Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-02
RIDES IN ELKEs' PLACE.
De Guichard Will Be His Substitute at
Coliseum Thursday Night.

The great French motor-pace follower,
Basil De Guichard. who stands way up in
the front among the men who follow the
"choo choos," has been assigned by the
national paced circuit to appear In the
three-cornered races at the opening Of the
Coliseum here Thursday night in place OF
the late Harry Elkes, whose death on the
Charles River track last Saturday again
emphasized the perils that lie In the pur-
suit of the motors around the big racing
bowls.
The pitiful ending Of the middle-distance
champion OF the world, Just after he had
broken another worlds record, and while
still flushed with the plaudits of the multi
tude who had witnessed his great exploit,
makes the third catastrophe of the kind In
the past few years, the other victims OF
the dangerous motor-pace game being
Archie McEachern and Little Nelson, the
former meeting death in awful guise at
Atlantic City early last season, and the lat
ter having been killed in the mix-up fol-
lowing a collision in the great races at
Madison Square Garden two seasons ago.
Superstition having had its three victims,
II is now hoped by the promoters of the
motor sport that there will be no more
casualties although there will always be
accidents resulting in broken bones and
furrowed flesh.
1t is not exaggeration to say that there's
hardly a rider on the dozen Coliseum tracks
VINO has not sustained from one 10 one
hundred accidents in the course Of his
career. A well-posted admirer of the game,
in speaking OF the killing of Elkes remark
ed that the Glens Falls rider in his time
must have suffered several hundred in
Juries. Will Stinson, in particular, has
been an almost continual victim of hoo
doo" and season before last and last sea-
son he was out Of the game half the year
with broken collar bones. legs, arms, ribs
and other vulnerable parts of his anatomy.
Bonnie Monroe, who will carry Washing
toms colors in the Coliseum races this year,
and who is included in the card at the
Coliseum next Thursday night, was the
hero of a mix-up that nearly put his light
out last season in a race at the Baltimore
Coliseum. and now he rides with a portion
of his occiput missing, and in imminent
peril of death II he should suffer another
injury to the same spot on his head George
Leander. too, the long Substance champion,
who won his spurs In the siX-day races at
the Madison Square Garden last winter,
also had his troubles last year, and for q
time out of business nursing some
pretty severe injuries.
De Guichard also had his portion OF the
common lot of followers Of the motor
paced game, and at Baltimore, about half
way through last year, he was thrown high
into the air. and when he came down with
dreadful impact on the hard board track
none of the thousands of spectators ex-
pected to see him carried off alive and yet
he jumped up almost before he could be
assisted. and. although his side had been
torn open by splinters. he went again on
his wheel and continued his race, despite
the efforts of the Baltimore track promot-
ors to have him quit the race and receive
medical attention.