The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-01
AT THE LAGOON.
Penrose Wins the Bicycle Road Race
Entertainment at the Lagoon.


Amid a cloud of Davis county dust
and close to the observation train which
carried over 200 Salt Lake enthusiasts
TO Pennington, H. L. Penrose, of the
$50 class, yesterday dashed alone over
the chalk line, a winner by 200 yards of
| the great annual road race. Almost in
the dust of the amateurs gallant ride.
V. Z. Emery. one of the scratch men,
closely punched with Arthur Liday and
NJ. Heman, went with a beautiful squirt
past the athletes who were hugging his
wheel and captured the time prize in
50:1e.
The result caused wild enthusiasm.
leavened with surprise. Emery was the
favorite among the talent over Hassard,
the other scratch man, but everyone had
underestimate the wondrous loco
motive powers of young Penrose. The
old reputation of road races for bringing
out new blood was kept up at yester-
days celebration, as the victory won by
Penrose was the result of his maiden
effort
The weather was as full of balm as
sultan's garden. The sun sent down
his yellow javelins from a sky that was
not all azure. and when the miniature
train lurched forward at 1890 on the
way to the lagoon, soft winds were
carousing with fieecy clouds and occa-
sionally raising blurred outlines of dust
on the broad road
A BRILLIANT SCENE.
At the corner of Second West and
Third North the observation train
ceased its lurching and slowed, and on
the road facing westward a brilliant
assortment of multi-colored wheels,
with orient-tinted costumes, maroon
pink, and orange, in the midst of Them
glinted gloriously in the sun. These
were the starters.
Dick Conley, the official starter. de-
scended from the train with a prodigi-
Gus gun, and at the signal from his
barker, first the 1880 class and finally
the scratch men went spinning along
the road and disappeared around the
corner on the road which leads to
distant Pennington.
Two of the fmpetuous amateurs, Sam
uel Gallagher and A. Anakin, started
up the road at a one lap clip, and when
they collided few PAGES from where
Conley's gun was pouring signals into
the air, they went to the ground to-
gether, with one badly dila3idated
wheel and two highly ornamented faces
mounted his wheel again and
started on, but Gallagher, who had
knocked several spokes out of his
concluded to retire. Neither
Of the boys was injured seriously.
The train again lurched nOrthward,
and the athletes were soon out of visual
range of the people on the car.
In front of the Elevators works the |
1.-THE forms of Hassard and Emery were
seen on the road. Both were apparently |
saving their sinews for future use
Only fleeing visions of the riders |
we're seen until Bountiful was reached. |
Then two dark forms went swinging |
through the dust, close to where the |
observation train was in waiting
The first was Penrose, who was
pressing forward at a steady, hard /
1ace, 200 yards ahead of LAWYER The !
rain again lurched forward, and for
Utmost mile, the rigid forms of the
racers were seen on the road.
till With the relative space between
hem unchanged. Then the lurchine of
he dummy elongated into a brisk.
witt series of lunges and the two
iders were soon lost in the dust and
distance.
PENROSE WINS.
The tape which indicated the finish