The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-20
lexington BIC Day
FAST TRACK AFFORDS SOME GOOD
RACING, BUT THE SUN WAS
SC0RCHING
ST. PAUL MEN SMASH RECORDS
Surpass Minneapolis Opponents on
the WheeI-CroVvd Was Fairly
Large and Demon
-stratiVe.

biistering hot sun, with little or no
wind, fast track and several hundred
| spectators were features at Lexington
park yesterday afternoon at the races
under the auspices of the Twin City
bicycle Racing league. In many respects
the day and conditions were ideal for
s'lch an event and the crowd certainly
went away from the park feeling that
they had been given the worth of the
money, while the racers all got plenty
of exercise if they did not all capture
pennants.
Inc programme arranged for. yester-
DAY was the most elaborate that has been
given at the park for some time and
there is no reason why the managers OF
the affair should feel disappointed at
the success of their efforts, Every event
was witnessed with intense interest and
each finish gave new enthusiasm to the
cheering crowd. Even the Lexington
NoSul handicap did not fail of this ac-
complshment
The first event of he day was the one
mile novice race There were eleven en-
tries. In the first heat Ct this event F.
Nlederhofer, of Minneapolis; A. N. Jor-
gerson, of st. Pau, and c. Guam, OF
Minneapolis, were the three leaders, with
Il tine of 2.3S The second heat showed
II, d. VI.
terson and Andrew Miller, OF ST. Paul,
the four best in order named The time
was 2:3G. he final for the novice by the
four in fastest heat resulted as follows;
robertson, Henze, Niederhofer and Pat
teison. Time, 2:25 2-5.
The ore-mile professional was woa by
G. Hofer, st. Paul. first; Joe Buhmal.,
st. Paul. second and y. j. McCollum, ST
Paul, third Time 2:35
The three-mile amateur tandem was one
OF the most interesting events of the day
Doe, Minneapolis and Iverson, of Elk.
celsior, took first place; c. E. Kellogg
and Henze, st. Paul, were second and O.
Sudheimer, st, Paul, and w. Granquist,
Minneapolis, third, Time, $50 80.
The unlimited tandem pursuit by pro-
fessionals was in point IF contests the
best thing of the day. Tom Bird and A
j. McCollum, st. Paul, rode together
and Elmer Lee and Louis Niederhofer
Minneapolis, and Charles Hofer and Joe
Buhman, st. Paul. were the two other
teams. Bird and McCollum took a slow
start and were behind their opponents
until about two laps from the close.
Their gain was sudden and within dis
lance OF miles and 100 yards they dashed
past both teams, making the pursuit in
7:06. The winners were loudly cheered
and Bird was ohristened with the popular
title Rough Rider as he and Mac came
in after putting their contestants in the
rear
Little ]. M. Patterson, a st. Paul youth
heretofore stranger on the track. won
decided fame in the fiye-mile amateur
handicap, He put his opponents entirely
out Of the race, and accredited himself
with a record of 10 minutes fiat W.
Granauist, Minneapolis; T, Sudheimer,
st. Paul, and Paul Mayer, St. Paul, came
next in order. This was a most exciting
race. N. c. Hopper, Chicago, entered on
the scratch, and made some good runs,
but could not get to the front.
The Lexington Mogul handicap" was
the next thrilling feature. This was a
cert of variety race, in which everything
on the order Of a bicycle was admitted
There were two products of the vintage
of so, and those representing the various
epochs since. This event furnished fun
by the wholesale, and everybody present
got part
Tom Bird was the trophy bearer in the
mogul race, riding an old rusty ordinary
the wheel with which he won his first
race making the mile in something like
fifteen minutes
A. A Hansen was In the race, and tore
through the air on a venerable old Vic
tor, one of the first safeties ever intro
duced. Niebauer, st. Paul, took second In
the race, riding something which resem-
bled a bicycle but which, technically
Wrestling with these old machines COM
pletely outdid most of the riders Tom
Bird showed the effects of it when with
McCollum, an unsuccessful attempt was
made TO lower the professional one-mile
tandem record of 2:f They made it in
2:07 20
w. p. Beeker's record of 1:5S AS for the
one-mile professional was not beaten
Chas. Hofer fell three seconds short in
an attempt at it. The race was paced.
The 2:10 S-5 amateur one-mile tandem
record was broken by Kellogg and Hence.
of st. Paul, lowering it to 200 2-5 Paul
Meyer and Tom Sudheimer made a sue
cessful attempt at breaking the record,
and finished in 2:0S Is
The fact that st. Paul men were the
aggressors of the day was not lost sight
of by the spectators, who cheered loudly
every time a Saint made a winning.