Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-08

old-fashioned Manhattan Beach third OF a
mile cement oval for a stretch OF twenty
miles at rate faster than 1m sos. to the
mile, the result would have been an tncred-
Hlous smile. Yet thas Is what the tandem
that Albert Champion traiIed did at the
track ny the sea at the opening meet a
week ago.
Such performances as the American riders
are putting up this season behind these high
powered machines, hampered though they
pe ny Wlnd shield restrictions, are really
more wonderful than the faster times made
by the foreigners, the only requirement of
whose pacing tandems Is that they shall
pass throush frame ten feet broad and
ICur leet mgh. The modern tendency of the
game Is doubtless toward high horse power
and unlimited wind shield surface
Pace Followers in Demand.
More than twenty pace-followers are re-
quired to meet the demand for middle dis
lance motor trailing contests on the bicycle
tracks of the east Not a twenty-four hour
period elapses in a week that is not marked
by two or three motor-paced races dis
tTibuted among the score of racing courses
1naking specially of this branch of the
sport.
When one considers the fact that each
rlder mas a manager, a trainer and two pac-
ing machines, each manned by crew of
Two men, the number of riders pace follow
lEs gives employment to may be appre-
siateu' me making and repairing OF these
motor tandems is in itself no inconsidera BILE
manufacturing industry
"A new trio OF pacefoliowers will be pitted
against Albert Champion at Manhattan
to oeaon next saturday In twenty-mile mo-
tor-paced race. f. A. Mcfarland has recov-
cred from his recent accident at Revere
Beach and will be one of them. wiz c.
StinSon, VINO has been racing on the New
EHsiand tracks this season. will be another
Basil de Guichard, the French youngster
VIII make his first appearance on a metro
polltan track A halfmile novice a two
nliie handfcap and a five-mile lap race, all
test.
National Circuit to Open.
BY the end of the week the national cir
cult series of races will have started for the
determination of the national championship.
The sprinters will then receive more gen.
eral attention by the bicycle race following
pubic, and share with the middle distance
men the golden harvest. With a score of
crack amateurs turned over to the profess
s1onal ranks the struggle will be keener
than ever this season.
The tWO-man Semi-6na1 and final heats
following the foreign fashion, has been Civ
en- seasons trial and abandoned This
years championship contests have four trial
heats. The first and second in each will
ride in two semi-finals
Win the hrSt two men picked from them
there will be four men for the final. style
mucn more in favor with the American
public. A handicap and a consolation race
Will also be run at each circuit meet, so the
money will be we'll distributed
Ihere Will be racing on Thursday, Friday
ana saturday night at the L. A. w. meet
week at Atlantic City, which is set for July
10 TO 20. A new up-to-date coliseum track
mas peen built, which is proving a record
breaker. Two of the national amateur
ch!arnpionshlps and one of the national cir
cult professional series will be decided dur
Ing the three days of the meet.