Los Angeles herald., 1909-04-19
DE ROSTER WINS
CENTURY RECORD
GOES 100 MILES IN LESS THAN
100 MINUTES
LlNeENFELpER RIDES HEROIC
SECOND
Derkum, Still Pursued by Hoodoo,
Forced to Quit In Middle of Race.
Mitchell and Sanueison
Strong


10. 60i05 1-5 74;42 SO Stubbs
rs. .73:46 $1,000 1-5 Stubbs
so. -. 1884 1-5 S5:l0 30 Stubbs
Ak S3:25 3-B 0O:37 Stubs
90. 1875 1-5 96:O3 Stubs
05. 80. .93:12 2-5 102:O3 LOO Stubbs
100. e. $50 3-5 1O7:i4 Stubs
one hour record-De Roster 61 1-3 miles,
Mitchell so miles, Lngenfelder 90 miles,
Derlxum AZ miles laps
Position of riders at end Of race,-Lingen-
fielder 9S miles 2h laps, Samuelson 81 miles
lap Mitchell rs miles, Derkum % miles,
Wilson 81 miles (called from track because
of foul riding by keeping above foul hne).
Again Jake De Roster broke
worlds record yesterday at the Coli
scum motorcycle track.
Indeed, starting with the THIRTEEN
mile of the spectacular 100-mile race
for professional riders on seven-horse-
power machines or under, De Roster
annexed every intermediate mile from
that point up to and including the 1OO
miles. At the end of the thirty miles
he was nearly two minutes ahead OF
the best previous record ever made
on any kind of a track. saucer or
straightaway, and each succeeding
mile showed Q steady reduction OF the
time for corresponding distance, the
100 miles being ridden in minutes
Al 2-5 seconds faster time than the
wonderful race ridden by Stu5bs, the
great Birmingham (England rider,
last September on the Ormond beach
course.
Thus De Roster is not only the adj
mitted worlds champion on the saucer
track, but also is the peer of any rider
on any straightaway course in the
world.
Lingenfelder Divides Honors
While. Jake De Roster was the par
ticular hero of the race, and eminently
entitled to the laurel wreath, because
of his prowess, the truly remarkable
demonstration of tenacious Eddie Ling
enfelder in focusing public attention on
the wonderful powers of his four-horse-
power machine, in competition Win
seven-horsepower machines, was not
whit less spectacular than the work
of De Roster, and, in some respects,
was even more remarkable. Given a
machine of equal horsepower with
De Roster, one of two different stories
of far more sensational elements Woulo
have been told at the conclusion OF the
race: either De Roster would have been
forced to knock another five or ten
minutes off the worlds record or Ling
enfeIder would this morning be the UNI
disputed worlds champion at 100
mile distance.
Not once, but many times, he chal-
lenred the big seVen-horse power ma
chimes. including De Roster. and Tor
short distances outsprinted them, AFTER
Passing them in hair-raising duels, TO
the delight and boisterous approval of
the 1000 or COCO spectators, who cheered
him again and again during the course
of the race.
Derkum's Hoodoo Merciless
Derkum, game to the core, steady as
a clock, wonderful in the regularity oil
- rl,f 1,Cr al w q
feat and finally admitted the hoodoo by
declining again to go on the track,
after being compelled to stop fully a
half dozen times on account or lack OF
supplies or machine or tire trouble Ills
last stop was due to the cracking OF the
tubing in the head of, his machine,
which showed an aperture fully an inch
wide. lust above the fork crown. De
Roster circled the track many times,
watching the crack grow larger before
he finally stopped to protect his own
life and that of his brother riders.
His first piece of i'll luck was when,
in the very first mile of the race, his
saddle broke and he rode for hfteen
miles thereafter without any saddle,
leading all the way for this distance
and fighting every inch of the distance
in a pretty duel with Mitchell on his
N. S. U.
Mitchell and SamueIson Strong
Mitchell rode a game race during the
first quarter of the distance and also
at different stages when his machine
acted properly, but was compelled TO
stop many times for repairs and for
supplies.
Samuelson branded himself as
Conner" riding an unusually consistent
race, showing strong at the nnlsh anu
capable, apparently, of going another
hundred miles without firing. HIS rid
ing is vastly improved over three or
four weeks ago.
Wilson on a Merkle, was finally
called off in the twenty-seventh mile
for riding high. On one occasion he
compelled Mitchell to ride to the very
top of the track, and that rider only
saved himself from a perhaps fatal fall
by leaning far out from the grand
stand and throwing his tire against the
base of the stand, where it joins the
top of the track. Thus Mitchell rode
in this V-shaped grove for fifty feet
until he cleared the stand and went into
the higher bank on the curve.
Race of Many DueIs
1t was q race of individual duels
from beginning to end and presented
perhaps the most thrilling afternoons
snort ever seen by like number of
people anywhere ON the American con-
tinent or any other continent.
No accident soccurred and Samuel
sons punctured tire was the most seri-
GUS delay of the day.
Graves Makes Great Race
Among the other races-all amateur
events-the fight between Graves, on
s N. S. u, and Huyck, on an Indian,
was the most thrilling, this duel COM
ing in the third race, a six-mile open
event. Graves took the lead at the
very start, with Huyck glued to his
hind wheel, and in this position they
rode the entire distance up to the last
lap or two, when Huyck dropped a
trihe behind, Blalock, the third rider.
being passed twice during the mad
flight. Huyck tried scores Of times to
pass Graves, the crowd going into
frenzy after frenzy of excitement, but
every time he failed. The finish was
made in worlds record time for anna
teurs, 4:47, and Graves was given an
ovation.
The other two events were interest
ing, but not possessed of the heart
breaking thrills of the other events of
the day.
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