Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-30
ANNUAL ROAD
RACE TO LAGOON.
Time Prize Went to Charles Arch
hold, Handicap Man
In 1913,
STEVENSON FIRST over TAPE.
r w. Grant Got Novice llma Irl1c 10
iSa --liaoSeas Long Pace
'lolcs Record Unbrokcn,

Tho annual Decoration ray ROAD race
over the Pennington course this morn-
Ing promised to be- rtcord.brooker 1t
was an ideal day without wind ana
Just warm on. oh, but the recent rains
In tho vicinity Of Bounl.ful made tho
roads honvy AZ the consequence
TAlos record of iji0 remained unluW'
erod, Tho best time WAS made by
Charles Archhold, % $3.50 handicap
man, VINO covered the distance W iblA'
First over the tape was Robert SloNon.
son, a G.mlnulo man, whose Time was
$50 The novIcr time prl2o went 70
T. W. Grant who, with a 2'mlnulo
handicap, rode Ia iSlg,
WE'RE MANY SPILLS,
The usual number Of spills were a
feature ~ the race, Nadol AN usual
took u balloon lstonson, following lls
two tumblos on the Ogden saucer WIN
IN few days, ana came IN riding Nlth
one foot ElNWood also, win . minute
to snare on the scratch mon hll some
rocks ana then the road In u fashion
that sent an his dreams OF the tine
prize glmmcruR among the stars oc'
olsloncd hy hH fan j, A. llansol
friends also had an idea that be would
pulI down something, but thc fact that
none would take turn AZ pacing
brought him In MIN For II miles no
led his bunch without q break WI"
Hams came bad croppor ana cut up
hlS arms and hands somewhat j, u,
smith kept up his record for being last
man 70 gol homo, ana taken altogether
the race was decidedly success ana
up 10 former traditions,
OFFICIALS on DECK,
The officials, too were un deck win
upsto.dato ideas ON catching tho time
NO there was no distressing wait ana
strenuous debate following the race.
The result with tho time Of each man
WaH checked up inside Of 10 minutes
when heretofore this proceeding gene
crdlly occupied something like am hour
or moro
TRAIN BROKE ~ TWO,
only one Incident occurred that might
have murrcd an othorwiNo successful
day Just as the train, outward bound
with ilR n clrloods of humanity was
pulling into Conterylllo II broke In two
ut The nina car Tho train was gong
slowly az the time and the air brakes
worked TO perfection, Had II been bow'
link along at 80 miles an hour win
everybody hanging on TO the steps Hnd
one Ndc OF the cars watching the ncors
the result might have been different
THE LINE VI,
By 10 o'clock there were 81 riders I'm.
| ou up ready to start NJ the intersection
of Thlrd West ana Firth North They
made brave showing IN their cos.
! tumof that ran all the way from vivid
racing suits down 10 oyoralls proollr.
ally an Of the riders were under %
| years of age some Of them moro boys,
After considerable checking up Will
liam Fowler pulled the trigger and the
seven minute bunch sl1rlcd win Bclle,
No 4 IN the lead, by "a coincidence
this man mlghod fourth, Crops of the
eoyou minute men finished seventeenth,
riding ON nat tine, otherwise there
might huyo been another story, Russell
led the $3.50 squad Ia the turn but In
the anal ehulllo he finished thlrlyseoc'
oul.
From mat time on the pistol cracked
~ halt minute intervals until the
scratch mon lined mp when There was
o stampede for the train, Ot tho
sprolch mon MNby and Wilcox were
never heard of again both of them
quitting ON account OF accidents,
| Moby retiring from active service With
| IN the city limits,
At BocKs j, ~. Smith was the FIRST
man passed. by the train he was trail
INK behind the bunch which was going
Blk guns na though they would get To
| Pennington I'm 40 minutes At tho
| foot " llcoks hill Nadol was Eolng
solus out after u knot Of minute men,
| with the aid OF glasses a regular bnk-
cry was brought 10 Wow among tho
| Juniors who were pumping up tho