The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-17
Miscellaneous.
ELKES BEATS THE FRENcHMRN
WINS THE HOUR PACED INTER
NATIONAL BICYCLE RACE.
Six Thousand People Saw the Spirited
Contest at Madison Square Gar
den New York.

| New York Dee. 16.-Six thousand peo-
! pie saw Harry EIkes of America defeat
Edouard Taylore of France in the hour
paced international championship 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 in the other
events had international regulations and
were MT to race for their lives.
In the big race for the hour paced
championship. Edouard Taylore of France
and Harry likes of America started from
opposite sides of the track. The Yankee
began to gain at once. Either he was
faster or his motor faster. AT any rate
he had gained his half lap on Taylore.
Shortly after Elkes' pacemaking machine
broke down. He happened to be near
Taylore at the time. so. like a flash, he
swerved over behind Taylore and took his
pace The crowd cheered the clever move
TO the echo.
For three laps he followed Taylore's
pace. Then a relief machine from the
Elkes camp started out, and got going
fast enough to pick him up again. Again
the Glenns Falls boy made a clean swerv
and caught his machine without losing an
inch, and again the crowd went wild with
enthusiasm. From then on. the Ameri-
can gradually increased his lead. At
three miles he had gained aslap.
AT the eighth mile Fixes was two and
one-half laps ahead Tayiore had not
Frenchman was not getting as good pace
as the American. Elkes' motors were
constantly being changed. Taylore rode
behind the same machine he started with
and 1t was slower than any machine
against him by the other side. AT the end
OF the ninth mile Elkes led by three and
a half laps. The time, 17:l9 As, was ex-
ceedingly fast for the track. -
In the fourteenth mile Taylores pace
making machine broke down entirely but
the plucky little Frenchman went on
when he saw his opponent s Condition
the Frenchman was more than seven and
a half laps behind-also dropped his pace
and for while there was an unpaced
pursuit race in which the Frenchman had
the best of it. Then Elkes' trainers sent
out another fresh machine and Harry
though the plucky little F'renchman was
riding unpaced, apparently friendless and
uncheered. he did not lose any more
ground than he did when he had pace II
cid not take the crowd long to appreciate
this and in a few minutes Taylore was a
hero, and eheered to the echo. Those
VINO saw the race will probably never for
get his exhibition of speed, and pluck
tonight
In the twentieth mile Elkes was leading
by sixteen laps or more than mile and a
until the end of the hour. when he fin
ishSd almost two and a half miles in the
lead His distance. thirty-one miles. three |
and half laps; Taylor's distance, twenty |
eight miles, nine and one-half laps.
Summaries.
one mile professional handicap: Won |
by r. S. Ireland, IS yards; A. B. stone. |
20 yards. second; Oscar Aronson, los |
yards, third. Time-2:O7 Is
One-half mile. indoor championship, !
amateur: Won byp Frank Kramer; ]. H. |
Lake. second; j. Nj. jacobson third. Time |
los.
.One-half mile international champion
snip, professional: Won by Jay Eaton;
Henry Meyers. second a. b. Stone third
c. l. Kramer fourth. Time-l:0i 20
One mile handicap professional: First |
semi-final won by A. B. Stone. 70 yards;
r. s. Ireland. IS yards second; W. NJ.
Hisks. jr., 100 yards, third. Time-2:O4 3-5. |
Second semi-final, won by Henry Meyer,
scratch; Oscar Aronson 105 yards. second: !
Victor Nerillhac. 120 yards( third. Time
-2;D 20 jay Eaton. scratch, and Wal
thour, 10 yards. also .an.
One mile amateur handicap: Won by
Frank l. Kramer. scratch; G.. A Vollett
scratch, second: r. Lake. Is yards, third
fIme-2:07 20. j. B. Jacobson also ran.
Amateur paced race, fifteen miles:
Arthur w. Ross. Harrison, N j. VS.. Raw
Duer, Buffalo, n. Y. Won by Ross.
Unlimited pursuit race, International:
Fischer and Chevalier of France VS..
Aronson and Gimm of American: Won
by -Aronson and Gimm. Distance one
nile two and half laps. Time-2:52 Is.