The times., 1899-07-09
BALD AND ZIMMERMAN
Old Champions Matched for Series
of Races.
The Events VIII BE Run Sunday.
July 81. Mt the Newark Track
Both Riders Rounding Into Com
dition RnpidIy-The Contest Prom
ises to he Close and exciting.

years-1S95, 1895, and 1S9T-and Arthur
Zimmerman the champion of the earlier
nineties, have been finally matched for a
series of races. The consummation of such
match has been looked forward to by
the lovers of cycle racing in this country
for the past five years. Manager Fred
voight of the Newark board track is the
lucky manager to secure the signatures OF
the men. The date has been set for Sun
day afternoon, July %. Special arrange
ments are to be made at the Vailsburg
track to accommodate the people, as New
York will certainly send over thousands
to such contest and Newark, in the past,
has been turning cut from four to Eve
thousand people each Sunday for the ordi-
nary run of racing. The closing of the
match race came as big surprise, as the
New York promoters were not let in on
the contest and found no opportunity given
them to bid for 1t.
Among the critics the contest is con-
sidered to be one of the greatest ever made
in the world of sport Zimmerman's late
return to the path, together with his work
! in private, has demonstrated that the old
| time champion is again himself. Bald Is
rounding into form rapidly now. and by
| July % will be in excellent condition. "he
| feeling between the two men warrants the
assertion that this will be a bitterly con-
tested series of races. The provisions are
| for a best two in three heat match at
mile each Single pacemakers will be en-
ployed to drop out at the three quarters
| when the sprint will start. Zimmerman
preferred a race with no pacemakers, but
bowed to the wishes of the management
and conceded point in granting single
| pace. His forte is undoubtedly the slow
race with a strong sprint, as it was in this
sort of contest that he won his 103 firsts
in 1898 on the American tracks, since which
| time he has been a stranger to American
racing until his debut July 1 in handicap.
This is his first scratch race since 1893 in
| America.
| On the three and one -half-lap track at
Berkeley Oval, New York, this afternoon
will be inaugurated the grand circuit OF
the National Cycling Association. and the
hardest struggle for championship ever
known will result. in all probability Six
! of the eight most prominent riders on
the track for this honor will be up in this
contest, Floyd Mcfarland, the one-mile
| national champion, and Eddie Bald, the
Triple Plate champion, alone being absent.
No prettier spot could have been selected
than Berkeley Oval for the starting OF
such contest, and no faster track could
have been found
Thirty-five professionals have elected to
compete for the honor of winning the first
championship race. which will be one
mile event. Only five may qualify. The
winner will receive five points. the second
man three, third man two, and the fourth
man one. In this scoring the n. C. A. has
inaugurated change inasmuch as last
years system called for six, four. three,
two. and one for the five positions. The
y. c. A. but doubles the points for the
main championship at each distance, CIV
ing ten to a winner, where sixty was given
last year. 1t was this system which
aroused the greatest protest The absence
of Mcfarland from this first race is un-
explained. The defeat which the Cali
fornian received at the hands of Tom
Cooper on July 4 may have something TO
do with it. He may be going stale, and,
in such case. intend waiting for the circuit
at Buffalo, there to compete in the first
increased-point championship-the half
mile. Bald is still cut Of condition, as was
shown at the Jimmy race meet. Kiser,
Cooper. Orlando Stevens, Kimble Free
man, and Downing will be up in the lists
with twenty-nine others in the first race.
Cabanne, the old-timer, will also be COM
petitor. Over 100 entries have been re-
ceived for the opening meet, an unpre-
cedented entry list.
1
when. on Saturday last Referee A.
g. Batchelder disqualified F. A. Nc
Farland in the great Jimmy han
dicap at Ambrose Park. The referee said
that such action would be taken every time
in the future that such work was seen.
In this race it is undoubtedly q fact that
Stevens really made the contest He sac
rificed all the chance he might have by
voluntarily going TO the front and pulling
the back markers up to the head of the
field. On the last bank he swerved up
the bank and withdrew and it Is stated that
by 20 doing he injured the chances of three
riders.
AT first the action of the referee seemed
rather rough on Mcfarland, for from the
stand it was impossible to see the injury
! done by Stevens. The referee had, how
ever placed competent umpires at every
! available point, and upon the report OF the
umpire at the upper turn ne quickly took
action. Mcfarland protested vigorously
and made claim of spite work, but was
forced finally to withdraw from the field
crestfallen and surprised beyond degree
To many of the L. A. W. men in atten-
dance at the meet the disqualification OF
one of the leaders among the racing mer
came as huge surprise and they expressed
: this surprise in no measured terms. The
claim has been made all along that the
loyalty of Mcfarland to the n. c. A. ant
the A. r. c. U. was spurred on by the fac
that under the League he was punished fol
team work. The Leagues punishment camt
r in the way of warning and the action o
the N c. A. was summary and withou
: warning. Chairman Batchelder's fearless.
ness won commendation generally.
: II is said that the board of control con
| sidered the question of team work at il
! Philadelphia meeting and that the action
5 | at Ambrose was the first fruits of the de
C cision made at that meeting. The edie
I has gone forth tnat team work must stol
and riders will doubtless finish their race
e hereafter.
! Chairman Batchelder, Board of Control
= was much amused to learn during the pas
j, few days that the promoters of the De
= troit L. A. W. National Circuit meet o
= August did not believe it possible tha
v Chairman Gerlach would suspend tn
n track Chief Consul Hines is quoted il
/: Detroit to this effect. He says that tn
: track will not be suspended, but that tn
promoters of N. c. A racing upon 1t vii
be suspended for their transgression of tn
rules. The nonsense of all this amuses tn
chairman of the N. c. A. racing interests
and he said recently:
ie Il have reached that point where I ar
st not inclined to predict what the oppositio
Sc will or will not do. Precedents seemingl
10 count for nothing with them. The l.. A
W. seemingly goes by contraries. and thei
style OF government is beyond the limits {
nt rule or reason. The utter nonsense of sus
ID pending promoters for promoting N C. 4
ie races upon a track and allowing l.. A. "
X races to be promoted upon the same trae
~ ~ will doubtless cause a laugh all over th
&c country 1t is quite in line with the pol
he icy OF the L. A. W. TO keep hold of th
nc sticl, iusr rs long as possible without re