The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-20
Cycling.
TERRIBLE SWEDE WON
Exciting Contest on the Saucer
Track Last Night.
FAST TIME WAS MADE
FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE SEE
THE BICYCLE RACES.

beneath a Starlit sky that CanOpied
over the Salt Palace saucer last night.
1000 enthusiastic people gathered on
the benches around the arena and Wit
messed the greatest bicycle race ever
pulled off in Zion. From the crack of
the pistol on the first event to the last
lap of the final race. this great throng
sat spellbound while the wind-spIitting
circuit chasers put up the best auaiitv
OF peddling that ever ratified the boards
OF the saucer
It appeared as though everybody in
town was there too root, to shout ard
10 make merry. The city council was
represented by eva~y member of tie
body. They had adjourned until to-
night to be there, and thc-r enthusiasm
reminded one OF {. scene in neir cham
Der over the appointment of Demo-
crat on one of the city departments.
Battalion after battalion of the fair
sex surmounted the rows of seats. and
as the painting winners rode 10 victory.
enough fans waved 20 almost brush
away the clouds.
Was Thrilling Event
The most thrilling event of the even
ing was the l5-mile match race between
John Lawson, the terrible Swedc,"
y match
race champion. Added to the fury and
fire of the riders efforts for SUPREMACY
was the presence OF che red devil mo-
tor. ridden by Billy Vaughn and Gus
Sic Lawson, that sped around the
saucer like the wind, uttering its sharp
demOniac chp-chu
As the pistol shot rang out the two
riders plunged after the motor like
shots from Long Tom The Swede
Ia he'd ffga r.sne.
hlnd tire, with Emery in his wake.
once around and Emery spurted ahead
or the demon machine and displaced
Lawson from the lead.
Here the Swede began mastery
course OF action which went lons
ways toward giving MIN the race.
Experience had shown him that it is
big handicap TO ride directly in the
wake of the motor. The suction is suf-
ficient TO greatly relieve the friction
of the track and the resistance Of the
WIND IN a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CLIP.
Tactics of Lawson.
So, when Emery would speed by thu /
machine and caught the pole in the next
lap or two, Lawson would squirt ahead
and force him to give uD the coveted /
position. BY this tantaIizing vaeilla- /
ton Of position, Emery was rec uiFed 70 /
follow the Swede or squirt out and !
waste energy The result was that the I
Swede rode nine of the fifteen miles on /
the pole
The finish was a remarkable contest. /
lasting for two laps. The two men
tore ahead IF the motor and rode like /
demons, while the crowd cheered. It /
was anybody's race up TO the last half |
of the last lap, when Lawson drew
away from his man and won by ten
feet, riding the last mile in the remark
able time of 1.4S. The time for the
fifteen miles was 3O:47, which is close
to the record.
The thrill engendered by this great
race was heightened to the straining
pitch when 17-year-Old Gussie Lawson
rode an exhibition mile behind the
motor in 1:51. Billy Vaughn and John
Lawson rode the red devil, and con-
sidering the fact that this was the six
teenth mile this trio had completed
IN less than thTee-quarters of an hour
the performance was a remarkable
one
The half-mile amateur race proved a
cinch for Fred Meakin in 1.05
a splendid contest resulted in the
Australian pursui trace. when BAN
bridge won from Samuelson after a
hard fought battle of two and three
eighths miles, in 1855 4-5. Bambridge's
performance ranks up with any similar
one that has ever taken place on the
saucer.