The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-14
TOURNAMENT A SUCCESS
Exciting Sport at the Skating
Carnival.
M'CLOY DEFEATS CONWAY
A Holly Contested Half-Mile Between
Professionals - Ellsworth Wins
Easily-The Boys Racs-To-
Nights Excellent Gard.

The skating tournament opened with
marked success at the Butte rink last
evening, and not withstanding that the
warm wave of yesterday made the ice a
little rough some exciting sport was wit
messed and in the professional event fast
time was made. The crowd in attendance
was large and during the more exciting
periods of the racing enthusiasm ran high.
To-nights events, provided the weather
holds good, will be much more interesting,
as several of the professionals in attend
ance declined TO start last night on ac-
count of the ice being rough, and for the
same reason the backward race, or the
race in which McCloy was to so back
wards against Raymond skating forward,
had to be postponed until tonight. The
best event in last nights racing was the
professional half-mile race, in which Con-
way, Buttes flyer, met his first defeat i'll
the West being beaten by less than foot
by McCloy, owing TO bad start.
The first event was a half-mile race, or
six laps, for amateurs. The entries were:
E. E. Clayborn, Walter Ellsworth Vim
cent Cleary, Alex Shannahan, Clyde
Brown and Louis Raymond. At the crack
OF the pistol Raymond got away in the
lead, followed closely by Clayborn, Cleary,
Shannahan, Ellsworth and Brown in the
order named. Ellsworth went quickly to
the lead in Il fine burst of speed in the
first lap and was never headed, having
considerable of a walk-away. .Cleary was
second in the first lap and the rest We're
strung out. Brown fell. losing all chance
of winning. The second lap ended with
the skaters in the same order as the first.
In the third Raymond passed Cleary and
gained to within quarter of a lap of
Ellsworth, in the lead. Cleary was third
and the rest came in a procession a long
way back. The remaining three laps were
repetitions of the third the skaters all
holding their relative positions, Ellsworth
winning easily in the very amateur time
of 1870. Raymond was second and Cleary
third.
The second race was the event of the
night II was half-mile for profession
ais, and there were four starters. ]. +.
Conway. Dick McCloy of Winnipeg, ]. A.
Carmichael and Arthur Rivet. Brown of
Great Falls and Webster of South Bend.
Ind, scratched. At the breakaway Rivet
led with Mccoy second, Carmichael
third and Conway last, Conway got away
behind the leader at the first turn, where
McCloy went to the front This doubtless
cost Conway the race. as subsequent
events proved. McCloy went over the
line in helead in the first lap Rvet Sec
ond. Carmichae1 third and Conway fourth
In the second Conway commenced to gain
his lost ground and passed Carmichael
and went over the line at the heels of
Rivet, second. McCloy first. In the third
Conway literally flew past Rivet and
greatly reduced McCloy's lead; Rivet
third, Carmichael fourth. The fifth saw
the skaters in the same position except
that Conway was almost abreast of Nc
Cloy and Carmichael fell further back.
The last lap was an exciting contest of
speed between McCloy and Conway Nc
Cloy being in the lead, had ,he best of the
turns. but in the stretch Conway gained,
and but for McCloy's advantage must
have Won as he was beaten out by the
scantiest kind of a head as each bent far
over and strained every muscle to win
Had there been another lap Conway
would have won handily. Rivet was third
by one-fourth of a lap back and Carmi-
chael fourth by nearly lap The half
mile was made in the fast time of Is
The third event was half-mile for boys
under 16. The starters We're Dan Suli-
van, Thomas Coulfield, Pat Sullivan. Roy
Sherlock and Max Goldman. Young Sher-
Jock Won all the way. with Coultield sec
ond. None of the rest finished.
Following the races Arthur Rvet gave
an exhibition of high jumping, making
three feet three inches in his best jump
To-nights events will be a mile race be-
tween teams of the Butte Business college
and the High school, a two-me profess
sional, in which all the cracks are enter