The herald., 1898-08-14
CLOSE OF THE L. A. w. NATIONAL
MEETING
Westerners Win Their Big Race
Events on the Turf-Baseball
Games and Scores


Cooper and Arthur Gardiner E. A. Nc
Farland, the new champion, won in rec
ord breaking time, lowering the ore-mile
single-paced competition mark from 2:O1 to
1:5S 20. Major" Taylor was but three
inches behind in the wonderful finish, and
"Old Kaintuck" 1timble was but a tires
width back of the dark secret"
Frank l.. Kraemer of Newark, n. j., put
a crimp into Peabody and won the one-mle
national amateur championship. The wir-
ners of the first and second in the semi
finals were allowed to start and 1t gave a
fast field. kraemer, however, had world
of speed and he dealt it out freely. He
crossed the tape full length ahead of Ear
Peabody, the Chcagoan. The time was
1904 3-5.
The two-mile amateur handicap event
saw another broken record and Kraemer.
the one-mile national champion, registered
Il. Although he failed TO finish within the
money, he cut the record to All.
The third record to so to smithereens WAS
that of the quad mile. In trial against
time, team, composed of Vancott, Horton,
Lishner and Bennett. cut the record from
1851 to 1:45 80.
James Dowler was substituted for Johnny
Johnson, whose injuries received on the
previous night were too severe to permit of
his riding. Plucky "Plugger" Bill Martin
was out, steering his mate, w. Z. Mertens
of Minneapolis, and the pair won the event
in 4:57 10, doing the last quarter in O:24.
Martin all but tainted after finishing and
had to be carried from the track.
The long talked-of race of the east VS..
the west was contested, and the western
riders captured the event. The cracker
jacks of the meet were represented
Mcfarland was in the western team as
was Gardiner and Bald in the eastern ag-
gregation. The west wiped up the east
erners. Three of the western team staid
to the finish. Stevens was the only west
erner to give up while all of thosel from
the east quit except "Plugger" Bill Martin.
1t required only four and hree-siXteenths
miles for the westerners to stop their east
ern rivals. The time for the five miles by
Mcfarland, who finished 1t out after the
passing Martin, was 1923 3-5.
The standing Of the first seven of the
national circuit riders at the close of the
meet tonight is as follows:
e. C. Bald, 1923 points; Mcfarland. ia:
Kimble. 80; Cooper. IS; Gardiner. 70; Free
man, 46; Stevens, Al.
| Summaries:
| One mile, professional, national cham
pionship: First race, semi-final-McFar-
land San Jose. won; Fisher, Chicago, sec
ond. Time, 2:1o is. Also ran-Monroe
Bald Gardiner and Barney Oldfeld.
| Second race, mi-final--Kimball, Louis
ond; Major Taylor, Indianapolis, third.
Time, 2:O4 As. Also ran-Tom Cooper, Jay
Eaton.
Final heat-McFarland won, Major Tay-
lor second. Kimble third, Stevens fourth,
Fisher fifth. Time 1853 2-5 (world's single
competitive record, beating POI, by Gar
diner in Louisville In August, 1896.
One mile. national championship. ANA
teur-F. l.. Kraemer, Newark, won; Earl
Peabody, Chicago, second; +. c. Hausman,
New Haven. third. Time, 2:o4 S-5.
Two-mile, amateur handicap-George
walther, Dayton (21O). won; Archie Fer
guson, Terre Haute (25), second; J. D. Sy-
cphani, Chicago CESS. third. Time, Ali
Two-mile, tandem, professional-Martin
of Lowell and Mertens of Minneapolis won.
Tom Butler OF Boston and Becker Of 81.
Paul second, Mcfarland of San Jose and
Stevens of Iowa third. Time, ASST 10.
East against west, fve-mile pursuit race
five men to a team--Won by the west by
fve-sixteenths of a mile in 1923 Is for the
FIVE miles. Western Observation-Disclosures
Mertens, Becker, Gardiner and Stevens.
Eastern team-Bald, Eaton, Martin, Yer
nier and Hadneld.
A Slow Race
NEW YORK, August 13.-An uneventful
and uninteresting 25-mile paced race took
place today at Manhattan Beach bicycle
track between Edward McDuffee of Bos-
ton and Edouard Taylore, the French
middle distance rider, and the former won
by 50 yards, otter splendid squirt in the
last three hundred yards. Four thousand
enthusiasts made the journey to the track
In the hope of seeing an exciting contest.
but they were disappointed by the tactics
adopted by both riders and Kissed their
displeasure many times, during the race.
While the riders were jockeying and loaf
Ing around the Ellipse, the managers of the
American Cycle Racing association made
the announcement that the association
would not in future promote any paced
races unless the contestants agreed to have
unlimited pace and riders to start from the
opposite sides of the track.
McDufry rode 100 gear and Taylore's
wheel was geared to H. Each had %
pacemakers, who made up the crews Of the
quintuple pacing machines. The men al
ternated in the lead, spurts succeeding
loafs. Taylore led for the closing two
miles, until they entered the back stretch
in the last lap, when McDuffee sailed by
him and won by fifty yards IN 90 minutes
and As Is seconds as against the record for
the distance, AZ minutes and as seconds held
by Elkes.
Runners and Trotters
DETROIT. Mich, August 13.-Weather
cloudy.
Six furlongs-Bob Garner won, Terrapin
second, Onsaca third; time, 1:15A.
Five furlongs-Guina won, Sir Gasimir
second, Lizzie Kelly third; time, 1:02l2.
The Essex stakes, mile and an eighth
Old Saugus won, Cogmoosey second. Morte
Fonse third; time, 1887.
Five furlongs-Duty won, Record second.
Gavotte third; time, LOB.
Six furlongs-Deyo won, Nicholas Sec
ond, Mazeppa third; time 1:14a.
Six furlongs-Clincher won, Annie Tay-
lor second, Maggie third; time. -.
Steeple chose, short course-Lady Maud
won, Tuscarora second, Brother Bob third !:
time, 343A.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 13.-Five and one-haif