The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-04
CYCLING NOTES.

For the first time this season Johnnie
Chapman Is beginning to show the form
that in the past has made him the most
popular bicycle rider that ever circled
the saucer. Chapman not only has
speed. but is the headiest rider at the
track. When the Atlanta Wh1riWlnd
rounds into condition and gets his heels
and head working at the same time. he is
the hardest man on the track to defeat.
Chapman never enters race that he has
not figured out plan whereby he viii
get inside Of the money. and it is seldom
that he fails. In the Australian pursuit.
race last Friday night Chapman used his
head and got third place instead of fourth
by so doing As he came up behind King
il was evident by his riding that he was
all in, and had Just speed enough TO
pass King before he. too. would fail \
victim to the OncOming ruShes of his
competitors At this time there were
five men on the track and four prizes
in sight Chapman knew If he went af
Ger King he would get mis- own cork in
doing 50 and the best he could expect
was fourth place. But by holding hack,
Chapman waited for S3muelsOn to cut
out GUSsie Lawson. leaving but four men
on the track. Chapman then went around
King and captured third money ms
kind Of riding is head work, pure and
simple. and it is the kind of work that
pleases the crowd. Johnnie says he IS
going to stick to his training, and If ne
carries out this agreement with himself
he viii again be the popular favor5te he
was a year ago
A new tandem team has sprung UP at
the saucer track. The riders who from
their work yesterday are apt to trim them
all are Harry Gibson and E. F. Sche1ski
The latter was team mate OF Big Bill
Randell a few years ago, and the COM
bination made records that still stand
The boys will probably enter the next
tandem race given on the local track,
and it viii be well to watch their work
Ciussie Lawson and Charlie Turville
both put in the greater part of yesteT-
day training for the twenty-mile motor
match race to be pulled of next Tuesday
evening. Turville is probably in the best
condition on account of the several races
he has already had this year, bUt Gusste
Lawson is one of the best pace followers
in the country. The race is for blood and
it will take q good student Of the game
to pick the winner.
w F King of Los Angeles announced
yesterday that he would have new
motor here within a week Billy has cast
a longing eye at the pace-follOwing game
for some time and proposes to get in It
for all he IS worth in the future. King
saws that his motor viii be of fOur-horse
power and the fastest ever brought 10
this city
Eddie Smith, the amateur champion.
said last evening that there was nothing
in the report that he was going to Butte
to ride. Smith was anxious to meet
Hoffman before the latter went east but
will content himself with the promise of
the management of the local track TO
give him a motor match race with HON.
man when the latter stops OF here on
his return from the eastern races next
month.
Baby Gibson and John Lawson are
after each others scalps these days Glib
son holds the 100 kilOmetre championship
of the world, and ''YOn'' wants to add
this trophy to the already long list d
championships siung at his belt Gibson
claims he is at his best at this distance,
and the race. If arranged, should prove
OF the utmost interest, as it will be the
first time a race of this kind has been
held in the United States. The contest
in which Gibson won the championship
was held in Montreal. The only hitch
will be the purse Both men are Wiling
to make a side bet on the result
The chances for eastern riders to visit
Salt Lake before the season closes are
exceptionally good and the closing of the
national circuit viii probably witness a
number of new faces on the saucer. Ihe
circuit will finish in about three weeks
and then there Will be a grand rush OF
the riders to new fields The Salt Lake
track is the best known in this part OF
the country, and its reputation for CIV
ing good purses viii naturally be draw
ing card. Several letters have been re-
celved by the local management, asking
for match races, and it IS said some Of
the best men in the business viii be &C
commOdated.