Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-08-23 | Page 7 | Bicycle Riders Try Speed in the Rain

' - . . 1 ! ' i.(rs i:U f.nal dowi- ' ' ' i..; ifered serlu.j-11 serlu.j-11 ' i -a- at the saucer ' - lit put a compl. ' i quTe-1 quTe-1 f .' t. The opening, races ' : t' t la a rather' r'V.ppery 1 n,. c : 1 it was noticed that the 1 : 11 f.;ft events did not eem 1. .i Utious to break record, poa-' poa-' 'y Ii.t;ri:..? 4to avoid broken limbs r t , r-c: . The last of the four races d ran In a regular deluge; the motor ? s deferred until the next meet !''t. lMders and spectator i....vo -vtre. compelled 'to hunt cover In one-two-three ordr before the end of t: e fourth race.' Notwithstanding the tl.rentenlny aspect overhead, there was ! a large crowd In attendance, and the discomfort from the rain was received with, good-natured remarks. . The qusrter-mile open dash for amateurs ama-teurs resulted In a dead heat for second place, IluTne and West crossing the tape simultaneously.. Demara won the race In thirty seconds. This was the most exciting race of the meet, and' the winner win-ner only succeeded in taking the money by the hardest kind of w6rk. In the two-mile handicap for profes-. slonals W. E. Samuelson won hanclily In four minutes and one second. Hol-lister Hol-lister second; Bardgett third; Agra fourth'. . In Ihe Australian unlimited team pursuit race .for professionals Agraz and Leyland, a3 a team, won out. Uur-rls Uur-rls of Log Angeles and Achorn of New York were their competitors. The distance dis-tance covered was one mile and seven and one-half laps and the time 4:17. Ttaln began to fall as the -riders- hv the two-mile open lap race for amateurs ama-teurs prepared to make the start. This made the track very slippery and dangerous, dan-gerous, and none of the boys seemed to be ambitious to break records. In the last lap, however, they warmed up considerably, ,Hume crossing the tape first; Castro second; West third and McCormack fourth. Time, 4:17. .