The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-16
WORLDS RECORD BEATEN
Hot Racing at the San Francisco
Meeting.
MANY HAVE DROPPED OUT
Those Still in the Fight Are Putting
Up the Warmest Kind Of
Racing The Track Is
Very Fast

San Francisco, Feb. .15.-Thirty-seve1
and seven-eighths miles ahead Of the
worlds record is the score Of the six
day bicycle race at Mechanics pavilion
and to THIS big increase the men have
been adding rapidly by travelling is
miles to the hour, for hour after hour.
There is reason for this fast work The
track is the fastest ever constructed
and the banks, being so steeply banked,
crawl generally followed in other races
at this stage of the contest. Then again,
the men have sprinted again and again
to-day to make up lost space on riders
leading the track. Whenever Miller left,
all the others started at great speed to
overhaul his lead or to increase a lead
upon the champion. Barnaby led most
of these and is in reality the surprise
OF the contest. This Boston rider never
finished a race of this character before
and was supposed to be one of those
who would finally drop out. But Bar
naby is piece of iron, and in his low
crouching attitude upon his double ham
die bar red wheel, he is the typical dem
on pictured in the papers. Miller does
not worry over his inability to hold the
lead. but counts upon being to the
front at the 72nd hour. Barnaby and
Miller outsprint the field whenever they
take the notion. Poor old Ashinger
slid down the line to the bottom very
rapidly after his great exhibition i'm
staying on his saddle for 469 miles and
seven laps. breaking the endurance rec
ord of 457 miles. Ashinger has now
been relieved OF his trouble, and is
going better. He will be on the track
and riding when others are on the to-
boggan toward the bottom. Hale and
Alberts ride together and do sprint
ing. In the first SO hours Gimm was
on but So minutes. Miller had an hour
and 80 minutes off the track and Pierce
an even hour in the same time. Stevens
quitting this morning wheR the Buffa-
lonian was in prime condition, came as
one of the biggest surprises of the race.
Pierce, the Bostonian, lost his third POI
sition in the 40th hour. He was COM
| PEELED to take little rest, and those
back of him, Nawn and Barnaby, had
both had their rest and We're in con-
ditfon to ride like mad, while Pierce
was off the track The field is now
probably down to bed rock and likely
to stay 10 to the close. Stevens was
No. Is, and when he quit he left 10 in
the race. Score at 5:45 p. M, the ,43rd
hour: Gimm, 1861: Miller, 770.6;
Nawn, 75S.4; Barnaby, 1854; Pierce,
7523s Fredericks. 747.4; Hale, 744.0:. AL
berts, 1898; Aaronson, 7213; Lawson,
1865; Pilkington, $685. julius, 657.4;
Ashinger, 63s.
The score at S:45 p. M, the 46th hour,
was as follows: Gimm 343.4 Miller,
S246; Barnaby, s02.3; Fredericks, 800;
Nawn, 1862; Hale, 1871; Pierce, 1858;
Aronson, 774.7; Algert, 1853; Lawson,
7446; Plkington 724; julius, 6935; Ash
niger, 674.7.
Downing of San Jose and Frank Cot
ter of Tacoma defeated j. Eaton of
Elizabeth, N. j., and Teddy Goodman
of Harlem in one-mile tandem pursuit
race in 1853 1-5. H..
The score at midnight, the 49th hour:
Gimm, S96; Miller, $751;; Fredericks,
1894; Nawn, S37.2; Barnaby, S31.2;
Pierce, 1924; Hale. S21.1; Aronson. S17.4;
Albert, Sill; Pilkington. TIA; Lawson,
774.22; julius, 1882; Ashinger, 1897.