The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-15
CROWD AT THE RACES
-Four Thousand People at Salt
Palace Last Night.
STIRRED UP ENTHUSIASM
SPECTATORS GROW EXCITED
OVER CLOSE FINISHES.


Of cycling lined up on the benches of
the Salt Palace track last night, at
what proved to be the most successful
and interesting meet of the season.
1t was a jolly and good-natured
crowd. One of the kind that knows no
waiting with patience and is ready to
root and shout at the sterling perform
ances of the circuit chasers. And they
did root, shout and grow enthusiastic
during the evening, for the events
easily Outclassed any ever seen on the
track for vim and whirlwind finishes.
This spirit of enthusiasm reached the
climax in the professional tandem
race, the star event Of the evening
Men, women and children rose to their
feet as one body cheering wildly and
waving handkerchiefs, canes and fans,
when Glenn Turville and J. P. Gum
rode to victory over Iver Lawson and
John Chapman. after the hardest
fought battle of Drawn and speed that
ever burned the pine boards Of the
saucer.
Fast Time Made.
When Sherman announced the time
for the mile, 1850, a mighty shout
went up that echoed to heavens high
canopy
This spell of fever-Iike ecstacy was
not modified when the second heat of
the one-mile lap, professional race, re
suited in a tiger-fOught dead heat be-
tween j. ". Ensign, a Utah prOduc-
/ ton, and Iver Lawson. The fight for
supremacy lasted as long as the race,
and reflected as much credit on En-
sign as it did excitement upon the
spectators The final heat resulted in
a victory for Chapman, after a cannon
ball sprint from Turville.
Mayor Thompson and the members
of the city council cheered and shouted
with the rest, and for once forgot their
arduOus duties of holding the citys
life lines.
Dealing retrOspectively with the pro-
gramme Of the evening, it began with
an amateur One-mile race, with eight
entries. Bainbrige looked an easy win
ner in the final heat up to the moment
SamuelsOn made quiet sneak into the
fore, sprinting so swiftly that he was
never found any more. He won by
length, with Cranes leading Guthrie
by half lap. and the field struggling.
Again the amateurs had the field in
the third event, a twO-mile open. Mea-
kin, Guthrie, r. Cranes and +. 3. and
II. w. Heagren qualifying in the final
heat.
Was a Pretty Race.
It was a pretty battle, characterized
by the splendid riding Of Meakin. He
Outclassed his field and went winner
by a lap of margin. II. W. Heagren
and r Cranes came two, three, and
the field lined back Indian file, with
big ragged gaps of light between them
One lonesome spill was recorded
when 0. E. Emery, after do
ing a cOntOrtiOn act on the saddle in
the mile professional tipped over and
Bit the dust. He was Jared a bit and
that was all
II was announced at the track that
John Lawson, who has just arrived
from Los Angeles, where he smashed
an twenty-fOur-h hour records by riding
52g miles, would appear at the meet
next Tuesday night in a fifteen mile
match for $50 a side with Emory, paced
by a red devil motor.
Summary Of Events.
The summary of results and prizes
follow:
First event, one mile, 2:15 class, anna
teur, prizes. SIS, $40 50, first heat-Sam-
uelsOn first. Cranes second, Guthrie
third. Time-2:30.
Second event, two-mile open, amateur,
prizes. S25, SO, s.; first heat-Meakin
first, H W. Heagren second, r. Cranes
third. Time-4;4l.
Third event, one mile, lap. profess
sionaI, prizes, $40, SIS, SO, s.; first heat
liver Lawson, % points, first. John
Chapman, Is points, second Glen Tur-
vile, 20 points, third; George E Chat
fee, points. fourth Time-2.07 2-5-
Fourth event, one mile. tandem ham
dicap, professional, prizes, $50, $50, SO;
eutries-IVer Lawson and ]. Chapman:
J. p. Gum and Glenn TUTville. II. W.
Game. jr.. and Green; 0. +. Emery and
George T. Chaffee, J. 3. EdmOnds and
J. W. Ensign. Gum and Turville won,
Lawson and Chapman second, Ed
mOnds and Ensign third. Time-1:5O.