The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-01

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Every person who went out to the
track on Thursday and paid the exor-
bitant tariff of 80 cents to get into the
grounds and so cents additional for a
seat in the stand praised The Herald
enthusiastically yesterday for its
stand on the matter. Public opinion
is unanimous that if this system of
''hOgging" is repeated the fate of the
new track is sealed The wheelmen
themselves are loudest in their con-
demnation of the extortion, and pre-
dict that unless the management adj
vert1SeS its prices in advance for the
next meet the attendance will be ex-
ceed1ngly slim. Those who take the
most interest in cycling propose to
enter their protest against this system
OF extortion by staying away, and they
are right As one man said yesterday,
The people who are running this
track evidently want to make the en-,
tire cost of it out Of about two meets. ="
The matter was discussed all over
town yesterday, and the management
was roasted universally.
Captain n. W. Hewett, of the Social
Wheel club. has issued a call for a.
run to Brockbank's farm on Sunday.
The club will leave the Templeton at
1870 a. m.
Chicago, May 31.-There is a posi-
bility that it may be necessary to run
the Chicago road race over The win
ner of the second prize FOR the fastest
time, Fred Rau. was disqualified to-
Gay. He admitted he did not ride over
the whole course.
The scratch men. DeCardy and Balm
bridge, made affidavit that they saw
emerson, the time-Winner, sitting near
a Sidewalk in Evanston and he de-
ciared he was out of the race. They
also declare the sixty riders who An.
lshed ahead Of them were passed in
I'm the wheel races at Logan on Dec
Grafton Day, the half mile novice.
prlze, silk sweater, was won by l..
F. Smith. Time-1:22.
7. D. Snowden captured half dozen
silk hose and bicycle cap, by riding
the one mile open in 1929
The third event, one mile open, was
won by Preston Thatcher in 2:42.
with C. E. Montgomery a close second.
Prize, bicycle lamp.
Orson Thatcher won bicycle
watch by doing the 3-5 mile in 1888.
with ease. In this race. Young Leo
Beirdneau showed a, wonderful burst
of speed in the second lay, but
couldn't keep it up to finish
Ed. Montgomery did the 2-5 mile
open in 1.OS% and won the gold
headed umbrella.
In the sixth event, Albert Johnson
surprised everybody by beating Rob
bins and Farrell in the quarter mile
open, getting a mark of 40 and a
portable writing desk.
The seventh and last event was in
Orson and Preston Thatcher were the |
only riders in the race, which was a
half mile open. On the last turn, Geo. |
F. had a. bad fall and Preston went |
in ahead. Time-1:20l2. With a time |
limit, this time would have been badly |
beaten. Preston will make Frank !
hurry this fall.
Chicago, May S1-A mammoth /
world famous Chicago road race.
Sworn statements made today put
nearly 10 per cent. of the participants
in the so-called race on record as con-
temptible sneaks. How many more of
the remainder of the racers" will go
into the same class is yet to be deter
mined It was q. wholesale fraud on q
scale probably never before equa!led
IN the history of cycling races, or for
that matter, in races of any kind.
The trouble in brief is that this year
the race was not a straight-away and
that the $50 contestants, literally by
dozens and by scores, deliberately cut
the course instead of going round the
full turn at Evanston. 1t is claimed
only 81 of the first 100 to finish, among
whom was the wizner, Homer Fair
mon, were noted as having passed the
limit mark at Evanston, and that no
note was ever made of the other SO
men at that point. The fellows not in
the first handicap are supposed to have
done even worse.
Aside from the scandal in regard to
the race as a whole, Referee Thomas
F. Sheridan had his hands full soday
receiving protests from the riders,
against the awarding of prizes to Fair
mon and Emerson, the first prize and
time prize winners respectively. It now
looks as if neither of these men will I
be given the place which was as
signed to them yesterday. However,
Fairmon may come out, it is almost
certain that Emerson will be dis '
qualified. All the testimony shows that
Emerson did not ride the course.
Springfield, Mass, May 31.-A dis
patch to the Union from Boston says
/ match race is being arranged be-
ween J. S. Johnson and Zimmerman.
The first preliminaries were talked
,ver at the Waltham meet and there
s great probability of a successful re- !
;ult of the negotiations. The purse !
Will probably be the largest in the
history of wheeling.
Louisville, May 31-Dirnberger captured
mother worlds record today, the two
nirds mile flying start. paced. He clipped
III two full seconds from John S. John G
on's record of Iii 4-5, made at Naltham :,
september q, 1894, doing the distance in O
.09 40. He was Daced hv a oysd o