The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-17
Cycling.
DISTANCE RACE WAS TAME
AMATEURS RODE FIFTY MILES
AT SLOW GAIT.
Spectators Grew Weary and Many
Left Before Finish - Exhibitions
By Swedes and Papa" Smith.

1hree hundreQ QlSSuSteQ spectators
viewed the first twenty-five miles of
the fifty-mile amateur race at Calder s
park yesterday afternoon and this
number dwindled away until at the fin
ish there were scarcely twenty-five
people left in the grand stand and a
half hundred who, as usual at Calder S
park races, crowded themselves on the
track at the tape, interfering with the
riders and causing the officials much
trouble and annoyance.
Thirty riders were advertised to ride,
when as a matter of fact only eight
men were on hand and not ten had
really entered or promised to ride. Cut
ting, who had been advertised as a
starter, never agreed to ride and Harry
Heagren, brother of Z. B. Heagren,
who was also advertised as a contest
ant, had not entered or even promised
to ride.
The men were not ready to start at
the advertised time. $3.50 p. m, and the
crowd was kept waiting until nearly
4:SO. H. ]. 7. Smith. E. B. Heagren.
j. II. Parkes, ]. Clarke, Frank Smith
and F. B. Carter were the only start
ers.
The first mile was made in SOS and
the second in 3:37 and in half of a mile
more, H. ]. T. Smith had enough of
it and wanted to quit. Carter was
dropping behind and was Tapped by the
bunch in two and one-half miles and
II. ]. T. Smith was also caught at
three miles.
On the back stretch of the track, in
the fourth mile Frank Smith and Clarke
in some manner became mixed up and
fell. Smith remounted after some lit
tie difficulty and started out after the
bunch, who were by this time half
lap ahead of him, but Clarke had
enough and walked in. Frank Smith
made a valiant effort to overtake Hea-
gren and Parkes, who were the only
ones now left in the race besides him.
self, but was unsuccessful and he was
caught by the two at the end of six and
ne-quarter miles. He rode w.h them
until the end of the fifteenth mile and
as there seemed to be no hope for him
to regain his lost lap. he quit.
This left Heagren and Parkes as the
only survivors and they dismally plod-
ded along, grinding off mile after mile
at a 800 gait. AS there have never
been any amateur races in Utah above
five miles all the times made by them
were records. They took turn about in
pacing. although Heagren did most of
the work and led the greatest number
of laps.
Heagren was leading at the end of
the first hour and his distance for the
sixty minutes was 20 miles, ISL yards,
which will stand as amateur hour COM
petition record.
1t was announced that Papa Smith
would come out for on exhibition quar-
ter mile. paced by Lawson and Julius
on a tandem. This livened up the crowd
for little while and as Papa ap-
peared on the track he was given
round of applause. After circlinS
around the track for a few times he
came across the tape with the tandem
in front. He pedalled around for the
quarter mile, with his head up in the
air. very much like the Papa" of 1895.
but finishing sprint had vanished. He
tried hard to beat out the pacemakers,
who were taking things easy, but the
Swedes kept ahead and the watches
snapped Papa's time at "a fiat, about
:O6 short of the record.
The two Swedes, Lawson and Julius,
on a tandem. negotiated five miles in
1919 2-5. which was a splendid perform
ance. Their times for the miles were
as follows: First mile, 2:OS 3-5: second
mile. 2:06 i-5: third mile. 2:10 2-5;
fourth mile. 2:13 Is; fifth mile. 2:1O %.
AS this performance was timed with
but one watch, the record is not Off
cial.
These side exhibitions were made
while Heagren and Parkes were con-
tinuing their professional race and at
two hours Heagren was again leading.
the distance covered in the two hours
being 80 miles and IS yards.
The race was without further Incl
dent until the bell lap. Heagren liven-
ed up the gait at the beginning of the
last quarter, coming down the home
stretch pulled away from Parkes, who
was too tired to make fight and Hea-
gren won by about thirty feet. The
time for the fifty miles was 2:34:4 20.
The following is the official score and
the times from ten miles up inclusive
are now state amateur competition rec
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