Show I Il IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS MANY RECORDS ARE HELD BY HIM TOM ECK Pioneer of Bicycle Racing J I Game Reviews V Interesting t Career 1 V IN SALT LAKE FOR WEEK J I Veteran lort Now Manager for Lillian Chick Trick irick and Expert Hitler In III u lc Tom Tom Eek who has been in the lie cycle V r l' racing gamo gaino for rol the thc last twenty seven years ear Is Ja now In Salt Sail Lake ant anti and is Js managing managing man man- V aging Miss Lillian Chick the daring little cyclist who will ride her bicycle cle V through the toe loop the loop loon at the OrI Orpheum Or- Or I i theatre all aU this week Miss a V Chick also gives an exhibition of oC fast tast V riling riding on all a home trainer which Is Js composed se of three rollers run on ball V bearings bearing She Is one of oC the lie fastest hidy riders In America V Tom Eck has been a noted athlete In his time and has had several c worlds world's records to his credit notably I Ithe 1 the standing broad Jump 13 feet reet 1 Inches made at Woodside park ToV Toronto Toronto To To- V Canada At t. the Athenaeum Chicago in April 1883 Eck made the worlds world's record stal standing Jump backwards backwards backwards back back- V wards from heel to toe loe In tho the clear V 11 1 feet 2 Inches using ten-pound ten I V dumbbells This record stood from V 1883 1383 to 1892 He also made the V I 1 worl worlds world's s quarter-mile quarter tricycle 4 at Lynn Mass riding quarter of a amile mile in 41 seconds from a slander nJ start t V Murk Mark X Never Neter cr That record has never been beaten beahm i and mid Eck says no ble bicycle cle rider of th the fO V present day can duplicate It Jl with the same Ilme gear 66 inches Tom was ra II the he first bicycle rider In the world to ride V L too miles on the old hl wheel high h InV inI in- in I V V side felde of or six hours This was done In Sri Inthe It- It the old Exhibition building at Omu Neb eb the thc time lime being 5 hours 55 riG minutes mui min mu j i V utes 1 12 seconds At Toronto Canada he walked one mile on a grass T raci C e i In 7 i minutes 2 seconds which was tie best est record In AmeriCa America at that Unit lIna iV V on a a. grass track At Woodbine Woodhine I rock Toronto he cleared 37 feet reet 9 1 2 1 Inches r V In iii throe standing jumps using four four- tour tour-I V teen-pound teen dumbbells This was th the I be best t Canadian record for Cor years CarE Eck has ridden In a about out fifteen si sly sir V day races raCe varying from four Cour hours a fr r.- r. V night to six days dos twelve hours per day I V Ho lIe managed manage the first day and race ever e f given fen en in the world f This ra rape c took place laco at Minneapolis V antI and wa was won von b by Albert who V covered clo cIoe e to 1500 miles which V was as the worlds world's record V HiderS d Half Bait Eck also managed the thc two six- six day ilay races at Madison Square Garden New Ne' wI rind and EV The riders 50 per cr C cent H t the net gate t receipts t c thIch far exceeded ed the money given V to the riders at the recent six day a 1 V race Almost every champion bicycle cle t rider In America In the twenty- twenty live years cars has ha been developed by Tom T it V Eck such such champions as John S. S Prince Fred Rollinson Harry Hg- Hg ham hajn W. W J J. J Morgan Iorg W. W V. V M. M o Frank Dingley Albert Wilbur V V F Po Knapp Birdie Munger Horace G G. V I. I Crocker Stillman G. G Whittaker the great John S S. Johnson the first man manIn i V V In il the thc world to ride one mile inside I I of ur two minutes made over the kite kite- shaped hape track at Independence Iowa V Jn paced e ed b by two running running- horses hitched V to a n. sulk sulky Of OC the later da day riders Tick Eck ck brought out Earl Ead Kiser August Mertens Charles McCarthy McCarth Angus V V McLeod Archie McEachern Harry J- J Kikes Elkes Ikes Jimmy Michael who won VOn more i championships moro more money and made I V V more worlds world's records than any bIcycle I V rider rhIer in the world worl I 0 y I Bobbie Dobbie Bennie Beanie Munroe I Hay McDonald McDonal and Al AI Every I ono OUO of these men have either been champions of oC America cham champions of oC I V tho the world worl or held an un American or a n I wo worlds world's s 's record Eck Ek also drafted the first rules to govern cycle ccle racing I V which later Inter on were adopted by all i ii the Most i countries to lo govern sport of or the adopted In III the past V V b him twenty years wore suggested by V. V 1 Eck ck Is also the orl originator of the pneumatic I matic tire lire sulk sulky which was the great- great et t. e-t. t l Improvement in speed an and which V V produced produce the two minute trotter f. f J He lie originated the bearing ball roller f r. r skates and gave the Idea to Mr Rich Rich- V of Chicago who manufactures tJ them em Ho lie got gol up th the lie motor motol cycle cy- cy cle whirl and anti pro produced th the loop the f. f loop which Miss MIs Chick is riding tIlling lie He J A also Invented the Globe of or Death V which was wa seen here at nt the tho Orpheum two seasons a ago o lie Ho has also managed man mun- aged and trained the fastest Ice Ico an and roller rolier skaters in tho world an and such as ai John S. S Johnson who hol holds s st t V most of the thc wen Ids s 's skating records c V Johnny Ne III worlds world's r record cor holder holdI hold hold- V I er OJ Harley Davidson Olluf Rudd all and amid V V Norval Nonal the present worlds world's l champion V Sonic Some r-A- r f V Johnson skated skate a quarter mile nillo from flom froma V a standing start In III 28 23 seconds at ut Tied Reel nan Bank N. N J J. J This Thi Is faster Caster than any I f m man n In the world ever VC d skale a n iuar- iuar r tel ter utile from a standing start un- un V paced Norval Baptie skated one mile V a ny in minutes s sr ut at Lake e Minnetonka linn Minn Eck Eel took th lh first team of oC Amon- Amon V II can KiM bicycle cle ders to lo Eur Europe p an and brought the lAhe first team of European H riders r t to America nn and has hns crossed the thc theA ocean A ani five fi times and back with American racing men Moro More mone money i has passed through h Ecks Eck's han hands s ma made out nl or of 1 the he bIcycle ic cle racing game gamo than any other three or four tour men in tho the world and he says sars would not cover cr It He lie has always carried arrIe big teams ms through the i country racing and being a good fellow tellow lies has kept him a poor POOl man mall |