New-York tribune., 1912-03-23
CLOSE RACE ON WHEELS
Van den Dries and Goodwin
Beaten After Brilliant Struggle.
SHEPPARD IN THE RUCK
Runs Unplaced at 1000 Yards
at St. Bartholomew Games
in Armory.

A hair-raislng fnlsh IN the two-miie
bicycle race. resulting in the unexpected
defeat Of the favorites. proved the chief
attraction for q good sized crowd at the
indoor games of the st. Bartholomew Ath-
etic Club. at the list Regiment armory,
last night. Walter Raleigh. of the New
York Athletic Club, won the race. less
than half a wheels length in front OF his
club mate, W. Van den Dries.
When the race began T.. Goodwin. who
has earned for himself the title of indoor
king, set the pace. Van den Dries inn
mediately tackled on TO his rear wheel with
Raleigh next, and l. Townsend. of the
Dominican Lyceum. in fourth position.
They swept round and round lap after lap
In that order until Townsend attempted to
jump the leaders. Every time he tried to
get by the pace would be increased and he
could not get further than Raleigh.
Twice Townsend dropped back only to
try again. All this time Goodwin had been
setting the pace and oldtimers shook
their heads knowing full we'll that II
would prove his undoing. Suddenly, after
they had ridden a mile and half, Van
den Dries jumped and passed Goodwin.
The Irish-American champion hung on for
a while, but II was seen then that he was
"all in"
Van den Dries tore around. closely
pressed by Goodwin and Raleigh until
Goodwin dropped back beaten. Raleigh
then went after his ciubmate. but 1t looked
as II Van den Dries had the race. as he
was leading at the bell. Raleigh came like
a rocket through the final lap. and. draw
"a. he IoS tttrp haat iG
rival to the mark The time was 4 :57, the
fastest that has been ridden indoors in two
years. Townsend. who finished third, pro-
tested Raleigh for riding wide, but the Of
ficials saw nothing out Of the way.
W. j. Keating, OF the Xavier club. won
his heat easily In the 300-yard handicap,
but in the final he failed to get up. j. w.
Richmond OF the New York Athletic Club.
started from scratch and also got shut out.
J. J. Sullivan, a Fordham runner, with IL
yards won the decisive heat.
The presence Of NJ. w. Sheppard on
scratch in the l,000-yard run lent interest
TO that contest. large field started. the
limit men receiving 60 yards. Dick Egan.
also OF the Irish club, received 10 yards.
At the outset o. Michaels. OF the St Bar
tholomew Athletic Club. and /. Weinberger,
Of Clark House. rushed away in the lead.
Sheppard got moving slowly, so that after
running two laps he was still last and
twenty yards behind Egan. At three laps
Sheppard had not improved his position.
Welnberger and J. ]. O'Neill fought 1t out
all through the bell lap, the hrst named
winning by two yards Sheppard finished
back in the ruck.
The New York Athletic Club won the
point trophy. with a total OF 1s points.
Dancing followed the games.
The summaries follow:
seventy-yard dash hsndicap; final heao-7
Won by W. Story; New York a: ,7 {; 81, Io fss0; r5 /
Charles Mundt, 81. Bartholome" A {. 70 ieep'
third. Time, OOIN.
Boys Club race 1852 yards: nnsl h.at)-won
by 7. MeGrath: F. Trayes. second; J. curry
third. Time, 0:45%.
Clark House go yards; j. A. 0NeiI. New York
A. c "a yards). second; Miles McHygh' Pss'ime
A. c. "a yards), third. Time 2O77s.
Two-mis bicycle race (scratchl-Won by w.
Raleigh. New York A. c.: W. Van den Dries.
New York A. c, second I. Townsend, Domini-
can Lyceum. third. Time. 457.
One-mile relay race Chandcap)-Won by East
ern District Y. NJ. c. a; 80 yardsl (FimPel'
Knaus. Mckinney and Frey; Dominican Ly,,
ceum l23 yards) (Goggin. Gilmore, Kennedy and
Parke). second; West Side Y. NJ. c. A. t22 yards)
blocking Weber. Bergman and McEntee), third.
Time, 1913.
6oo-yard run CcIossd)-won by A. o'Connor.
Company q (ls yarks); c. Wilcox. Company n
~ yarts) second; s. Cough, Company l (23
yards) third. Time. l:l8b.
3OO-yard handicap (hnal hea0-Won by j; j.
sullivan, Fordham lll YARDS; L. Schlelght DO
minican Lyceum (6t yerds). second; N. Finfe-
stein, Mott Haven A. c. Il yards, third. Time,
0:S2S.
ssO-yard novice dnal heat-Won by L. %.
waIch Trinity A. c.: Harry Gunther. Bronx
church House second; Matthew p. Byrnes st.
bartholomew third. Time. 2:l7S.
Two-mils run (handicap)-Won by ]. G. Her
man ir Yonkers Y NJ. c. A. go yards. Tad
White New York A C. go yards). second: w.
u schreiber. Blenmore A c. uo0 YARDS third.
Time 9:32.