The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-03
Bicycle RACES.
FOR |:| RICHMOND. ! | 4
\ IA Jack Prince III, Leases. J ]: IS;
the Horse Show
Building ! ! d II 9
SANXIOLJS FOR i LOCAL 3S
RIDERS u n O ENTER. t;
Rich Prizes in Money; " Will .l3Ss Be.
offered, and Worlds Best
Riders Are Expected.
Lease on Building Ex-
5s tends Two M onths. 185
Motor Contests. vi
I. l.llElI ". III

John 81. Prince, known all over tho blcy-9t
Gle world MS s.. n Jack k'.'s Prince, A for i,ine
III years champion bicycle rider, OF the world
and now promoter Of bicycle races. has
III closed d ontrnct with tho Passenger and
Il Power Company for the use OF the Horse
II 6liowgbuilding for two months. 35
gsS Mr. Prince was bus on yesterda get-
IL ting things into shape for the great series.
N OF races that Will commence on Monday
" night ts March cot i. /.
When seen at tho auditorium, Nj. y
a Prince said ::sass
3am going TO give Richmond as good
4 bicycle raccs as those given In Madison
II Bauare Gard en-. 53 3
h SSast.The building here Is not ms large as the
u Garden, but tile ira cle will be exactly thA
,@ same size twelve i ps to the mile, and
4 tho sridersswill be the same that ride In
sa the biggeat races In I he world.
hope 10 have the track ready in ten
{ days, 80 that It can be used for training
u for the races that begin on the got
will supervise the building OF the
81 track. and. indeed, ], the whole business
will be Under my ersonal gca "a
National g airman G orning
!? ..Ti,e. chairman OF tho IN ational cycle
SSAssoca alton will be- here ard will act as
N referee. &. There wi Il he four Judges three
III timers, four scorers and two clerks OF the
N course.
Every I'd cling man carries his own
trainer and rubbers With him, and asI
II shall have Dire ssing g rooms fitted up n for
N their use. sSs "a 3 AZ ss2 55;@
4 Eof the arena and Il he old band sta nd will
s2 be used as tho on cial sta nd Tor jud ges
~ and oth cerJ.
ii ,rhe whole count Try sis Invited ito com
Y pete for ei ght prizes for the best record
4 in six days' ru IN. Th IA ces beg IN every
night Sat s 10 clock and "A last two and a.
half hours making fifteenS hours 4 Ii the
week. ri rider making theamost nliles5
int tho mtecn hours wins the race. There
will he a glarante go of 81, 900. to Ge divided
into eight purses. for the first eight men,
s The winner will receive 25 per cent; Il
y second man. % per cent; third man.. Ii
4 perGcent..;S fourth man, 12 per cent: fifth
man, 10 per cent. 3; sixth man. per cent;
4 seventh man, s per & cent. and eighth
man. per cen t. iiS 35 sss5 ;SS SSS3
THE 81 Goo IS oIlly#a guarantee, for 40
per cent OF the gross ceipts so to the
riders, and 1T is probable that they will
S have above four or five thousand dollars
to divide. 3 33S 81 .5ss IS ~ n; n ssg
For Richmond Riders.
$50 am anxious to get up a race for for
Richmond riders M and another race for8
s, residents Of Virginia. The young ANA
( teurs never know what they can do until
II they try, and there may be championship
Z. material right3here In RI chmond
sss.'.The motor paced races will come off
during the second week OF the meet IN
Mr.. fPrinc0 was for nine years champion
3of the world, and was undefcated In
L England. .8 France and Germany untll he
met Zimmerman In Springfield 4 In 1S9 +
a8 Since 3thatStme he has abandoned riding
J&Fand has given MS entire attention to-
the promotion OF bicycle races. He lis
still q man of phenomenal physical de-s
velopment and has handled moro chanl-S
3plon riders than my man living. 5 a
SJ5ssI In the course Of his racing experience
t63he has crossed tho Atlantic Il twenty-threa
&ttimes { 8is2 8 a9ss3s55sss5
9s Amongst the racing men who are al
ready hero arc Gus Lawson, known I o the
racing world as tho Terrible Swede,s
SSof Buffalo; Cadwell,sof Hartford, Conn.,
4 who holds the, worlds hye-n,tle record;
z Eddie Roo t OF New York, who lately won
u q the worlds championship: Nat Butler, OF
m the holder or the ffty-mile record, who
rode the fifty miles In one hour and ten
seconds 54 4$ I; vi. ~ }.s ~ u s3s33 X Sfs5 -
* Munroe who is known as the Pride OF
\ Tennessee Is n Southern boy, twenty
one years Of nge. born ana raised in
Memphis. Munroe has ridden one ( hum.
3S dred races and won seventy-Hve OF them,
VIZ He rides \ Reading wheel. vel ching
tWenty-one pounds geared to 195.
The track ut the Horse Show building
will be dishca shane built mp at the ends
e 80 per cent Ninety thousand feet OF tim
5 her5wlll DO snsh in3its construction, strips
+ being used lai1 on edge, like the floor OF
Il n ten pin alley, 5S S Il f.E sas5, y
During the mornings the Horse Show
building Will bii open to the public, and
F MI, Prince will Se glad to talk to all who
are Interested irsbicycle racing,