The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-02
Captures Both First Place and Time
Prize.
MUD DEEP ON THE ROAD
SCRATCH MEN FIND MUD AN
ADVANTAGE.
Lucas and Guthrie Both Pass Must of
Their Competitors In First Three
Miles-Gordon Williamson Gives
Them Merry Chase, But They
Beat Him out-Cycle Notes.

George II. Lucas earned the sobri-
quet of Mud King" yesterday by his
ride in the Y. NJ. c. a. road race To
Pennington last evening. Lucas started
from scratch and won both time prize
and first place. finishing in 1921, excel
lent time for the ten-mile course. con-
sidering the miserable condition of the
road. which was deep in mud from the
afternoons rain.
]. w. Guthrie. who started with Lu-
cas- from scratch, won second place and
second time prize. He finished 200
yards behind Lucas in 29:5S, and was a
long distance ahead Of the next man,
Gordon Williamson, three minute
man.
Had it not been for the deep mud
near Bountiful the race would have
been much closer and more interest
ing contest. But a mile and a half from
the start the rains had turned a quar-
ter-mile stretch Of road into a Veritable
quagmire, and here most Of the riders
stuck. giving the scratch men an OPP
portUnity to catch all but the limit
men almost before the race had begun
BY their superior skill at steering
through the mire, both Lucas and
Guthrie passed nearly all OF the short
mark men before they reached Bounti-
full, and after that the race was easy
for them.
At the Start.
Price Miller, the lone fourminute
man. was the only rider who failed to-
show up when Harry Simpler. the start
er, lined up his men at the starting
line. seven miles out of the city. The
point WAS well selected. being just at
the crest Of "A long down grade, where
the Salt Lake * Ogden parallels the
road for some distance. With Miller
out OF it. A G.. Cheshire and A. Mack
ey were the limit men. starting from
the three minute mark. Mackey is
diminutive youth of Is, and he looked
2itifully small as he mounted his wheel
and was pushed off with big husky
Cheshire. u. o. Jacobs and George
Sutton followed thirty seconds later.
Then came Ehre Smith, Gordon Will
Hanson and j. Hal Moore, the two
minute class, and tagging close behind,
Thomas Squires and J. c. Gatrell. the
1870 class. The first accident came
when the one-minute men were being
pushed off w. w. Crone was not on
his wheel when the gun cracked. He
Vaulted into his saddle, but swerved
into the crowd and got a fall in the
dust. Ere he could mount again his
running mates, y. w. Evans, Horace
Fisher and j. A. Augustus, were 100
yards down the hill. The scratch men,
Lucas and Guthrie. followed him in
few moments more. and the crowd
swarmed to the already moving obSer-
walton train which had brought the
riders and SPECTATORS out and was just
at hand.
Scarcely a quarter-mile down the
track n W Evans was picked up with
a punctured tire. The train caught
Lucas and Guthrie just as the road
took a turn away from the tracks ana
then for d mile only fieetinS glimpses
could be caught of the riders, who were
already punching on the hill INTO
Bountiful. Just south of Bountiful the
new course leaves the main road and
follows down parallel to the tracks past
Bountiful station.
Trudging Through Mud.
And here was the place where all the
trouble occurred. The sharp shower of
the afternoon had played havoc with
the ordinarily good road The water
stood all across il in one place, and Tor
several hundred yards ii was SIX lnches
deep in thick. gumbo mud. And mere
We're most of the riders, stuck 1asI
Some had dismounted and were trun-
ding their wheels, splashing their gay
" colored riding suits and bare legs
and arms erievously. Others Wfiggled
and souirmed through the mud part
OF the time astridc their wheels, again
wading in the slime with wheel on
shoulder. Almost all had had one or
more bad falls.
As the train whizzed past them into
Rounriful the crowds cheered and
ieered Justify. Just beyond the muddy
Stretch Cheshire and Machey came IN
sight far down the road. The tram
stoDDed an instant at Bountiful ana as
il again started along came Lucas. al
ready ahead of nearly all the low mark
men and right after him a hundred
yards To the rear came Guthrie. Trail
ing Guthrie was Ehre Smith riding
hard. with one side of his person most
beautifully bedaubed with mud from
recent fail.
gan to catch fleeing glimpses of lone
rider in white and black who was sooA
identified as Gordon Williamson he
led the race TO Centerville, but close
behind him there came Lucas and
Guthrie and at the big hill just beyond
Centerville both men caught and pass
ed him After that the race was a
foresone conclusion and when the train
pulled into Pennington all the shouting
was for Lucas and Guthrie.
How They Finished.
Coming down for the tape the riders
were so well strung out that there were
few interesting finishes. Lucas swung
over the line a winner by 500
yards over Guthrie, who in, turn
had a quarter mile advantage over
Gordon Williamson. Thomas Squires
was close up TO Williamson and little
why Mackey. one of the limit men.
followed Sduires in few seconds. Hor-
ace tucker, Ehre Smith and a. g.
Cheshire rounded the turn together.
and IN a nice sprint Tucker won out,
the others following in the order
named. Twenty seconds later ]. 4.
Augustus came in and J. Hal Moore
was not far behind. J. c. +Gatrell came
next, closely followed by w. w. Crime
and then after a sOodly interval the
TWO 2:3O men, ID. o. Jacobs and George
Sutton.
Following is a summary of the race: