The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-21
MINNEAPOLIS
OFFICE 20 SOUTH FOURTH STREET.
MESSENGER BOYS sCORCH.
Break Their Record for SlOwness
When "a Prize Is in Sight.

The messenger boys handicap road
race yesterday morning was III every
way brilliant success. With an ideal
Sunday morning, fast course and splr-
tied boys, what more could be wished
for to make an interesting race? II
was a race which from start to finish,
when Albert LoVested crossed the tape
a winner. would have reflected faVOra-
bly, upon similar events run by cracker
Jacks. There We're nineteen entries
with seventeen starters, and although
the prizes were not the richest that
have been hung up in the history OF
racing of the country, no set of racing
men ever bent more Zealously over THEN
handlebars for seven miles, bent on
victory, than did the messenger boys
of Minneapolis who participated From
the start of the race, at Minnetonka
Mills, to Manhattan Park, at the city
limits, seven miles away, hardly a hitch
occurred. The boys were often
punched, but with the GOODNESS of older
riders they rode properly and gentle
manly and cO-Operated in guarding
against dangerous spills. Although
there existed considerable rivalry Tor
donors, no bOisterOuS brdggadOciO was
manifested either before or after the
race The messenger boys in every
way proved themselves ideal Sportsmen.
Those who were defeated accepted the
defeat with grace, perhaps with a long
ing that the thing might be done over
again, but minus Corbett insistency
on the point.
The start was made from Minnetonka
Mills with the lads lined out as fol-
lows:
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Scratch Men-Oscar Carlson. Joseph Spring
er, John Langner, Raymond Benson, Fred
Miller Jonas JOnasSon, Tom Coleman.
Hundred Yards-Herman Reiter, George KEEL
ly. Albert Lovested.
Two Hundred Yards-Frank Kelly.
Three Hundred Yards-Oscar Lundbl2d, John
Mcdonald.
Four Hundred Yards-Joe Anderson, Burt
Briggerman.
Wagner.
Starter Henry Rabbit saw the boys
off at exactly $40. The lads had all
been lined up in their respective posi-
tons, and at the shot of pistol the
seventeen began to move towards the
city at a recOrd-breaking pace. The
race was an excellent exhibition of
speed from the very start. Handicap
per William Swanson showed that he
was onto his job, and that his part
could not have been done much better.
Albert Lovested at the outset drew
away from his bunch, and rapidly
gained upon the limit men. The limit
men. were, however, not to be beaten
easily, which was shown when they
were not caught until within half
mile of the finish. Joe Springer and
Oscar Carlson, Of the scratch men, dis
tinguished themselves. The former left
his party about two miles from tne
start, and caught the limit men about
the same time as did Lovested. lie
made a noble fight with Lovested for
the first place. but was possibly handi-
capped by having to take the unused
road at the finish.
AS it was, LOVested crossed the tape
sitting erect The excellent time of
twenty-five minutes for the distance l.
considered excellent, but even this
would have been bettered if three OBJ
stacles had not presented themselvs.
One was that a farmer rig blocked the
boys for while, while Oscar Lundblad
experienced a spill coming down the
hill from St Louis park. The last was
that shakespeare" stopped to tell the
boys about something that happened
some time last week. Lundblad, in his
fall, with the usual messenger boys
luck, escaped injury, was Immediately
back on his wheel, and plugged it
through, winning fifth place. The boys
finished in the following order:
First-Albert Lovested, Western Union.
SecOnd-Joe Springer, Western Union.
Third-Burt Briggermdn, A. D. T.
Fourth-Joe Wagner. Western Union.
Fifth-Oscar Lundblad, A d. 7.
Sunday morning, July II, the tele-
graph clerks employed locally will in
dulge in road race over the same
course. NJ. r. Fitzgerald, of the North
American, has the preliminary arrange
ments in charge, and will receive en-
tries