The times., 1899-07-23

Unfair Methods-other News Notes.
Newark, July 22-of the one hundred
professional riders now actively engaged
in the cycle racing field, sixty mine have
won money. The total amount of their
earnings is s14.377 OF this amount Or
lando Stevens and Floyd Mcfarland have
won s., ,646, or over one-sixth OF the total
amount Mcfarland, leader in winnings
among the sprinters. and Harry Elkes,
leader Of the middle distance brigade, have
together wen s3,0S1, or over one-fifth OF
the total amount.
The men termed second raters are
mounting up the list through attention 70
business. The first raters will not COM
pete at many meets, owing to the first
prizes not being of sufficient size. This ap-
plies particularly TO the Newark Sunday
meet Manager Voigt has excellent week
ly crowds. but believes in dividing his
purses into five and six parts. His entry
list includes a consequence from forty
10 Fifty of the winning riders each Sunday,
and that the sport at the plank track is of
the best is attested by the fast increasing
attendance. Oftentimes the prize money
goes to as many men as there are divi-
sions. Eight men won as many prizes at
the last meet.
During the past week Stevens gained on
his mate Mcfarland. Fisher and Lawson,
the Chieagoans, went up to third and
fourth positions Fisher has won three
times at four meetings and is tipped as
championship aspirant. Jay Eaton. by at
tontion to business. started winning and
went up nine positions in the table. Wal
thour and Kimble passed Cooper in the
list. Fred Sims, the Washington veteran,
climbed twenty-five places. Furman, the
Los Angeles man, drops from the list. He
returned home this week to claim an in
heritanee OF $4,000. Many of the riders
who have failed to win are now in posi-
tons as drivers and motormen on the mo-
tor pacing machines
Although there is a semblanee of good
fellowship among the leading racing men OF
the cycle path, there is now being waged a
most bitter warfare which promises inter-
esting developments as the season pro-
crosses Although in their life of thu
track these racing men stand with a solid
front and are friendly enough, all friend
ship ceases at the track side, where the
bitterest ennity really exists.
Competition. always keen. has been
keener of late than ever, and referees
throughout the country have been in
structed to watch carefully each contest
from start TO finish and to promptly pun
ish infractions of the racing rules. In
some cases the track owners have gone so
far as to paint white stripes along the
home stretch TO keep the riders in line
after rounding the last bank for home.
IN this way they hope TO prevent fouls.
Umpires of experience have been selected
at each meet, men who know the finer
points OF racing by heart. In this and
many other ways the management OF the
sport has sought to eliminate all disagree
able features that may arise.
Il is team work over which much of the
present strife exists. This question Of
team work is one requiring great caution
among the officials interested in cycle rae
ing who would stop it, Every opportunity
exists of doing injustice TO the racing men
in the infiiction of punishment. for it is
hard to say where team work begins and at
Just what point individual effort leaves
of. This class of work has existed since
the earliest stages of the cycle racing game
and will exist undoubtedly until the close,
unless contests are made straightaway
with plainly marked spaces for all COM
peutors. out of the bounds of which they
must not ride.
With the leading professionals money IL
plentiful now and challenges are thicker
than he bees in summer time. Orlando
Stevens started the ball rolling when he
deposited $500 at Buffalo, open TO an ac-
ceptance from any rider for any style OF
styles OF match races. A. A. Zimmerman
and Owsn Kimble have covered all or part
OF this money, and Eddie Bald, Tom Coop
er, and Earl Kiser are reported TO have
done SO.
So numerous are the demands among the
big fellows for these match races that q
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with an entry fee of from $500 to $500. and
with all of the amount in one purse for the
winner Many of the riders are willing "a
enter such contest and TO place the
money in the hands Of responsible parties
10 be paid al the finish of the race with
the purse added TO the entry money, TO the
winner. From six TO ten men would in
August have an opportunity in such a race
There are ten men in condition who are
well matched in the American racing field
Results with these men are q gamble, 70,
not one is certain winner in any contest
Inches only separate them in any contest.
The championship struggle now on viii
grow interesting after the present weeks
rest at Asbury Park. The circuit has thu:
far produced a meet each week, but IL
August nearly twenty days of racing will
be scheduled. The circuit party viii spent
the coming week at Asbury Park, wher,
will be held. Two months of hard worl
has brought the riders TO that point wher,
to many a rest is necessary.
During august the circuit is Amos
solid with three to four days OF raeinl
weekly. September provides anothe
month. and in October there promises 1,
be quite as much racing as in either of tn
preceding months. Affairs in the cycl
racing world are becoming more settled
r1lrf int
in the sport than hitherto owing to III
continued successes attained by those VIII
have entered the lists with big meet,
Rain has interfered with racing in more in
stances this season than ever before. Tw
years ago not a circuit meet suffered o
this account, and but few suffered las
year. Seven or eight meets already thi
season have either been called on owin
to rain or run in the face of certain los
owing to threatening weather.
In the championship struggle Orland
Stevens heads the list with ten point
Cooper follows with nine, Kimble has sew
en-. Kiser five, and Walthour has two. Nc
Farland and Bald have both qualified bU
neither has gained points.
Two contests only have been run in th
championship race. The first was a regu
lar championship contest, the second th
half-mile championship for increase
points. Under the n. c. a the ordinar
races OF the championship series scor
1--WE. three. two. and one. while the re;
championships az each distance. the quar-
ter, third. half mile. two and five mile
score double the regular number of point
Last season the scoring was six. foui
three. two, and one, with ten times III
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