Evening star., 1902-04-12
Contract for the Coliseum
Bleachers Has Been Let.
CHAMPION DEPARTS
WORK THAT IS BEING DONE AT
TRAINING CAMPS.
Willie Fem is Backward in Form
The Alleged Quitting Of
George Leander.

bleacher seats at the big Coliseum at 14th
| and East Capitol streets has been let by
Manager Osgood to James L. Parsons, the
| contractor who built the great track struc-
ture. Mr.. Parsons will on Monday COM
mence work, and ten sections of seats ris-
! ing skyward at an angle of 45 degrees will
| be completed next week.
Workmen have been digging out and en-
larging the tunnel under the track all this
week, and now it is fully large enough to
let the riders and public through without
| inconvenience. The Western Union Tele-
| graph Company, in anticipation of de-
mand for news of the big events that are
| scheduled to come off at the Coliseum this
| summer, will put in a large telegraph ser
| vice and, and the local phone company in
tends establishing a station there.
Champions Departure
Owing to the stormy weather this week
until yesterday Champion, Hall and McFar-
| land, the three cycle stars of the Kennedy
Powers armament, had difficulty in getting
in all their training at the proper time. and
had to wait after showers and rains for the
track to dry out before using 1t. Cham
pion left yesterday for Boston, where he
will take part in the great brassard race at
Charles River Park, April 10.
With Albert Champion, Bobbie Walthour,
Cesar Sfmar, Otto Maya, Charlie McCon-
nell, George Leander and a number of 9TH
ers as competitors manager Howe has a
hne field The race is of an hours dura-
ton, and the winner receives 81 a day for
six weeks or until May 30 and the right
| to meet Harry Elkes in the first race Of
that rider upon his return to America.
McLean's Chances.
Bobbie Walthours success in jumping
from the sprinting class to the front ranks
of the pace followers within a year may be
duplicated by Hugh Mclean of Chelsea.
whose work in training has been of the
highest order
Having taken on flesh to greater extent
than he supposed possible, Howard Free
man finds 1t necessary to adopt hard train
! ing at once. Freeman Joined the Atlanta
| training colony last week. He is a member
of the team of c. Ross KIosterman and
Charles Turville. and will be pushed right
to me front as a pace follower this year.
"Plunger Bill Rutz Is anxious to get a
| race at an early date at New Haven with
Geo. Collett, who is reported as enrolled
| with the pace followers. Collett and Rutz
are not friendly to each other in any way
and are determined to fight upon each meet
! Ing. Manager Voigt will probably draw his
| largest gate of the year when he brings
| these men together, for New Haven has
| been conversant with their trouble for
number of years. Rutz is working hard in
| the south to attain proficiency in pace fol-
| lowing, and once in shape will issue chal-
| lenge to his enemy to a series of races.
| To be accused of being a gutter is
| terrible thing for cycle rider. and to be
accused unjustly is terrible in the extreme
| George Leander, the new star of c. Ross
| Klosterman of Baltimore, quit while, follow
| ing motor in his second race with Wal
/ th6ur. Leander was confused and did not
| figure upon the consequences of that quit
i He supposed the motor was wrong, so he
1 said, so stopped. considering that the race
would be checked there and started over
| again.
Leander's Alleged Quitting.
Referee Castle placed Gusse Lawson
pacemaker for Walthour, on the machine
and Lawson rode mile exhibition In l. 133
whereupon the heat was given to Walthour
| the motor of Leander having gone faster
than Leander had ever followed in the track
In the second heat Leander finished but
| was beaten two and a half laps Manager
Prince now refuses to again allow Leander
\ to ride Walthour either in Atlanta or Sa-
vannah, Mr. Prince being very wroth over
\ the So-called quit of Leander.
Having trained but very little during his
| racing career, Willie Fem is astonished
| with the condition which steady training
| has given him at Atlanta. Fem is far
| from in shape now, but he is improving
| daily, and there is every promise that he
| will attain one of the foremost positions
among the pace followers of the year
| Fenn's ability on the wheel comes to him
| into shape hurredy
| Atlanta's spring weather has been colder
| this year than in a decade previously. and
this has retarded Fenn's conditioning
| There is promise Of steady warm weather
| now, and his training quarters will be
| moved to Savannah, where the weather is
| steadier and much warmer owing to the
1 proximity of the salt water Here he will
remain until late in May.
Gussie lawson the now terrible Swede
| is recovering from the attack of typhoid
| fever of last winter which left him so weak
| that he found it impossible to enter earIv
| training Lawson has made such a name
| for himself as a pacemaker that he is
| promised profitable employment riding
| single for the year to come. even though
| he should not find it possible to take up
paced work.
Success at Atlanta.
| All doubts regarding the success of cycle
racing in Atlanta have been removed, and
| the promoters content, inasmuch as the
successes of '97 are being duplicated and
! surpassed. For years Atlanta has been
practically dead in cycling affairs and over
| fifty cycle dealers have given up the ghost.
With the success of cycling as sport
| came prosperity to the cycle dealers and
| the four who remain buster now than
at any time In years. Old wheels are be-
ing brought out and are being rebuilt to
| date, and the boys of the city are purchas-
| ing pace-following wheels
They place their saddles forward on these.
put sticks under the saddles and ride with
| high geers in emula ton of the pace follow
| ers. Quite number of the youngsters got
| together and with spades and shovels built
for themselves cycle tract in miniature
upon which they are able to ride very cred
| liable races. The track is three feet wide
| and twenty-four laps to mile
Johnnie Lake of Staten Island has Sc
cured Frank Calvin, the great Hartford un-
paced rider, as trainer and motorman.
| Lake is about to close with two very prom
| inent motormen and will supply himself
with tandem team and single rider for
a motor bicycle which he is now having
constructed. Lake enters the paced field to
gain success this season and is very de-
| termined.
Ball Games Elsewhere Yesterday.
At New York-New York National
League). Z: University of Maine. 2
At Observation-Disclosures (American)
12: BuckneI College, l.
At Princeton, N. Pathological Semina-
| ry, o: Cap and Gown Club of the UNIVERSE
ty. 8.
At Emory Va.-Emory and Henry Col
q. vpy Call, 1x~fV