The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-16
NEWS OF THE WAEELMEN.
EXPERIENCES OF KILPATRIo,T TEE
TRICK RIDER, IN SOUTH AhRICA.

ing Struggle for tho Ono-Hour Record.
Charles Fitzpatrick. a one legged bicycle rider.
arrived in New York Saturday and told two
interesting stories. one about President Paul
KRUGER Of the Transvaal that was sentimental
and another about Kid Mccoy that was
decidedly practical In its flavor. Fitzpatrick
never has told the true story OF how he lost his
limb. although his yarns" concerning what he
chooses to call his bum leg" would make .
droll book Of short stories. 1t was In 1896-97
that he was In the Transvaal making money out
OF his bum leg" by doing stunts" on a biz
Cycle with the good one. For eharity's sake he
went before an Assem- blage OF school children
and gave an exhibition. President Kruger
was present and Fitzpatrick was presented to
Dom Paul. Tell the President" said Kill
patrick to the Interpreter. that come from
the country OF the two greatest men In history
Warrington and Lincoln" The answer from
Kruger through the interpreter was quite char
acteristio 1t was: Tell the young man that
probably know more about those two mon
than he does" Subsequently President KRUGER
presented the one-legRed man with q medal
Fitzpatrick talked Of South Africa last night be-
cause OF the present war situation there. He
said You ought to hear the Boers speak OF
KRUGER. Dom Paul. yeu say here. with kind
OF sarcastic infection on the Dom. but there.
where 1t means unole. and 10 really a fonder
word than father. they say It with a long drawn
information that has the utmost OF affectionate
| tone In It."
Regarding his experience with Kid Mccoy in
South Africa. Fitzpatrick said: 1T was just sf-
tor Mccoy had knocked out Billy Doherty in
the ninth round and taken all the money Of the
worklng. They had him at punching the bag
THAT was a new game there at the time, and
pe gate al Thsn they
Of 200 or ABOUT P 600 for p any ON. whom he
dd net put ont In ak rounds Ths was at
that 600. They were big ones. bigger than
'1sw s the %' KID p ia with them little and
PVT them OF VII WITH punch; AttertWS weeks
and I aeht on one iee il he would make It four
rounds OF two minutes each or course. the
thing was n1ed up, but you should have heard
too The Kid jabbed away and crossed and
hop hoped into the riSs and i was ten ten
The Kid swung and pOk \; 4, away while I
Then got the Kids head in chancery and Just
tapped him few with the bum stump until
would We" Ike to bet that was the biggest light in
done. you " Understand. We hoped out Of tho
ring tegsther and every one know that 1t was
s@6o "a" ana BEEN s licked bS :
man."
One hundred and twenty five am bilious bicy-
Gle riders started Yesterday In the record
100 T 4. Of the Road Club
se tie r.rs so% Ss
Tho start was made from Bedford Rest at
$50 O'Clock. Tho winner was ": hcKenzIs
seconds "eos the sec second man was Charles Mock.
who was about Is feet behind Mckenzie and
third wSs Gus ESlG who w1o about
sS.S h5fs I1d MIS- H. B.n sSa
ads RI. ' Benson in The Tses Miss Jane Yas
man and Miss May Smith.
G. E. Rivierre finished his / 900 mile ride At
hours and is minu This 10 new Kmeri-
,s
AZ m inutes by A. Hanson. Rivierre rode home
s the ynes Fl. onS and
Mrs. Jane Lindsay continued her efforts to-
the evening began TO sufIer severely from
pains In the arms and wrists. Last night Just
sh 81 tns ss
was some bad weather.
At vailsburg yesterday the Twenty-Five mile
jacobson. ths winner. was hour 2 min utes %
seconds. Bobby Thompson won the one-mile
sseonds. With aoEsahre n second and John
Bull third; The novice race waswon by E. 9.
Lloyd In "a seconds.
New York captured both the one and Ave mile
handicaps. In the one mile event NJ. T. Doye
the Ave mile race scrsibsr was second and
Dove third.
Between three and four hundred riders par
teen hour divisions OF the Century Road Clubs
duet and fog: 4. J.malees y going out: Rosen.
a biz dog. The wheel was smashed, Rosenteld
was hurt and the deg Vas Killed At Jamaica.
s severely II hurt that she was removed BY an
ambulance.
There Ia in progress an international struR-
gle for the one-hour record that has become
I'm ensSly interesting and which promises to
iishment Of some remarkable figures. From
foreign advioes by mail II now appears that
when on Sept. 10. he rode SO miles 747
yards IN an s.n hon fSSaS1S tive
yards. which Fixes was after, by travelling SO
miles ], 144 yards In the sixty minutes. II 10
greatly regretted by those who are arriving to
make this Inn portant record an American hold
ing, that the news OF Taylores performance
was not cabied to this side at once. for II Il had
been Elkss would probably now be the holder
Of the worlds record instead Of the Frenchman;
at. and in riding ne followed a carefully pre-.
pared schedule Of PscS that "a, Would have Inst
schedule was P.;P :as By the he. senior
makers AZ any time exceed the speed
Harry, was calling for faster pace throughout
the ride rnere Is goo reason: rhSreioIe: TOT
Sept. II been known atths time, Harry could
have been allowed e do so. The battle is .till
ocean are new, stars. whose limitations have
not been found. the figures are likely 10 be
changed several times yet before 1900.
Since the Ellsworth L. A. W. sidepath law
was passed III. 900 wheemen IN New York
State have voluntarily paid In $1S3.000 to the
various sldepath commissions in the State.
The fact that the buying OF a tag and the pay
DO accepted as assurance that the law 10
are sold in the different counties varies con