Show THE BIG ROAD RACE IT WILL BE RUX OFF THIS EVE XIXG Jensen Fenton Hansard and Con nil ear Are the Lenl Junction City Men Are Backing the Ogden Racer Tho Farmingtcn road race run today is the bicycle event oi Kiat hind of the season Fifty entries are In the hands of Secretary Axton a larger numoer than has ever before been received and among them are seen the names of the best road riders in the territory Jensen I Fenton Hassard Connibear Liday and Drabble of Ogden and numerous others who will capture some one of the I twentythree prizes offered by the Y M C A Blue prints of the course are on exhibition I exhi-bition in several prominent places and no one will have the excuse or oppoi tunity of going astray for Jlagmen are I to be put along the course in ail of the doubtful places The road folloWEd almost al-most the same as the one used in the Decoration day contest A handicapping committee was at work yesterday afternoon and will walk the streets the next few days Armed with clubs which they Intend to use upon the first irate racer whs imagines someone has put up a job on him kenton the Ogden ci will suiel race and will bring down from the Junc tion city a host of sympathizers who are willing to back him against anything in this western couiiay irom fifteen to fifty miles Pedestrians on Main street were trying to work out a large Chinese puzzle in the vacant lot just north of Bonds restaurant res-taurant It was only a large mal of the course for the benefit of those riders who are not very familiar with it The prizes in Leysons window have been universally aanured espcally the two first prizes > a pall of beautiful diamonds dia-monds The rIders will be on hand at the corner cor-ner of Fifth West and Fiftll North which can be reached by the street cars promptly at o p m although undoubtedly undoubt-edly tlvre will b < 1 a little delay in getting get-ting such a large field of starUrs on From that time on will be threequarters of an flour of the most etcitirg sport The Hot Springs road has had its sec tion men out lismg up the r ugh places and removing the stones Tney also claim to he able to handle a crowd of a thousand people with ease and dispatch Jf today be stfll Jensen it Is predicted will beat his former recorJ ly 1 three minutes min-utes Creamer another R G W brakeman from Ogden has entered and judging from his al earance he will make a strong race Most of the Ogden racing men came down last night animg them Fenton Elarte Smith Gray Anderson Creamer Goll Webb and Cortez They are all ready to back their favorite and even declare de-clare that they will give odds on him Drabble who won the Ogflen race Decoration > Decor-ation day has entered and will make a strong run for first place At last report last evening the Ogden man who was fi > have acted on the hanoi capping committee had not shown up in this city and the local men were wrest Unit with the proposition which is a very difiicult one The officers of the course will be A F Holden R L Conely Dr Pfoutz Dr Mayo H T 1 Duke A E Hyde jr of this city and C C Barin ger Is H Becraft and W II Swan of Ogden I |