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Show WHEELMEN'S MEET. The Races at the West Side Track Today. THE ATTENDANCE IS LARGE. Programme for This Afternoon and Tomorrow A. "Wonderful Performance Per-formance by Shortland Jack Leonard, a Salt Lake Fighter, Knocked Oat in St. Louis General Gen-eral Sporting Xotes. The bicycle races commenced at the "West Side track at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The attendance is very large, and the greatest interest is manifested in the contests. The progamme for thi6 afternoon is as follows: 1. One mile Utah championship. ..' Opea 3. Half-mile, bovs, lOto 14 years First Heat 3. One mile (club), 8 :30 class First Ileat 4. Quarter-mile dash Open 5. Half-mile, boys. 10 to 1 years. ..Second Heat 6. Half-mile Social Wheel Club. .Championship 7. Half-mile, boys, 10 to 14 years. Final Heat 8. One mile lub, 3:30 class Second Heat 9. Two-mile Handicap Open 10. Five-mile (club), 3 :30 class Final Heat The meeting ends tomorrow afternoon, when the following races will be run: 1. One mile (club), 8:30 class First Heat 2. Half-mile Boys, 15 to 18 years First Heat 3. One mile Open 4. One mile (clnY), 3:30 class Second Heat 5. Half-mile Boys, 15 to IS years.. .Second Heat 6. One mile, Social Wheel Club.. Championship 7. One mile (club), 3:30 claes Final Heat 8. Half-mile Boys, 15 to IS years Final Heat 9. Five-mile Handicap Open 10. One mile Consolation..-. : Note The winner of the Utah championship will establish the mile record for Utah "just before be-fore the second day's race, paced by four selected wheelmen. wheel Notes. we went into the music halls and theatres and became prima favorites. One day in Queensland 1 learned there was a woman who thought she could beat me and I challenged chal-lenged her. We fought with bare lists in a meadow for a wager, and I beat her in eight rounds. 8he was a good one, and I had to ttock her clean out. After that I received re-ceived many challenges and fought all comers, many with gloves and others with bare knuckles. I haven't got my record complete, but I have beaten every woman in the colonies whom I could get to stand before me. Some of them were hard customers, cus-tomers, and several times I was almost knocked out myself. I have several trophies that 1 won in fights. Several men of my weight thought they could whip me, but I beat them easily. I don't like to fight men, but of course must do it if I can't find a match with a woman. My challenge to every woman in the colonies stood in the Sportsman several weeks, but nobody wanted to fight me, so I came over here. I hear that you have a number of 'lady' fighters in the East, and I hope to get a match on soon. Some of them are above my weight, but I think I can whip them. If I can't get a match in San Francisco I will exhibit at the theaters with my husband awhile and then go East to have a go with some of the 'ladies' there who think they can tight" "Of course, I would like to fight "before a club for a purse, and am hoping that one of the San Francisco clubs will give a good price for a fight. I don't like fighting, but then I must earn a living in some way, and I can do better at that than anything else." Nelson seems quite satisfied with his wife's choice of a profession. Passengers on the steamer vouched for the fact that Mrs. Nelson may justly claim the championship title. She boxed several times with her husband while crossing the ocean, and invariably in-variably had the best of it. "Ladies" desiring de-siring to arrange a match with Mrs. Nelson may address her at the American Exchange hotel. Among her trophies is a gold and silver belt, set with precious stones, which Jem Mace presented her for winning the championship cham-pionship title. San Francisco Chronicle. The Wheel made its appearance last week in a new dress of type and handsomely illustrated. illus-trated. It is far ahead of any other cycling Journal published. An English clergyman was recently fined for riding a bicycle on a foot-path. The English papers are now claiming that their climate is against record breaking. Another wonderful performance has been made by Shortland, the great long-distance rider, in England. He has just won the famous North Road twenty-four hour race aud beaten Holbein's time made a few weeks ago by eight miles. Holbein rode 359 miles, while Shortland has ridden 367 miles. The difference between road work and track work on the other side of the water does not seem to be very considerable. Holbein was not a starter In the North Road race, but nevertheless such enduring men as James, Cocker, Bennett, Walsh, Bidlake, Moorehouse, and others were left to make matters lively and interesting for Shortland. Pace-makers were allowed all the way through. There were twenty-eight starters. Shortland, as usual, rode his geared ordinary. ordin-ary. In twelve hours he rode 1933 miles. Bennett, on a safety, finished second, sec-ond, having ridden 352 miles. James was a disappointment, as he could only go 339 miles in the day. None of the others were in it. J ames rode his last seven miles In 21 minutes. The committee in charge of the big ddi-eation ddi-eation day bicycle tournament, to be held October 21 and 22 at Washington park, Chicago, Chi-cago, reports that the park management is putting the track in record-breaking shape. Twenty thousand invitations will be mailed to prominent men all over the country, horsemen in particular, to see Nancy Hanks' record of 2:073', made on that track, broken. Zimmerman will go against his own record, with flying start, 2:06 4-5, with wheelmen as Pacemakers, and also against Johnson's :56 3-5, with running horses as pacemakers. Johnson will be there and, if his time Is beaten, will make efforts to recover the record. Sporting Splinters. Hattie Leslie, who called herself the "champion female pugilist of the world," died at Milwaukee Saturday morning of typhoid pneumonia. She was billed at the People's theater in Milwaukee last week, but had not appeared sirce Wednesday. Her husband, the light-weight John Leslie, who who had been with her for three nights, was exhausted Saturday and fell asleep lying on the side of the bed, and when he awoke she was dead. Hattie Leslie defeated Alice Leary in a fight to a finish with skin-tieht glovas on Navy island, September 16, 1S83, for $500. La Blanche, the Marine, was jailed for seconding her in that battle. . Dan Eagan, the "Montana kid," and Mike English, the Scotch giant, fought near Newark, New-ark, N. J., Friday night for $500 a side. Eagan was seconded by Paddy McGuiggan, and English by Tommy Button. George Burrell of the Pastime Athletic club waa referee. It was the quickest fight on rec- ; ord. English, who weighs nearly twenty Eounds more than Eagan, was knocked out y a lucky right-hand swing in forty-eight seconds and was not on his feet again for more than two minutes. The blow caught him on the jugular vein. The fight took place indoors and was witnessed by about 200 persons. After English recovered Eagan offered to give himJanotherJ"go" on the spot, but the giant refused. Then Eagan offered to fight any 145-pound man in the country. Several days ago C. S. Beerbower of Jacksonville, Jack-sonville, Fla., presented to a friend in Waldo a very fine pug dog and 6ent it up by express. ex-press. He was very much surprised a few mornings after at finding the dog lying on the front porch, a little jaded but still in the ring. Upon investigation it was found that the doar had run away and had gone the distance dis-tance of fifty miles afoot. $ Senator Fair's son Charles, -who has invested in-vested heavily in running horses with a view to a turf campaign next year, appears to have secured a prize in the two-year-old Dare, by Darbein-Carrie C. The San Francisco Fran-cisco Breeder and Snortsman savs of the colt: "In Dare, who has won two six-furlong races within a week inside of 1:15, Charles Fair has the best two-year-old seeu on our tracks since Racine's youth, and it is a question ques-tion whether the brown son of Darebin and Carrie C. is not as fast, and even a better packer of weight. In his last race Dare took up 122 pounds and ran three-quarters of a mile in 1:14, winning with a speed link to spare. Racine's best six furlongs as a two-year-old was at San Jose on October 5, 1889, when he took up 119 pounds and went the distance in 1:145. He ran in tho same time at Stockton with 115 pounds up, and In 1:15 at Sacramento with 123 pounds in the saddle. Therefore Dare loses nothing by a comparison." "Dutch" Neal knocked out Jack Leonard of Salt Lake in a sporting resort at St. Louis Saturday. The fight lasted five rounds, The police authorities are now on the lookout look-out for tha fighters. The Portland, Ore., grand jury has indicted indict-ed Billy Maber. Billy Smith, Billy Hennessy, Gus Herget and Jack Dempsey for participating partici-pating in a prize fight at the Pastime Athletic Ath-letic club Tuesday night last. Maber and Smith were the principals, Herget and Hennessey Hen-nessey seconds and Dempsey referee. The men were arrested and their bond was fixed at $500each. Dempsey furnished bond, but the others went to jail. The Madison Square Garden, New York, has been engaged until November, and the benefit to George Dixon will probably be abandoned. Arthur T. Lumley, the well-known sporting sport-ing writer, has entered suit against the Coney Island Athletic club for salary claimed to be due him as press agent. Fifty-six descendants of Almonthave entered en-tered the standard list in 1892. Of these, Flying Jib, 2:07, is the fastest, and Mattie H., 2:13, is the next in point of speed. According to the New York Times the police of the "Oranges," N. J.. are to be equipped with safety bicycles of the latest designs. In addition, one or more tandems are to be kept at each station house in case a call for more than one officer is received. The men have the option of wearing kickerbockers or trousers, as they please. Simple and plain figures do not give any one any idea of the speed at which a bicycle must go In order to attain record result. A quarter of a mile in twenty-seven seconds means only an inch or two less than forty-nine forty-nine feet per second. To do this the pedals must revolve three times per second. This will give the reader somewhat of an idea as to what record-breaking means. Mecredy, the famous Irish racer and writer on cycling. 6ays: "There is not the least necessity to stoop while riding a bicycle, bicy-cle, except in sprinting or climbing steep hills." He also condemns the growing fashion fash-ion of grasping the handle-bars near the middle. She Wears the Belt. If there be such a thing as a woman in this part of the world who desires to shine in the pugilistic world she may now have a chance to gratify her ambition, for a female who calls herself "Mrs. Lydia Nelson, champion cham-pion female pugilist of the world," is he: e. She came yesterday on the steamer Alameda, Ala-meda, accompanied by her husband, Charles Nelson, who Is also a bruiser. Mrs. Nelson says she has whipped every woman who dared to face her in Australia, and now she wants a chance to batter a few of the un-sexed un-sexed of her sex in America If she can find them. As champion of the world she is prepared pre-pared to meet all comers and incidentally she is willing to try conclusions with men of her weight if there be any men In America Amer-ica covetous of the glory of breaking a woman's jaw or having: their own broken in such an inglorious encounter. "I fight at seven stone six pounds (104 pounds)," said Mrs. Nelson, "and I've licked women of ten stone (140 pounds). My husband hus-band fights at twelve stone (168 pounds), and I've knocked him out several times." This champion female bruiser is built like an athlete. She has a well-rounded, well-developed well-developed bust, shapely and muscular arms and broad shoulders. The arms are disfigured disfig-ured with tattooed designs in India ink, and are bronzed by exposure while training for her fights. She has black, curly, short-cut hair, dark eyes, a ruddy complexion, high cheek bones and a firm, determined-looking mouth, the beauty of which is somswhat marred by protruding upper teeth. "I have been fighting since I was 18 years old, and am now 24," said Mrs. Nelson. "My husband being a boxer, he taught me what he knew, and when I had learned enough to give a fair exhibition he took me on the road with him. Charlie is an auctioneer auc-tioneer and 'cheap jack,' you know, and he followed tho agricultural fairs. Of course the people must be amused, so we gave them boxing exhibitions with gloves. I soon became so clever that I could almost knock my husband out, and now he cannot stand before me ten rounds. From the fairs |