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Show il THE ARGUS. unexpected. Mr. Lawyer has been assiduously training for tLe past month, riding daily in Salt Lake and environments, but the latter part of the month he was in the skilled hands of William Gilbert for a week or so. Mr. Gilbert is making a splendid local reputation, having in hand, besides Lawver, some very promising material. Bertram H. Lawyer, although a comparatively new comer in Zion, has suddenly jumped into favorable prominence through his sturdy little from cramp in the legs for a mile or so near the finish. He also had a punctured tire about four miles from the tape and rode the remaining AN ALCOHOLIC NOSB BICYCLE LAMP. distance with his wheel in this condition. The wheel was a Stearns Roadster, 22 pounds, IS gear, with Palmer tires, and, altogether, it is safe to say Mr. Lawver will soon be heard of in a way, when speed and endurance are to be considered. go-ahea- d Mr. Stein, Butler and Wilkes met the committee on Public Grounds Thursday evening and succeeded in securing a unanimous vote in favor of building the cycle path around Liberty Park and on next Tuesday evening when the committee hands in their report the council will vote in favor of appropiating the necessary $375 for the completion of the track. Already the contract has been let and work will be started next week and by the first of July the path in all probabilities will be finished and the wheeling fraternity will be happy. A cycling paper is soon to be started in this city. It will advocate the good roads movement as well as all BERTRAM H. LAWYER. Winner of the novice time prize and second place in the Decoration Day Road Race. performance. The race course was replete with difficulties embarrassing to the ordinary novice, but Mr. Lawyer did himself proud. He makes no pretensions to being a racer, but his adaptability for the pursuit is great, and many people in the state will be glad to know more about him. He was bom January 16, 1875, in Pennsylvania, but for the past six years has resided in Colorado. He came here from Denver in the latter part of February, this year, and is connected with Peery & Lowe of Salt Lake. Before coming here he was with the John G. Morgan Banking Co., of Denver. Mr. Lawyer has ridden a wheel for only three years, and while he has been much interested in wheeling and racing for a long time, he never took part in any racing events until the Decoration Day race in this state, in which he was, comparatively, so eminently successful. For a novice, the result was excellent. He states that he felt no fatigue on the road but suffered a SUN EASY CLEVELANDS other matters pertaining to the welIn the fare of the wheelmen of Utah. The Social Wheel Club will at their next Day Road meeting elect an editor for the paper and all contributions directed to Dim will be printed. The Social Wheel Club will run to Brockbanks Sunday, The G. T. & G. B., and the Jubilee Wheel Clubs will make the run with the Socials and the union run promises to be the great Decoration Race, Emory, with a gear-caCleveland, wins time prize, and' Penrose, a novice, gets first prize. se could not help winning the race. The gear-ca- se Clevelands ran up the hills as easily as on a level. It was simply play for me to run away from the other fellows. I tell you there is nothing like a gear case. The Cleveland Bicycle is the only wheel in Utah having Mr. Emory says : I Gear Case. Dont you want event of the season. There will be at the celebrated Dust-pro- of least sixty wheelmen and ladies on one? this run and the number may be Every race for the last three years, on the Farmington swelled to over one hundred and all course, has b een won on a Cleveland. Doesnt this mean wheelmen and wheel women are inyit-e- something? to join the clubs on this occasion SALT LAKE CYCLE CO. (Inc.) and a good time is guaranteed. Mrs. Agents for Cleveland and Brockbank has a reputation for fine Westfield Bicycles. Main Street. 219-2- 21 dinners and the usual charge of 50 Smith-Premi- er and Typewriters cents each is very reasonable. National Cash Registers. d : The Socials now have a very healthy treasury as a result of the road race and a committee is out looking up new and more commodious club rooms where the members and friends can enjoy themselves. A gymnasium is among the possibilities. The Socials are forging to the front and will rival the best clubs in the West before the season is over. Qroeschner They are the talk of the town Bicycles Built and Repaired. NICKUM'S FAMOUS RISPETTES The New Confection For Parties, Piculcs, Afternoon Teas, Lim cheons, etc., etc. MANUFACTURED AT 216 MAIN ST. WORKS, 114 W. First South St., Salt Lake City, Utah. |