The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-18
GOOD RACES AT
SAUCER TRACK
SamueIsOn Breaks Two-MiIe
Record Again This Week.
MOTOR TIME IS LOWERED
BOWLER PUNCTUREs TIRE AND
loses AN EVENT.

The usual large crowd gathered at
the salt Palace track last night to
witness The progra nme of races.
marked by close and exciting finishes.
winch brought forth bursts OF applause
rom all sides OF the packed arena w
n. SamueisOn OF Provo for the second
time ia the last week, broke the two
mile worlds record. One week ago
last night he established a new mark
OF sos 40, which clipped off two Sec
onds OF the record held by F.. L. Kra-
lheI, maze at Nailsburg, July @ 1901
Last night the speedy Provo man fin
lshed pa $500 40. clipping another two
seconds on his own record I'm the pref
TEST race Of the programme
Z. b. Heagren also proved a record
smasher by driving his single motor a
mile in 1:l5 3-5, which lowers the track
record of 1:17, held by Maxwell. This
event was not scheduled ON the pro-
gramme, but the exhibition was one of
the features of the programme and
young Heagren was cheered heartily
when il was announced that he had
lowered the record.
Punctured Tire Spells Race.
The special card of the evening. a
nVe-mile mOtOr-paCed race between
Frank Hoffman of Los Angeles and
Jimmy Bowler OF Chicago, was a dis
appointment to the crowd. The Chica-
go boy had a bunch of hard luck pune
turing his front tire after riding three
miles under the $40 limit Bowler still
held his pace for two laps after his tire
had gone fiat, but was unable to con-
troll his wheel which jumped and slipped
ON the high turns. It. NJ SamuelsOu,
who was driving his pace machine,
continued the race and overhauled
Hoffman, Who was a quarter of a lap
i'm the lead.
s. u. Wilcox, the winner of the Dec
grafton day road race made a surpris-
ing ride in the Oue-miie handicap am
steuT race and captured first place Dy
thirty yards, i'm 2.03 To- In the first
qualifying heat with "a handicap of
and won his heat in 2:05, with ElswOod
second and Castro third. The second
/ heat was won by Emil AgTaz. who
started from scratch, in z.05 20, with
/ Tate a close second i'm hard-fOu5ht
I finish. When the final came Wilcox,
with a niuety-hVe yard handicap,
stretched out his lead and finished an
/ easy winner with EtsWood second and
( Castro third.
samueIson Breaks Record.
1t was in the second race the two
mile open lap professional. where Sam
/ uelsOn made his brilliant ride, making
! a new record and winning out after a
hard sprint for over a lap, from Hop
per by a short two lengths. Frank
| Hoffman captured third place, leading
/ the other riders, who were punched uI
I close. Saxon Williams won six laps
during the race, which carried of first
hOnOrs and are valued at 81 a. lap
, Stayer, the Old-time rider on the grand
/ circuit track years ago, made his usua
! decided hit with the crowd and was
/ cheered from start TO finish. Stayel
/ jumped into the lead in the start anC
/ took three laps, showing his friends he
/ was still in the game, but in the las1
/ two laps he was lost and finished WITH
the bunch. Palmer got three laps
{ Burris two and SamuelsOn took tho
last.
Two Consolation Races.
The "profs" who failed to get IN the
1 money on the first race were given q
[ trial I'm a Qne-mile handicap consolation
/ race j. T.. AchOrn proved to be too
I fast for his company and finished mrs
+ after a pretty sprint, taking the higi
/ turn on the home stretch with vii
liams tackled on for second in 1888 80
/ Staver was i'm the race and finished
, third, to the delight of the crowd, ate
/ leading the race into the stretch,
The unlucky amateurs had chance
at half mile open consolation race
I In the start they had q miX-up which
put a couple of wheels out of commits
sion and I'm which Nadel gave an eX
hibition i'm the line of double sOmer
saults At the start, after the leader
had hit the first turn, Sherman tool
the curve high. His wheel slipped on
/ from under him and shot down IN
, incline to the arena. Nadel had th
/ role and collided with him as he strucl
the bottom. turning a somersault Wit
his wheel into the grass. Several oJhe
riders made q short cut out into ia
arena. but. fortunately, no one wa
hurt and the riders were called back
Carl Redmau won the event in goo
stvIe with two lengths to spare n
100 4-5, with Tate coming around IN
outside for second and Elswood follow
ing in third place.
/ The motor race was finished out D.
HOFFMAN in S.02 20. which is under tn
1:4O limit. His new motor proved {
! be an excellent machine and Two OF th
: ill., rs-1vo .ff-raT 1F i'm 1897