The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-01
SPORTS
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again this season and starts work on
setting up the ring Tuesday. He has
; leased the armory and owns a ring
with all the paraphernalia. which he
Will put in position the same day, and
proposes to open during ElSs' carnival
week, when he will put on three bouts
he is trying to arrange go between
Jack Wade and Roy Condie. but the
former is booked for Butte about that
J time. Jack Christy may be given
show and Jim Francis is another pros
pectiVe card. Jack Earle is here and
anxious for match, and Clark viii
probably match him with someone i'm
his class. Earle received a letter from
k J. Mcdonald, the featherweight.
who is now at Butte. asking for
match here. but Jack hardly thinks he
. VIII take him on. IN the letter Nc
Donald says, 4 boxed at the Wade
{ Oglesby fight and gained a decision
over the st. Paul Kid Jimmie Can
ma; d, in six rounds and made quite
hit The fighting is all right up here
and might make some money if 1
stay
Mcdonald was here a few weeks ago
| with BOmar Wilt. from California Sam
Clark will give the latter "A match with
Jack Christy in the near future.
The all-absorbing talk among the cy-
1 clers the past week is the approaching
twenty-four hour race at the saucer
track, which viii start tomorrow night.
At o'clock sharp the report Of Starter
Gaines pistol win send King. Lawson
and Turville on their long grind and
/ the merry whirl of the six different
motors, manned by the best profess
siOnal and amateur talent in the city.
should mark the beginning Of the best
bicycle race ever seen in the western
country. The contestants for this race
have been faithfully working for the
past week. and all three riders declare
themselves 1t for the race of their
lives Every provision has been made
for their comfort. even to the minutest
detail in regard TO the food they will
eat John Chapman announced yester-
day that he had taken the manage
ment of King for the race. which in
sures that the Californian viii be we'll
taken care of.
Representative Sharp of the y. c. A.
received letter from Chairman Batch
elder yesterday, requesting him to have
the saucer track measured by an. en-
gineer and an affidavit forwarded him.
Mr.. Batchelder apparently does not like
the way worlds records have been
smashed at the saucer the past season
and thinks it is just as we'll that "A
new measurement of the track be
made. Representative ShaN) said yes
terday that he was sure no one had
taken a piece out of the track since it
was measured before, but in order 70
comply with the wishes Of his superior
he would order the work done.
w. 2. Vaughn yesterday forwarded a
claim to the racing board for the
worlds record of q: rs SIS for ten miles.
made by him on Aug. %. f. 2. IIeagren
is now securing the necessary data for
a claim tor the worlds amateur five
mile record. Heagren secured this
mark last Friday, when he heat Hume
out at the tap in the five-mile lap race.
Harry Crou, a familiar figure on the
track in the days of cycle racing at
Beck's Hot Springs, arrived n the city
yesterday from Spokane. CrolI saws a
new saucer track has Just oeen opened
in that town and at the opening meet
four lady riders contested in a long dis
lance race. AS lady riders are not al
lowed on a n. c. A. track rhis viii stop
all the best men in the country from
going to Spokane.
Ben Green announces his intention
yesterday of retiring from the racing
game for the rest Of the season. Green
goes out in trainig and rides as fast
as any of them, but claims he is unable
TO do his best riding at night. He may
return to the track again next season.