The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-25


day and Friday; The programmes are not
out yet, but It is intimate that there are
several surprises in store.
When the spectators at a cycle race
stand I'D in the seats and cheer The riders
as they travel mile after mile at rs
casiOns the past week, they little realize
the risk those very men are taking
There is a limit to everything, and the
limit of speed on the saucer track was
Just about reached on both the occasions.
When the Turville brothers dismOunse1
after their record breaking ride last Tues
day night an examination of The tires
on their machine showed them worn
nearly through on the under size. me
tandems had to lean so much 20 hold the
heavily banked curves that they actually
slipped up the bank Had they RIDDEN
any faster there would in all probability
have been a serious sccident, as the
machine would have slipped rom under
them. A race Of this kind is so hard on
the tires that they nave to be replaced
probability the time made ny the Tur-
vil1es on this occasion viii stand for 3
long time
George A. Maxwell left for Denver last
evening. and expressed himself wei
pleased with his trip to Zion Maxwell in
his letter to Manager Rishel, said he
wanted to ride, winner take ali. This WAS
promised him IL on his arrival he could
prove that his machine was fast enough
to make a good race. On its arrival the
machine did not seem to come UP to The
expectations, and in order that Maxwell
might receive little money Tor MS
trouble in coming over here, Manager
Rishel put a second prize in the race
When oscar julius began 20 ride rings
around Chapman in their race Thursday
night Maxwell asked the saucer manager
what he thought about riding winner
| take all. When asked how fast the thing
could 80 Maxwell only smiled and said it
could go some yet
Eddie Carruthers, who has been look
track
/ while east, states that several of the pesr
men in the country have announced their
/ intention of drifting out this way next
/ month Among those. who expressed q
| desire to come to salt Lake is Major Tay-
| lOT. The cOlOrcd man was considered the
/ best man in the world until ne got mp
/ against Iver Lawson. and now honOrs ar
/ about even between them
/ The management of the saucer track
| announced yesterday that a fifteen-mIl5
/ motor race had been arranged between
Harry Gibson and Glenn Turville for mex
! Tuesday night. Gibson has showed i'm
/ proved form for the last week, and his
] friends are OF the opinion that he can
make good if given another trial. Glib
son claimed that in, his two previous race
he received the worst of it in the motors.
and in order that this may. not occur
| again both he and Turvil'e Will ride ma
chimes with the same horse power. Jonn-
ME Chapman viii give pace for GItbs91
with his machine and Charlie Turvlll,
/ will pace his brother on their two 21C
| one-haf power motors
John Lawson. the terrible Swede, i
! now the proud pOSsesSOr of the Maxwell
! motor which has created so much com
| ment among the patrons of the sauc p
/ track the past week. After seeing IN,
1 Maxwell ''jigger' annihilate space Law
! son has been lying awake nights tryins
! to figure some way of getting possessi} u
of it. Maxwell was not willing to part
with the machine for several days. but
| at last yielded to the Dleadings of The
| Swede and closed negotiations for tht
sale of the machine last night. Tn
whole wheel. including the motor, wa
made by Maxwell, who is one of the pes
! motor experts in the country TIE man
! agement of the saucer track is fgurin
| with LaWGOn to get the motor on tn
/ track next week, and if successful som
very fast time win be made. The Ilfl
| chine has never been let out Tor .ul
speed. and it is doubtful if the track +
sufficiently banked TO hold this newes
/ terror. The maker claims she inachin
viii travel a mile in 1:15 on a straigh
road without using the pedaling gear
! which speed would be liable % send bot
rider and machine over the dome of tn
| Salt Palace if attempted on the track.