The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-17
Beats EdOuard Taylor in Worlds
Hour Paced Race BY Over
Three Miles Margin
| FRENC HMAN'S PACE
MACHINE BROKE
American Team Wins in the In
ternationaI Pursuit Event
Without Much Trouble.

New York, Dec. 16.-six thousand
people saw Harry Fixes of America
defeat Edouard Taylore of France in
the hour paced international cham
pionship bike race at Madison Square
Garden tonight. Most of the afternoon
had been spent in wedding out the
weaker riders, and the men who came
to the scratch tonight had interna-
tional regulations.
Two scratch races opened the night S
program, and they were both of the
hair-raising sort. In the amateur half
mile event there were four starters,
Kramer, the American champion, Col
lett, Lake and Jacobson. jacobson
took the lead, then Kramer took it
and gave Kramer a hard rub. But the
champion won by length from Jacob
son after a mighty thirty yard effort.
In the professional struggle between
Jay Eaton of Elizabeth, N. j., and
Henri Meyer, the champion of Holland
and England, was particularly interest
D
won by foot. The foreigner evened
up matters in the second semi-final
heat of the mile, in which both started
from scratch. Meyer jumped away
from Eaton, and passing man after
man, Won as he pleased leaving Eaton
hopelessly in the rear. Meyer was
beaten in the final heat but the limit
men changed pace and aided each other
so that it was impossible for the handi-
70 ~, afYof
The international pursuit race be-
/ tween Fisher and Chevalier, the French
I team, and Gimm and Aronson, who
represented America, was an easy win
/ for the latter team. 1t took them less
than a mile and a half to catch the
| Frenchman.
/ In the hour paced championship,
Edouard Taylore and Harry Fixes
started from opposition sides of the
track The Yankee began to gain at
once, and soon had half a lap the bet
/ ter of Taylore. After that Fixes apce-
making machine broke down. Like q
4 flash, Fixes swerved over the course
! and took his pace and followed it for
/ three laps.
4 Then a relief machine picked up
! Taylore again. Again Elkes made a
clean swerve, and caught his machine
without losing an inch From then
on, the American gradually increased
here. At the eighth mile, Elkes was
4 two and a half lengths ahead The
/ Frenchman was not getting as good
4 pace as the American, and lap by lap
he lost. At the end of the ninth men,
+ Elkes led by S1s laps. The time,
/ 1910 AS, was very fast for the track.
4 Elkes, in a sportsmanlike spirit, the
| Frenchman being then more than ~
laps behind, also dropped his pace, and
for while there was an unpaced pur-
suit race. In the goth mile, Elkes was
! leading by 16 laps, or more than mile
and a half, Elkes gradually increased
his lead until the end, when he finished
almost ~ miles in the lead. His dis
lance was 81 miles, S1a laps. Taylore's
distance, % miles, 9A laps
In the afternoon Arthur w. Ross
of Newark easily defeated Duer of
Buffalo in a 15-minute race behind mo-
tor pace. Duer started from the
scratch. Duer had the tester ma
chine, and handled it we'll The pace
was getting exceedingly fast, and it
told on Duer. At the end of the fourth
mile, he had gained his half lap. In
the eight mile, Ross gained a lap. At
10 miles, Ross had gained three and
one-half laps. Ross won by six and
one-half laps. The trial heats Of the
short distance races were unusually in
teresting.
Tomassell, the champion of Europe,
was badly beaten in his trial heat of
the mile race. Walter Smith the Is
year-old Brooklyn boy, qualified in the
fastest kind of a field. He rode
against the amateur champion of the
world. Summaries:
One mile professional handicap Final
heat won by r. S. Ireland (75 yards: A.
Stone Is yards), second. Time, 2:07 is.
Mile indoor championship, amateur -
Won by Frank Kramer; ]. III. Lake sec
ond.
One-half mile International champion
ship Professionalism won by Jay Ea-
ton; Henri Meyer, second; A. B. Stone,
third; G. 1. Kramer, fourth. Time,
1:O4 rs.
One mile amateur, handicap-Won by
Frank Kramer Scratch; G.. H. Collett
(scratch), second. Time, minutes 2-5
seconds.
Amateur paced race. Is miles. Arthur
w Ross Of Harrison, N j.. VS. Ray Duer
OF Buffalo. N. Y.-Won by Ross Time,
1884 2-5.
Team race-Won by Aronson and Gimm
Time. minutes 50 Is seconds.
Hour raced international championship
race--At miles Elkas led, time 1892 AS;
at 10 miles Elkes led, time 1902 2-5: at Is
miles Fixes led, time Is ;57 rs; at 20 miles
Fixes led, time 1921 As; 25th, Elkes led,
time 47:59 Us; at the 31st mile Elkes still
led One hour. Ellzes, 81 miles S1a laps;
Taylor % miles ga laps.