The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-30
WON BY BURNS PIERCE
One Hundred Mile Paced Bicycle
Race in New York.
FRANK WALLER SECOND
The Champion Failed to Equal His Own
Record by Seven Minutes-Four
Starters for the 81 900
Purse

mile paced bicycle race at Manhatta
Beach track to-day was won by Burns
Pierce of Boston, the present holder
of the 100-mile American record. He
failed, however, to beat his own record
of 8 hours "a minutes Al is seconds.
finishing in hours 80 minutes and
seconds. The stiff breeze blowing
across the track probably lessened the
champions speed. Frank Waller was
second in 8 hours A minutes 9 Is sec
onds.
There were four starters for the
$1,000 purse. Burns Pierce of Boston,
Harry Elkes of Glens Falls, N Y, the
middle distance champion of America;
Charles w. Miller of Chicago, long dis
lance champion of the world, and
Frank Waller of Boston.
The start was witnessed by some
1000 persons. Elkes was the inside
man and had a shade the best of the
start. Pierce was on the outside, but
from the moment he left the tape he
hung on doggedly to Elkes until he
finally OVERRIDE him and sent him off
the track. Elkes' pacemaker from the
start was the motor quad, engineered
by Crooks, Ireland, Allen and Four
nier. At the end of the first lap Elkes
was in the lead, with Pierce close up,
Waller third and Miller last. Miller
succeeded In remaining last Both
Elkes and Pierce overlapped the others
in the fifth mile and they repeated the
performance at intervals of every few
miles.
At the end of the sixth mile Flkes'
pacing quad suddenly gave out and
threw him out somewhat, but he
speedily righted himself with Kent and
Steenson steering the double scatter
Pierce. however had gained an advan-
tage which he made the most of, and
he was leading at the seventh mile In
the next lap Elkes was again ahead,
with Pierce relegated to his old posi-
ton of a fraction of a second behind.
Pierce made several desperate at
tempts to pass Elkes, succeeding only
in the 2Sth mile. At the finish of the
29th mile Elkes was again leading,
having overtaken and passed Pierce in
less than a lap.
All this time nobody was bothering
with. either Waller or Miller. They were
still on the track and that was all. At
the 25th mile they were three miles
behind and at the 30th Miller had added
two miles to the bad. At the 33d mile
Waller looked as if he was getting
tagged. He fell behind his PAGERS, but
again got on steam. Fixes finished
the 35th mile in one hour, five minutes
and 56 3-5 seconds. Pierce led him
again at the 37th mile, but he had re-
taken his old place in the next mile.
When he passed the 39th mile mark
Pierce made another fierce squirt, but
did not succeed in passing Elkes They
were now travelling at a record-break-
ing pace. Elkes finished the 40-mile
point in one hour, is minutes and A 1-5
seconds. Miller had then gone 81 miles
and Waller SO miles. Elkes made lac
45th mile in one hour, rs minutes and
81 AS seconds. After this there was
fierce struggle for the leadership, and
when they had finished the 47th mile
Pierce shot ahead, this time with mark
ed advantage, which he continued to
improve, passing the 50th mile a lap
ahead of Elkes.
The beginning of the end had come.
Pierce continued to gain and was owl
IDENTIFY as fresh as when he started,
while Elkes showed signs of giving out.
The Boston man went ahead at fu-
rious pace. At the 52nd mile he was
a lap and a half ahead at the 54til
two laps and he made the seth mile
with Elkes three laps-one mile-be-
hind. Elkes' condition had now become
apparent to everybody and when Pierce
started on the 57th mile Elkes left the
track. He was then a mile and lap
the loser. Elkes returned, however.
when Pierce was coursing into his 62nd
mile When Pierce finished the 63d mile
the record stood: Elkes, 81 miles and
2 laps; Waller, 81 miles and 1 lap Elkes
improved his position by beating Wal
Ter by another lap and Waller began to
play at running rings around Miller.
At the Goth mile for Pierce, Elkes again
became played out and quit. Waller
was then six miles behind Pierce Pierce
finished the 91st mile with Waller Sec
ond at the S5th, while Elkes was third
with SO miles and two laps to his score.
From this on it was only a matter of
waiting for Pierce to finish and to see
old man Waller make the best of it for
second place. Pierce retained his fresh
ness to the last and looked at the
close as if he could easily have gone
on for another hundred, From the
18th mile he had, however, gone out
side of the record. Waller showed up
splendfdly for an old chap and Fixes wos
roundly applauded for his pluck Time
at the finish: Burns Pierce, 3:27:5 rs;
Frank Waller, 3:44:9 1-5; Harry Elkes
3:52:37 rs: Charles W. Miller, 3:56:40 2-5.
Officers Assigned.