The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-31
VA|LSBURG TRACKS
CLOSES ITS DOOR
Looks as Though American
Championship Races Will
Be Held Here.
CHAPMAN HAS ALREADY
WRITTEN BACHELOR
Kramer VIII Attempt to Induce
Local Riders to Go
East.

In the whole Of America there is at
the present time but one real cycling
track and that is in Salt Lake City. \
week ago there were two, but since
that time the Vailsburg track has closed
it's doors and for the present said
good-by to the pedal-pushers. The
track will not be opened again this
season unless Frank Kramer, who is
coming here next week, induces suf
fcient number of local riders TO ac
company him East to make it worth
while starting up the game.
Championship Races for Saucer.
But even if Kramer were to succeed
in this venture, which is quite improb
able, the local management feels that
IT is only fair to them that some Of the
American championship races be run at
the saucer. Manager John NJ. Chap
man has already written to President
A, G. Bachelor, asking permission to
run the oue-mIlc and five-mile Ameri
can championship professional races at
the saucer during Kramer s STAY here.
Now that the Vailsburg track is closed
it seems probable that this REQUEST viii
be granted and also that President
Bachelor may be Induced TO allow the
American championship races in both
the amateur and professional divisions
to be run at the saucer. II he does. ii
will be the first time In the history of
the cycling game that these titles have
been decided on 4 track west of the
Mississippi river. IL will be great
boom for the local track, as it will place
n number of the fastest Eastern riders
in both classes under the necessity of
coming TO this city.
Lost Money at Vailsburg.
The Bicycling World, in discussing
the closing up of tho famous Vailsburg
track and the decline of the cycling in
tcrest in the East, remarks:
"Cycle racing is all off at the Walls
burg board track, so far as Charles b
Bloemecke, the manager, is concerned.
a meet WAS scheduled for last Sunday
and less than l00 spectators and only
about twenty riders were on the scene.
Mr. Blocmccke threw up his hands in
disgust and said:
- IN through with the cycle rae
ing game If anybody wants the track
to run race meets they can have it for
song; but so far as | personally am
concerned, racing at Nailsburg is dead
er than door-nail. ] have lost over
$500 this season. and | do not intend
to take chances in losing another pen
ny. The professional riders think thcro
is big money in promoting bicycle
races: if they still think so, let them
try IT at the track nero.
Kramer After Local Riders.
cit is not believed that an attempt
will be made so reopen the track this
season, unless Frank Kramer brings
back from Salt Lake a lot of profess
siona riders Kramer is signed to ride
II series of match races against lver
Lawson ON the Salt Lake track the first
part of August, and n slight hope re-
hnl ~ hn
if he can induce some Of the fast pros
to come East. II he does not the cir
cult championship will go West this
season. and if such shall prove the case,
it is doubtful If track racing viii ever
be revived in the East, The Bay View
wheclmen are said to have been look
ing for the chance 10 run purely anna
tuer meets at Vailsburg, and charge
Il nominal admission, but unless the
amateurs eviucc more enthusiasm than
they have so far. it is not likely the
Newark club will bestir itself, -