The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-15
Cycling.
LAWSON Won AGAIN
Terrible Swede" Too Much For
Idol Chapman.
LED BY 6 ID MILES
RACE CALLED OFF AFTER FORTY
MILES.

While Chapman had speed the motor
wouldn't work and when the motor got
its breath Chapman lost his. SO john
Lawson won the hfty-mile race in 4 walk
having a lead Of six and half miles at
The end Of forty miles, when Referee
Sharp took compassion on the riders and
spectators and called it of. The time for
the forty mics Was one hour Il minutes
and seconds, remarkably slow
IL didn t start very badly. either Both
motors were running well and both riders
Appeared to b. 10 the DSnk of condition
Ire were great many bets made at.
even money, but there was more Lawson
coin IN SIGHT, The Terrible perform
diCe IN Ihe tWehty-i our-hOur race having
added "a degree or Two to his popularity.
Gus lawson and Oscar julius paced Tor
lawson and Nay and Charley TurvIIIe
manned the O,her machine.
Chapman got the pole, but on the first
utld it. Chapman falling in behind 40
continued TO mold it, and the idols efforts
to- pass were unavailing. Lawson set an
awful pace to begin with, considering the
difficulty that Chapman followed it, APP
parently-
Chapman's Great Head Work.
The most exciting incident of the race
and the preUtiest piece OF head work oc-
his motor was failing gradually STRUCK
out ahead, and in a sprint that brought
the big crowd TO it's feet cheering, over
lie lacked on behind Lawson while a
second motor was being prepared for him.
but as lawson machine went around
ana uedIed the original Chapman pace
maker the Georgian made another terrihc
sprint and caught on to it again, giving
ham the lead some say il was a SCOOP
conceived by Chapman to have the~motor
get out Of gear Tor the time being and
thus take the lead, and it certainly APP
pcared 20 be, Tor at that moment the ma
chine took new lease Of life and for two
miles chapman led for the only time dur
On the eighth lap of the seventh mile
the Chapman motor again gasped only al
intervals and the rider tried the same
trick over again. He failed. Lawson $
pace was 800 warm and the Georgian APP
peared to be baked.
lawson Begins to Gain.
In the ninth Lawson passed the defeated
man, giving him a lead of one Jap. IVer
Lawson and Glenn Turville brought out
another machine, but Chapman had to or
der them 10 slow up. He could not follow
At ten miles the Swede was three laps
ahead and on the twelfth he was eight
laps, or one mile, in the lead.
The terrible gained steadily, but in
the seventeenth Chapman appeared to get
his second breath and endeaVOred to make
things interesting. As usual, the motor
played out about this time and again the
Swece went around and around until he
had lead vi seventeen laps in the TWEEN
ty-tIrSt mile.
At the end OF sixty minutes Lawson
had covered th1rty-tWO miles and one lap.
which is two miles more than the world
One-hour record.
Rode Eight Miles Unpaced.
The last eight miles OF the race Chap
man rode unDa ced. for some reason no
motor appearing on the track for him. 1t
WAS during tins time that Lawson in
creased his lead to six miles, four laps
and a fraction, when the race was called
ON The race was great. disappoint-
rent Dut nobody was SOrry when the end
was FASTENED by ten miles. The last three
or four miles were done at about a 2:O3
clip by Lawson, ana il was extremely I'M
1ntereStng- The Swede was, neVerthe-
less. to all appearances. as fresh as when
he started. The fastest mile was the fifth
made by Lawson. in %
The other event of the evening, the
three-Quarter-mileh handicap, professional
was won handily by Billy Vaughn from
the 45-yard line, in } 81 2-5 Ruiz 50 yards
was second, and Gus Lawson, 80 yards
third. liver came in fourth, riding from
scratch.