Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-23
Bicycle Racing Still Stands at the
Top Of the List
FOOTBALL NOW THE TOPIC.
Cricket club Meeting Tonight - To
Play Kansas City General sport
lug Notes OF Local Interest

90 have hit the popular fancy, which
after All ~ aaid and done has been ape
parent for tho last three months Even
tho wct-blanket prophets who have
beon shaking their heads aarnrI1usly
ana murmurlnr you just walt are
forced to acknowledge that there seems
% bu no falling On in tho attendance Of
,hc salt Palace track despite The fact
that the nights have become rather too
chilly Tor comfort. Vincent t.ooa. broth
er Of William l.ooa, chairman u the g.
a. g. 9. under which association the
local bicycle meets are held. dropped
on the train from the East on Tuesday
en- route to San Francisco. Mr. LolB
expressed himself as being nHtuniHhri
ut the extent ~ tho "cruEU" iu a small
city like salt Lake. ana dld not zoe how
q was possible 60 promote prohmhly
three meets per week lie o. o. racing
man himself and holds the record Tor
winning the greatest number Of first
places In tcn-mllc road races IN Chi
caro-. Nevertheless u IL "a fact that BIZ
cycle racing o. on the rare IN town ut
present and N Il should trnnaplrc that
The nicklc public should show tendon-
Giles 10 be- wonnod from tho fncinnting
sport IN the face OF match races aud
IawHou'f nory.rcd motorcycle pacing
machine, why II VIII be- only a TOW days
ere the professional national circuit
fidcrs VIII De- in our midst 10 stir up
any latent love of sport. Every man
coming ~ said 10 be- faster than Chap
man, accordingly tho racing between
the biz guns VIII BE- mght the Salt
Lake populncc viii pay. BEG or borrow
promises 90 be nm cyooponor to those
localn who swear by Chapman as being
wofld-beator
The little eight,lap track down At the
bult Palace IA doing lots u advertising
for Salt Lake city. the fame of Il has
gone abroad throughout the civilized
world. a London paper Just TO hand ro-
cords among ~ aphtchca the annonce-
ment that j.. n. Chapman at Salt Lake
city. Utah, q. =. A.. twhere the Nor
mons come from,l rode onc-hulf mile
unpuccd IN % a.t. a we'll known bicycle
arm also u mailing big cards broadcast
on both sides % the Herring pond 10
the erect that certain riders have brok-
en- records on their own particular make
eountered a worlds ruCurd from Salt
Lake City-and yet tho promoters Of the
Salt Palace when tho cycle track was
nooted by the local enthusiasts prophc-
sled IL would be- fzEle and would not
lntcn 70 the proposition until some
t0o citizens ~ Salt Lake had pledged
themselves, over their own signature u
peirohise the track after II had been
erected
After n r,,at Of two months, the mem.
beers Of tho Y. NJ. G.. A. gymnasium class
have once more got together and now
the pulaating thud or the dumb bells IL
heard upon tho iioor above tho pnrl0rs
y. y, Smith, the little amateur racing
man and Alvin Cheshire now dhDort
themselves upon the horizontal and par
allied bars undCr the direction Of phvd-
cal Director Augustuz The business
mems class has once morc begun work
and now meets rcgularly Of 5'ib .. m.
eufA Inv MUVAum l.
apart aa spectators niEht. upon which
occasion speoialtiea viii form n prOml-
nent part Of the exercises.
John Lawvou viii probably start ON
HE twonty-four hour record rldo ON
Friday night. finishing on Saturday
night Lawson "a 10 receive % per cent
Of the gate rcceipis for the event. n
he does not secure the race Lawson
says that no Will b. forced 20 80 20
Denver with his machine. from which
place he states no has received a blg
oner.
Bicycle oficer Davies has ambitions.
He says he can, with "a little train
ing, beat tho majority Of amateurs
now riding on the Salt Palace track
Yesterday he tailed on 20 John Lawson
and Oscar Julius on the motor tandem,
and followed the rear tire for i've laps
iaweon ana Julius subsequently rode
for an hour. making all tho miles un-
der two minutes liver Lawson tackled
on for ak miles, ,ldlug some OF the
mliee In 100 and ala not socm tired
IlolEer Jensen IL suffering from that
awkward complaint water on
the knee, Since his grandatand
flght up tho bank and subsequent dive
among the spectators he has been laid
up Win his leg' consequently, be has
gctired from the racing track Tor the
balance OF tho .eason'
j. W. lenslgn has also ben laid up
temporarily aH tho result ~ 70 bad fall
while on the subject OF Johnny" I'm
uign; someone iu the grundstnnd the
other nlEht started the cruel rimor
thnt llnHlgn was tho boy who wnH arr
rested some time agp on the charge
81 plltornr from a wcll known East
Temple street dry goods store, En-
slgn'n character ~ without rournHch
aud he n not the Ensign who ION foul
OF tho police ON that occasion
The interest I'm cricket. locally. n
spreading and now The salt Lake g. g..
which a. ~ yet ln ius Hwuidllng clothes.
g. already becoming factor ln the
Sports column uf the local press. Mr.
NJ. II, walker, Who halle from solid
cricket county shlro==hla grnor-
ovaly told the boys Co pitch their
stumpa on his Mold nt Ninth South and
Wet Temple stroots, a meeting win
be called tonight 10 arrange Tor the
coming season. The club already num-
bera over forty mgmhrra and now ones
are uucurthrd each week. 4 match
gtme IN now on The tlulH between the
combined talent uf Wp.lHyIue and Og-
don during Conference Wrok There IA
also some talk Of thg salt Lake club
tnehiug tho Kansas city eleven witch
Will pass through salt Lake city in
the near future vn route fur the coast
II won't hurt lhn boys any tu ggt heutyn
- owing 20 their previous HuHrUTrrH
they ore liable 90 have a too exalted
Idea Of their powgH.
Capt Hnddcnh1m. ~ the ogden
steven last Wednesday oppressed hm-
s'lf o. followH. - am going to rrt
Team 20 beat Salt Lake cts if 10 takes
pc twelve months 20 90 rn." THE truu.
Die with oginn Hocms Co hr that thsy
ave no young M oi IN thH tleH. n which
y made up OF players who used d. arnrt
m the green HWurd ACROSS tho Hsls la
,rarH gone by The Ogden bows gx-
Dressed thrWHolveH Co tho effect thpt lf
We locnl press only took up tho matter
ftar tha fashion NJ the ssIt Lake p9-
lera that they would soon have Ia ulur.
fhing club IN Wohor county.
Football d now the ubsbrbIru tonic
md tho Nurlntfu 0f4kvtHMaIa