The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-25

son will race with the man who defeats
him.
Papa Smith has made another
change in his July 4th programme at
Calder's park. He has cut out the
two-mile lap race and substituted a
half-mile open professional with $50.
so and So cash prizes and in place of
! the unlimited pursuit race Gum and
julius are matched for a $50 purse for
three-mile pursuit.
Several good improvements are be-
ing made at Calder's park which will
better the condition of things. The
grand stand at Agricultural park has
been moved to CaldeT'S and the
bleachers are being enlarged Smith
says with the seating accommodation
enlarged there should be no difficulty
in keeping the crowd off the tracks.
The new Coliseum track recently
built by Prince at Kansas City is be-
ing run under n. c. A rules and is
proving to be a big paying investment.
Prince has adopted the plan in all of
his latest tracks of building them
close to the center of the city He has
found such tracks Will always draw
good crowds where race tracks far
failures. The Palace track in this
city could not be better situated or
more easy of access to the general
public.
The Opal club management is highly
pleased over the the success Of the ex-
cursion to Garfield Thursday. The at
tendance was the largest the club has
ever had on any excursion and every
one was unanimous in the opinion that
no better time was possible. The
club management is figuring with the
Garfield authorities with a view to
securing certain nights at the beach
for the exclusive use of the club and
invited guests.
Emery and julius start at p. m. to-
day in a fifty-mile match race at
Calder's parry They will start from
opposite sides of the track and ride
until one or the other is caught. Pace
makers will then be put in and pull
the riders along until the end of the
fifty miles. This will be the first long
distance competition race in the his
tory of cycling in Utah and VIII in
augurate a new style of racing that
promises to be quite popular. Long
distance matched races have been all
the rage in the east for the past two
years and with the talent there is in
Salt Lake at present there is no reason
why there should not be more of these
contests.
Lawson's electric tandem has not
reached Salt Lake yet but will prob
ably be here the latter part of this
week.
Moonlight runs were plenty last
week and the clubs and unmatched
riders were everywhere to be found in
the suburbs and along the country
roads
The Terrible Swede' yesterday re-
ceived a home trainer from Chicago
for exhibition purposes. This trainer
has an electric dial which indicates
the speed of the rider and the distance
travelled He will use this in exhibit
ton rides at Lagoon and other places
where there are no tracks.
Papa" Smith has called off the
twenty four-hour race at Calder's park,
and F. z. Schefski is making arrange
ments for similar event on the Salt
Palace track July IL and 10. John Law
sons electric pacing machine will be
used to pace the riders Sharman,
Gum and Emery have announced their
intention of entering for the race.
Sanction has been given to the mes
senger boys for a race meet, open only
to messenger boys. on the CalderS park
track June 2S. The messenger boys
road race will take place the morning
of the 2Sth, starting from Second East
and Second South, at a. m, and fin
ishing at Calders. park. 1t will be
handicap race, and the distance will be
about three miles.
The Social Wheel club goes to Brock
banks at 10 o'clock this morning. A
Brockbank dinner is the leading fea
ture of the days programme.
Ensign and Edmonds will form a
tandem team and will COM
pete in all tandem events for the pro-
fessional tandem championship of the
season.
Manager Augustus of the Y. NJ. c. A.
athletic team says the road race will
probably be run off July u. He and
John Axton will decide definitely upon
the plans for this race tomorrow. it
will be run on the Farmington course.
and if possible an observation train
will be arranged for.
The Socials will have a strawberry