The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-11
Cycling.
AGAIN THE WINNERS
Chapman and liver Ride Another
Pretty Race.
AGAINST BIG HANDICAP
THEY ALSO BREAK STATE REC
ORD FOR TWO MILES.

John Chapman and liver Lawson
rod. SO prettily and so strongly when
they first came here this year that Of
fetal Handicapper Sharp gave the ham
d..ap men in races in which they APP
p.ared as much as fifty yards: result.
Chapman and liver won. Then the
haaIicapper thought hard and gave the
nearest man to scratch seventy-five
wards. with the same result Last
evening the nearest team in the two
rrf- tandem handicap was 100 yards
and che farthest 1870. which lacks but
few yards of being one lap.
When people glanced at their pro-
-,rammes they looked doubtful This
is the time they get beaten" they
said softly to themselves. and there
rer. very few who expected that the
little pair would ever make UP the vast
interval But they did it, and they
performed the act so neatly and so
prettly that it begins TO look as
though they can capture anything no
natter how iar away the rest Of the
riders are placed.
There have been some very nice rides
since the opening of the track at the
Palace but none was any more inspir-
iug than the clip those boys hit in the
fTN. zap anu maintained Until LlltN idQ
caught the big bunch in front of them
in the middle of the first mile. They
appeared i'm jaunty new costumes. and
Els they fairly spun around the track
cheers arose from the crowd, and i'm
prcSsIonable maidens held their breath
and said oh" ecstatically.
Just One Good Race.
The race was the one event of the
TuryllIe and J. p. Gum. with 100
yards carly showed up as a strong
team and made a pretty finish for sec
oud. John and Gust Lawson, with a
handicap of 10 yards, got third. and,
Caine and Green. with 100 yards, got
fourth The time for the two miles
was 3.5g, which breaks the state record
and is the fastest handicap time ridden
on the track.
What was perhaps one of the most
remarkable falls ever taken on the Salt
Palace track Dunctuated the race. and
the most remarkable thing g bout il was
that uo one was injured beyond a few
bruises Ii happened in the last half
of the last mile. Tod Caine and the
alleged COlOred champion from Denver
Ben Green. were riding in front of
Billy Vaughn and g. f.. May, when
Vaughn and Mays tires rubbed
against those of the other wheel. and
they fell They piled up in d promis-
cuous heap on the turn. and Emery
and Chaffee plowed right into them.
taking a header on their tandem and
adding To the bunch. Everybody
crawled up good naturedly, thanking
their mcky stars that they were not
laid on the shelf.
With the exception of this race, il
was "a very tame evening. there being
very little spice or variety to the pro-
Crumme The amateur races were run
IN long heats. and the lap races did
not prove as exciting as people thought
they would. The summaries follow:
Summaries.
Half-mile open. amateur-T. NJ Sam
nelson won, w. +. Samuelson second.
King third. Meakin disqualified for
fuuling Time-1.02.
Oue-miIe lap. local, professional
George T. Chaffee won. % points; G. F..
May second 20 points. Ben Green
third l6 points; =. w Ensign fourth,
r. points Time-2:06
Two-mile tandem handicap. profess
SioDal-iver Lawson and John Chap
van. scratch. won: Glen Turville and
j. p. Gum, 100 yards. second, John and
Gust Lawson. ITO yards. third; a. w.
Caine. jr.. and Ben Green. 100 yards
fourth Time-3.59.
OUe-mile lap. amateur-W- Z. Sam
nelson won. 80 points. Ray cambridge
second. % points. Jack Burris third, IA
points. William King fourth. Il points.