Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-04
Great Contest Between Lean
der and Basil De Guichard.
THEIR SPEEDY MOTORS
BOTH STAR RIDERS ARE SPLEN-
DIDLY EQUIPPED.
An Amateur Lap Race Will Afford
Plenty Of Work-Coliseum's
Best Card.

Annihilation of time and space will be the
feature of tenight's racing at the Coliseum
cycle track. 18th and East Capitol streets
great French pace follower. and George
Leander, Chicago's herculean rider, come
together in their great endurance test and
speedy chase of ten miles behind the motors
That this race will be the greatest of the
season the talent all admit. That it will
furnish plenty Of room and occasion for
bursts Of enthusiasm and tumultuous ap-
p-,>use there can be no doubt, for these two
men are as evenly matched pair as ever
left a mark for race
Basil De Guichard is Frances premier and
representative middle distance rider France
has always boosted great riders behind the
rattlers and they have always been good
men. But De Guichard stands out among
them giant among lot of pigmies. His
racing on the tracks of the continent
brought him to the attention of Col. Pat
Sheehan of the Providence track. than
whom there is more capable or shrewd
manager in the business. Sheehan has
seen the Frenchman ride since he came to
this country less than two weeks ago and
he is now ready to back him against the
very fastest talent this country possesses.
In fact, Sheehan makes the open statement
that with De Guichard and his other great
pace follower, VIII StlnSOn, the narO-luck
rider from Brockton, he expects to clean up
all the big purses to be offered by the
tracks of the country this season.
Like Jimmy Michael.
De Guichard is built for the game. Re
sembling Jimmy Michael. the midget
Scotchman. to a striking degree in every
detail, he seems to possess the staying and
speeding qualities of that little crumb of
h,lr,, unit hn dow 1ray1 10
house than any man who ever rode a wheel.
Those who have seen the well-knit little
Frenchman say they do not wonder that he
arrived at 50 early a distinction as he pos
sesses in the championship of his native
soil. On the wheel, behind the motors, he
has the Michael crouch and trims his
forward wheel with the rear wheel of his
pacing outfit in the most finished manner
imaginable.
The dapper little product of sunny France
is a mild hammered chap. and, while he
talks the English language fluently enough,
he isn't bit obtrusive or chesty. like some
more of his countrymen who have come to
these shores for honorS. He mounts his
wheel. after giving his instructions to his
pacemakers, and rides his race without a
word, save when he calls for more speed.
Since landing in this country he has become
a favorite with everybody he has met, and
if he continues to ride in the way in which
he rode his first race against Harry ElkeS
on Memorial day, at Providence, he will be
the great card that Jimmy Michael and lit
tie Johnny Nelson We're.
The Frenchman is accompanied by his
father, NJ. Arthur De Guichard, who is ever
alive to the interests of his boy and looks
after him though he were the veriest of
children. The elder De Guichard says the
tracks of this country are far superior in
every way to those on the continent, and he
anticipates that his son will set up some
new marks for the riders Of this land.
His Fast Motors.
The young rider has brought with him
two of the fastest types of the famous
De Dion motor each capable of turning a
mile under the minute on a straightaway.
He has brought his own pacemakers with
him. two Frenchmen, who have piloted him
to victory in many a hard-fought contest.
The men understand the little fellow and
know about his limit and at what points in
a race to push up the cock and pull him
away from his opponent. They work to-
gether like one machine, so perfect is their
handling of the machine ahead of the rider.
In his race with Leander the little fellow
will be paced by one of these mighty speed
producers, while the other will be in readi-
ness to take up the trail should the other
refuse to spark or fall down in any way.
While the Frenchman is a rider of I'M
doubted ability and unquestioned speed, he
will have to extend himself to shake the
Chicago rider who has come to succeed
the late Archie McEachern in the title of
bulldog of the track" Leander is riding
like streak these days. as was shown in
his race al Cleveland on the night of Me-
mortal day, when he put it all over Lester
Wilson. the Pittsburg rider. Late yester-
day afternoon Leander did very fast stunt
at the local track. He went out be-
hind his single motor and reeled off fifteen
miles in time calculated to make most rid
ers think they were the real goods. His
last ten miles We're ridden close to the 49,
minute mark. and that means that in a
ar1 90 ha &c trntn u hn a -tn ~,
time considerably faster. Leander is a per-
feet specimen of healthy man, and is every
inch a rider. His shift from the sprinting
division to the pace-following bunch was a
wise one, and Manager Klosterman of Bal
timore made no mistake in signing him up
for the season, as the windy city chap has
the goods, and, barring accidents, is bound
to deliver them.
Leander will be paced by brand-new
French motor that has the speed to nego-
tiate mile close to the minute and pos
sesseS single that can turn mile under
that mark. He will be paced by his tan
dem in tomorrow nights race.
Amateur Lap Race.
Manager Osgood's determination to put
on lap race has met with a hearty re-
Spouse from the amateur ranks of the
local riders 1t has been decided to make
the distance only two miles, on account of
the backward condition of the sprinters
ne distance won be too long and will not
make 1t grueling contest This race will
call for fifteen prizes, as follows: One to
the winner of each lap, to the winner of
the first mile and the winner of the race
together with another to the rider who ha 8
negotiated the largest number of laps dur
ing the two miles. These prizes are CAL
cuiated to bring out all the sprinting quail
ties there are in the men. The scheme of
awarding prize for each lap makes each
Whirl about the bowl a race in itself and
the going is sure to be fast as the riders
will naturally want to land the prize for
the lap and then to get the prize for the
largest number of laps.
Handicapped Jose has hit upon a good
scheme for making the handicap events of
more interesting character. Heretofore
the limit men have had a cinch in the han
dicap events. because of the proneness of
the lower-mark men to be satisfied with
beating out the middle distance fellow in a
sprint at the finish. In tonights handicap
race, which will be of two-thirds of a mile.
the limit men will be set farther ahead and
the men with the middle marks will be
stretched farther about the track This
will compel the men near scratch to move
faster and give them encouragement after
having caught the latter. to go after the
limit riders.
Base Ball Notes.
Detroit again today.