The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-01-07
WELL PUNCHED.
Eight Riders Close Together in a.
Hour Bicycle Race.
Some Of the Riders Who Stared at 10 Last
Night Were Forced 10 Quit.

New York, Jan. 7.-When daylight
family glimmered through the glass
roof of Madison Square Garden this
morning il found 10 sturdy bicycle
riders straining every muscle To win
first place i'm the international "a hour
bicycle contest. None Of these 10
showed any marked signs OF fatigue
from the hard pace they had been COM
PEELED TO maintain from 10 o'clock last
night, when the race began. Eight OF
them were closely punched i'm the front
rank, each striving to prevent any
other from getting lead OF dozen
yards. OF these eight, seven have not
dismounted since they jumped on their
wheels last night. These are Pierce,
Gimm, Stevens. julius, Fredericks.
Turville and Barnaby. Chapman, the
eighth man, is a young rider from At
lanta, Ga. and up To a few minutes
after 3 o'clock this morning he was
always prominent among the leaders.
About that hour he fell I'm an attempt
TO grasp some food which his trainer
was handing TO him, and fell among a
lot of cooking utensils with "A crash
that resounded throughout the big
building. Chapman was soon on his
wheel again. but had lost nearly lap.
BY strong and continuous work he re-
gained all the ground which he had
lost and in less than an hour he was
up among the leaders again.
The pace from the start was a stiff
one, but the riders did not seem TO mind
IL, as each was bent on racing into the
moneys" which are To be awarded To
the first eight men.
Pikington, the Irish lad. was the
first to Quit the race. lie had pad
fall and was compelled 10 retire before
midnight last night. Two hours later
Albert ran into the rear wheel OF Hicks
machine and both riders fell. HICKS
was unhurt and remounted at once, but
Albert got "a bad smash against a
wooden upright. His face was pain
fully injured and he bled freely from
the mouth. He insisted on continuing
| the race after a lapse of six minutes,
but the strain was too much for him,
| and within an hour he had to succumb,
retiring a few minutes before O'Clock.
Aaronson was the next to quit. He
left his wheel at 3:41 a. m. and seemed
to be jaded. Ii was soon afterwards
| officially announced that he had retired
| from the contest. This reduced the field
! OF contestants TO 10.
That records would be broken was
! never doubted. and when 100 miles had
been covered IL was found that the
| time. hours. 40 minutes and seconds
was ahead Of the record. A few min
utes later the distance ridden by the
I leaders i'm five hours was exactly 1905
yards ahead OF the existing figures. In
I the next hour the riders fell behind the
record by 600 yards. and in the follow
! ing houi they were 133 yards behind
| Milers record. made i'm 1897.
Twelve o'clock score oath hour
/ Pierce. Gimm. Lawson. Stevens, Fred
ericks and Turville. 275 miles each
| Waller. pa miles . laps; Barnaby. 21-
miles laps; julius. pa miles l lap
! Hale. 2I3 miles ) laps; Chapman, p;
miles laps: Miller. 26S miles. laps.
| The score at 1 o'clock y. m. (the 18th
| hour) was Pierce. Fredericks, Stevens
| Gimm, Turville and Lawson, 292 miles
| laps: Waller. 292 miles Z laps: Barn
| ably. 292 miles laps; julius. 29l miles
| laps Hale. 29l miles l lap: Chapman
| 2S9 miles laps; Miller, 2ss miles laps
! Nawn has been declared officially ou
| of the race with 225 miles 9 laps to this
| credit.
The score at the close Of the 18th
hour was miles $40 yards behind the
record