The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1915-06-04
MOTORCYCLE
RACES SUNDAY
ENDURANCE TEST SALT LAKE TO
BLACKFOOT
Average Speed 2S.6 Miles Per Hour
Including all stops

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Never since the days of G. Bunting
land 81 Goggins have Blackfoot people
shown SO much interest or gotten so
much real fun out Of open road races
| as last Sunday when the first annual
Iendurance test of motorcycling was
pulled off in wild dash from Salt
Lake City to Blackfoot.
The distance covered was 2US
miles by wagon road; 1914 miles by
rail, and there were AZ entries for
the run. Prizes amounting to about
i $3.50 in cycle goods had been offered
the winners by Salt Lake business
houses, and this was matched by
$3.50 in cash by Blackfoot people,
besides free entertainment SO long
as they remained in the Grove City.
The riders left Salt Lake in the
morning between and 7 o'clock,
riding in a bunch as far as Ogden
Hot Springs, lead by an automobile
setting the pace of 25 miles an hour.
It was agreed that the rules of the
Federation of American Motorists
should govern the race, and that any
machine that passed the auto on the
way to the hot springs should be
barred from the contest. This was a.
Safety First" measure, and at that
point the riders drew lots for places
starting about three minues apart to
prevent punching up on the road.
Only % of the entrymen made the
start, and number % lead the way
with number five next. D. A. jenkins
of Blackfoot was number nine in the
entries but was the nineteenth to
start. Jenkins is a speed-fiend and
so successfully burned the earth"
that he had passed them all before
he reached Brigham City. Elated
with success in putting them all be-
hind him, he sped into Brigham at
about so miles an hour, supposing
the town was cleared for passage.
He dashed up behind load of hay
in the street and the driver seeing
him made quick pull to the right,
and at the same instant Jenkins shot
around him on the right, losing his
hold on the earth and turning some
quick sommersalts into hitching
rack. Taking Mr.. jenkins own esti-
mate of what followed, he scared
through the skies for time, and
then opened his eyes and saw an
other racer go by. He recovered his
broken machine, got it into working
order and the crowd pushed him off
before he discovered that the con
troll" was broken so that once started
he Guild not shut off the power and
he could not work the brake. His
head buzzed and the machine whiz-
zed up the road; COW stood across
the track uncertain which way she
would move and Jenkins tried to
slow down but banged into the COW
like flash, and the wheel and the
rider separated again in equal un-
consciousness. Other riders passed
and the crowd worked with the patti
ent to restore him, and after a long
delay he came to himself and pushed
off again.
Pinky Zimmerman, one of the men
who passed Jenkins unconscious at
Brigham, spilled" in the road ten
miles further on, and Erwin, Pasco
stopped in his race to try to revive
Pinky. An auto party relieved him
and Pasco sped on.
Jack simons went over grade and
rolled down an embankment' and lay
unconscious for long time. Mclean
broke his wrist and Cooper fell
among rock below Malad and batter
ed his face and temple. The road
selected was via Malad and over the
mountain, it being considered pre-
ferable to the Smithfield summit and
the Preston route. Not all of the
riders knew the way and some OF
them took. the wrong roads and got
off into sandbanks and cobblestones
and gave up the pursuit. Harry
Cooper rode into a little town in Ida
ho and thought it was Blackfoot. He
said it seemed to him that he had
been on the machine splitting the air
for about four days, and he steered
up to a garage to ask where the
finish was and they told him 1t was
at Blackfoot. SO miles further on,
this being McCammon and the time
|of day little after noon. Sa
The things we have related were
mot known to the public at once, but
there were rumors Of them and Seo-
|pIe waited anxiously for details. At
Hae4laeoat arrangements had bssn'
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