The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-09-17
MANY RECORDS WERE BROKEN
MICHAEL SECURES NEW LAUR
ELS YESTERDAY.
Bald Wins in the One-Third Mile
Professional Over Kimble and
Butler by About a Yard-Cor-
dang, the Dutch Long Distance
Man, Doing Wonders in London
General Sporting Events.

Springfield, Mass. Sept. 16.-Eddie
Bald was the champion of the last day
of the Springfield Bicycle clubs tourua-
ment. He went half a mile in 102 2-5
the one-third mile, l.. A. w. champion
ship, in 0:45 80, and the one mile open
Professional record race in 2:05 1-5. Jim
my Michael again broke the American
record fer ten miles, his time being
1927 As. The fermer record was IS:
SO 1-5.
The great race of the day was the
onethird nlfle professional. L. A. w.
championship. Cooper took the lead
with TAYLOR second and Bald third
They kept these positions until the
home stretch, when Bald, Kfrnble and
Tom Butler came around the track side
by side. At 80 yards from the tape
Bald pulled half a wheel ahead and won
out by 2 yard
The five mile amateur. L. a, w. ma
tional championship record race was
the great amateur race of the day, and
the winner broke tine American record
Of 1926, held by Kenna of the Pacific
coast f. C. Hausrnan did the act in
1898 3-5.
The half mile open professional was
a gond race, and was won by Bald
easily. Tom Butler led at first, with
Bald third AIT the quarter Bald pulled
ahead and wen out by ten feet.
jimmy MichHeis' fast ten miles
brought oTYt lots of cheers and at the
start he was presented with AN AmeTi-
can flag which he bore during the ride.
His first mile was the fastest, being
dcne in IA rs, and from then until the
finish he broke all previous American
records Casey and Eckberg, the fast
tandem team. went for the quarter.
third and half mile records. They broke
all, the quarter by l is seconds. the
third by second and the half by 8 25
seconds.
Cne-Haaf Mile. Open, Professional
e. c. Bald, Buffalo, won; w. H. Ram
dahl. Rochester, second: JOHN s. john
son, Minneapolis, third. TIME. I:o2A.
Mile, open, Professional, Record Race.
e. G. Bald mo-. S. Kinlble. Louis
willie. second; Tom Butler third; F. j..
Loughead, Sarnia. fourth. Time
2:05 1-5.,
One Mile, Open Amateur. -R. F. Lud-
wig, Chicopee, won; E. c. Hausman.
New Haven. second; E. W. Peabody,
Chicago, third; Ray Dawson. Boonton,
fourth. Tlne.-2:o4 4-5.
One-tGlird Mile, Professional. L. A.
W. National aunpionship.-E.C c. Bald
won; Major Taylor, Camb bridgeport
second; F. J. Loughead third; Tom
Cooper fourth Time.-0:45 3-5.
One-hagf Mile, Professional. L. A.
S. Johnson. Worcester. won; r. F. Lud-
wig second; e. w. Peabody third. Time.
1:02 1-5.
One-half Mile, Handicap, Profess
sional.-O. S. Kimble. Louisville Go
yards), won; w. H Randall. Rochester
(30 yardsl, second; DR.. E., A. Brown,
Cleveland (25 yards), third; Tom But
Ter. Cambridgepert GO YARDS, fourth
Time-0:59.
One-half Mile, Pursuit Race Between
John S. Johnson. Minneapolis, and W.
W. Hamilton, .Denver.-Johnson won.
Time-1:0 3 So. Hamilton's time. 1:03 4-5.
Two-mile Handicap, Professionally.
S. Kimble. Louisville 600 yards), won;
H. 3. Freeman, San Francisco GAO
yards), second; L. A. Callahan, Buffalo
Gao yards), third; c. R. Newton Stat
ford Springs $50 yards), fourth. Time
4:22.
In his try for the ten-mile record,
Michael broke all American records
from the two-mile up. His time was as
follows: First mile, LA 3-5; second,
3:33; third, $40 3-5; fourth, 7:12 %;
fifth. 900 2-5; sixth, 1885 Is: seventh,
1888: eighth 14:45 1-5; ninth, 1886 1-5
tenth, 1927 As.
At Hampden park today Casey and
Edberg broke the tandem bicycle rec
ords for the quarter, third and half
mile. Their time was as follows. Quar-
ter, 0:24 as; former record. 0:26. Third
of a mile, OBS. former, OBS. Half mile,
0:53 LIS, former, 0:55.
F'ive-nniIe L. A. W. Championship
e. c. Hauseman, New Haven, first; r.
P. Ludwig, Chicopee, second; H. B.
Bills, jr., Providence, third. Time
1888 3-5.
Michael broke the American record
of 1888 for ten miles, covering the
distance in 1927 As