The age-herald., 1900-05-10
PIED" MADE 1T A
 RUNAWAY AFFAIR Won Handily from StubbS in the
 Mile Match. WAS CHEERED TO THE ECHO Plucly Little Rider Made Pretty Finish in First Heat-Bicycle Races At
 tract Large Crowd to the
 Coliseum Track.
WAS CHEERED TO THE ECHO

A wildly shouting crowd. repeated re- ports from the starters pistol and chuckle of satisfaction by his trainers, an- nounced last night that Ped Hickman had 1 added another to his long string of scalps | and still holds the southern amateur cham pionship by several lengths. Stubbs made
 a game fight but he hadn't the necessary sprint left in him at the turn and lost the first two heats of the one mile match and incidentally any claim to superiority over Hickman.
 Long ere the gun had cracked for the first race to begin, both grand stands at the Coliseum track were crowded with en- thusiasts of the cycling sport and the
 small spot of ground inside the eighth of
 mile loop was busy hive of trainers,
 riders, judges and the personal friends of
 the "pedalers."
 It was the first racing event of the sea-
 son and the sporting appetite was whetted
 to a sharp edge flor eye-lash finishes,
 grand stand sprints and other exciting
 events known to the cranks of the wheel Will Streit proved the surprise of the evening, qualifying in the one mile open
 and winning the final by nice head work
 ana a good sprint, with ease. The First Event
 The first event on the sheet was the
 half-mile handicap with Hickman and
 Stubbs on the scratch" Both qualified
 with little trouble and the following men
 lined up for the final in the positions
 given:
 Stubbs, scratch; Hickman, scratch; Me-
 Crossin, 15 yards; Hawkins, 15 yards; Geis, rdc rdc Rpbertc R yards; Sellers, 30 yards; streit, 40 yards. At the shot the scratch men got good
 start, but Hawkins and Streit were unlucky
 and ran off the track, causing some of the men to lose distance. Before the half lap
 had been reached all the men were on again. and the contest started in earnest Hickman and Stubbs had not been losing ground, and were putting up a hot sprint to pass the tagging handicap men. Perkins, who hal fine start, took good lead and for two lays set a hard pace to follow. The
 work of the handicapper, however, was ex- cellent, and on the third lap all of the men reached the turn in a bunch. Hickman had l a good position in the rear, with Stubbs | hanging on to the pole near the center of l the party. The procession kept up in this | position for another half lap, when it was l seen that Perkins had begun to tire and l was rapidly being overtaken by the bunch. on the tnlfu turn McCrOSSln made d Wlue | turn and a hurried sprint for the front. | Hickman waited patiently until the next 1 turn, when a slight opening was made in l the center, and he came through the | bunch in a rush, passed the leaders in a jiffy, and won handily by several lengths.
 McCrossin kept up his sprint and got sec | ond place, while Roberts finished third. | Time, 1:30 3-5.
 Hickman and Stubbs were not entered in l the one mile open and the other riders | had a free-for-al fight of it. The follow | ing men qualified: Streit, D. Roberts, B. l Roberts, Hawkins, McCrossin, Chrisen- berry.
 The Match Race | Befcre the final was run the managers | decided to run off the first heat of the l Stubbs-Hckman match race and give the l other men time to blow and get a rub l down.
 | As Ped came on the track he was greeted | by an enthusiastic outburst of applause l Stubbs' friends were also "there,' and he | received a liberal share of the shouting. The Roberts brothers tandem team paced l the men and put up rapid gait. l On the start Stubbs caught the rear l wheel of the tandem and hung like leech 1 until the sixth lap when the Roberts | brothers left the track to the rival riders. l Stubbs kept the lead for another lap, Ped
 patiently tagging his rear wheel Both | men were riding in pretty form and as | neither evinced any disposition to put on | an extra turn the crowd waited in breath | less silence for the first break. The two l wheels made the last trun of the seventh | lap in the same position. The crowd had | waited in silence for something sensational and as the mer neared the grand stand l it came. Hickman was seen to make l desperate lunge at his pedals and the l sparely built wheel sprang forward as if | endowed with human feeling. The pressure | was too strong for Stubbs and Ped made | d runaway affair of the race for the other l end of the lap, crossing the tape at least ] fol ty feet ahead of his opponent.
 The second heat was repetition of the