The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-30
News and Gossip Concerning Salt
Lake Cycling.
CLUB RUNS FOR TODAY
WHERE CLUB MEMBERS AND
OTHERS MAY GO.
Decoration Day Road Race Will Be
a Holly Contested Event-Riders
From Ogden and Provo-Phenom-
email Demand For Wheels-Chain-
less Gear In Disfavor.

The first picnic run" of the Social
Wheel club will leave the club rooms
in Ford's hotel at 10 o'clock sharp this
morning for a run up City Creek can
yon. The. lady members of the club
have kindly offered to provide basket
lunches for the entire party, and a con-
Veyance win be on hand to carry the
eatables There are many very pretty
views to be obtained on this run, and il
VIII be an opportunity that win be
taken advantage of by the club mem
bers. Tomorrow is May day, and Cap
tain Smith designates the run as May
day run
The club run to Bountiful last Sun
day was SHINY attended, owing TO the
high wind only fourteen members max
ing the trip. The dinner was the best
the club has had this season. and if
run 10 the same place is held later in
<the season it viii be better attended,
as the Socials are all good knife and
fork members. Easter Sunday was
rainy, disdgreeable day, and the old
adage that in cases of that kind the
seven following Sundays viii be similar
ones has proven true so far. The in
dications for today promise better
weather, and the Socials are hoping
that the spell is broken and that the
coming Sundays Will be more favorable
and that better attendance VIII be had
on the runs.
The Opal Wheel club go on their first
run to the penitentiary today and are
expecting a big attendance. The club
has d membership of about fifty at the
present. and over thirty members have
signified their intention of participant
ing in the run.
Unattached riders who are unfamil-
far with the good roads leading out of
Salt Lake City will find run to Sugar
House today q very pleasant trip. Go
down State street to Twelfth South or
the south drive" as it is sometimes
called, and turn east, and a two-mile
run viii bring one to the bridge over
the creek at Sugar House ward. The
roads are in excellent condition and the
round trip will make an enjoyable ride
of about eleven miles. There viii be a
good many riders on this road today,
and those who do not care to make the
entire trip can ride as much of it as
they desire.
Captain Smith of the Socials is MAX
ing arrangements for a club century or
10O-mile run to take place in June The
club will be divided into two divisions.
slow and fast. The SLOW division, under
the lead of the first lieutenant, will
leave Salt Lake City at about daylight,
while the second division, under the
captain. will leave about three hours
later Both divisions will eat at the
same stations. and a regular schedule
will be followed by both on the entire
trip. y suitable medal will be given
to all survivors who make the run
within the limit. The course has not
Yet been decided upon.
Owing to the high wind, there were
few riders out last Sunday. Lindstrom
and Van Voorhees, went south, out on
Brockbanks road. and reported the
wind so strong that they We're obliged
to pedal down all the hills. Nightin-
gale and Shannon went to ogden, and
the sand stretch was an unusually diff
ficult piece of road to travel.
J. p. Gum will start tomorrow to
secure the prizes for the Decoration
day road race. and by May IL will have
them ready for exhibition. They will.
be placed on exhibition in the store
window of J. p. Gardner, so that con-
testants may see just what they are
to ride for.
The announcement and final determi- |
ration to hold the race for amateurs !
only seems to meet with universal ia |
Vor, and all the principal amateurs
have announced their determination to !
compete. Froiseth, Ensign, Haigren, |
LAWYER, Cutting. Bywater, Nightin- |
gale, Eddie Smith and Lucas Will be
certain competitors. Lindstrom, who |
won the last Decoration day road race, |
will not ride, as he is ineligible, hav-
competed in the professional road race |
on the Garfield course last August. Ed |
monds who has twice won the Garfield !
road race, is also ineligible to the Deco
ration day road race, for the same
reasons
lsdnonds would have been very I
probable time winner had he competed,
Tor it is said that he has competed in /
only 1--WE races and has Won them all.
he will be a dangerous competitor for
the professionals in the coming track |
events. and is in training for the track
races at Calder's track the afternoon
of May 80.
wheelman frGm ogden who was in
the city last week states that the juno
ton town Win be well represented IL
the coming road race on Decoration
DAY. When Drabble was in form and
Ioenton was an Osdenite, the road con-
tingelt Of that place was practically
invincible. and Salt Lake riders We're
obliged TO accept many defeats on the
roads at the hands of the ogden riders.
There are several riders zap that way
who are now training and it is possible
that some of the best prizes in the road
race May 80 may be taken up to our
reighboring burg.
Provo viii also have several represen-
tatives in the race, for will Samuelson
ana 10 Tarriott have sent word that
they viii compete. Provo is having the
biggest wheel boom that the town has
had for Years. and there are q number
ofaspiTing wheelmen who are DESTROYS
of making their town more Of a factor
in cycle events than it has been in the
past
Provo track riders have refused the
def sent them by The University Of
Utah for an intercollegiate champion
ship match TO be run, off in May. Ar
rangements mad been all completed and
the date set, but after agreeing TO all
terms and conditions, the 3. Y. college
sent word that they had no riders who
cared TO compete with the representa-
tive of the Z. of I. No further rea-
sons were given and the contest is of.
Robert SHELTON of Provo, who has
been the prime mover IN Provo cycling
enterprises in the past. and who has
managed the Provo end of the famous
Utah circuit Of 81, was in Salt Lake
recently ana talked of the conditions of
cycling in Provo.
He says that a race meet could he
easily pulled of in the garden city, ana
there would be no difficulty about rails
ing a good list of prizes and purses for
the professionals. He would like 20 !
see a Utah circuit arranged this sum
mer, and in case other towns fall in !