget. Starbuck won the
race purely his merits as q rider. No
accident happened to Michael, who rode
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not beat the Philadelphian, who followed
good pace like a veteran. The victory was
a popular one, and Starbuck received due
credit for 1t.
Titus in his riding career has had an ex-
perience similar to Starbuck, but has never
defeated Michael Early this season. how
ever, he beat Tom Linton. in the first match
race of the latter. Titus rode in good form
and because of this victory his stock as
paced rider went up several hundred points.
Since then he was defeated by Michael and
also by Linton. Another race between
Titus and Linton is on hand, and the WIN
ner of this will be waited Tor with con-
siderable interest.
In pursuit racing Titus has not had such
q varied experience. AS an unpaced rider
he has shown good speed and holds the
five-mile record at 11.O5 and the ten-mlie
record at 23.O0. 1t is on account of his
speed in this class of riding that he feels
confident of success in pursuit races he
defeated Counselman and Wilson last Wed
nesday evening at the park track but III
Starbuck he recognizes that he Will have
more formidable opponent. The latter is
regarded by many as the equal of the New
Yorker If not his superior, and as the
race Thursday will be the first time the
two have been brought together this season
in an event of this kind, considerable inter
est is manifested not only in this city, but
in Baltimore and In Philadelphia.
A race is scheduled for Labor day that
fI-r1rr n n " a.
pie TO be the most interesting of any held
this season. 1t will be n match race be
tween Fred Simms and Fred Schade, the
two long-time-ago amateur rivals, and now
rivals for honor and cash and glory in the
professional ranks. The match race will be
for a distance of one mile. and three heats
will be run, the winner of two heats to be
the winner of the race. The heats will be
scattered through the program for the meet
and the riders afforded plenty of time in
which to get in condition for the ride before
them.
Schade is now riding in better condition
than he has at any time since he Joined the
professional class. He has been unable to
make as good showing was expected
of him. owing to the fact that most of the
time of late he has been kept on pacing
machines. He has had very little oppor
tunity to ride a single, and on that account
has suffered when he entered sprint events.
With his match race with Sims on hand,
he will start in training without delay, and
good showing can be expected of him.
1t can safely be predicted that the heats
will be closely contested, and that neither
rider will have a walkaway, as the term is
used.
Billie Sims and Bobbie Walthour left the
city this morning for Philadelphia, where
they will ride on two different tracks. In
the afternoon they will visit the Woodside
track and enter a three-mile lap race. At
night they will proceed to the Tioga track
where both will enter ten-mile handicap
race. Sims while his condition is good is
suffering from the effects Of the fall re-
ceived Wednesday evening at the park
track in the two-mile professional handicap
Both Sims and Wilson went down, and the
former scraped nearly all of the skin off
one side of the left forearm and a good deal
off both knees, making him walk somewhat
stiff1y. He hardly thinks that these in
juries will interfere with his chances OF
winning while away.
The riding of A. c. Moran Wednesday
evening was surprise to a good many He
finished a good second in the two-mile
handicap, beating out Bobbie WaIthour on
the stretch. In the race Moran used more
Eeadwork than he usually does, and all
during the race enjoyed a "slaigh-ride"
leaving him fresh for the final. He was not
obliged to once set pace for the bunch, but
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