Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-01-02 | Page 8 | Weiser Wins Five-Mile Skating Match

W(SER WINS FIVE-MILE FIVE-MILE SKATING MATCH Defeats Williams Four Feet: the Time Was Nineteen Minutes. The Hve-mllc mutch "lulling rare between Jack Williams and Harry WslSW was run yesterday afternoon at Mellln's rink, on Kifth N'.irlh After a very spectacular finish Welser proved the faster man of the two and won by a lend of about four feet. The race from the start up to the second lap before the close i. i ery slow and Incked anything In the line of spectacular nprlnls During the whole rse th.. two ploughed away keeping up a gait of about .;d minutes to the mile Williams Held Pace. V7llllamS held the pace most of the time nnd until the beginning of the second lap before the end neither tried to do any sprinting Blunts At one ,,f the iun- Welser tiliped nnd Williams stRrted out suddenly, leasing Welser a good ten yards to the rear. An they reeled off the remaining eighth of a mile Wllllamr. widened the spnee between them and would hae most probably ably won out hut for the fact that about a hundred Kards from the tinni stretch he slipped and fell Iry thy timr hs recovered hlmpcif Welser was Considerably In the lead und Williams Wil-liams was unable to iiuite catch-up, although he did succeed in gaining about ten feet Welser nil 1 over the tap., four feet shead of his competitor, who was straining every muscle in the attempt to land the nrst'honors, Evenly Matched The two nun were so evenly matched that ccn nfter Welser has won there are man who would hesitate In raying which Is the speedier Welser was almost exhausted when he crossed the tape. The time of lf( minutes Was a surprise to many, as they were looking for somo record-breaking Six Hundred People Witnessed Race. After the rare a skntlng t-nthuslait Theo. lore Wilson, can' forward with a challenge for WolSST the race to he run as soon as possible, Wilson took part In the Bve-mlle event last season snd Was braten by both Williams nn.l Welser Ills ilmllenge was ae-repted ae-repted l. W'eiher miiI ru 1 ungements for the lace will be made as soon as possible.