The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-10-15
AMONG YHE VHEELNEI.
The Bicycle Races Last Week
and Those Who Took Part.
YESTERDAYS FINE MEET,
Match Races to Be Run Next Wednes.
day by Local Sprinters.
The Lantern Parade-Entertatning Cos
sip About Knights of the Silent steed
Incidents of the Race Track
General Notes.

The first Utah divisions meet which
came to q close yesterday demon
strates the fact that cycling has made
wonderful progress in Utah during the
year past Last fall when the Social
Wheel club held races on the track of
the Driving park association it was
difficult to enlist q sufficient number
of entries TO hold the meeting. The
September races this year brought out
twenty-five entries and the division
races fifty-one The attendance was
not so large as expected. but the two
postDonments had considerable to do
with this IT is rot too much to pre-
dict that at she next meeting which
viii be held in the spring, the atten-
dance Will be more than satisfactory.
The FIVE lap track built by the
Cycling Track association would be
more of a success were it widened.
1t is scarcely wide enough TO accome-
date a field of six or seven when the
men close up on the last lap This
was demonstrated in the quarter mile
Utah championship on Friday when
collision at the upper turn threw TWO
men and made q Chinese puzzle out
L
eral surprises in the two days racing.
Weller showing himself TO be very
speedy. and Scott who threw up his
hands IN the September races coming
10 the front and beating his held
handily The Butte boys made good
showing. FAINT taking first in the no
vice and Guyette second in the three
minute class Dell is the Splinter OF
the Butte quartette, however. Satur-
day he scooped the one mile record
for Utah, lowering it one and two-Iifths
seconds. The record now stands q
80 2-5.
Young Angel rode in better form
than at the September races, taking
first in the quarter mile Utah cham
pionship; second in the half mile ).
w. C. and one mile Utah champion
ships
Jensen made splendid mile in the
trial heat of the one mile open on Fri
day against Dell of Butte, winning
in 2-39-1-5. His fall in the quarter
mile dash right after this stiffened
him up and spoiled his chances in the
following races On Saturday with
one arm swathed in bandages and one
leg stiffened, he left his field easily in
the one mile S. w G. championship,
winning in 2:4S and had he not made
a mistake of a, lap in the one mile
Utah championship the chances are
Ingnam is sprinter, and the way he
ran away from the field and won the
half mile on Friday made the bleachers
howl. He failed TO take any firsts on
Saturday, being unwell, but scooped
the silver medals in the one mile S. w.
c. and the five mile Utah champion
ships EmiSe was laboring under the
same disadvantage as Jensen from the
fall in the quarter mile and his chances
were very slim in the following events.
Many think he was a sure winner in
the quarter. On Saturday he with
drew, being sore and lame from his
spill of Friday.
Heminway lost his pedals repeatedly
on Friday and with the exception of
second place in the quarter mile, failed
TO get a place On Saturday he won
the half mile open. breaking the record,
his time being 1:14 fat
In the boys races, Hamilton Coffin,
with $50 yards in the half mile, won
handily- The mile boys was taken by
Affieck, with a handicap of 325 yards.
All the boys rode well and deserve
credit for their efforts.
Weller and Lafferty came back to
scratch in the two mile handicap, the
former winning with ease against An
gell, and the boys from Butte securing
the time prize, a stop watch. Weller
rode like veteran in every race he en-
tered, winning on the second day the
one and five mile Utah championships
He is without doubt great rider, and
ii he defeats Jensen next Wednesday is
certainly entitled to the honor of being
considered the best man in Utah
The business mems handicap brought
out six starters-Groshell, Coffin, Mil
Ter. Cohen, DR.. Christensen and SkeI-
ton, the last two being from Provo
Groshell, with $50 yards, kept far enough
away to win, making first class race
for heavy weight. Coffin had a cinch
on the time prize, but in trying to pass
the field ran clear off the bank at the
upper turns Cohen winning against
6kelton, and Miller with a great squirt