Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-06
SPORTING GOSSIP
or LOCAL INTEREST
Big Racing Carnival With Fast
Automobiles Has Been Pro.
posed Here.
SAMUELSOA IS AFTER KRAMER.
Tommy Ryan Talks Interestingly on
The Subject Of Boxing Bouts OF To-
day lie Has Fought 100 Men.

Manager Heagren OF the Salt Palace
bicycle track is seriously considering
the ACCESSIBILITY OF pulling Off a big
automobile racing carnival Of three
days duration. Whether or not his
scheme materlalizes remains to be seen
His idea Is a good one, aud il carried
out the amusement lovers Of Salt Lake
VIII be given a rare treat Manager
Heagren says II others butt into the
game, he will not attempt to give the
carnival, but II allowed to go ahead he
viii give the best races ever seen In the
west.
A number of eastern automobile driV.
ers have communicated with him, and
have expressed a Willingness to come
here for a biz race meet. The scheme
was suggested when Bert Fuller issued
a challenge this week to Barney Old
field for one-mlle auto race, II Is
understood that the latter Is perfect
ly willing to come here I'm about
month and race with the best that
can be produced here, There are some
who have ridculed the idea Of Fuller
racing against Oldheld. but the fact
remains that the local man has beaten
Oldneld's record Of 1928 by two seconds,
ON a half-mile track and he Is anxious
10 have a chance against the champion
at Caldor's track
Heagrens idea Is to match Oldheld
and Fuller, and have three days
racing carnival with a number of east
crn racing machines entered He says II
he decides 10 pull off the meet, he VIII
run excursions from an points Of the
atofo and mako tho uqpQ sion pup 10 he
long remembered.
Since Billy SamuelsOn has had the
record breaking habit fixed on him h
has been looking for new worlds 10
conquer The local speed merchant be-
lleves he has good chance against the
fastest men In the world, and there are
many here who share the belief with
him. He is particularly anxious to
make a match with Frank Kramer, the
man who has twice won the cham
pionshlp.
Manager Heagren Of the saucer track
has written TO Kramer Offering him
race with Samuelson on the local track
some time this month Kramer has
wired that he viii meet the local man.
and the date and conditions OF the race
will be settled later. Kramer will VS.
II Salt Lake on his way to Australia
where he Is going this fall in the hope
of winning some of the big purses Of
fered there He Is now in st. Louis,
competing In the grand circuit meet,
which opened this week.
Tommy Ryan, the noted middle
weight boxer, talks Interestingly Of
boxing bouts Of today. Ryan is in
Grand Rapids, Mich, and recently he
made the following statement
IA fight at the present day between
two clever and evenly matched men is
not brutal.
THE sport has advanced along scien-
tIhc lines until now a contest is as
clean and sharp as a fencing bout The
gloves used cannot do any great
amount OF harm unless the blow Is
placed just right When 1 started
fighting in Micigan II years ago we
wore skin gloves, That was brutal.
II started my career IN Cadillac,
fighting Joe Johnson there, I have al
ways had friendly feeling for the
state since then. Now / am a Michigan