The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-16
TERRIFIC FACE OF WHEELMEN
SAN FRANCISCO RIDERS FAR
AHEAD OF RECORD.
Steady Speed of Eighteen Miles An
Hour and Dare Not Let Up-Won-
derfuI Endurance of Riders.

San Francisco, Feb. 5.-Thirty-sever
and seven-eighths miles ahead of the
worlds record is the score of the six
! day bicycle race at Mechanics pavilion
and to this big increase the men havee
been adding rapidly by travelling sigh-
teen miles to the hour for hour after
hour. There is reason for this fast
work. The track is the fastest ever
constructed, and the banks, being SO
steeply banked, the field is unable To
come down to the crawl generally fol-
lowed in other races at this stage of
the contest. Then again, the men have
sprinted again and again today to
make w lost space on riders leaving
the track. Whenever Miller left, all
the others started at great speed to
overhaul his lead or to increase q lead
upon thee hampton. Barnaby led most
of these and is in reality the surprise
of the contest. This Boston rider never
finished a race of this character be-
fore, and was supposed to be one of
those who would finally drop out. But
Barnaby is a piece of iron and. in HIS
low, COUGHING attitude upon his double
handlebar red wheel, he is the typical
demon" pictured in the papers.
Five of the leaders are ahead OF the
record and yet none complain. Gimm
the leader. has slept but twenty min
utes in all and. upon his dismounting
from his wheel in the last hour he
said: I'm doing my very best, that
is ALL
Miller does not worry over his in
ability to hold the lead, but counts up
on being TO the front at the seventy
second hour. Barnaby and Miller out
sprint the field whenever they take the
notion.
Poor old Ashinger slid down the line
to the bottom very rapidly after his
great exhibition in staying on his sad
die for 400 miles and seven laps, break
ing the endurance record of 457 miles.
Ashinger has now been relieved OF his
trouble, and is going better He will
be on the track and riding when others
are on the toboggan towards the bot
tom.
In the first thirty-six hours Gimm
was off but thirtyfve minutes. Miller
had an hour and thirty-nine minutes
off the track and Pierce an even hour
in the same time. stevens quitting this
prime condition, came as one of the big
gest surprises of the race
Pierce, the Bostonian, lost his third
position in the fortieth hour. He was
compelled to take a little rest. and those
back OF him. Nawn and Barnaby, had
both had their rest and were in condition
to ride like mad while Pierce was from
the track This fast riding was one OF the
features of the day. in that at every in
stance Of the leaving of the track of some
of the leaders. the field at once started
at terrific clip to draw away or to close
Il gap. The record continues to recede
farther and farther to the rear and at
this hour was thirty-seven miles back
None of the other riders quit or wanted
to do so. and the field is now probably
down to bedrock and likely TO stay thir-
teen to the close. Stevens was No 10 and
when he quit he left thirteen in the race
The previous record was $50 miles. held
by Pierce and made in New York last
December.
The score at u midnight, the forty
ninth hour: