Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-03
RECORD=BREAKING 24=HOUR RACE.
Marvellous Exhibition of Human Endurance and Cycling Speed
King Leads, With Lawson Crowding and TuryIe
Overcome by Exhaustion.

Spartan stamina and pluck has came
as near to being outdone during las,
night and all Of today as 1t ever was In
the brilliant annals OF bicycle racing al
the Salt Palace track. Never before dld
a race so test all the qualities Of sand
and endurance as the twenty-four hour
event which began at little after ten
o'clock last evening and which is still
being run down on the sugar bowl
The three riders, Billy" King Of Los
Angeles John Lawson Of Sweden, ana
Charles Turville Of Philadelphia. have
done what very few racers ever care
to attempt. and In the doing OF 1t they
have been the participants in what II
easily the greatest race ever seen ia
this city.
II is probably. too, one OF the finest
exhibitions OF riding ever seen in any
other city In the world, for during all
OF today, the men have Kept many
miles ahead of the worlds record. III
they can only hold TO the terrific pace
which they have set-it almost seems
beyond human endurance to do it-they
will have established another mark that
will go down on the n &. A. records
with the many that have already been
made here, and that are attracting the
eyes OF the cycling world Salt Lake
wards.
BILLY" King got a good lead this
morning, and he has maintained q
through the day, gaining a little all OF
the time. He has been riding strong
early this afternoon, and II he can only
hold TO the same pace, he viii win
John Lawson. who is the twenty-f0ur
hour champion OF the world Is second,
but he has been all the way the fresh
est and least worried Of the three men.
There has been plenty OF money 90 say
that he will win. despite Kings good
lead but II he should fail TO make up
what he has lost, the plucBy little man
from Los Angeles win tear away his
laurels. and draw down first money.
Charles Turville has shown less en-
durance than any Of them. At 1880
this morning he was carried from the
track In dead faint, and after being
revived again, was put on. only TO sac
cumb 90 the heat and exhaustion. II Is
n terrible thing. this sitting n whc j
ANI sNN BAiifn WIN oiits II ANNA VI hAAfNA
minutes. and the marvel OF ID is that
all OF the riders have not fallen from
their wheels long ere this. Tury,lle has
been unable 90 get into form siaca his
relapse this morning, and he rs not now
figured In the race at All.
No race ever given here has attract
cd the general attention that this has.
The News" bulletins Of the hourly
progress Of the race have been scanned
nearly all day by people anxious for the
results. and whenever n new sheet OF
paper was posted they jammed around
with craning necks so that passage
along the sidewalks was almost inn
possible 4 large portion OF the citizens
OF Salt Lake has felt. az least, a pass
ing interest IN the event and many
there are-the great hosts Of racing
devotees who are always down 10 the
track on race nights-who nave been
personally concerned. and who have
talked az this race with morc enthu-
slasm than they have OF anything for
as long back as they can remember.
Admiration for the pluck Of the men
who have been riding has been freely
expressed, and from now on each one OF
the men, whether he finishes first or