The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-15
Cycling.
MICHAEL WON FROM M'FARLAHD
ALSO CLIPPED 21 rs SECONDS
OFF MILE RECORD.
An Accident to McFarland's Motor in
Last Part of Race Put Him Out
of It.

New York, July A.-In the presence of
1000 spectators, with scarcely a breeze
to interfere with the riders. Jimmy Mi
chael defeated Floyd Mcfarland of San
Jose, Cal, in twenty-mile, motor-paced
race at the Manhattan beach track this
afternoon he also clipped q % seconds
OF the track record for the distance
The conditions of the race were that if
an accident happened to either of the rid
ers or his PAGERS during the first mile.
the men We're to be recalled and the race
started anew. This saved Michael from
ueleat by a narrow margin. Michael
maintained his lead for one lap on the
ilrst attempt, but was then passed by
Mcfarland, who led by about five wards.
coming down the stretch for the finish of
the flrst mile. Before the latter had
reached the tape, however, Michael sig
nailed to the judges that his motor had
broken a chain, and he was lust in time
TO save himself from having to Continue
the race as best he could
A new machine was brought out and
Michael having won the pole position.
was the first to be picked up. He got in
behind his pace within the first 100 yards,
with his opponent right behind him No
Farlahd caught up on the back /tretch
and led by about ten yards during the
first mile. He increased this TO twenty
i've yards on the second mile Michael s
PAGERS worked like beavers and got
abreast of the leader twice during the
third mile, but could not succeed in pass
ing him. Mcfarland, during the sixth
mile, was nearly seventy yards to the
good. Just then Michael's new machine
was seen coming on the track again, and
IN couple OF laps more Michael was in
behind, and at the beginning of the
elghth mile he was on even terms with
the leader.
Mile. after mile was traversed with
lightning speed. AT no time during the
next six miles did Michael allow the front
wheel OF his pacing machine to be more
than yards behind the wheel of McFar-
land. At the end of the tWeuCn mile the
track record was lowered by 3-5 seconds
but at the end of the thirteenth they were
30 of second behind the record. In the
fourteenth mile Michael gradually drew
up TO Mcfarland and on the back stretch
in the second lap of the fourteenth mile
he passed the Californian, while the spec
tators on the stands and in the in-fielC
were frantic with delight
Michael soon gained about thirty yards
on his opponent, who was still going very
evenly. Once more the express" got out
of order, when Michael was in the lead
by about forty yards. This was in the
fifteenth mile. Fortunately, mis- second
machine was near at hand.
In making the change he lost scarcely
a dozen yards. Two laps later Mcfarland
had a streak OF hard luck His motor
which had been going continuously from
the start-off, was rendered useless by TIT
swapping of a chain and the bursting o.
a rear tube. The weSterner never stop
ped, but Michael gained a lap and a quar-
ter on his rival, and from that point th'
race was MichaePs. All interest in TIT
race was now at an end. as IL was seer
that Mcfarland could not win, and Mi
chael finished the twentieth mile il
81 :36 80, leading Mcfarland by about 70
Yards