Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-30
-FOUR WORLDS
RECORDS MADE
AT ASCOT PARK
HUYCK SETS THREE RECORDS
IN FIVE-MILE RACE
BLAYLocK BREAKS TEN-MILE
RECORD; WINS CUP
Airship Pays Visit to Park, Knaben-
shue Making Easy Descent and
Graceful ascension Just Be-
fore the Last Event


Ascot park oval yesterday afternoon in
90 seconds for one mile, one second
faster than the worlds record of "a
seconds that he already held.
With a standing start he made the
first mile of ten in 1:01, which was an
other worlds record, and when the
time was figured up for five miles he
had another to his credit in the time
of 4:3S
Huyck certainly made good, as did
several of the local boys. George Blay-
lock hung q new scalp to his belt by
riding ten miles in 9:40, which is an
other worlds record. -Four records in
all was the result of the meet, and Gil
of them are high class.
Unfortunately several of the boys had
to scratch their entries because they
tuned their machine too high and they
snapped without sufficient time being
left to repair them.
Promptly at / O'Clock to the dot,
Manager Ben Fay had the first bunch
of riders lined up for the start of the
first race. Three scratches out of the
six entries left Seymour Graves and
Loge for starters. Seymour led the trio
all of the way for the five miles, which
was for single cylinder stock machines
fully equipped. They finished in the
order previously named in $3.50 1-5.
In the second race only three lined up
again with the difference that Huyck
took the place of Loge and rode against
Graves and Seymour. They were sent
away on doubles, fully equipped stock
machines, and Graves rode Motorcycle
Officer Humphreys wheel with its big
horn and speedometer. Seymour got
away in the lead and was first into the
back stretch. Huyck followed him
close, but could not pass him until they
came down the stretch in front of the
stands. Seymour picked him up again
and passed him on the back stretch in
the second mile. Huyck led again on
the home stretch, followed closely by
Seymour. For the next two and a half
miles Seymour stuck so close to
Huyck's rear wheel that he could have
reached over and touched it at times.
In that position they raced until they
entered the stretch for the last time,
when Seymour opened up his throttle
and slid past Huyck with a safe lead
under the wire. Graves was not in the
race with the wheel that he rode, as it
was too slow to have a chance. Sey-
mours time was $50 Is, just one
minute faster than the singles made.
Five lined up for the single cylinder
free-for-all which was won by Freddie
Huyck.
Huyck Makes Three New Records
The race was Freddies all of the
way. Chelini of San Francisco ran him
a, close second. The second mile was
reported made in 1:01, with the total
time for the five miles as 5:21 2-5. Sey-
mour had hard luck in this event, hav-
ing to stop on account of his sppocket
slipping.
1t was in the fourth event that
Huyck won his western spurs, and in
the five miles in a free-for-al doubles
he clipped a second off his former
mile record, made a new record for a
mile standing start and set the mark
for the five miles down to ASS. He
made the first mile in 1:01, the fastest
in :53, and the five miles in 4:3S Blay-
lock took second, and Earhart third.
The fifth was free-for-all single cyl
inders, and was won by Knappe in
6:2S which was only a trifie faster
than the time made by the fully
equipped machines.
Graves and Seymour finished next in
order One mile was made in 1:14 3-5.
On account of the absence of Ben
Bresee, who could not return from
Fresno, as was expected, the next two
events on the program were cancelled.
In these Derkum and BreSee were to
have ridden in competition for the
professional records for five and 100
miles.
California in the single. and double
classes were the best races of the day.
In the single class for ten miles Scheli-
nj of San Francisco on a Thor won
from Bake on a Merhel, who finished
second, and from Graves, third, and
Seymour. fourth.
The race was between Chelini and
Bake for the whole distance, Chelini
leading easily for the first six miles,
with Bake hanging on close. Graves
see-sawed back and forth, gaining and
then losing ground. Seymour could
not get his machine working properly,
and was finally Tapped in the eighth
mile. In the seventh mile Bake crept
up on the San Francisco lad and passed
him on the turn. He kept his lead
for the next three miles and half.
only to lose it by a close margin on
the stretch, when Chelini opened up
and passed him easily at the finish.
BIayIocI< Wins Championship
Blaylock rode fast race in the
championship for doubles and won by
half mile from Shafer, who was Sec
ond. Shafer was riding horsepower
Thor, while the machine that Blaylock
rode was horsepower Indian racer
Bueneman, with Minerva racer, was
the only other contender but was
Tapped by Blaylock and beaten mile
and a half. Blaylock set new record
in the championship race, making the
ten miles in $40.
The hour race proved serious dis
appointment, as Freddie Huyck had
to drop out after tapping everybody on
over. Tho vibration of the machine
is said to have broken the gasoline
connection on the tank, and repair
could not be made in time to stand any
chance for the record.
IIuyck was riding one of the pref
test races that has ever been seen
In Los Angeles and would have won
handily with no accident. Blaylock.
on the big horsepower machine, a
duplicate of Huyck's, made a good
race and took first place, riding 57A
miles in the hour
He beat Seymour. on a Thor, by $50
yards, because Seymour's gasoline was
exhausted and he could not run the
last few seconds and maintain the lead
that he had at that time.
Earhart, on a Thor ran third with
"a 1-3 miles. The distance made Is
very little i'm excess of the mileage
made by Shafer at the last race meet,
when he took a Thor that he had
never ridden before and won all of the
worlds records over twenty miles Ut
to fifty-six in competition.
Just after the hour race was COM
pleted, Roy Knabenshue paid a visit
to the park in his airship, and made a
very successful and easy landing in
the field. He was Immediately sur
rounded by a great crowd of boys and
men, who helped him in holding the
ship.
They moved it over to another part