The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-18
The 25-Motor = Paced
Race Didn't Pan
Out.
M'DUFFIE KISSED BY CROWD.
The major" Beats Out the
Buffers in the One-Third
Mile Professional.

Boston, June II. - The much heralded
25-mile motor paced race between Eddie
McDufIie and Major Taylor at the Charles
River Park IL. A. W. this afternoon was
fzzle to the intense disgust of nearly
! 1900 people who stayed at the track until
dusk hoping it would turn out all right.
Just before o'clock the men came on
the track, and started under the agree
ment that if anything happened to the
motor cycles within the first mile the race
would be re-started.
The men began from opposite sides of
| the track, Taylor having a gasolene pro-
PEELED bicycle of French make, and Nc
Duffie using a steam-driyen machine.
| Just before the first mile was up Nc
Duffle left his pace machine, apparently
because 1t was too slow, while Taylor S
motor was working finely and setting a
! great pace. McDuffie stopped, and it was
announced that his pace-making machine
was not just right. After half an hours
! delay the race was re-started, and again
the major got pace quickly and beauti-
fully, while McDuffie did not seem to like
his PAGER. McDuffie Stacked up before the
| end of the mile but the kissing of the
crowd made him continue, yet on the next
lap, he pulled out. By this time his pace
maker had developed much speed, al
| though not as evenly as that of Taylor's
| which was pulling the colored lad along
! at great rate. Taylor kept at his work
| until Just AFTER the llllIQ mile, WneQ the
men on the automobile threw up their
| hands. Then Taylor started in to COM
plete the rs miles unpaced. After a while
a quint was manned to help him out, but
| 1t didn't contribute to his speed, but
| served the purpose of protecting him, as
the crowd had swarmed all over the
| track.
! The quint was manned by j. j. Casey,
| ]: ]. Conlin, Frank Blanchard, Victor
! Ekberg, all of Worces and Charles BLY,
| of Northampton. Taylor pluckily hung to
his task until 12l2 miles had been covered,
| when the referee called him off owing to
lors time for the distance was 27:011a.
The five mile professional was protested
| by Nat Butler and others, but the referee
| decided the race in order to finish.
| The one-third mile professional resulted
| in a win for the major, after working
| around the three Butler boys, who en-
deavored by team work to shut TAYLOR
out. They We're unsuccessful, however,
| the major coming down the back stretch,
| hooking on to Joe Downey, and beating
the field in on the sprint and winning
| handily by two wheel lengths.
| James J. Casey of Worcester played in
| hard luck in the five mile professional
| handicap, in which he stood a fair show
| of getting placed till, on the last turn,
Joseph Bowdoin of Providence ripped six
spokes out of his front wheel, putting a
quietus on his chances for winning a
The other Worcester riders who com
peted in the five mile handicap profess
sional We're j. J. Conlin and Victor Elk
| berg. Frank Blanchard did not succeed
in getting placed. The summary:
| One mile amateur open-Final heat won
| by j. F. Ingraham Peabody; w. H. Min
ME, Chicopee, second. Time, PIP rs.
| One mile amateur, handioap-Final heat
/ won by James Moran, Chelsea (scratch) ;
j. F. Ingraham, Jr., Peabody (scratch),
| second. Time, 2:23 2-5.
| Z One-third mile professional (scratch)-
Won by Major Taylor, Worcester; Tom
Butler. Cambridge, second; Watson Cole
man. Cambridge third. Time, 4S rs sec
| onds.
Five mile professional handicap-Won
by A. A. Mclean, Chelsea (45Q: Hugh
Mclean. Chelsea (425), second; Nat But
| Ter (seratch), third Watson Coleman
| (25O. fourth; Frank Butler (scratch),
| fifth; Charles Bly,. Northampton (275),
sixth. Time, 11:20 AS.
| Four-cornered team pursuit race be-
| tween Glover, Charlesgate, Metropolitan
and Trinity clubs-Won by Metropolitans;
| Charlesgate, second.
| Australian tandem race-Won by Nat
and Tom Butler; Watson Coleman and
| Frank Butler, second. Time, 900 Is,
| about four miles.
| Ten-mile tandem, paced, William Berlo
of Eagle Club and Jack Farnham of Met
ropolitan .Club..,Won by IBerlo by three
fourths of mile. Time, PIG 1-5.