The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-08

NEW YORK, Jan. Louis Gimm,
of Pittsburg, won the twenty-four-
hour bicycle race that ended at 10
o'clock tonight. There were eighteen
starters ard eight finished. They were:
Louis Gimm,< Pittsburg; Burns w.
Pierce, Boston; Charles Turville, Phil
adelphia; "Fredericks." Switzerland:
John Lawson, Chicago; Oscar Julius,
New York; T. Hale Earl D. Stevens
and Charles w. Miller.
The final score was: Fredericks, $50
miles; Pierce, $50; Turville 450; Gimm,
$50; Lawson, 449 miles, laps; julius,
437 miles, laps; Hale, 433 miles, 4
laps, and Miller 422 miles, 6 laps.
Gimm was first by a wheels length,
Pierce second, Turville third, Frede-
ricks fourth and Lawson fifth. The
record for the distance is AT miles,
enc lap, by Pierce.
The attendance in the garden at the
close of the race was 10000. The finish
was sensational. To give the five men
who had a chance TO win a free field
three of the other competitors, who
had survived the struggle, were asked
to retire from the track fifteen min
Gtes before the day had expired. When
this was done, John Lawson made a
desperate effort to make up the three
leaders. succeeded in catching them
mapping and gained lap. He tried to
repeat it. but the others were after
him and he failed.
WAS HEART BREAKING.
The race was a heart-breaking one
from the start. Fredericks, Pierce,
TurVille and Gimm never left their
saddles for a moment. They even re-
fused to take nourishment and stimu
lants when the sprint was on. Waller,
who was one of the favorites, lost a
lap through an accident to his tire,
Friday night, and for nrteen hours he
made q brave struggle to regain his
lost ground So it was all through
the day-a succession of desperate
Sprints, IN which the riders took long
chances, and even risked their necks to
gain a lap on one another. Most of
them We're in apparent agony all
through the evening, the exceptions
being Gimm and Fredericks.
Pilkington and Albert retired early
in the race, the result of severe falls
Hicks quit at o'clock in the morning
for the same cause. Nawn, the Irish
man, retired an hour and half later,
because the alternating pace had bro
ken his heart, although he had gone
through the recent six days race.
Ashinger, who had the misfortune
to carry No. IS upon his back, trailed
along painfully at the tail end Of the
line through the morning. He was evil
IDENTIFY suffering and was declared out
of the race. AaronSon also had enough
early in the morning.
CLOSING SCENES.
Eddie McDuffie and Harry Elkes
came on the track for a practice spin,
and some of the fastest men in the long
race pushed on in the hope of gaining
@ lap. Their efforts were useless un-
til Miller, the siX-day champion, who
who fallen to the rear because of
stomach trouble, stole two laps on the
fast bunch. Miller was the first Of the
eleven leaders to leave the track. But
the fast bunch soon dwindled down to
eight Later in the day Chapman
Barnaby retired and Waller. although
he had a fair chance in case Of ac-
cident, retired also.
John Lawson, the little Swede from
Chicago, finally succumbed to the ter
rible strain at o'clock, and dropped
back, shaking his head as Miller start
ed one of his periodical sprints. With
10 minute he had been left and all his
chances of winning We're gone.
Fredericks. the foreigner, was ap-
parently the freshest man in the race,
ana early In the evening MS repeated
attempts to get away from the leaders
by a sudden sneaking sprint, caused his
rivals great anxiety.
Little Stevens was the next of the
leaders to fall by the wayside. The
boy had been in every sprint from the
beginning of the race and was a fav-
Drite with the crowd. There was no
question about his being a fast sprin-
ter, and he was ready to show his speed
when any one chose TO test it, but two
minutes after Z O'Clock, after having
been in the saddle twenty-one hours,
he was forced to leave the track The
race had been so irregular-at times
sprint race, at others a loaf-that the
record was only eclipsed at times. One
hour the leader would be a few yards
ahead of the record, the next one-half
mile behind it. But from the moment
that Stevens retired and left but four
men tied for first position, a steady,
fast and killing pace was maintained