New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-06-25
CARNAGE AT CYCLE RACES.
CONTESTS AT THE GARDEN END IN
WILD EXCITEMENT-NELSO AND
MFARLAND SEVERELY INJURED.

The summer indoor cycle racing season was
1t decidedly warm and coats and collars
were discarded by the spectators in the gallery,
While shirt waists were apparently plentiful in
the arena seats. The hundreds of electric fans,
which were promised to give good imita ton
Of ocean breezes, dwindled TO one large fan near
the Fourth-ave. end of the Garden The sky
lights in the roof rolled back and the
81 ectators who were looking up for breezes
could catch occasional glimpse of a twink
ling star in the-heavens
But while the three thousand or four thou
sand spectators sweltered, the excitement and
enthusiasm were unbOunded. The track seems
to have been built upon scientific lines and is
undoubtedly fast. Ten laps are required to
make the mile, which brings the riders close to
the spectators at all times, and if the applause
was any criterion the onlookers seemed
to like the conditions The track is five
feet wider than the old ones in the garden and
Is banked far above the arena boxes at the
turns These turns give the indoor oval the
appearance of an immense wooden dish There
is not a foot of level planking on the track and
the positive banking makes fast riding neces-
sity to safety on the turns. The press arrange
ments were bad as il impossible TO see the
racers except when they flashed by on the
TWenty-seventh- side of the building. The
cracking and snorting of the motors used in the
middle distance race resembed the explosions
OF packs of frecrackers in a barrel This
announced the programme as THE ninth
event; warming up spins for motor machines
and riders
REVOLVING SIGHT.
The fifteen-miIe paced race between John Mel
son and Floyd Mcfarland was not started until
IL - p. m. The announcement was made that
in case accident happened in the first mile
the race would he started over again The men
had been riding three minutes when something
happened to Netherlands wheel. and the race
was started again at Hal In the third mile
Mcfarland lost his pace and tackled on behind
Ne lsOn. When he tried 20 get back behind his
own motor he cut inside and fell. The race was
Continued. but in the thirteenth mile OF the
motors went down with a crash carrying both
mer with IL. Nelson was cut and bled pro-
fusely from the face. but remOunted his wheel
until he had finished fourteen miles and lap
when the sight was too much for the referee
who compelled him TO dismount. This was after
midnight Nelson's time 2I:42.
Mcfarland was unconscious by the side Of the
track, with several hundred spectators crowded
about. while each spectator tried TO outyeIl his
neighhoT. and the women were ready 10 faint
Mcfarland recovered consciousness few min
utes later. and intmated that his jaw was
broken and his knee and hip dislocated. A doc
tor had not examined him at this time. The
whole night was chapter of useless and vex-
atious delays and accidents TO wheels and riders
II was bicycle racing with a strong and piCtu-
rescue flavor Of carnage. Less suffering would
be displayed In a half dozen prizehghts as they
were Fought under the defunCt Horton law.
The International match race between Tom
Cooper. ~ Detroit. and sydney jenkins Of Eng
land. resulted In the easiest of victories for the
American The race was best two in three mile
heats. In the first heat Cooper jumped away
from his rival in the sixth lap and by two
lengths. The second heat was a duplicate Of
the first, Cooper going TO front and winning
easily by flVe lengths in 2.2l 1-5.
SUMMARIZES
Match (niia heats)-Won by Thomas Cooper De
troll, sidney jenkins. ENGLAND. second Time. 2:2fH
lia!f mile open lsmatsurI-Won by Walter Bardgett
b4ualo. "erIvn Zurbrck Burao, second, W A. Ia
fourth Time. l.otS. Won by a foot. same between
second ana third
one mile handicap lanateurl-won by n W. Hagserty
Bridgeport as YARDS. J. NJ LAndley BRIDGEPORT go
YARDS second. 2. 9. Schreher. York scratch
ihir Walter Bardgett Buffalo rs YARDS Time
2o4S. Won by half yard foot between second and
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