The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-11
A FLOOD OF ENTRIES.
For the Hundred Mile Race for Medals.
 Against Time

| For the Hundred Mile Race for Medals
 Against Time.
 A flood of entries has been received | for the fall century run of the New York state division of the Century
 Road club of America, which is to take place on Sunday, October 18th. Thus l far, the applications for positions in | the unpaced section have kept up with
 those for the paced section, and the
 unpaced ride over the Bedford Rest
 Oakdale course, which means, to all in- tents and purposes, a hundred mile road race bids fair to prove the great est road event of the year. There are few restrictions on the riders taking
 part in this. All will start together at o'clock in the morning from Bed
 ford avenue and Eastern Parkway,
 Brooklyn and are not required to halt
 for anything until the fifty mile point
 beyond Oakdale is reached, where the
 tickets of the competitors will be off,
 cially stamped with the time, the auto
 matic checking time stamp of the Cen
 tury Road club being used. From the
 turn, it will be a straight fifty mile
 run home to the finish, which will be
 at the starting point. The first rider
 to finish will receive gold medal with
 a diamond set in it's center. The sec ond will receive a fac-simile of this medal in silver without the diamond, and the third a fac-simile in bronze. All others may, if they wish, secure handsome gold plated and enameled medal, on which the time made will be engraved. Accordingly, an opportunity is offered every competitor to win some recognition and evidence of his ride and the time made, as an individual record.
 Single wheels only may be used in this section of the run, and no pacing of any kind will be permitted except by other riders actually competing and riding the full distance.
 Interest in this portion of the run is widespread, and the local road cracks will have to defend their laurels against the best riders of the eastern states and other sections, who have already sent for entry blanks
 While this race for prizes and indi- vidual records is going on, the paced section of the run will ride over the Bedford Fountain Rockaway Beach course. These riders will proceed to Bath Beach and Coney Island before taking the Eastern Parkway, which they will not reach until the unpaced riders are on their way directly out towards Jamaica. so there will be no chance of conflict or congestion. The same rule applies to the return jour- ney, as the racers against time will have passed Lynbrook before the lead ing paced division reaches that point on the return from Rockaway Beach, | the dinner stop.
 The paced section will move in three | divisions riding at varying rates of | speed. One division will complete its | century in ten hours and is recom- | mended for fast riders only. The aver | age rider will be better pleased with | the rate of speed followed by the twelve | hour division, while other riders, par ticularly novices in century riding, | will find the division following sched- l ule which brings it home fourteen hours from the starting time most to their taste. The riders in all three divisions will find medals awaiting them at the Finishing point, the design being the same as that of the unpaced section, except that the individual record bar will not form part of them. These medals are now ready, and are on ex- 1ibition this week by Century Road 'lub officials They are considered the l inest that have ever been produced md so confident are the Century Road ,lub members that this is so that they lave made a specil effort to have them eady for exhibition this week.
 The time table and route, together with a list of stops and checking sta ions, appears on the badges which are icing issued to each rider entering the un as soon as his application is re- eived. The form on which all entries re to be made, containing all essen- ial information concerning the entire un and it's novel features, may be se- ured on application to State Centurion ohm T. Wall, 303 West Fifty-fourth | treet; or, of Charles P. Staubach, frand Central Palace, 432 Lexington ! venue; c. F. Nylander, 4S Charles treet; R. M. Bingham, 427 East Fifty ixth street; w. H. Anderson, 1OS West ( Eighteenth street; D. M. Adee IS Cort indt street, and Robert J. Lyle, 346 'rCadway.