Show BIKE E PURSES STRONG SAYS SA YS OLD TOM TOfU ECK ECH Cli Veteran Cycle Manager Tells of Money and Races in Days of Old Yes there IK Is a a. big change in ha time the Cv cycle racing game Kame In lj tho the mAt last ten Year t r. r hi T Torn ram m Nek k at the thc Orpheum a FrIday o and It we U was made at Il Its heIght ten ear so 80 much money moncy I diLl did not bother r b about Ut counting coulS It It- Talk big I 1 was v managing a Mr Circuit of oC race rac In 19 between John John- son on Stinger Sanger and Tyler and we we I Over ovel pvc pvc- time the Grand circuit of oC the trotting g gOW meetings meeting's and received t tI purses Parses of oC from flom fromn 1000 OW to ta fl 1500 nt at n each ench f for Cur r a mile mot heat i race rC b best 81 Jwo two out t of oC three The Time Were J ac d with b Vr-n Vr a d. ridden n bv by OConnor Coleman Por vi f and t Ui Thc They pulled time the three boys bas for Cor or of oC a mile at about a aann two minute clip when Sn el Johnson and antI Tyler 1101 ought fought it H out to tho tape tupe and md thc they finished one race in itt 12 Grand Har Pitt lut Vt UP up upa a a. pur purse punIc of oC for Cor ono 01 race 2 ceo ai and Philadelphia n each ach Wo Yo r raced for or for Car or twelve Ia maces t e. e I Rig Mone HoU Then in 1897 1191 I managed a series serle of or orI between Kiser Bald and Cooper r. were Verc all aU for 1100 purses except I nut at t Grand which was ivas for Cor or Vw M. IOL I Kiser her won most of oC those tv nt ton ten in lit nil all Bald won at al' Grand GIanti Rapids und Cooper Cooler at it Detroit In lii this raco cooper Coopet did not win Will a L single heat V t ran rall that race nice on points l r KIsir won in both bath lit st t nut second heats hut but he lie ami laid were 1 in ill too tho second 1 I f Cooper the heat though h he lie last lInt Hut ti in III COUll counting tinS tinS' up UJ points Cooper had hat th time the most point and amid the Judges gave a him th tho Thc Ilic old bike fans Cans lu In Detroit have Ju not understood under under- stood to this day ay how v he lie won iron I In 1 13 lj Ud Ld I 1 l o of Madison Square I Garden Gardn New cw came camo to Columbus md anti offered me mc a lO lQ purse for COL u IL race raco between Johnson on and Zimmerman Bul un would not nut raco race that It Il wilh hl his Australian Aus engagement This was waH the time largest purse over O In fn time the world for Car a sprint trace race |