The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-07

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The first an
nual international twenty-four hour BIZ
cycle race, unpaced, which was begun
on the Madison Square garden track
tonight. brought a fairly large attend
ance of bicycle enthusiasts to the big
amphitheater The race promises to be
one of the most exciting in the history
of cycling, and broken record is look
ed for Burns W. Pierce, of Boston,
one of the contestants, holds the record
of 457 miles 176 yards, he having ridden
that distance in the first twenty-four
hours of the recent six days contest
which was won by Charles W. Miller,
OF Chicag
OF the nineteen men whose entries
We're accepted by the management, only
one failed to come to the scratch. The
absentee was Alfred S. Ellich, a Ger
man-American. Following is the list
of starters: Frederick Michel, Switz-
erland; Teddy Hale, Ireland; James W.
Nawn, New York city; Burns W.
Pierce, Boston; Frank Albert, New
York city; Frank Waller, New York
city. Charles w. Miller, Chicago; Louis
Gimm, Pittsburg; Earl D. Stevens, Buff
falo; John Lawson, Chicago; Oscar
AronsOn, New York; Oscar julius, New
York city; C. w. Ashinger, Elyria, O.;
Anthony Pilkington, New York city; w.
+. Hicks, New York city; Charles Tur-
vile. Philadelphia; J. W. Chapman, At
lanta, Ga; Tom Barnaby, Boston.
Fifteen of these men took part in the
last six days race. The newcomers are
Tom Barnaby, of Boston; ]. w. Chap
man. Of Atlanta; w. F. Hicks Jr., New
York city.
Prior to the appearance of the long
distance men these minor events were
disposed of: F. A. Maggie, of New York
won the professional half-mile by a
couple of feet, from Ivan Lawson, of
Chicago. in 1:02 As, the men starting
from the fifty and twenty -five-yard
marks respectively A mile handicap
for amateurs was Won by F. L. Kram-
er. of East Orange, n. j., in 2:11. Harry
Gibson, of Cincinnati Won two straight
mile heats, paced by a tandem, from
Joe Downey. of Boston, in 2:05 2-5 and
POS.
Every one of the men. as they ap-
peared on the track for the big bicycle
lace, were received with deafening
cheers. They were arranged in four
rows, and promptly at 10 o'clock were
sent off with a pistol shot. The first
to show in front was Frederick Mich
aell. the Swiss rider. followed closely
by Albert Stevens, Hale, Waller and
Pierce AT the end of the first mile
Miller jumped into the lead and the
crowd cheered the champion again and
again. AIiller's time for the first mile
was 2:23.
Dutch" Waller led at ten miles in
25:42 80
Albert was leading at 1918 O'clock
when the second hours score was Civ
en- out as follows: Albert. Miller,
Pierce. Gimm, Lawson, Aaronson,
Nawn. Stevens, Julius, Frederick.
Hicks. Barnaby, TurviIle and Chap
man. - miles. laps each; Waller, As
miles, laps; Hale, As miles. laps:
Ashinger, A miles, l lap; Pinkington
had ridden 30 miles and laps when
he retired.
Albert led at the f1ftieth mile, time
hours - minutes
During the third hour there were
several brilliant spurts. but no ma
terial gain was made by any of the
contestants Nawn led the bunch at
the end of the third hour. when the
score was as follows: Nawn. Miller,
Pierce. Albert, Gimm. Lawson, Aaron
son. Stevens. Julius. Frederick, Tur-
Vile. Chapman. Hicks. and Barnaby.
90 miles and Z laps each; Waller. SIS
miles laps; Hale &c miles laps:
Ashinger Go miles.