Show JULUS AND GAY USES Wheelman and Nags Have a SlowRace Contest i ENDURED BY A THOUSAND There were Some Entertaining Features Feat-ures as When One of the Steeds I Displayed Spirit and Threw His Rider Tiwcc and When Another i Noble Brute was Induced to Move I Through tho Persuasive Influence of Fence Pickets Julius Given thoR tho-R Though He was in the Hear The one thousand people who went out to Calders yesterday afternoon to see Oscar Julius the Horrible Swede ride a bicycle twenty miles against ten running horses will not be around bragging about what they saw although al-though the thing was not wholly devoid de-void of incident I was far from being a swift thing however The fastest mile made by either the wheelman or the aged rabbits which went against him was 33L and the slowest time was 401i They could have made i slower but everybody feared It would get too dark before the end of the race During the progress of the thing the spectators tried to amuse sin s-in various ways such as sleeping elc and some left proceedings started two and a half hours late Julius did not have any pacemakers on hand and as there were no professionals In sight the race t was held 011 until some could be secured I se-cured Several trainers were secured to ride the pacing machines about o oclock and two or three amateurs were also pressed Into the service No sanction sanc-tion had been secured for the meet and as the amateurs who paced Julius failed to secure a permit from Representative Repre-sentative Sharp tho thing may result In the blacklisting of tho track and the throwing of the amateurs Into the professional class LIVED UP TO THEIR NAMES All of hue horses except two Jack and Lynvllle were cayuses well worthy of their names which were Never Ripi Boneyard Hopper Pel tel Skylight Some Day Plug and Charity When at last the scenery seemed to i be all set and the race ready to begin J I the spectators were Informed from the I Judges stand that Julius would ride on the quartermile bicycle track as he claimed that the horse track was too lough and would conLue to Set rougher aa he and the goats toro around It The crowd insisted on havIng hav-ing the race run on the horse track and to this Julius finally consented Four of the horses were lined lned up on the track near the wire Never Run started with Julius and for the first half mile It was neck and neck Julius gained somewhat on the last half but at the finish tho horse made a spurt and finished first In 232 25 a gait which would cover a hundred miles In less than a week IT WAS NEW TO HIM Charity made the pickup for the second sec-ond mile Charity had never seen a race track before but was familiar with gates and wanted to go out of the one at the track A few oats were offered the noble brute This frightened fright-ened him and a few caresses administered adminis-tered with pickets torn from the fence got the stately skate to moving Julius had gained about a quarter of a mile but the horse easily picked this up and finished about two lengths behind The watches ran down on this stunt I3oneyurd protested at the bout of the day and made his mile In something like four minutes The tandem teams were tired by this time although why they should be nobody seemed to know so Hodgert went In on a single and beat the time of the tandems Hopper essayed the fourth mile Asa As-a preliminary he bucked his rider off two times and with his generally gleeful glee-ful actions he proved the feature of the day At ten miles Jack was brought out and ran rings around Julius while he waited Some Day was due for tho eleventh mile but he balked and said he wanted to go home Jack accordingly accord-ingly went on for three laps more at the end of which time Plug who is all that the name Implies circulated In and took a half mile Julius In trying to make up lost time lost his pacemakers pace-makers and the race became something worse than a loaf The race was fin ished In 69 45 seconds JULIUS ALSO HAS A KICK Julius entered a protest after the race claiming that the horses were to relay every mile and that one horse had run only half a mile Judge C E May with the aid of half a dozen bicycle enthusiasts concluded that Julius ought to have the money for losing In such slow time and the horsemen horse-men kicked themselves for not winning the race by ten miles instead of a mile and a half Julius called at The Tribune office last night and wanted to make a statement state-ment He said the horsemen had violated vio-lated their contract They had agreed he said that all the horses would start from the tape but Instead of this he claimed they started from the gate about a hundred yards down the track and the judges gave Julius credit for the distance the horses thus gained this giving him the race by about three hundred yards Julius also said it bad been agreed that the pole of the track should bo rolled for his wheel but this was not done which he thought helped to explain the slow time made However |