Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-04
LOST ON A FOUL,

Emil Breitkreutz, Percy Werlich and
| Joe Fleming left for Madison to look
over the ground, give the bicycle rid
ers an opportunity to get the lay OF the
| Madison track and be in first class con-
! dition for Saturday. They were accom-
| panied by several enthusiastic citizens.
An hotel was selected and all arrange,
| ments completed in view of the arrival
of the rest of the team and its small but
energetic band of rooters.
| Friday morning, the remaining mem
| bers of the team, Angus Lamont, Ar
| thur Mcneil. Win Scholfieid, Charles
Gilman and Paul Zeuhlke, and coach
| Schultz, left for Madison. Several OF
| the high school students went down
| Friday to see that the team arrived IN
| good condition. 1t was the usual long,
| dusty ride from 1870 a. m. until SIX n
| the evening, with slight diversion IN
| nice warm saunter through New Lis
| bon during the three-quarters OF an
| hour that our party waited at that
| place. AT length, Madison was reached
and the team found "a goOdly crowd OF
| University students from Wausau
awaiting its arrival.
| The boys were Immediately taken TO
the hotel and kept under strict guard
against any unnecessary use of their
| that the boys were kept under watch,
| the Varsity boys were so anxious to find
out what showing their favOrites were
going lo make that they succeeded IN
entering the hotel and spending about
two hours with them. 1t was thought
by the students as well as well as by
large part of the citizens that Wausau
would make only about three or six
points in the meet. After convincing
the Varsity boys that we We're in for
more than that, and talking over the
field with about dozen different teams
that were staying at the same hotel,
| the WaISau team was ordered off to
bed at half past nine to be il prime
condition for the following day. After
breakfast the next morning the time
was spent until noon in lounging
around the park and hotel and working
out all possible combinations by which
| Milwaukee West Side high might be de-
| feated Before eleven O'clock enough
of the schools had been consulted to
make 1t sure that all of them would
unite to defeat West Side Milwaukee,
| if possible.
After IN early dinner the boys report
ed ut the grounds by 1870 so as to get
settled before the crowd came. 1t was
none too soon, as Immediately after
our team got in the crowd began to ar
rive about 40 to the minute. BY 2
O'Clock nearly three thousand specta-
| tors had assembled at the grand stand
| When the band struck up its liveliest
| tune and the meet opened, at least
| Wausau was convinced that West Side
Milwaukee should not have the cup if it
was in their power to prevent it.
The first event in which WauSau en-
tered was the mile run. At the open
| ing of the race, Breltkreutz took a good
| sprint to get ahead of the crowd and
! lead half way around the first lap,
when Zeuhlke took the pace at good
rate for the rest of the lap, when Boden-
! bach, Milwaukee's best mile runner,
took the lead with Breitkreutz close
behind. BY the time the last go
yards was reached only those who were
| expected (by outside teams) to beat our
man, remained in the race; Without
any difficulty whatever, Breitkreutz
easily in 4 :42, breaking his last years
record by eleven seconds and looking
! thoroughly disguised when he heard
| the time, because he knew how much
! better he could have made it if pushed
| by better runners. As it was, he had
not tried to do much running for time
on account of the half mile run.
The half mile race had been claimed
all along by Milwaukee west side high,
| that school being so determined to win
it that MOwry had been kept out Of both
| the %2O and 440 yard runs to be sure to
take first place in the half mile Madi-
son expected to- give the west side n
pretty struggle for first place. 1t was
expected to be II race between Mowry,
of Milwaukee. west side, and Daniels,
| Madison'S half mile man. But Daniels
| bad been injured in training and could
not enter. Breitkreutz had not been
considered us a competitor at all, though
! good Judges who had watched him in
| the mile suspected that Mowry would
have 10 work for first place. The race
| was Il sprint from the start, BreitkreutZ
| letting MUwry lead by a few PAGES
! But on the last sprint Breitkreutz forged
| ahead, and the two competitors came
! down the last stretch at a gait that
would have done credit to a hundred
yards dash, and no third man near.
| Breitkreutz held his own and broke the
tape few inches in advance of the
! Milwaukee man, receiving the greatest
ovation of the day from the spectators
who were more than astOniShed at the
| victory won by the man from Wausau.
In the third mile bicycle trial heats,
! Fleming, who is ut his best in a long
race, finished third and so did not gain
Il place in the final; Werlich won his
heat and so easily that he was picked
ont for first in the final. A poor start
left Werlich far behind the bunch, but
by Sprinting the entire distance, pass
ing all but two competitors and gaining
| steadily on those two he finished third.
In the mile bicycle trial heats both
Werlich and Fleming qualified in II
manner that showed how far they sur
passed their competitors.
The next event into which WauSau
entered was the relay No one thought
the Nausau relay team would stand
any show, and it was considered that
if it won eighth place it would he doing
| exceedingly well. But we again dem
onstrated our supremacy by crowding
West Side Milwaukee SO hard that their
champion quarter-mile runner finished
only few yards ahead of our man.
We had a poor position on tue track,
but went in to give the winners "A hard
fight and TO gain place if possible.
Although BreitkreutZ had already won
the hardest races of the meet ne repre-
Sented NauSau in the first quarter, pull
ing away from the Madison man. and
finishing with West Milwaukee close at
his heels. In the next quarter Lamont
won slightly on the Milwaukee man,
but gained a good deal on Madison.
Menzel still further increased the dis
lance between Wausau and Madison
but could not overtake Milwaukee,
Scholtield ran the last quarter but the
distance between him and the Milwau-
kee man was too great to be recovered,
though he lost only few yards on
Mowry, who ran the last quarter for
/ ~ ihVFSlnn M mi
ond, the relay being run in 1929. giving
the Wausau boys an average .of % sec
onds TO the quarter.
At the opening of the mile bicycle,
Milwaukee Academy and Wausau tied
for third place with II points. Both
schools had two men entered and if
either could get first and second places
it would have the cup with twenty two
points. From the way the trial heats
had been won it was the general opin-
ion of the grand stand that Wausau had