[Newspaper]
Publication: The Grant County News
Marion, IN, United States
vol. 11, no. 12, p. 8, col. 3-4
RACE WINNER
IS A SURPRISE
Wilmore Learned the Wheel
Three Months Ago and
Wins a Race
EIGHT MILES IN 22:01
The Best Time by Miller of Muncie
With Toles Close Second —
Fair Race, Says Referee.
Place.
Place Handicap
Frank Wilmore......................................................6:00
R. C. Edwards.......................................................4:00
Owen Starrett........................................................3:00
Tom Flynn.............................................................5:00
Ross Manley..........................................................3:00
Jesse Holman........................................................6:00
Allen Craft............................................................3:00
John R. Jones........................................................2:00
Chas Toles.............................................................. :45
Ralph Miller........................................................... :30
H. D. Thompson....................................................2:15
Chris Byler............................................................1:00
Robert Hemingray.................................................2:45
William Derricks...................................................2:30
Walter Stover.........................................................2:00
Sal Wile.................................................................1:30
Charles Love.........................................................2:15
V. W. Marshall......................................................2:30
Time.
Ralph Miller, first................................................22:01
Chas Toles, second..............................................22:15
Chris Byler..........................................................22:16
Owen Starrett......................................................22:41
John R. Jones......................................................22:50
R. C. Edwards.....................................................23:39
Walter Stover.......................................................23:42
Allen Croft..........................................................23:49
William Derrick..................................................24:03
Sal Wile..............................................................24:28
H. D. Thompson.................................................24:33
Tom Flynn..........................................................24:43
Ross Manley.......................................................24:56
Robert Hemingray..............................................25:02
Frank Wilmore...................................................25:04
V. W. Marshall...................................................25:22
Charles Love......................................................25:29
Jesse Holman......................................................26:41
A great crowd of people had assembled at the corner of the brick streets, Boots and Third. Some were dressed in bicycle clothes. They stood without murmuring against the glaring heat of the July sun. Some had cameras which they shot here and there. The crowd massed itself in two walls along either side of Third street. On the steps of a verandah was a crowd of gaily dressed ladies. Pressed in by the people was a number of the officials. ack of them tightening the last loose parts on their machines, giving the last glance to see that all was ready were mingled in apparent disorder a score of wheelmen.
It was 10:36 o'clock and the first men out were at the tape. The starter said "go" in a low and apparently indifferent tone of voice. The wheeled away and in a minute one could see them climbing Third street. They looked like flies crawling up a wall.
Now the men were marshalled into position in quick time and dispatched over the course as the time of their handicaps came due. In a few minutes the 45 second man was off, then upon his heels the 30 second man and then the crowd gave a cheer for Nessel, and the scratch man had taken wings and flown away, and looked smaller and smaller in the distance.
Boots street was a narrow alley of people. They crowded, and pressed, and craned and stretched, worrying the policemen, Tony George and Orange Holman, ss. It seemed to the crowd a brief time for the first rider to have gone around a wide stretch of country when yells of "Get Back. Get Back" were traveled along the line in advance of the rider. The crowd fell back to let a little dust stained figure in black pedal through. It was Wilmore. He had started first and came in first. After a little came No. 5, then presently 8 and 3 racing, 7 covered with dirt, 2 coasting down the stretch, then 26, 16, 23, 24, 13, 21, 9, 11, 18, 19, 12 and the last was 10. "He's a funny rider," as he guided his wheel through with hands on the edge of his saddle.
The great race was over.
"Where is Nessel," the crowd kept asking as the numbers appeared without him.
The course, a trifle over eight miles, was covered in 22:01. It was west on Third street and the Delphi pike to the three mile post, south to the Roseburg pike, coming in on this pike and on Fourteenth street, and finishing on the smooth, straight away course of Boots street.
Nessel fell before he got to the first station. He hurt his hip slightly. He had been ill in bed the day before. It was said he would not be able to ride. Harry Masquelette was sick and did not ride. Nessel’s splendid start was one of the pretty things of the day. Toles was a favorite, and was loudly cheered as he sped down Third street at the tracks. Wilmore was a surprise, as he is a spring chicken in bicycle riding. Miller and Toles rode well and gave a pretty race at the finish
As they passed the last station at Fourteenth and Boots streets the riders were in this order: Wilmore, Edwards, Holman, Flynn, Starrett, Manly, Craft, Jones, Thompson, Miller, Hemingray, Toles, Byler, Derrick, Stover, Wile, Lore, Marshall.
Stewart Brothers will give the riders of the races and their trainers each a ticket good for one ice cream soda at the Postoffice drug store. One ticket in ten will draw a prize at Stewart’s cycle store. The prizes are: One pair M. and W. racing tires, $25; one saddle, $4; sweater, $4; one lantern, $2.
Mrs. Gid Leas was thoughtful enough to provide lemon juice in water at the finish.
