The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-08

InlS run Will De nelu tonight instead
of tomorrow night. The club and in
vited guests viii start from Christen-
sens hall at 1880 o'clock.
Will Fowler is in receipt of letter
from Jack Ledwidge of Ogden, stating
that he has a tandem team of riders
who desire to run off a match with
some Salt Lake tandem team on July
4. The Ogden riders desire to take on
a professional team and want to go
against the best tandemites that Salt
Lake City can produce
There are several teams here who
would be glad to accommodate the Og-
den riders and the challenge of the
team from the Junction City will be
promptly accepted. Charles Brazier
and Frank Mangum are able to give
them their moneys worth and a new
Salt Lake team has been formed by
John Ensign and Joe Edmonds. En-
sign said yesterday that he would turn
professional at the July 4 races and he
intended going into training with Ed
monds in the near future and he and
his team mate would be glad to ac-
commodate the Ogden team.
]. r. Bruff, who will officiate as ref
cree at the races Sunday afternoon,
was down at the track last night look
ing after the grounds, with a view of
providing against a repetition of the
crowding and overrunning of the track
by spectators. Papa Smith is arrang-
ing to put up lines to keep the track
clear of all but officials. Spectators
will be allowed inside the oval, but an
enclosure will be made and the crowd
will be kept back thirty feet from the
edge of the track. An unobstructed
view of the track will be afforded the
grand stand spectators.
1t is proposed to move the judges
stand, which is used for horse races,
back into the bicycle oval so that it
will not be in the way and give a clear
view of the start from the grand stand.
The committee who have been cir
culating the petitions to the Salt Pal
ace directors to construct a modern
eight-lap board track in the Salt Pal
ace grounds have met with success far
beyond their expectations. The petit
lions were freely signed by all classes
and almost every business man and
merchant to whom the petitions were
presented expressed themselves as
heartily in favor of the plan. num-
Der of the biggest subscribers to the
stock were among the petitioners and
the principal city and county. officials
filled up a big petition.
Dozens of clerks and employees in
various business houses were very
much interested in the project. They
have all been prohibited from enjoying
cycle racing on account of their ina
bility of getting away from business
during the day, but the prospect of
night races by electric light would
bring them out many evenings during
the summer
The wheelmen have been asked to
make voluntary subscriptions to the
Salt Palace stock and a number have
announced their intention of doing so.
Stock certificates will be issued for
amounts of 81 and upwards and the
Salt Palace committee will appreciate
subscriptions as a guarantee of good
faith on the part of the wheelmen.
John Lawson has received a letter
from Jack Prince offering to back him
in a matched race against Jay Eaton |
the Indoor King" Prince is a great
admirer of the Terrible Swede" and
wants him to go east and ride on the !
Prince circuit, but Lawson will re-
main here until after the Sunday races !
and may remain and race on the Pal |
ace track in case it is built If Law
son does go east he says he will re- /
turn with string of riders in August |
and give a series of races on the Salt I
Palace track. He has been much i'm |
pressed with the climate and air of |
place for training and getting into con- |
dition. Lawson is a long-distance in i
door rider and his summer work is in |
the nature of building up for the winter
indoor racing.
The Social Wheel club held the regu- !
lar monthly meeting at the club rooms |
last night. C. e. Stewart was unani-
mously elected as president to sue
coed August Stein. The meeting was
we'll attended and the new president I
discussed matters of interest to the /
club with the members present and |
outlined his policy for the government |
and welfare of the organization.
The following resolution was unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, That we, the members of
the Social Wheel club, assembled in
regular meeting, do hereby endorse the
to erect a bicycle track in
the Salt Palace grounds, and if the
track is constructed we do hereby
guarantee our support and patronage
Of the same"
The Social Wheel club will have a
run to Murray next Wednesday night.
leaving the club rooms at o'clock. 1t
is proposed to have a dance in the
opera house.
The Y. NJ G. A. Wheel club will go
for a run this evening. Captain J. o.
Cross will be in command and the route
Will be out Sixth South, around Liberty
park, on down to Twelfth South and
back to the city by way of the west
drive. The club has 'fifty-eight mem
bers.
MINES ARE CLOSED DOWN.