The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-12
PIN DID The WORK.
Puncture Not Riders
Beat the Major
Yesterday.
BASTARD HAMPERS WITH TIRE.
Incident Mars Whole Day
Of Racing at
Montreal.
BASTARD HAMPERS WITH TIRE.

Montreal, Aug. 1.-THE extra days
racing Of the worlds meet attracted
only about a thousand persons, in
dications of rain keeping many away.
The principal feature was the five-mile
amateur handicap, which was won by
the Australian rider, Ben. Goodson, who
beat the Scotchman, Caldow, in a rat
ting finish by half a wheel, with Sher-
rift and Boisvert, two Canadians, close
up. There was nasty spill in the
third trial heat of this race. Large of
Charlottetown went over the embank-
ment at it's highest part, bringing down
three other riders. All were cut and
bruised, but not seriously hurt.
In the prehminaries of the
1ye-mile professional handicap,
Nat Butler made a great race
in the first heat, being beaten out by
only short wheel by his brother
Frank. Mats time, 10:44 2-5, made a
new handicap record for the distance.
Major Taylor was the scratch man in
the second heat. Some miscreant stuck
pin into the tire of the majors front
wheel just before the start. 1t was
discovered before the start, and an eff
fort was made to change the wheel
Finally the major started on the in
jured wheel, but had to give up after
going couple of miles.
Tom Butler, who had Jagged behind
with the major, had to do some great
sprinting in order to beat out the sixth
man. The first four men made a nice
race Of it, Boake winning nicely in the
stretch
The added race was one-third mile
amateur sprint. Scratches robbed the
preliminaries of interest, but the semi
finals were good events, and the final
was a race all the way from the pistol
to the wire, Caldow, the Scotchman.
getting the best position at the stretch
and racing home a comparatively easy
winner, while Boisvert, the Montrealer,
by a great spring, beat out Goodson of
Australia.
Jimmy Drury, the best OF the Cana
dian amateurs, made an attempt to
smash the worlds amateur paced rec
ord of 1888, made recently in England,
but the best he could do was LAB AS, a
second slower than the American mark
of AZ 4-5, but considerably better than
the Canadian amateur record of 1:54.
Drury was paced by a steam motor,
and had no difficulty in keeping the
pace. Summary:
Ffve-mile handicap amateur-Final
heat won by Ben Goodson, Sydney, Aus
tralia, scratch; j. Caldow, Glasgow,
Scotland, scratch, second; Alfred Sher-
rift, Brantford, Ont. (75 yards), third
Z. T. Boisvert, Montreal Q50 yards),
fourth. Time, 1888 1-5
The first heat in this race was won
by Lester Wilson. Pittsburg, 50 yards,
IN HIS. j. F. Ingraham, Lynnfield
Mass, 20 yards, took the second heat in
1901 80, and Caldow won the third
from scratch in 1929 3-5
Five-nile handicap, professional
first five men to qualify in final to be
run tomorrow: First heat-Frank But
Ter, Cambridge, Mass. Goo yards). won;
Nat Butler Cambridge, Mass. (scratch).
second; John ]. Colgan, Trenton. N. ].
CPS yards) third; 7. B. Mccarthy,
Toronto $3.50 yards), fourth; r. o. Bla-
ney Brantford, Ont, fifth Time, 1914.
Nat. Buffers time, 1914 rs (world's
handicap competition record).
Second heat-Alf. Boake Toronto
(375 yards), won; Watson Coleman,
Boston CPS yards), second; Harry Glib
Mclean, Chelsea, Mass. (425 yards),
fourth; Tom Butler, Cambridge, Mass.
(25 yards), fifth. Time, 11:07 1-5.
One-third mile amateur, final heat
Won by ]. Caldow, Glasgow; c. P.
Boisvert, Montreal, second; Ben Good
son, Australia, third. Time, AZ 3-5.
Among the other starters were A. E.
George, South Africa; A. Taillandier,
France; Earl Peabody, Chicago, and
Nat. McDougal, Milwaukee,
One-mile amateur record trial, paced
by motor, to beat worlds amateur rec
ord, 1:39-J. Drury, Montreal, 1:43 AS.
beats Canadian amateur record of 1:54.
The features of the card tomorrow
are the 100 kilometres professional
championship of the world; the 20
mile professional and final Of the five
mile professional and the champion
ship match between Summersgill of
England, the mile amateur champion.
and Major Taylor, the mile professional
champion. Tonight the visiting dele
gates were entertained at banquet at
the Windsor Hotel.