The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05
GOES THE DISTANCE IN 1875.
EXCITING RACES ON THE SAN
JOSA TRACK.
Furman of Los Angeles Takes the
Measure of Hardy Downing
in the One-Mile Han
dicap.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

the Garden City gave up to them with
out murmur. The occasion was the
opening of a big two days meet at Cy
clers' Park, and all the cracks who
Hhave recently been competing in San
Francisco are here to contest for honor
and money.
The races began at o'clock in the
afternoon. The event of the day was
a ten-mile match race between Orlando
I. Stevens of Iowa and Harry NJ. Glib
son of Cincinnati. Stevens was paced
by Fournier's internal machine" and
Gibson by two triplets and three tan
dems. Fournier, by sitting almost
upright on his motor machine, was able
to shield Stevens almost entirely from
the wind, and this advantage was so
great in Stevens favor that he caught
and passed Gibson after they had rid
den three miles. Stevens kept right on,
and Gibson also stuck bravely to his
work although he must have known 1t
was a losing game. Stevens was paced
so fast. however. that in the seventh
mile he again passed his opponent.
Gibson's pacemakers then tackled on
behind Stevens and held their man
even for another mile, the order being
Fournier's machine, then Stevens, Glib
sons triplet pacing machine, then Glib
son. The pace was a little too hot for
Michael No. q" however, and on the
ninth lap Gibson faltered, losing his
pace and falling back a half lap. Ste
vens never failed and held the killing
pace to the end, finishing strong.
Stevens won the match and the purse,
his time for the ten miles being
1888 2-5. Gibson finished the full dis
tance. though beaten two laps. Stevens
q in
utes.
The one-mile handicap professional
event was run in three heats and
final, and proved very interesting, as
nearly all the cracks were entered. In
the first heat the starters were Teddy
Goodman, Is yards; William Furman,
%; AL Weinig, 40 Charles Turville, rs;
and Charles S. Wells, go Furman is in
fine condition and when the sprint came
he was right there, winning from Wells
in a dashing ride. Goodman was third
and Weinig fourth. Time, 2:37.
In the second heat were Jay Eaton on
scratch; Hardy Downing, Is yards;
John Chapman, 80; Earl ID. Stevens, 50;
and Henry Pilkington. 135. Eaton pune
tured his tire on the second lap and
was out of it. The back mark men
would not exchange pace and conse-
quently Pilkington virtually walked in.
Time, 2:23 2-5. Downing had no .diff1-
Guilty in disposing of the others for sec
ond place and Stevens took third.
The third heat was the most interest
ing and proved the fastest of the three.
The starters were 1ver Lawson, 20
yards; Frank Cotter, 25; Tom Barna-
by. So; Ed LeOnart, So; Fredericks, rs;
Nawn, so; Glenn Turville, 100. By ex-
changing pace Cotter and Lawson soon
cut down the leaders, and, once in
front, won as they pleased in the order
named, Leonart taking third and Tur-
vile fourth. Time, 2:11 1-5.
The starters in the final heat were
Furman, Wells, Pilkington, Downing,
Cotter Lawson and Leonart. Wells
and Pilhngton paced each other from
the long handicaps, and Cotter did the
donkey work for the back mark men,
hoping to pull through his team mate,
Downing. According to schedule, Cot
ter dropped out on the last lap, and
Downing forged ahead, but they had
failed to count on Big Bill Furman
of the Bay City Wheelmen, and 1ver
Lawson and Eddie Leonart. These
three were still lin it, and, passing
Wells and Pilkington on the last turn,
the quartet forged ahead and fought 1t
out down the home stretch, Furman
winning, Downing second, Lawson
third and Leonart fourth. The time
was 2:10.
Mons. Henri Fournier Of Paris and
Tom Barnaby of Boston brought out
Fournier's famous motor tandem for
an exhibition mile. Fournier could not
make much speed out of his tandem on
the San Francisco track, owing to the
difficulty of controlling 1t on the short
turns but on the big track here 1t was
easy, and they covered the mile IN the
astonishing time of 1:35, which Is the
fastest mile ever ridden on track IN
California on a bicycle, horse or any
thing that doesn't run on rails. the
performance was warmly applauded.
The starters in the Australian pur-
suit race were: DoWnfng-Cotter, Chap-.
man-Furman, Turville-Goodman, Ju>
Iius-Iawson and Fredericks-Nawn. The
nature of the race was that the teams
should start at five different points on
the track and ride until one team had
overtaken and passed all the others.
The race was very exciting and for
while the men remained equally as Iar
anart as when they started. Finally,
after three miles riding, Fredericks and
Nawn caught Goodman and IurVllle
and the latter team at once quit. Fred
ericks and Nawn then went after
Downing and Cotter and caught them
after a mile chase, passing Furman
and Chapman in the meantime. Ihey
then had left only Lawson ana Jullus
to oyertake, but the latter team did not
give in so easily. In fact both teams
were strong, all four riders being re-
cent contestants in the Six-day race in
San Francisco and we'll conditioned for
a long. hard ride. On the back stretch
Fredericks and Nawn met with a mis-
hap. however, puncturing their front
tire, and they had to give 1t up, much
to their disgust. Julius and Lawson
passed them and finished the ride up
to six miles, which they did in 12:21
new worlds record for the distance,
the best previous time being 1854.
The officials of to-day's meet were:
President of the day--Dr F. Schumacher.
Referee-Floyd Mcfarland.
Judges-George Osen, j; W. Macauley'
Thomas Thwaites, Grant Bell.
TYmers-Wilbur j. Edwards, H. Spring,
a Desimoue. Thomas McGeoghan.
Starter-Chief Kidward.
Scorer-Ed Williston.
CIerk-R J. Butler.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. F. Knapp.
The events for tomorrow are as fol-
lows:
One hundred mile race, for a purse of
s100ONFirst $3.50, second $500, third $3.50,
fourth s100, fifth $50. sixth $25; 500 to the
man scoring the most laps, $75 to the sec
ond and $50 to the third. This will GER
tafnly be a most interesting event, as
every lap will be a race. The entries are.
John Chapman, Tom Barnaby, Earl Ste
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