The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-07-07
Cycling.
CHEEREO THE MOTORS
Pretty Five Mile Race Between
Red Devils.
ROY H0DGERT INJURED
BILLY VAUGHN WINS HoNORS
AND PRAISE FROM CROWD.

The great crowd of wheel lovers that
patroniZes the semi-weekIy race meets
at the Sail Palace never ~eheered more
loudly or more heartily than it did last
evening at the five-miie motorcycle
race between liver Lawson and John
chapman on one Red Devil" and
Billy Vaughn and Gust Lawson on the
other. Iver and Chapman Won and
from the start it was a thrilling con
test for place that brought toe crowd
to its feet with a cheer on the first mile
and held it there until the bell had
rung and the last lap had been run.
liver and Chapman headed the FRO
ceSslon on the first mile, hut on the
second the other team made bretty
sprint and forged ahead, While the
crowd cheered Just as loudly as it
could. They held this place until the
third mile, when Iver and ChapIn9 n
again came forward and red Tor an
other mile and Vaughn and Gust snot
ahead and gained a lead of quarter the
length of the track. Then th'- cheers
came more loudly than before, If such
a thing was possible. Iver and Chap
man tried on the next two LAPS to pass
the other team, but found il impossible
The next mile found them once more in
the lead. This lead they maintained
the rest of the race and finished a
quarter of a lap in front of the others.
The time for the race was 1858 t-5.
Injury to Hodgert.
A spill that looked as though some
body surely would be hurt seriously
somewhat marred the pleasure OF the
evening. 1t was on the last lap of the
final in the two-mile handicap amateur,
and Roy Hodgert and A. w. Smith
were the unfortunates. Both of them
We're riding way up on the bank and
by some means they came together
falling and rolling down the track with
their wheels on top of them Smith
was not hurt beyond some few square
inches of flesh taken off his side, but
Hodgert sustained what appeared to
be broken hand and a severed artery.
He was taken from the track with
the blood streaming down his hand
and was examined in his dressing room
by a tourist doctor. who did not divulge
his name. An ambulance was then
sent for and he was taken to st. Marks
hospital, where it was found that no
bones had been broken and that moth
ing serious had happened. The wound
ed member was badly lacerated and
after it was dressed, Hodgert was
taken home.
Cheers For Vaughn.
In the final heat of the two-mile open,
professional. Billy Vaughn rode him
self right into popularity with the pub
lie and incidentally beat Chapman out
of second place liver and Chapman
had the lead. with Vaughn third. on
the bell lap, and as they rounded the
last turn and came down the stretch
Vaughn made magnificent sprint and
beat Chapman by a wheel, finishing
just a wheel behind liver Lawson for
first place. When the result was an
nounced. there were cheers from the
crowd for Vaughn, and as he rode
around after the race to slow up, his
procession was a continuous ovation.
The time for the two miles was 4:0S,
which is the fastest handicap time
made this year in the United States.
Summaries.
One-mile handicap, amateur-Will
SamUelson. scratch, won: Ray Balm
bridge. scratch. second; Arthur Liday,
so yards. third; ]. Munson, 20 yards,
fourth Time-2.-5
TwO-mile handicap, Professionalism
scratch, won; William
Vaughn, IS yards. second; John Chap
man, scratch, third. Time-4:OS
Five-mile motor tandem, John Chap
man and liver Lawson VS.. William
Vaughn and Gust Lawson-Iver Law
son and Chapman won. Time-9:53 1-5.