Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-30
THREE GREAT RACERS
Will Meet Tonight on the
Coliseum Track.
HALL, LAWSON, LAKE
THREE FIvE-MILE MOToR-PACED
HEATS.
Close and Exciting Contests Probable
-Two-Mile Motor Race-Two
Amateur Events.

Greater by far than any program that has
yet been pulled off over the inclined disk
at the Coliseum cycle track, 18th and East
Capitol streets, Is the event Of tonight 8
card, the third of the local season.
Three riders, famous for their fast work,
paced by motors, in a sprint of five miles In
three heats for a victory that cannot be
decided until the last man has crossed the
tape in the last heat, will furnish about as
much excitement as may be sustained In
one night. The race, known on the cards
as the three-cornered sprint, Is undoubtedly
the most spectacular of all the slated
races of the game today. While the en-
thusiasm called forth by a match race be-
tween two riders behind the clicking. sput-
tering, rafting motors seems to be the
limit, yet it is not circumstances to the
excitement that such race as tonight's
will arouse.
Single Motors Necessary.
Single motors are to be used by the pace
makers. The single is less cumbersome and
attended by fewer dangers than the motor
tandems, and are better adapted to this
race such a small track. The three
motors that will be used in tonight's race
will be lacking nothing in speed and will
furnish all the pace the riders can stand.
Owing to the spectacular qualities of the
event, Manager Osgood was careful to Sc
lect three men about equal in ability.
Tommy Hall, the diminutive English rider,
who made such. a hit in the big siX-day
grind at Madison Square Garden last WIN
ter; Gus Lawson, whom Sweden claims as
It's champion since the untimely departure
of little Johnny Nelson, and Johnny Lake,
the popular New Yorker. are the three Sc
lected to give Washingtons talent the
greatest cycle race it ever saw. The men
have trained to the hour for the race. and
To-, Co. 4
mettie in his crushing defeat of Lester
Wilson at Pittsburg last week. Lawson
and Lake have yet to win their spurs this
season, but the victories of seasons past
are sufficient guarantee of their ability to
rattle off the miles in championship time.
The coming of Hall to race in this city
will be a big drawing card for the little
Englishman made many friends during his
stay in the early spring. When Hall came
here to do training for the season with
Albert Champion and Floyd Mcfarland he
pronounced the track the fastest he had
ever ridden on, and said he would be happy
indeed if he could only win his first race
when the time came for him to show his
true form in public.
Three Heats in Race.
Under the conditions of the race. any &C
cidents occurring within the first mile calls
for another start. This gives the riders a
big handicap. 1t also saves the public from
a walk-over for one of the men in any sin
gle heat. The race Is to be ridden in three
heats, each heat to be of five miles The
winner of the race will be determined by
the number of points scored, the scheme
of scoring being three for first man in each
heat two for second and one for third.
By this means hard luck cannot enter
into the event and the race will be won on
its merits.
Another event that is calculated to en-
thuse the gathering of tonight is the motor
race of two miles between two big rattlers.
A motor race is exciting at all times but
the size and speed of tonght's competing
motors will add to the general interest and
make the race one of the events of the
season.
Two Amateur Events.
!, Two amateur events will conclude the
program-a mile handicap and a mile race
for tandems, in which the entry list is lin
tied to four machines. The entries for the
amateur handicap event follows:
c. L. Miller, scratch; r. r. Cogswel, 10
yards; f. L. Wilson, Is yards; j. L. Mitch
ell. 80 yards; E. p Gooding, 40 yards W.
n. Ward, yards; ]. Q. Bardroff 10 yards;
w. L. Wilcox, 20 yards; A. Messineo, %
yards; A. G. Prospect. 45 yards; j. HILL 5
yards; II. A. Rhine, 10 yards; A. C. Moran,
20 yards; c. Cogswell, 35 yards; W. Bon
nell, 45 yards.