The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-26

Yesterday was lively day at the fort
The athletes were out in force for their
third monthly field day.
A monthly field day is now an estab-
lished feature of garrison life The events
began earlier than usual and were Wit
messed by a larger crowd than usually
gathers at the recreation day sports.
The first event on the programme was
the bicycle road race from Cdider's park
TO the adjurantS office, a distance of
seven miles. There were five entries and
three prizes. CLANCY wheeled OFF with the
first prize in forty-one minutes Martin
followed a minute later for the second
and Platt came in Tor the inIrd pr.ze
i've minutes after Martin had crossed
the line. Wilson got a hard fail early in
the race and dropped out Patrick was
barred on account OF having light wheel.
Wilkes would have been in the race and
won easily had 1T not be for a lame leg
caused by fall from his wheel the day
before. The word TO go was given by
Lieutenant Carey at the water tank, a
half mile above the park. Wilson set
the pace and led for a short run, when
Martin took the lead and kept it until
within half mile of the finish. P4att
would probably have crowded the first
man if he had not stopped and gone into
/ a house TO get drink of water.
1t is the intention of the officer in charge
of the athletics to have the next bicycle
Il
! Soon after the road race the crowd as
senlbled on the athletic course below the
hill. The 160-yard dash of the first-class
men was won by Douglas. Crowley sec
ond, Dole third. The time is withheld by
request of Lieutenant Palmer in view OF
| the department athletic contests in Sep
TENDER at Fort Logan, Colorado, to which
representatives from the Sixteenth infant
| ry will be sent. 1t Is safe to say that
/ Douglas did not run his best in this race,
as he was continually looking back at
| his opponents. He was fouled by Crowley,
who was barred from the other events Of
| the day.
In the dash of the second-class men
Coville won with Pennell a close second.
| Time withheld.
The largest number of contestants were
entered for the standing broad jump. 1t
| was won by Coville, 8 feet 31z inches;
| Boyce second, feet inches. Bennett
| and Morgan each landed feet IA inches:
| Fourth event, putting sixteen pound
| inches; Riley second, 81 feet. inches;
Second class-Bruin first, % feet liz
! inches; O'Donnell second, % feet IL
| inches.
first, OIL; Doyle and Pencil, 0:23 30 Some
objection was found with the hurdles and
for the next race the contestants call for
/ a 220-yard run with lower hurdles
feet 81 inches; Schwarz, s feet. The pole
vaulting was a. splendid exhibition ana
was more loudly applauded than any other
event on the programme.
Seventh event running high jump-Pen-
nell first, 4 feet inches; White second.
feet, re inches. Captain Rlcnarus
thought he could beat this record with a
little practice
Eighth event, running broad jump
! DOYLE first, IS feet inches; Coville sec
ond, 16 feet ~ inches. Sullivan, the
heavyweight, landed IA feet II inches;
PenneIl second. Bruin third. Megill fell
out Time withheld.
The 44O-yard run closed the events OF
the forenoon. In the afternoon, at 800;
the baseball team of the National Guard
of Utah arrived and tackled the I9rt
team in a five inning game but was de-
feated by a score of % to 10.
A large crowd was present and 1or
while a great deal of interest was TAKEN
in the game, particularly by the residents
of the fort, but when the supper bell
began to jingle. there was hardly a pia-
toon left of the erstwhile applauding hun
dreds The positions of the players were
as follows: