Salt Lake Herald | 1891-01-29 | Page 5 | A Champion Skater

A CHAMPON SKATER J f Bacon It Best Man at the Art la New England r F Bacon of Cambridge Mass who recintly won the fancy skating championship champion-ship of New England Eng-land is a wonderfully wonder-fully expert and graceful performer perform-er N < it long ago at the fIrst annual meeting of the New E ngland association S Skating associa tion he yas pitted against Ihe best men in th e states represente 8 and made a resord of 388 out of i i possIble possi-ble 42S Hi s most dangerous ival was H 1 B ames Cambridgi who made 231 points There were f our J F BACON other clever item petitors H S Evans A Judge W L JJt tlefield and A ti Bryant but in the scientific scien-tific and easy e ecution of cross rolls serpentines ser-pentines eight threes spine pivot fig I urea grapevines locomotives and various puzzling skating specialties Bacon easily defeated them al L 1 j I Bacon was bor u at Boston thirtythree I I years ago He is o lily 5 feet tall and weighs i but 115 pounds bi t there is nothing small about his skating Bacon first attracted I attention as a mar tel on the ice when only j 10 years old Five years ago at Burlington Burling-ton Vt he made his public debut but I thus far he has been unable to defeat such I i crack artists as Louis Rubenstein Moses Rubenstein and G 3A Phillips j