Show IlM t ml Y ROADRAt I Edmunds Wins the Wheeling I Event of Year EMORY GETS TIME PRIZE AUBITIOUS YOUNG MEN FIGHT HARD FOR GLORY Young Edmunds Made a Sensational Finish The Usual Number of Punctured Tires and Smashed Wheels Hassard Did Not oslaks the Showing Expected of Him Delayed and stunned by a pyrotfch nical fall within 50 yards of the white tape where victory confronted him plucky little J E Edmunds arose alkali al-kali besmirched anti vered with dust and won with a clean sweep the annual an-nual Y M C A road race to Garfield Two hundred yards behind him came Max Alexander in a whirlwind of < dust and scattered in the rear at long arid short intervals pushing and panting the brightly besweatered forms of 17 other flyers straggled over the line EMORY WINS THE TIME PRIZE While the mountains around Garfield were noisy with cheers and Edmunds friends were exulting around him the lithe and toughened form of O E Emory Em-ory who started with Morley Hassard fromthe scratch line plowed and hammered ham-mered forward like a detached piece of a whirlwind and the hardy flyer finished tenth in the race and was v Inner In-ner of the tim prize in 2950 This lacked just two minutes of equalling the recdrd made by Tod Cain over the same course one year ago The enthusiasm of Hazzards friends received a slight dampening when he came In 17 removed from the winner but he raced like an old warrior and his lack of training for the race was held responsible for his late appearance appear-ance at the finish A GINGERY RACE The contest was gingery and hot and there was surprise as well as congratulations congrat-ulations among the talent over an amateur ama-teur of the 430 class gaining the laurels lau-rels of victory Edmunds was the last name on the list of 26 contestants and besides winning a Waverly bicycle for I I his plucky effort he vindicated the scriptural platitude about the last being be-ing first NINETEEN FINISHED Of the 26 flyers who started to toil I over the alkalai road which leads to the goal tine mile and a half beyond II Garfield only 19 reached the place where the white tape lies I There were accidents and accidents and enough punctures to keep a tire repairing re-pairing agency busy from now until snow flies This barred seeral ambitious I am-bitious youths from obtaining honors I but it did not interfere with the Jort for no one saw the pyrotechnical specialties I spe-cialties except the riders And tnat was the fault of therailroad service ihe engineer who controlled the destinies I des-tinies ot the observation train seemed to believe that he was in the race and j the way he opened the throttle and 1 sent the observation car surging ahead j l of the riders shotted that he did rot intend to run any risk of being out I sprinted by any stray cyclist Only two 1 glimpses were caught of the riders I once when they were making the start and later at the finish In the meantime the obssrvers vainly searched the horizon 1 hori-zon In an attempt to catch a glmpss the nearest rider and were only rewarded re-warded bv getting their optics filled with cinders THE OBSEHVATJON TRAIN Over roe people were in the observation observa-tion train whip it swung out of jQie Utah Nevada depot and the faces of John Axtofn and others of the managerial man-agerial staff were iviathed in wide Cheshire smiles 1 THE START EIgh1 miles from thecity the rIders and officials descended from the train R Conelv took out his revolver and as the first shot snapped in the air J W 111W10S TA1II JIfAU Guthrie and J B Edmunds the 430 men shot aw ay over the hard sun baked bak-ed boulevards The rest launched forward for-ward three and four abreast Every one got off easily and gracefully grace-fully except Sterling and Mueller who mingled their curls with the dust for a moment but ciuickly arose and joined tie procession Emery and Hazsard spun away rapidly and easily together and then there was a mad rush bade to the cars As the train swung on again Hassard and Emery were seen on the road pushing ahead at a hard businesslike clip with Emory setting the pace A country teamster interfered with their progress and held gamely tx > the road while the riders dropped dbwn the incline of th pike to avoid him Further on in hanging gardens of dust the 2130 men were struggling together to-gether with Sawver in the rear and Cutting closely hugging the bunch lust to the fore of him Half a mile further where the empty Windows of a frame < house stare vacantly va-cantly sA the road young Edmunds was observed for the first time since the I start He had hammered his way 200 yards beyond the others and was pun ishing i the highway at a steady rapid gait The only dangerous competitor he seemed to have was Bowman and Watters who were trying like miniature minia-ture Siamese twins to fill up the gap Suddenly Clark and Mueller appeared over the brow of a hill and at one sweep they overtook the two toilers in front of them and as far as they could > j PT y t f I I fj 1 IiII1llhika Ld 1 i It I I I 7 ba seen they were having a hot four handed race all to themselve5 The other sweaters were too far awar to be recognized throush the ubiquitous cinders No more was soen of them urhl the train had Elirped by the beach amd halted at he goal line one and a haf miles bvond As the spsctators looked eagerly over the sway backed road a speck appeared on the brow of a small hill and dOwn the slope came Vhs fleeIng Edmund1 with tOG yards separating him from his nearest rival EDMUNDS FALLS Some one shouted Edmunds has taken a fall and just then a decievity in the road barred him from view Burt Edmunds had remounted his wheel l and covered with a decorative dismay of dust sufficient to have frtlliasd a two acre farm < he came over the tape and won the race The rettiainclar of the finishes were unexciting except when Hassard pushed by iligg3 to come in 17 Emery beat his way ever the taps in the hard steady manner whidh is characteristic of him There were cheers for Lucas arid Cutting as thy came past tha eager Liday Shiplef andj Jensen struggling dowm the < ukfew yards inthe near i ttj SOME MISHAPS There was lamentations among the enthusiasts wheat several hopeful cyclers failed f appear Beam who had shattered his wiled and > survived a running over by Clarke was among thq massing Cutting was the victim qf a fall but recuperated and finiShhed near the front but Nelson was less fortunate for-tunate and wa fforced from the road over a bluff when according to his claim he held a tfositiOtn south fpom the winner Bowman and Tucker also met with mishaps Edmunds spoke of his victory modestly mod-estly even in the flush pf Ins < triumph The fall d d not hurt me in the lesst he said l iand nly delayed < me three or fqur seconds HASSARD PHILOSOPHICAL d I 4 Hassard took tap defeat gracefully al1p said he ougM not to haveenti3re < d the race as his condition did not justify justi-fy iL 4 y THE PRIZES The prizes w re awarded after the I return had be n made to Garflelo Edmunds was made joyous by the award of fife eovetenWaverly bicycle Emorys prize was the Y M C A camera and James Marker of the 230 class wiho received novice hnOrs captured cap-tured a similar award The gold button offered by John T Axtoni fell to Harry Shipter The donor of t the TVaverly watermelon water-melon which was obtained for making the best record among ttoa Y M C As had a surprise party up his sleeve Lawyer was requested to personally superintend the cutting of the watermelon water-melon and at ihe first cut of the huge sabre used for the purpose he was awe struck and filled witlh wonderment < to see a gOld medal drop from the luscious interior of the melom < The wanitng hours of the evening were devoted by the cyclers to bathing and dancingODRECEt ODRECEt OF THE PINISH The order of the finish was 8 d II Name i j f i j f J I L J B Edmunds 32 140 Max Alexander 3053 2230 George H Lucas 32 3330 C K Cutting 30tU 4200 B H lJawver 3013 51U A Liday 3015 61tO Harry ShIpl J 3205 7300 H 0 Jensen 3040 8 130 ii g lathes Marker f 42 0 230 O E Emory 295010 F O Mueller 333 11 330 11l S F Bowman 320il 12 20G J W Guthrie 3305 13 420 GW1ge BOWm9 32021131430 I F I J Walters r le 0 I J i > 00 I I HSTuckr Ir 3245161Z0 1111 L Hassard 3i16117 I A J Hfggs 2436 iS 300 I I T S Stel1ng 51519 200 George V 3toore 1371020400 I Scratch I Paned to iimsh F W LundsLrom A I y v Beam C A Knqwlden H Nelson E E Smith I j LI TH < 1 i t 4L 2 w 1 i i HEPINISL S L 1 i i h 1iilillf 1 i11 |