The Portland daily press., 1899-08-12
WORLDS BICYCLE MEET.
Extra Days Att<acted only n Small
Audience.

Montreal, August I.-Ths extra days
about a thousand persons. Indications Of
rain keeping many AWAY.
The principal feature was the five mile
amateur hand leap. which wRs wen by
the Australian rider, Ben GoodsJn, who
bsat the Scotchman Caldow IN rafting
finish By half wheel, with sherritt and
Boisvert. two Canadinns, close up. There
was misty spin IN the third trial heat of
this race. Large OF Charlottetown, went
over the embankmsns at its highest Part,
bringing down three other riders. Ali
were cut and bruised, but not seriously
hurt.
In the preliminaries Of the I've mile
professional handicap, Nat Bntler made
a great race in the frst heat, being beaten
Guilty. only short wheel, By his brottei
Frank. Mats time, 10 "A 2-5, made
new handicap record for the distaIoe
Major Taylor was the scratch man In the
second heat Some misoreant stuck 9
pin into the tire Of the Majors front
wheel just before the start. 1t was dis
| covered before the start and an effort was
made to change the wheel. FINALLY tie
Major started en- the injured wheel but
had to give up after going couple Of
niles Tom Butler, who had Jagged he-
hind with the Major, had to do some great
| sprinting In order to beat out the sixth
man. The Hrst four men Juads nice
race Of 1t. Boak winning nicely iu the
stretch. The added race was one hird
mile amateur sprint. Scratches robbed
the preliminariss Of interest, but the
semi-hnals were good events and the final
was race all the way from the pistol to
the wire. Caldow, the Scotohman, getting
the best position atlthe stretch and rae n.
home comparatively easy winner, while
Boisvert, the Montrsaler, by a great
sprint beat out Goodson OF Australia.
| Jimmy Drury, the best of the Cana
dian amateurs, made an attempt to
smash the worlds amateur paced record
Of 1.39 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 batter than the
| Cansdian amateur record of 1.54 Drury
WAS paced by steam motor and had no
difficulty in keeping the pace.
| The summary:
| Five mile handicap, amateur. final heat
won by Ben Goodson, Sydney, Australia.
scratch ]. Caldow, scratch, Glasgow,
second; Alt Sheriff., Brantford, Ont.
| (75 ynrds) third; G. p. Boisvert, Mon
treal (15o yards). fourth. Time, 1918 As.
Five mile handicap. professional, first
five men to qualify in final TO be run to-
morrow. Frank Butler, Cambridge Mass.
| (100 yardsl won; Nat Butler, CAM
bridge, Mass. (seratoh), second; John j.
Colgan, Trenton, N. j. Qs5 yaTds),
third; L. B. MCCARTHY, Toronto $3.50
yards), fourth; r. o. BIaney, Brantford,
Ont, fifth. Time. 1o.44. Nat Buffers
time. 1914 30 (werld's handicap COM
petition Iecord.)
Second heat, ALI Boak, Toronto (375
yards). won; Watson Coleman, Boston
(sa5 yards. second; Harry Gibson. Gin
cinnati (sa5 yards. third; Hugh Mclean,
Chelsea. Mass. cas- yards), fourth; Tom
Butler, Cambridge, Mass. (25 yards).
lfth. Time. 1I.o7 I-5.
| One third mile amateur, final heat.
won by J. Caldow, Glasgow; G. p.
Boyvert, Montreal second; Ben Goodson,
Australia, third. Time, .42 3.5.
| One mile amateur record trial paced by
motor, to beat worlds amateur record
l.35, ]. Drury. Montreal. LAB as Cheat
Canadian amateur record Of 1.54).
The features Of the card tomorrow are
the 100 Kilometres. professional cham.
pionship of the world; the two mile pro-
fessionai and final Of the i've mile profess
sional and the championship match Ee-
tween Summersgin of England, the mile
amateur champion, and Major Taylor.
the mile professional champion.
Tonight the visiting delegates were
fentertained at a banquet at the Winisoi