The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-07-26

Private Weber, Of Company L, Six-
teenth infantry, who left Fort Doug
las last week on his bicycle for Wash
ington, y. c., arrived in Denver yester-
day. He made an average of seventy
miles a day and had but one accident
on the way. After delivering dispatches
at department headquarters he pro-
ceeded at once to Fort Logan, from
which place he will travel by the
most direct route TO Omaha, thence to
Chicago.
The visiting wheelmen, Wells. Nc
Crea, Renshaw, Park and Alexander,
left yesterday to attend various meets.
Thatcher, Weller, Evans and prob
ably some other local flyers will prob
ably go TO Logan to attend a meet
soon TO be held there.
STUBENVILLE, o., July 25l[Eleven
races were run off today on the half
mile track at Pleasant Heights, under
the auspices of the Stubenville Athletic
club. The attendance was 1900. The
event was feature of the national cir
Gals. The track was in fine condition.
The mile open, class s, was the fea-
ture, and was a battle royal between
Gardiner and Bald. Bald Tapped his op-
ponentS wheel at the tape.
Later in the day, Gardiner broke a
new local track record for the half
mile, going it in 81 1-5 seconds. He was
paced by Decardy and Scott, and Lund
and Van Heerik, tandem, but in the fin
ish beat the last tandem by a length.
The class a races were unusually
numerous and without exception good.
George Z. Helms, a local rider won the
honors in three events and got second
in the tandem races
Summaries:
Mile sandem. class A-Quimby and
Scott won; Holmes and Hale second
Irons and Achedbaugh third. Time:
2:55.
Half mile open, class A-George E.
Helms won; John E. Steele, second; q.
F. Morrow. third; Otto Mayo, fourth.
Nine starters. Paced by Quimby and
Scott, tandem. Time: 1906 10.
Half mile open, class B-First heat,
Jenny first; L. c. Johnson, second;
Brown, third; Maddox, fourth. Time:
1 90 40
Final heat-Gardiner, first; Maddox,
second; Johnson, third; Brown, fourth.
Jenny, Cooper and Bliss also rode.
Time: ! IA.
Mile handicap, class Morrow, zoo
yards, won Steele, 100 yards, second
W. S. Reed, 80 yards, third; Clyde
Quimby, so yards, fourth Time:
2:19 10.
Mile open. class B-Gardiner won;
Bald second; Johnson third; Murphy,
fourth Time: 2:14 Is. Phillips, Zeig-
Ter. Callahan, Bliss and Mcdonald alo
rode. Brown Quit and Barrett fell.
Paced by Van Heerik and cambridge.
Mile. class ALIENS won: Steele, sec
ond; Mayo, third; Bert Irons, fourth.
Time: IA %.
Three mile lap race, elias B-First
To, .
Titusthird.
Second Iap-Simms won; Titus, sec
ond; Maddox, third
Third lap-Titus won; Simms, second
Callahan, third.
Fourth lap-Decardy won; Scott, sec
ond; Titus, third.
Fifth lap-Scott won; Decardy, sec
ond; Callahan, third
Sixth lap-Scott won; Decardy, sec
ond; Mcdonald, third.
TotaI-Scott, points, won; Decardy
and Titus, points, tied for second;
Simms, points; Maddox, 4 points
Phillips and Callahan, points; McDon-
aid, 1 point, also rode.
Five mile handicap, class A-Helms,
$50 yards. won; c. c. Achenbaugh, 80
yards, second; Mayo 100 yards, third
Steele, $50 yards fourth. Time of
scratch men: 1915.
PHILADELPHIA, July 20.-Cha1r-
man Gideon in his weekly racing bulle-
tin issued today states that the racing
board has accepted these records:
One-third mile, class B, standing
start, unpaced, by Frank Thatcher,
Salt Lake city, Al So
Competition records made by W. T.
Sims at Manhattan Beach, June II,
1895, three miles, 6:26 2-5; four miles.
S:37; five miles, 10:47 3-5; six miles,
1858 Is; eight miles, IT: II So; nine
miles, 1851 2-5. -