The Glenwood post., 1909-08-07
ANNUAL ROAD RACE

ed and crowded the Glenwood section
of the race course, and the Rifle, Pail.
sade and Glenwood bands added to the
din, Russell Welch, aged sixteen, of
Grand Junction, who had been given a
handicap of twenty minutes, flashed in.
to view at the south end Of Grand
avenue and swept down through the
frenzied crowd, crossing the tape at
forty-fve minutes after one clock
last Sunday afternoon winner of first
place in the twelfth annual road race
from Basalt to this city. His Grand
Junction friends crowded around him
and bore him away to his dressing
rooms on their shoulders, while hun
dreds of people, who had never seen
the young man before, showered him
with congratulations, all of which he
bore with a modesty typical of true
victor of one of the greatest bicycle
races pulled off in Colorado.
One thousand people had aecompan.
led the special train from Grand June
tion to Basalt and others had joined
the train at intermediate points while
from Leadville and Aspen came other
hundreds to meet the riders at Basalt
and join the race special that the
racers might be watched from the ear
windows. At Carbondale the train
was brought under full speed to Glen
wood that the big crowd might be here
| for the finish.
Twenty-three riders entered the race
| and when the last man had crossed the
| tape, it was found that Grand June
tion and Denver riders had carried
away the lions share of the trophies
and cash prizes offered by the Midlanl
officials, through their local passenge-
agent, C. NJ. Keck, upon whose shoul-
ders falls the responsibility for the
success of the big day and who de
serves unstinted praise for his twelfth
annual success in pulling off the big
road race.
Rex Barber of Grand Junction, twice
winner of the Marathon in Denver,
twice winner of both time and first
place prizes in the road race. again
proved his ability and crossed the tape
Just one hour and twenty minutes after
his start, once more winner of the
first time prize. But Barber as well
as all other scratch men, were pena-
lized seven minutes, because of the
showing they have made in other races
the past season. This shut Barber
ont of winning place prize. The
roads were heavy, thus anything like
record time, which is one hour and
eleven minutes, was out of the ques-
ton
But there are many who believe thu
winner would have been different
man, had not some fend, as yet un-
known. taken it upon himself to spike
a number of leather straps to the road
bed and through these straps had stuck
nails until they reached up about two
inches above the ground that the
wheels might hit the sharpened ends.
Jess Joy of Aspen, who had passed all
but one of the men to start ahead of
him, was the first to hit the nails. The
next three men hit them and upon max
ing an examination, the nails Were
| found and the other riders warned to
steer clear of the tire enemies. DIR.
| D. 7. Fletcher of this city, tried to
pull the spikes which held the leather,
but failed and was forced to break
them that he might bring samples to
the Judges. Although no action could
be taken, it was well that the big
crowd of people did not learn the iden-
tity of the man who placed the nails
| in the road.
The following were the winners of
the time prizes;
27-Rex Barber, Grand Junction, time
1:2O.
25-E. A. Green, 1906 Pearl street,
Denver, 1:26:05.
sc A. Browning, Grand Junction,
1:31.
PAN. C. Blegebron, Denver, 1:32:2j.
| l0-Melvin Knight, Grand Junction.
1:32:50.
o6-R. H. Lee, Denver, 1:32:55.
Place winners were as follows:
Russell Welch, Grand Junction.
lO-Melvin Knight, Grand Junction
4-Bruce Knight, Grand Junction
s-Joe Stack, Aspen
lS-C. A. Browning, Grand Junction
MAYNARD Porter, Fruita
Following the big road race, twelve
hundred people gathered at the ball
,a.l. and sar Glnnwnnd lose to Granl