The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-20

SamueISon Butts Into Money in
Two RaCeS-Weather Chill
Iy, but Big Crowd.

4 chilly evening greeted another over
flow crowd at the saucer track last even
ing, and. as is always the case under
these conditions it somewhat dampened
the ardor Of the fans and slowed down
the riders. In spite of this. one record
went by the board i'm the five-mile pro-
IessiOnal zap race Inc time was lg-z5 20,
made at Salt Lake May 50 1896.
This race was greatly handicapped by
the absence of Floyd Mcfarland, Folger
and Downing at the finish. leaving sam
uelsOn aud Lawson to fight it out. and !
the champion won. McFarlandS tire blew
out as the race was about to start. putting
him our of the running On the lap pre-
Hminarv To the start FOlger. Redman and
Munroe went down the the race was start /
cd without them. Downing dropped out
after going couple of laps, which left
Samuelson and lawson TO represent the /
fast bunch in the finish.
Bsrdgstt Pulls liver.
Bridget Bardgett did the pulling for
Lawson, while another combination which /
showed itself was Williams and Hopper /
oamuelSOn went alone and grabbed Law
sons wheel at the beginning and held it
until the finish of the race Near the
end Williams tried to steal march, with
Hopper tackled on, but Bardgett was
WdttIlIls drlu qVlChiS pulleI - 1870
position Two laps from home Hopper /
came out from behind Williams and start /
ed for the tape Lawson Immediately &C
cepted the challenge. and started with
SamuelsOn on his rear wheel. As they
ueaTed the tape SamUelSOn started to go
around Lawson. but thought better of it
a second later and cOntented himself with
taking second place
SamueIson Wins a Race.
SamueIson won the mile invitation. or
also ran class. without much effort In
The race the BurriS-Smith combination
showed plainly, bat SamuelsUn had too
much speed for the pair and finished
svay to the good with Smith coming up
as they crossed the tape.
In the amateur division. Elongated Jack
Hume was again the shining star of the
evening His best race vas in the final
of the mile handicap. when. riding from
scratch. he got the limit bunch just as the
sprint for home began and, although he
made an all in finish, he was good
enough to get 81 close second to Holiday.
riding from the fifty-yard mark. Hume
took the tWo-mile lap race in easy fashion;
The feature of this event was the spill
of the AIMS before the race was started
On the preliminary laps three distinct
spills occurred
Duck Soup TurviIIe.
Duck Soup TurviIIe, known in polite
society as ClementinUs, held little mo
tor race of his own as the last card on
the program. Ed Heagreu and SHADOW
SamuelsOn thought they were in the race
on their part. for every one of the big
crowd will testify that they were not
True, they were on their machines gong
around the saucer while Turvllle was CIV
ing his exhibition, but that Is all Before /
the first mile was passed TUrville Tapped /
them both He did il again i'm the second ]
jmfIc and then eased up--but still went /
fast enough to pass Samuelson twice more /
before the finish
Two small boys in an imprCmptu Wrest- /
ling match amused the crowd until blue /
coat, known around the saucer as the
''officious COP brayely separated them. /
Instead of receiving Il glad handicap for
his heroic work, the crowd gave him
''bawl-Out-'
The summary 49,
Nile handicap, amateur Final-Holliday
80 vardsl Hume scratch. Weiser 80
yards), Giles 0o yardS}. Time, l-5S SO.
Mile open professional invitation Final Z
-SamuelsOn, Smith, Pye, WILCOX, Red-
man. Time, 215 40
Two-miIe amateur lGp-Hume, Holiday,
BeTrvcssa. Giles. Time, 4-11 40
FfVe-mfle professional lap - lawson,
SauueIsOn Palmer. Hopper Wilcox.
Time 1923 As TeCOTdD.
Ffve-miIe motor Tace-TUrville, EteaEren-
SamuelSOu- Time. 6-5S-