The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-02
COLISEUM RACE MEET.
Splendid Programme of Events Unusually
 Large Crowd

Splendid Programme of Eyents-Unusuall Large Crowd. The second race meet of the season at l the Coliseum last night was an even greater success than the first,. both in point of at tendance and in the excellence of the rae ing. The. programme was splendid one in every particular and arranged in such manner that interest never Jagged and the audience were kept highly entertained all the time. .g7357 The most important event of the evening was the one mile national championship, in which there were four heats and four starters in each All of the prominent pro fessional riders of the country were present and competed. but the final was between Champion Kramer Iyer Lawson, John D Bedell and r. A: Mcfarland. This race was pretty one for the entire distance, ess pecially in view of the fact that Lawson and Mcfarland were teaming, and the race was of such importance to Kramer and Lawson. They have been extremely close in the contest for points which will decide the national championship, Kramer being a trifle in the lead. By one of the fastest races and with whirlwind finish, ably as sisted and paced by Mcfarland, the doughty westerner, Lawson, wrested the honor of winning from Kramer and went over the tape about wheel length ahead and the race for points was tied. Each man now has thirty-seven points to his credit. s A nice programme of motor races was also arranged and these were principally
 
 Walter Zlegler of Hartford. The former had the first race his own way. This was for q mile and the time was the record for a contest on the Coliseum track. 1t being 1:31. The second heat was for distance of five miles. Campbell had gained almost lap on his competitor when his machine refused to work and Ziegler finished alone In consequence of this 1t was arranged that there be another heat of five miles and the races started on even terms. but after a mile the, Hartford man secured the lead and then Campbell's machine broke again and he was forced to quit until the last for blood. He succeeded in gaining an im- mense amount of space and clearly demon- strated the superior racing power of his motor.
 also very good and was won by Frank Kramer.
 Edward Hausman was scheduled to at tempt to break the track record of one mile in 1:20 made by Oscar Hedstrom of Springfield, Mass, some time since, but his machine failed to work and the trial was postponed. The other races were good. The summary:
 Two mile open lap race-Amateurs-won by L. schufeldt. New Haven; Walter Shutter, New Haven, second. Time 5:25.
 One mile national ,championship-Won by Iver Lawson. Salt Lake city; Frank Kra- mer, Newark. second; John Bedell, Lyn- brook L. l., third. Time 2:33 4-5.
 Match race motor cycles-Won by Walter Ziegler, Hartford; s. E. Campbell, New Ha- ven, second.
 One mile match race-Won by Campbell. Time 1:31.
 0ne-half mile amateur-Won by Walter Shutter. 50 yards; N Monroe, 30 yards, sec ond; M. Morrissey, 45 yards, third. Time 1:O1 2-5.
 fen mile ~professional-Won by Frank Kramer, 1ver Lawson, second: k. E. Root, third, and George Sehreiber, fourth. Time 23:43. Lap prize won by Menus Bedell.