Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-12
WITH HE NHEELMEA.
Some Warm Races Around the
 Circuit of the Track.

Young Fem Beaten Out Tn The Sprint
 For The Tape-Two Riders Collapse
 In An Australian Pursuit Race-Rec-
 ords Broken On Several Tracks
 Johnny Nelsons Brother Makes a
 New Amateur Record Collett Rid
 ing In Great Form.
 New York, Aug 12-The sport, while uniformly fair, was scarcely up to the standard of excellence to which patrons of Manhattan Beach meets have become accustomed. For the first time this season there was no middle distance contest, and the single match in which motor artillery was used lacked snap. This was a one, three and five mile heat affair between Harry Bikes and Floyd MacFarland, two riders barely graduated from the conyalescent stage of recent illness.
 That Bikes was nearer form than his opponent was evidenced by the ease with which he won from him i'll two straight heats. MacFarland was slow in catching his pace in the mile heat, and the seyenty-five yards he then lost to Bikes the latter retained to the finish. Both got away well in the three mile heat, but the Cali fornian had difficulty in holding his pace, and was beaten by a full hun dred yards.
 The heats of the half mile race of the professional championship series were rather unsatisfactory. Major Taylor was absent and Frank Kramer won the final in a manner that did not add to his popularity with the spec tators. George Collett, his greatest rival for amateur championship hon. ors two years ago, was Kramer'S op- ponent in the final.
 The pair loafed for more than half the distance, Kramer, having had more experience in such tactics, being the slower loafer of the two. In keep ing with the pace. the band played the Dead March" and the spectators groaned. Tn the middle of the back stretch on the last lap. some one on the training quarters platform attract ed Collett's attention. Kramer, who had been awaiting such an opportuni- ty, made his jump and was five lengths beyond Collett before the lat ter realized how he had been tricked. He then gave chase, but Kramer's lead was too great to be cut down and Collett sat up in the stretch. The na- ture of Kramer's victory was the more regretable because Collett had shown surprising form in the earlier heats of the race. In the semi-finals he had preceded Ivor Lawson, W. s. Fem and J. T. Fisher over the tape in a spleu- did burst of speed and in the semi finals he had jumped Lawson in the back stretch and led him all the way home.
 Kramer's hardest competitors in the road to the final heat were Lester Will son and Tom Cooper. This trio had come to the tape almost neck and neck in the semi-finals, while in the demi-fnals Wilson was at Kramer's side when the line was crossed. Kra- mer'S victory in the final gives him 40 points in the championship contest, the scores of the other leaders being: Major Taylor 23, Tom Cooper 14. W. s. Fenn 13, IYOr Lawson 12 and J. F. Fisher II.
 The last race of the afternoon, from a spectacular standpoint, was a i've mile handicap for professionals, in which there were twenty-eight com petitors. All of these were punched at two miles, and remained so to the
 
 yards) made a dash for the lead on the bell lap, and was not displaced, though w. S. Fenn (scratch) chaI- lenged him all the way up the stretch.
 In the stretch Ivor Lawson, a new speed giant, came out of the bunch like a whirlwind and, passing Tenn jn the last ten yards, was at Cooper's pedals as the latter crossed the line. John Bedell 900 yards) scored over Fenn for third by inches. The sum- marieS:
 | One mile, 2:10 class professionaD-- Final heat won by John Green. Coven- try, England: G. R. Leander, Chicago, second; Hardy Downing. San Jose, Gal, third; time 3m 13 1-5s; won by a length with same between second and third.
 Half mile, circuit championship series professionally First semi-final heat won by G. H. Collett, Ivor Law son second; time, Inn 26 It's. Second semi-final heat won by Frank Kramer, Lester Wilson second; time, Inn 1Ss. 1 First demi-fna1 seat won by Collett. time I'm 13 3-5s Second semi-final heat won by Kramer, time I'm 16 4-5s. | Final heat won by Kramer ten yards l over Collett; time, 5m 1-5 s. | Five mile handicap professionally -