The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-06
WITH SIX-DAY RACE
JACK PRINCE WILL OPEN COLL
scum SEASON MONDAY.
MEN AND MOTORS NOW HERE.
EATON. GUS LAWSON AND TUR-
WILLIE TO BE THE CONTESTANTS.

Each Paced by His own Motor Will
Ride Half Hour Each Night of Next
Week-aIotOr Race by Professions
ais to Be Another Event of Fine
PrOEramme-Amateu to Be Given
Chance to Win Prizes-Prince and
Part of His String Reached Savan-
nah Last Night-Detained In At
Ianta by Benefit for Family of
Rider Killed There Last Week.
A season of six weeks bicycle racing
will begin at the Coliseum Monday.
This is the announcement of Jack
Prince who reached Savannah last
night, bringing with him a part of his
string" a supply of motors and such
other paraphernalia as will be needed
on the track. The season, will be
opened Prince says, with a six days
race, in which threem en-, Jay Eaton,
Gus Lawson, the Terrible Swede,
and Charles Turville will take part
each paced by separate motor.
These men will ride half an hour
each night, beginning at o'clock and
the man who rides the most miles at
the end of the specified time Saturday
night will be declared the winner.
These nightly sprints will be only a
part of the show. however, for each
night there will be additional attrac-
tons in the shape of a motor ace, in
which three men will take part and
there will be also a series of amateur
races for which suitable prizes will be
offered.
Will BE Lively Races.
The idea is, says Prince, to have a
series of short events as preliminaries
to the big race and the professional
motor race that in each case will fol-
low it, so that a fine programme will
be given each night. The people will,
he says, be given such sport as they
have never had here before.
Though the programme for the sec
ond and remaining weeks of the meet
have not been arranged Prince says
that they will consist of events in
which the very best riders of the
world will take part. These are ex-
pected to arrive from time to time. a
little later, and will include such men
as Bobby Walthour, Benny Monroe,
and Mcfarland, men who have been
smashing records on the biggest tracks
ton to repeat their performances on
the local bowl.
Eaton and Lawson Here.
OF the men who are already here,
Jay Eaton is an ex-champion of the
world and Gus Lawson, who last
spring engineered the motor on this
track, has become pace follower him
self, and proved himself to be one of
the best men in that business, as he
was in the other. Turville also has
a record that shows him to be a dan
gerous competitor for the best of
them. The only motor rider to arrive
last night was Daredevil Callahan
of Philadelphia. The other men will
arrive Tomorrow. .'.- -+sth ~
Prince was due to arrive in Savan-
nah Wednesday, and would have been
here but for the unfortunate accident
on the Atlanta track which resulted
in the death, Saturday, of young
Charles Mallory, thrown from his
wheel by collision with a small boy,
who ran acros the track. Mallory
was buried Monday, and Prince stayed
over Tuesday in order to give a benefit
for the family of the dead rider. This
took place Tuesday and Melted 1882.
To Get the Track Ready.
This morning bright and early Prince
will go to the local bowl and there be-
gin whatever preparations may be nee
essary for putting the track in shape
for the opening of the racing season.
Jack is a hustler as was proved in the
building of the track, and as he has
some three days in which to get the
matters arranged there is no doubt but
that he will keep faith with his an
nouncement and have things ship
shape on schedule time. Another mat
ter that he will attend to to-day is the
seeing of the Savannah Electric Com
pany to arrange for a plentiful supply
of cars and a quick schedule to and
from the coliseum.