The sun., 1919-10-12
BY CHARLES #. MATHIsoN.

whizzing along the Sheepshead Bay
track at a speed that made the onlookers
dizzy, Ray Wishaar, the Bridgeport
Conn. motorcycle, daredevil yesterday
afternoon in the presence of 10000 en-
thusiasts won the fifty mile champion
ship race and incidentally smashed the
worlds record. He rode a Harley
Davidson motor and his time for the dis
tance was 32 minutes 81 2-5 seconds. as
against 33 :55 1-5 registered by Lee
Humiston at Los Angeles in 1913.
Wishaar. after capturing the fifty mile
event continued to buzz along, as all the
competitors in the so and 100 mile
events were buNched in one race, and
after finishing the fifty miles went along
to the completion of the 100. There is
small doubt that Wishaar also would
have won the 100 and bettered the
record for that distance, but for the fact
that he met with misfortune on the
thirty fourth lap in the way of a gas
leak and was compelled to retire from
the race at time when he was well in
the lead apd looked a winner all over.
Albert Burns in Front.
Albert Burns. also riding a Harley
Davidson, was second at the time WI
shaar- left the track, and the former
came on and won the event in handsome
style, In the excellent time of 1 hour Z
minutes and 81 seconds. This was close
to the record for the distance of 1 hour
Z minutes and 43 seconds, made by Otto
Walker at Chicago. September Is, 1915.
Burns therefore was just fourteen sec
onds behind the record. and as Wishaar
was we'll in the lead at the sixty-eighth
mile and driving as though pursued by
-.
would have gone to smash along with
the fifty mile event had the Bridgeport
boy been permitted to finish. Wishaar
took the lead in the twelfth mile, and
held ii to the time his motor struck.
His time for twenty-five miles was 1853
While there were no injuries to the
riders, many of the motors went wrong
in the long event and were compelled to
leave the race or lay up for repairs.
Teddy Carroll, riding an Indian Mo-
tor, led at the tenth miles and got a
s25 prize for that feat. Wishaar was
in the lead by half a lap on two mile
track at the fortieth mile and was
scooting along as smoothly as rocket
52-Year-OId Rider Starts.
James B. French, a fifty-two-year -old
rider, astride a Harley-Davidson
started IN tne DlH event, Dut was COlIl-
PEELED to lay up in the forty-sixth mile
| owing to difficulty with plug. The
veteran pluckily resumed later on. but
was not in at the finish. Those who
crossed the finish line in the 100 mile
race and the order of finish were Albert
Burns of Oakland, Cal; Maldwin Jones
| Harley y-Davidson). Fred Nixon I'm.
diam, Leonard Buckner Qndian), Johr
II. Llnder (Harley- -Dav!dson) Ralph
Hebron CHarley-Davidson) and Arthur
| Barnes.
disagreeable feature of an other
| wise fine day of sport was the failure ol
Arthur Chapple of Springfield Mass, I,
compete. The champion sent in his entr'
IN September %, but he was not at tht
| track when the various events wert
| called His absence was attributed to
disinclination to take chances with Eu
gene Walker. Wishaar and other hiers.
Arthur Nanderstuyft, known as the
Belgian Hare and an old time six da'
rider. made an attempt on a bicycle. mo-
| tor paced, to break the record for the
| ten mile distance. After going foui
miles his wheel went awry and he wa'
| compelled to stop.