The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-11
Y. NJ. C. A. FIELD DAY.
BIG CROWD AT GARFIELD BEACH
YESTERDAY.
The Ten Mile Road Race Won BY
Jack ROyIe-T. Jensen Wins the
Time Prize-The Baseball Game
and Sports.

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attracted an immense crowd to the
beach yesterday afternoon. Many went
out on the earlier trains, but the grand
crush came in the afternoon, when the
observation train went out to follow the
bicycle road race, leaving the depot at
2:30 o'clock. The train was one of the
longest ever sent out over the Utah
& Nevada, and it took two engines to
pull it.
Of course, interest centered in the
road race, for which all of he fast men
were entered, and the majority of the
passengers wore the colors of their
favorites. The arrangements were per-
feet and when the train stopped at the
old halfway house, the men were soon
ready for the word. T. o. Angel, M. r.
Evans, ]. S. Jensen, C. A. Emise and
A. w. Caine made up the handicaps,
while Bert Holden acted as referee, Mr..
Doncey as starter and M. r. Evans as
scorer.
The wheelmen were sent off in
punches, those on the scratch being
Weller, Gum, T. Jensen and Mcintyre.
May was given a start of IL minutes,
Freebairn, King, Butler and Senior
minutes, Hatcher and Tod Game 21a
minutes Smith, Hazard. Seely and
Greenwald 31a minutes, H Jensen and
Holcol 4 minutes Robbins, Liday and
Rognon minutes, Ritter, Langton and
Manse Coffin minutes, Dull, Beach,
Adams, Hewett and Royle minutes
OF those entered, Evans, MarioneauX
and Falconer withdrew
A handicap OF seven minutes in a
ten-mile race is tremendous advan-
tage. 1t means that the man receiving
it, if he is good for anything at all, will
put at least two big miles between
himself and the scratch men before
the latter are sent off, and where is
the racing man who can overcome a
lead of two miles in such contest?
That man certainly wasn't out yester-
day, for young Jack Royle soon drew
away from the first bunch, and the $100
cash prize was as surely his after that
as though it had been slowed away in
his pocket. Royle had never been
heard of before as a racer, but his per-
Torrance yesterday indicates that he
will be heard of frequently in the flu
ture. The course was a fair one for
a pleasure trip, but it, was a tough
stretch for race. In the first place
it was strewn with large rocks, which
while easily avoided in an ordinary run,
are hard to miss when a man is going
at full speed. Then there were some
sandy places where a man had to
pump" hard to go at all, with some
stiff hills and sharp turns scattered
along the way. y pretty stiff breeze
was blowing too, and taking into con-
sideration all these conditions, the
time made, 1926 for the ten miles, is
phenomenal.
All along the course the country peo-
pie turned out to watch the flyers. The
scratch men gradually overhauled
some of the punches in the lead, but
it soon became evident that the winner
would not come from their ranks.
Gum had some hard luck in the first
part of the race which set him back
considerably. Once he struck a stretch
of sand and, not being prepared for it,
had a hard fall. In order to save him
self from a repetition of this experience
shortly afterwards, he was forced to
halt and dismount. In spite of this,
however. he made a splendid finish, be-
ing the third scratch man across the
tape.
The struggle between Weller and
T. Jensen was desperate one from
start to finish. They kept we'll togeth-
er and the finish was as close and eX-
citing as though the men had been in
half mile race, Jensen leading by a
few feet and taking the time prize, his
time for the ten miles being 1926.
HOW THEY FINISHED.
The racers were well in view of the
passengers for the first four miles,
but after that the train gradually
pulled ahead, and when a stop was
made at the finish, nearly a mile be-
yond Garfield, none OF them were over
the hill. Jack Royle was the first to ap-
pear, and he came down the stretch
like a flash amid the cheers of the
crowd, winning the race. His time was
34:0b (handicap seven minutes)
The others finished in the following
order:
Adams q minutes) second, 34:53h.
Ritter 6 minutes) third, 1922
Liday 6 minutes) fourth, 33:3S5s.
Game (21a minutes) fifth, BIO
H. Jensen a minuteS) sixth, 32:41
Holcol a minutes) seventh, 32:5S.
Rognon g minutes) eighth, 1920.
Seely (31b minutes) ninth, 32:53
t. Jensen (scratch) tenth, 1926, win
ming time prize.
Weller (scratch) eleventh, 1928.
Gum (scratch) twelfth, 3O:5S
Senior e minutes) thirteenth, 1901
King e minutes) fourteenth, 1902.
Hazard G1a minutes) fifteenth, 34:42.
Mcintyre (scratch) sixteenth, BIAS
Dull q minutes) seventeenth, 1919
Hatcher (21s minutes) eighteenth,
1921.
The others dropped out of the race
at Garfield-all except Greenwald He
was so far in the rear that a search
party was sent out to find him.
THE BASEBALL GAME.
The Leadville baseball team and a
picked nine from the city played an in
teresting game in the afternoon. Some
brilliant plays were made on both sides
and after a fine contest the visitors won
by a score of II to 8.
THE FIELD SPORTS.
Owing to the absence of the troops
from this city, the members of the Six
teenth Infantry Athletic club, who had
entered, did not appear, and this cut
the number of entries down considerable
Just as the sports commenced, a storm,
accompanied by a strong wind, came on
and caused delay. In the various
events Milton L. Oglesby proved himself
to be the best all round athlete in the
association and was awarded the general
excellence medal, F. B. Cotton being a
close second and Hugh Rippetto third.
The outing ended with a dance in the
pavilion In the evening
1t is estimated that between 1,50O and
1000 people were at the beach.