The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-18
NATIONAL CIRCUIT MEET.
Kramer Won one-Mile Championship

Kramer Won One-Mile Championship
 CoIlett Third-Splendid Card.
 Undoubtedly the largest crowd of the season witnessed the national circuit meet races at the Coliseum last night, and those present were treated to the best racing of the season. While the time was not of the record breaking nature and does not properly represent the contests, yet all of the finishes were of the whirlWind variety and brought every one to his feet. All of the crack professional riders of the country, who are at present following the national circuit, were in the several events, and they fought for the coveted prizes to the last foot-in fact, to the last inch. This was especially so in the one-mle national championship. This contest was of the greatest importance. The victory carried with it not only hand some cash prize, but also the honor of being champion of the United States for the distance Of one mile. Frank Kramer. the present champion of America, won this event, but not with out the hardest fight of the season. Iver Lawson was second and George
 Collett the New Haven flyer, third. The three men finished within six inch es of each other, Kramer only securing first by the very narrow margin of two inches, and to many it seemed that the doughty lad from Salt Lake City had won by few inches. but the judges de-
 cided differently Collett was defeated by only two inches. This race was run
 in preliminaries, semi-finals and finals,
 and the New Haven riders were all i'll
 the semi finals. Owen Kimble, of Lou isville finished fourth.
 This race was the one for which
 George Collett has been making espe- cial preparations for some time past. and hoped to defeat Champion Kramer. but the fair-haired lad from New Jer-
 sey is still champion. The first five laps of this race were ridden at very
 low rate of speed but the last three
 were exceedingly fast.
 The five-nile amateur race was won with ease by Marcus Hurley, the anna teur champion, but J. P. Linley,
 speedy Bridgeport rider. made close bid for the place. As it was he finish
 ed second, Hurley winning by the length of a wheel.
 The other events were quite interest ing. and although a shower of rain fell just as preparations were being made for the half-mile consolation, the race was ridden and W. A. Rutz, of New
 Haven, was the victor. In the two
 mile professional handicap several of the riders enjoyed unusually large han l dicaps and they had no difficulty in fin- | ishing in one, two and three order. The | summary follows:
 National championship, one-mle pro- fessional-Won by Frank Kramer, East Orange, N. J.; Iver Lawson, Salt Lake
 City. second; George Collett, New Ha- ven, third; Owen Kimble, Louisville,
 fourth. Time, 2;27
 Cyclone handicap one-mile amateur Won by Reed Thompson. New Haven (60 yards); R. l.. Wehrle, South Nor
 walk (45 yards). second; George Web
 Der, New Haven (60 yards), third. Time, 1 :5S3-5
 Daredevil handicap. two-mile pro- fessional-Won by R. N. Carni, Wor- ! cester (160 yards); Patsey Keegan. Lowell 080 yards), second; Jed New kirk, Chicago (160 yardsl, third; John
 T. Fisher, Chicago (6o yards>, fourth; J. P. Jacobson. New Haven (70 yards), | fifth. Time, 4:16
 Marigold Stakes, five-mile amateur Won by Marcus Hurley, New York: J. P. Linley, Bridgeport, second; Walter
 Hageerty, Bridgeport third; Bert Per-
 kins, Westville. fourth. Time. 11:49 4-5. Consolation Stakes, half-mile profess
 sional scramble-Won by W. A. Rutz,
 New Haven: John Bedell, Lynbrook. l second; Tom Butler. Cambridge, third;
 George c, schreiber, New York fourth. 1 Time, :57.