The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-03
MANY THOUSANDS
At WANDAMERE
Labor Day Is Celebrated With
Rest, Recreation, Horse
Racing and Sports.
SOME EXCITING EVENTS
AUTOMOBILE CONTESTS ARE ABB
sORBING FEATURE.

Five thousand people-probably more
enjoyed Labor day at Wandamere Most
of them came from the country with we'll
filled baskets and large families of chill
dren 10 eat what therein was contained
The men folk brought their horses for
trial o. speed on the track, and some
of the events were highly exciting.
After the racing Bert Fuller, driving
Samuel Newhouse's car went against the
worlds record on a nalf-mile track. but
he failed TO lower it, the watch showing
1:4 Is. The automobile race between
Fuller and L. S. Moore. driving Keith
Clark's machine. was won by the former,
who had the faster machine The track
az Wendamere is not especially we'll suit
cd 20 automobile racing. owing to lack of
grade on the curves. But the crowd was
uckled and grew greatly excited as the
cars fleW around the track leaving be-
mind them cloud of dust that would put
a years production Of smelter smoke to
shame.
An Exciting Event.
The most spectacular event of the af-
. ternoon was the five-mile relay between
cow horses. There were twenty horses,
divided equally between the East Jor-
dan and the West Jordan The riders
were Lester Fox and Leo Reed, and they
are both masters of the art No range
rider could have handled himself better
lidn OlO lneSe Two young men. Reed was
the more speedy on making the change,
but he seemed to lose time in getting
started. He had Ill luck, too, with a
beast that wanted to climb the fence, and
there he lost fully quarter of a mile,
which he never regained. He had bet
ter horses than Fox, when he once got
them going, but Fox's mounts were of
the kind that set themselves steadily to
the work and thereby the game easily.
The race was five miles, which involved
ten mounts. The success OF the east
slider was cheered as he galloped hand
lily under the wire at the finish.
The Automobile Race.
Everybody stayed for the automobile
race A good many. of the people who
were at Wandamere yesterday had never
seen an automobile, save when two of
them make up their evil minds to race
along a lazy, peaceful country road, run
ming down their teams and frightening
the living tar out of the horses
Bert Fuller was easily the favOrite in
what little surreptitiOus betting was done
and his machine proved to be the SUI
perior of the two. The race was run in
three heats of two miles each. Moore
took the first Fuller the second and
also the third. The times for the three
heats were: sos, 2:57 and minutes flat
The Harness Races.
No great degree of speed was shown
by any of the horses entered IN the har-
ness races, but in spite of this the con-
tests were interesting. In the first race
free-foT-alI Jennie A won from Alamo
in straight heats, with time Of 2:2118 and
2.231h
There were four entries in the colt race,
Little Red, Robert @, Myrtle L and Laura
3. Laura won the race. The best time
was 2.471a.
Jeff, Phil B and Forest Boy went out
in the third race. Forest Boy w0h. The
best time was 2:3S
Jasper and Brownie struggled for the
mastery in the fourth race. Jasper won.
with best time 1854.
Len Painter of TaylOTsville succeeded in
riding an outlaw. after three others had
failed The bucking was spirited. as all
broncho bucking is, but in this case es-
pecially so.
Has Record Season.
+ Today WandameFe will have an eXcur-
sion from the southern part OF the valley.
The resort would have closed with the
Labor day crowd. but an additional day is
given because the folks who wanted a
date before could not get 1t on account of
Tain.
The management of Wandamere saws
that the resort has handled fully double
the number OF people that found amuse-
ment there last year. The success of the
season at Wandamere has been even be-
yOnd the expectations of those in charge
Improvements have been made during
the summer that leave the park in an eX-
celent condition for an unprecedented
season next year