Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-05-24
NAT BUTLER HERE
Winner of Boston Patriots
Day Race Arrives.
READY FOR HIS CONTEST
COLISEUM EVENT NEXT WEDNES-
DAY NIGHT A GREAT ONE.
Leander Will Race the Hubbite Behind
Fast Flying Motors-Attend-
ance of Ladies.

| coming season in cycle racing at the Coli
| scum, 18th and East Capitol streets, Will
be that of next Wednesday night, when
Nat Butler of Chelsea, Mass, and George
Leander the flyer from the windy city,
come together in a motor-paced race
featuring the program of the meet. In
the selection of these two pace followers
the management has been careful TO get
riders whose respective abilities are ABOUT
on par. Both men are speedy, can stand
a hard grueling contest and will go the
distance at break-neck pace. And there Is
no reason to doubt but that the match Will
be the hottest ever witnessed on the local
| ring.
This is Leander's first year behind the
suffering motors, but he is Keeling on the
miles in championship form. HIS deieal
| of w. S. Fem. the midget speed merchant
| of New Haven, on the Baltimore bowi
| Thursday night in fast form shows nun 10
| be possessed of all kinds of speed. All
| his Workouts have been most encouraging,
and there is every indication that this great
sprint rider will become one of the Leading
! pace followers of the sport. Leanoer Is an
| unusually large fellow, being rated as the
| largest on a racing machine TO-DAY, anu Is
| built for the most severe test, Such as one
sustains in a long race with the machine
pumping up speed at the rate with which
the big powerful motors of this season are
| furnishing it.
Buffers Record.
Nat Butler, Leander's opponent, has been
| on the tracks of the country for almost
decade, both as a sprint rider and foi-
| lower of pace. Nat is one of two brothers
! who a few seasons back made the name OF
| Butler famous and one much feared on the
| racing tracks of this country. Teaming
| was the specially strong point of the But
| Ter brothers, Tom and Nat. and what they
| could not win wasn't worth Juggling on
| Time and again their cunning has brought
about the defeat of Major Taylor, the last
est of them all.
The reputation for fast work that Nat
| built up on the sprint track has been sus-
| tained since he hit the boards back Of the
| flyers. He has been at the game only one
! season. this being his second year "up be-
| hind" Last year he didn't do a whole lot,
| largely because he was vitality interested in
| a track down near Revere Beach. This
year he Is out for all there is in the game,
| and it looks as though he were going to
get his Slice diligent training brought
| the fast rider into splendid condition for
| the great spring race at Charles River
Park track Boston, where he won the Pa
triots day race. the 81 600 prize and bras
sard from a field Of riders that included
| the fastest men in the country: Albert
Champion, the great French rider, who
was delivering miles on the local boards
under 1.26. one Of the fast men Nat
defeated Bobby Walthour. the bulldog Of
ALL" and has still the same speed with him.
and is prepared to cut it loose the night
he meets Leander.
Butler is Here.
Nat arrived in Washington yesterday from
Savannah, Ca, where he has been round
ing off the rough corners of his training,
and incidentally racing Bobby Walthour.
Nat looks the picture of health and as he
swung onto his machine and peddaled away
| around the disk his muscles moved up and
down his body, arms and legs like we'll
| regulated machinery.
Nat confessed to feeling better than he
ever did during his racing career and he
certainly looks the goods Nat will train
over the local boards until the night of the
race. He will work out behind his big
motors that have three times pulled him to
victory this season against the fastest men
in the game. His work will be done in the
morning and afternoon, fifteen to twenty
| miles each time he goes up. Nat although
he Is by no means big man, is a glutton
for work and nothing suits him better than
to feel that there is task ahead of him
to do.
Leander Is now at work on the Baltimore
track. 1t is expected that he will arrive in
this city Monday night or Tuesday morning
when he will finish his training.
Manager Osgood has certainly an eye to
pleasing and satisfying the Washington
enthusiast. On the night of Memorial day,
which is next Friday night the manage
motor-paced race. This will certainly be
treat Three-cornered races are hard to
land, owing to the timidity of the riders,
and the great dangers attending such
events. A three-cornered race means that
there are three riders on the track each
hustling for the big end of the purse And
then there are three great heavy rafting
motors. Each pair of pacemakers isn't
letting go of anything they can get hold of,
and they are not letting another rider get
by if possible. Hence the run-up of banks
and the forcing of teams to slow up which
means a constant reckoning of death.
A Spectacular Race.
It is a spectacular game, and one worth
all kinds of money and time to witness
The three men pumping around the disk
behind the motors that are out to the limit.
the cracking and puttering and flashing of
the machines in their efforts to get going
faster produce an effect that doesn't pass
from the mind very readily. The riders
selected for this race are well matched in