The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-07-30
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BICYCLE RACE
WON BY PIERCE
Fixes Forced Out by
Exhaustion.
WALLER GETS SECOND PLACE
WINNER FAILS TO LOWER HIS
RECORD.
EIkes Paced From the Start by the
Motor Quad Manned by Crooks,
Ireland, Allen and
Fournier
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK. July 29.-The 100-mile
paced bicycle race at Manhattan Beach
track to-day was won by Burns Pierce of
Boston the present holder of the 100-mile
American record. He failed, however, to
beat his own record of hours, q min
utes and Il 10 seconds, finishing in 3
hours, y minutes and . 20 seconds. The
stiff breeze blowing across the track prob
ably lessened the champions speed. Frank
Waller was second, in hours, Al min
utes and Is seconds.
There were four starters for the $1,000
purse-Burns Pierce of Boston, Harry
-Elkes of Glen Falls, y. Y, the middle
distance champion Of America; Charles
". Miller of Chicago, long distance cham
pion of the world, and Frank Waller Of
Boston. The start was witnessed by 1000
persons. Fixes was the inside man and
had shade the better of the start.
Pierce was on the outside, but from the
moment he left the tape he doggedly hung
on to Fixes until he finally OVERRIDE him
and sent him off the track Elkes' pace
maker from the start was the motor quad,
engineered by Crooks, Ireland, Allen and
F0urnier At the end of the first lap
71lkes was in the lead, with Pierce close
up, Waller third and Miller last. Miller
succeeded in remaining last. Both ElkeS
and Pierce oVerlapped the others in the
NTH mile, and they repeated the perform
auCe at intervals OF every few
miles. At the end of the sixth mile
EIkes pacing quad suddenly quit,
which threw him out somewhat, but he
speedily righted himself with Kent and
SJeenSOu. steering the double scatter.
Pierce. however, mad gained an advant-
age. which he made the most Of, and ne
was leading at the seventh mile. In the
next lap Elkes was again ahead, with
Pierce relegated TO his old. position OF a
fraction of second behind.
Pierce made several desperate attempts
to pass EikeS. succeeding only in the TWEEN
I
twenty ninth mile Fixes was again lead
ing, having oVertaken and passed Pierce
in less than q lap. All this time nobody
was bothering with either Waller or Mil
Ter. They We're still on the track and
that was all At the twenty-ffth mile
they were three miles behind, and at the
thirtieth Miller had added two miles to
the bad. At the thrty-third mile Waller
looked as Il he was getting tagged. He
fell behind his PAGER, but again got on
Fixes finished the thirty-ffth mile in
! hour minutes and 50 SO seconds Pierce
led him again at the thirty-seVenth mile,
but he had retaken his old place in the
next mile When he passed the thirty
ninth mile mark Pierce made another
fierce squirt, but he did not succeed in
passing ElkeS. They were now travelling
at d record breaking pace. Fixes finished
the forty mile point in l hour 10 minutes
a ID seconds. Miller had then gone thir-
ty-seVen miles and Waller thirty-six
miles. EIkes made the fOrty-fifth mile in
l hour - minutes 81 40 seconds. After
leadership, and when they mad finished
the fOrty-SeVenth mile Pierce shot ahead,
this time with marked advantage, which
he continued to improve, passing the fif
tieth mile a lap ahead of Fixes.
The beginning Of the end had come.
Pierce continued 10 gaia and was evil
IDENTIFY as fresh when he started, while
Elkes showed signs OF giving out. Inc
Boston man went ahead at a furious
pace. AT the ffty-second mile he was
lap and a half ahead; at the tfty-fOurth
two laps, and he made the ffty-siXJh mile
with Fixes three laps-one mile-behind.
Elkes' condition had now become appa-
rent To everybody, and when Pierce start
ed on the hfty-seventh mile Fixes left
the track. He was then a mile and LAP
the loser Fixes returned, however, when
Pierce was courslng into his sfXty-second
mile.
When Pierce finished the sixty-third
mile the score stood: ElkeS 81 mics 2
laps, Waller 81 miles l lap.
Elkes improved his position by beating
Waller by another lap. and Waller began
to play at running rings around Miller.
At the sixty ninth mile for Pierce, Fixes
again became played out and quit. Wal
Ter was then six miles behind Pierce
Fixes was, however. not yet beaten, and
wiki splendid pluck the boy was out
again by the time Pierce was rounding up
his seYenty-SecOnd mile.
He had then, OF course, no chance to
win the purse, and at best could only
play for percentage Of receipts. Even
Miller was then ahead of him, but he was
not very long in sending the Chicago man
to the rear. Pierce finished the ninety
first mile, with Waller second at the
eighty-ffth. while Elkes was third with
81 miles and laps to his score.
From this on il was only matter of
waiting for Pierce to finish and to see old
man Waller make the best of it for second
place. Pierce retained his freshness to the
last and looked at the close as if he could
easily have gone on for another hundred
From the eighty-f1fth mile he had, how
ever, gone inside the record Waller
showed up splendidly for an old chap. and
Fixes was roundly applauded for his
pluck.
lime at the finish: Burns Pierce 2
hours q minutes % seconds; Frank
Waller, 3 hours A minutes Is seconds:
Harry Fixes, 3 hours 81 minutes 81 2-5
seconds; Charles w. Miller, hours Sc
minutes 30 2-5 seconds.