Show I 1 A BOOM fOR GYCLf RACING Many Interesting and Novel I Wheeling Contests Are Scheduled For the Coming Season I JIMMY MICHAELS PLANS I rcopyright 139S1 This season Is I likely to wltness the best bicycle races vr seen In America for never before at so early a date have 10 many Important and Interesting an well an novel Contests been arranged The sport this year Is I on a businesslike aa well an a sporting basis and the outlook out-look was ever brighter for a great racing season ono of the first as well as moot Interesting In-teresting of the big match races will be the 20 mile contest nt the Willow Grove track near Philadelphia between be-tween J Frank Starbuck the profes elonal middle distance rider and Ed ouard Taylore the Frenchman Thrace Th-race Is I to be held on May 2S and each mn Is I to be allowed 20 pacemakers Starbucle In I a Philadelphian and gained considerable renown lat season by his variOuS attempts In only one ot which he was successful to defeat Jimmy Michael In a series of middle distance races This season he Intends to devote moot 01 his attention to lohl distances and Is I sanguine that he will be bet t er able to compete against the crack riders than he was last year What will certainly be one of the most sensational match races of the sear If the contest takes place will be that between be-tween Charles M Murphy ot Brooklyn and n E Anderson of Itoodhousc Ills It Is I proposed that these men shall race for n mile paced by locomotives the contest to bo hold somewhere on Long Island where two tracks run parallel for a distance of 1 or two miles and the stretches aro reasonably level and wha spectators my find favorable positions from which to see the men rl1e life and limb for fortunes favors Arrangements for the ride Itself ore completed and the selection of a location loca-tion Is I all that delays the final announcement an-nouncement The board track for each rider will be as wide as the rails will allow Each locomotive will be followed I by a car which will be occupied by guests On the back of thin car will be a wind shield Upon this shield a black I line will be drawn and upon this the rider will have to glue his eyes with terrible I Intentn On the track will I I I 1 L A j I i q I I I t I I I I 7 11io 0 1 I 0 r 1114 11 I ff be a second line over which he must travel I Deviation from this caused by ave the slightest wabbling Is I likely to precipitate pre-cipitate the rider to almost certain death The track will be boarded for a quarter of a mile ahead of the start and for half a mils beyond the finish Murphy and Anderson have had ex per fence Murphy once followed a quad down hill near Brookljn with a strong wind at his back making thee the-e In In 4t lie olio planned to = Collolv a locomotive but Anderson car ned out bin Idea while Murphy was In Furope In Iho spring 01 S6 Andr ran Covered the mile under these condl lions In 1m 245s Anderson used a gear ot KO In his ride vthlle Murphy s machine was geared to 15 Murphy says that It Is I not Possiblo to make a mile In a min uta behind a locomotive M ho thinks them engine cannot get under way qui it enough In a quarter or tall a mile to wind the rider up to the proper degree of speed Multicycle racing Is destined to enjoy a boom this season Arthur Gardiner Karl Kascr and Chnrlrs Miller started the ball rolling with their sweeping challenge to meet any triplet team In the world This trio broke the hour Unlisted record of the world at Belalr Fla last March by covering 28 miles 11 yards In an hour with nothing to break the wind for the big machine This performance was remarkable Inasmuch I nsmuch I as It Is the greatest distance ever covered In 60 minutes by any contrivance con-trivance propelled by human power The mn composing the tam are Individually In-dividually remarkably strong Karl Maser the champion of Switzerland lithe I vc feI1t the Sandow of the cycle trick Miller i mho won the rest Fix day race has proved that his endurance Is I wonierful and has given evidence of possessing remarkable speed Arthur Gardiner the Chicago sprinter has been In the front rank of short distance riders both Paced and unpaccd for several years Their challenge use accepted almost a s soon ns Issued by A C Mertens the Ova mile champion Earl Klser the half mile champion and Nat Butler the great handicap rider Klser nnd Mer I tenswith John S Johnson as the third man have records as members ot a triplet team Last October they broke I the record for a mil unpaopd by cov ring tho distance In 1m 47 45 at Kalamazoo Mich The wheel used by them In that trip was ft road machine and they are confident that with n racing rac-ing triplet properly equipped they could do much better Besides the above mentioned teams here arc three others In the field for honors among rIder ot the three Beat rs Swanborough and Sager of Denver Den-ver rode 26 miles 1282 yards In an hour on ft tandem a few weeks ago and the National Track association will add a mate and Match the trio against the winner of the Ont mentioned contest Then Tom Eck has a team of which ho expects wonders composed of Gougoltz and Lumberjack with Jeep Eden the great Dutch champion ns a mate Tul lord and Wheolock the English tandem champion with Charlie Wells added comPrIse still another three which will take a hand In the game A con test of the five teams Is I said to be In process of arrangement Should It come off It will undoubtedly be one of the mot Interesting races 01 tile premene season Jimmy Michael has signed contract with the American Cycle Boeing association asso-ciation to ride six races under Us management man-agement during July and August He will receive big money for these half dozen events for even though he lose he Is I to get 115000 and should he win I I 11 I I I 11 T 2 0 ffff Z r T t I g r 6 w r I 11 4 I I 11 r e i I 21 I q1J I I J 1511 i 1ik 09 rl 141 1 4 1 1 V1511 I 4 11 1 1 9 Ir y I A it 1 1 7 NI Z5 11 I J I < ill r C M A 4 1 K il 1 3 4T11 I 4 4 CS1tv I 1 i T 11 1 ir 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little Welshman Tom Union will probably he one of Michael opponents for he Is I ery anxious to loser the colors of his fellow Countryman country-man and thinks that he can do so A very novel and exciting race has been arranged for the opening of Wood side track In Philadelphia on June 4 I It Is to b at a mile flyIng start and each of the six contestants will be paced by tits own tandem tam Theme pacing learns will carry their men clear to the tap The purso offered la I COO After many weeks of talk a series of match races was arrange between All chest and Raid Mile heats best too In three will hs contested anil the pace makers will carry the men from start to finish Each man will bo allowed ten men mounted on any Fly e oC pacing machines The stake Is 1000 a elI The American Cole Racing association Provided 1 tho backing for Hold and bha for for Michael The first race will probably prob-ably be held In New York In June the second In Buffalo and the third If necessary nec-essary at a place yet to be decided upon Among the many contents thBt are I likely to bo decided on the Fourth of July Is I one of especial Interest Miller has icceptcd the challenge of ScHnnw far 1 i II hour ride and It wll probably be pulled off on that date Millers manager man-ager has stipulated that the purse be for not less I than IBOO a side and that each man provide his own pacemakers There Is I n strong probability that the Champion 01 America may thin year be a foreigner Last season and at times previous no one except a rider whose home was within the domains of the United Slates was allowed entrance to the championship It was very much of a question whether Loughead the Canadian champion should he permit ted to retain the championships he won at tho Philadelphia meet In 1897 The racing committee ruled however that as i Longhead bad raced so long In the United States ho wa practically a local rider This season the rules have been amended and any rider no matter where his home or what his nationality may compete for tho championship of the United States Much greater Interest Is I added to splint nnd middle distance racing this season owing to the presence of the champion In those classes of France I England Germany Switzerland Den mark and Italy Any one of theo may become the premier cyclist 01 America and many foreign riders will endeavor to carry the championship emblem of this country to Europe There will be but one champion this Year and he will be the leader In points when the final race shall have been run nnd the computation made Points will count only In cbamplonhlp races A win MIll cora six I Second place lour thIrd three fourth two and fifth One Only five mn may tart In the Old 01 a championship struggle and team work will thus be reduced to a minimum There will be two circuits this reason rea-son the national and International contrail hy to racing soclatlon Regular followers oC the national cir cult ifll be Bald lat Years champion cParland Steen Nat Butler Ca banne Coburn McCarthy Ilmbl moer and many others Including the tam at t6e Nation Cycle Track no oelatlon consisting ot Cooper Tom Buffer Ilnton and 38 pacemakers some ot whom are themselves Prominent handicap riders Over the International circuit will travel what Is I styled the flying Squadron squad-ron and they will ride against tho cracks ot the national circuit at every 7e I 7 rlrt 1 5i 7 I I I I q I P as I I 4 V Jr Z 11z A I 41 e fI f Al Z j I 1 I LN V t > I 1 t i 2 6 I 7 I 11 1 I I VC1 I 1 I Cv I I ft 1 I 1 I I Z il 1 N opportunIty This Oylng quadron = Includes among Ito members many Cor Ign champion notably J44p 1don champion 01 Holland Jan Oougoltz 1 French champion kaser the Swiss champion Lehr champion of Germany Ger-many Bchrader champion of Don luark China 01 Englond Mnmo and Sebastian and others from Italy the two Johnsons John S of Minneapolis and John S of Worcester and A C Mertens Jimmy Michael Taj tore tho Frenchman French-man Titus nnd Majah Taylor th colored racer will ride on an Improvised circuit These four men together with the 40 Pacemakers for Michael will Insure I In-sure large entry lists for racci to be conducted In connection with the mid die distance contests With all these crack riders nnd the three circuits the people of the United States will mutely have a Sufficiency ot splendid bicycle racing this summer and together with the match races the season of 1831 will certainly be I n record breaker LEO ETIIEIUNOTON |