The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-21
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MISS TRAYLoR WINNER
This Agile Miss Captures First
Prize at Reservoir Rink.

| Prize at Reservoir R!nk.
! Miss Lila Traylor won first prize In the
half mile race for misses and girls in the
| big skating rink at the Reservoir Friday
| night In two minutes and ten seconds.
with Miss Ruby Perry second.
There were seven girls in this race and
| all were under fifteen years old. Every
one of them skated well. and in the case
of the two winners they showed the boys.
who skated later. some points in turning
the curves. Both these little misses were
adopts in the art of turning at each end
of the course.
III the start Misses Grille Clayton, Irene
BEDFORD. Hazel Napier, Lila Traylor, Ber-
nette Bolton and Ruby Perry got away
together and kept in a bunch for the first
two laps. Then little Miss Traylor forged
to the front. with Miss Perry following
closely.
In the Last two laps the winner took 1t
easy. as she Was at all times more than
a quarter Of "a lap ahead OF her nearest
competitor. She finished a half lap ahead.
The girls race was followed by two
preliminary, mile races for boys under
fifteen. The first race was won by War
rem Page In four minutes and five Sec
onds. with Myrtle Hancock second. The
second preliminary was won by Walter
Newton iii four minutes, with Bonnie
Schrlner second.
These four boys were in the final mile
dash, which was won by Newton in four
minutes and five seconds with Hancock
taking second prize. Newton did not do
his best In this race, as he saw that he
had a walkover, and his confidence came
near costing him first place.
The crowd began arriving In the build
Ing shortly after Z O'Clock. and by 8
o'clock, when the floor was cleared for
the girls races, the only vacant spaces
in the entire building were in the section
reserved for the skaters, and this was
soon filed. The crowd was conceded to
have been the largest ever in the building.
1t was a thoroughly good-natured crowd,
too, and every one seemed to enjoy him
or herself, except a few mothers with in
fants In arms. These did not seem to
enjoy being in the push with their little
Infants. which many Others said ought
to have been left at home.
Next Friday night John P. Brent. the
fastest skater in the State, will roll In
a paced race for the worlds amateur
record. He will be paced by five or six
VI tHe OliicI 1dSlcSL SHdtcTS III the state
and will endeavor to not only break his
present record-one and one-twelfth miles
in three minutes and two seconds-but
will try to break the worlds record-two
minutes and thlrty-nine seconds-made
in a siX-lap rink. with banked ends for
the turns. This is the professional rec
ord. The amateur Is slightly higher and
he hopes to come close to the profess
sional.
In this race one pace-maker will try
to pass Brent at time AS soon as
this one drops back, he will be replaced.
by Il fresh man, and this will be kept up
until Brent shows stacking, when his time
and distance will be recorded.
The officials in the races Friday night
were DR.. Lehr, W. E. Hooker and G. S.
Bigbie, Judges E. Daulton, referee;. N.
Bernstein, W.. o. Valentine j. G. Totty,
O. G. Hope. j. F.. Brent and T.. B. Hicks.
scorers; w. O. Valentine, starter.
In he crowd last night We're eighty
residents of Petersburg, who came over
In two chartered cars to see the races.
During the intermission. between the
boys two preliminary races and the final,
Professor Aginton, skating instructor in
the rink, gave an exhibition of fast and
fancy skating. which brought forth
hearty round Of applause from the i'm
4mense audience. No such skating had
ever been seen in this State before, and
the crowd quickly showed its hearty ap-
prevail.