The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-14
Cycling.
CHAPMAN BEAT JULIUS
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close and Exciting Finish to
Ten Mile Race.
WON BY HALF A WHEEL
7vER LAWSON RODE PRETTILY
IN HALF MILE EVENT.

oscar julius sometimes dubbed the
"tiorrible Swede," in contradistinction
r. the sobriquet applied to John of the
lawson family, made his this years
dabut on the saucer track at the Salt
palace last night and scored a distinct
hit He wore a pair of polka dot socks
that secured for him an ovation when
he rode around the embankment. Some
bodv said. "Hoot mon!" and then the
svede h id won the crowd.
Among other things Oscar rode a 10
mile match race with John Chapman.
bur he didn't win that. 1t wasn't quite
as easy to capture as was the crowd.
for when any rider captures the little
Atlanta boy asleep he has to get up
some earlier in the dawnlight than does
Oscar On the other hand. Chapman
didn't have to ride quite as speedily
rs he has on other occasions, but that
wasn't his fault.
Al one time during the race he be-
came weary of hanging back to give
Mister Julius a show and he called on
Iohn and Gust Lawson, who were fur
nishing tandem pace at that particu-
lar point OF the game, to kick it UP a
little faster. which they did And then
oscar didn't come. He refused to tack
on because he felt that he was becom-
ing baked.
Some Queer Pacing.
The other two Swedes didn't notice
this in their strenuous endeaVOr to hit
the high places and they had left Oscar
half a lap behind before they perceiv-
ed where their countryman was. They
Immediately dropped out then and left
Chapman 10 pace himself Oscar yelled
for new tandem and out came Tod
Game and Ben Green, who pulled him
up until he had caught Chapman again, I
who was still riding unpaced.
The finish of the race was a beauti- /
ful one. The tandem withdrew on the /
sixth lap and Chapman let Oscar have I
the pace up to the bell lap. He then /
forged ahead on the last lap and fin |
ished just half a wheel to the good. /
As the pair crossed the tape the great /
crowd rose to its feet and cheered more /
than heartily. And when Chapman |
came around and nearly fell from his |
wheel from the exhaustion, many a fair |
one leaned over the railing of the grand !
stand waving a handkerchief and said
nice things To the clever little Geor-
gian.
The race was to have been paced by
Chapman's motorcycle. but it followed /
the example set by John Lawson's has
been and slipped a cog. One of the
man; chains necessary to its mechan-
ism broke and after a long half hours
wait 1t was decided to pace the race
with tandems.
Handicaps Too Big.
The half mile professional bandican
furnished the novel sight of Chapman
not qualifying for the final, and liver
Lawson finishing third on his trial
neat IhlS was on account of the big
nandicdps given the other men. In the
maj lver rode superbly and finished
second. Just half a wheel back of
vaughn. His work on the next to the
last lap, M which he wriggled like an
eel out through the big bunch. was
ABOUT as pretty as anything he or anv
built
The half mile amateur was pretty
Iu''n ~ the nature o. a horse on state
hdndicdpper Sharp. None of the
scratch men got within forty yards OF
d hhlSh except Meakin and he had to
~" IKE professional and a good one
d' 'naj To- he able to travel with the
''' OF the bunch. The summaries fol ,
Summaries.
nan mile handicap professionalism
''Ih vaughn, % yards won: liver Law
son. scratch, second: Glenn Turville 80
.aFdS' third: Ben Green, rs yards.
olrth. Time-57 seconds.
tiaI mile handicap amateur. class A. I
h1nHrt Williams, so yOrdS, won: Har- '
y Allen. 80 Yards. second: Raw Balm s
'llSe, 80 yards. third. Tines sec
'uds So
~ lI-'''iie match race. John Chapman
~. oscar Julius-John Chapman won. ,
.,1e by miies-2:16 10. 4:22 80. 6:24. :
o", lo.3l -. 12:45 3-5, 14:57. 1888.