The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-29
week FULL
OF EVENTS AT SAUCER
Three Meets Arranged With
Battling Nelson the Fea-
ture of the Third.

The present week Will be one OF the
biggest in the history OF racing at the
Salt Palace saucer track, II the promise
that is contained in the programmes al
ready issued by Manager Chapman bears
fruit. First OF ell. there will be three
nights of sport instead of two, and the
third Will have as its feature a boxing
exhibition by Battling Nelson, champion
of the world in the lightweight division.
The boxing exhibition Will be the cul-
m!nating event OF night OF record trials
behind motors and competition races be-
tween tho best men riding at the track.
Tuesday Evenings Programme.
The regular programme to be held
Tuesday evening will consist of q num-
ber OF exceptionally enticlng features.
II will bring together Floyd Mcfarland
race French style. The race Is likely
to be slow up TO the sixth lap. when the
men Will begin TO fight for first place at
the finish. The French style OF match
race seldom results in the breaking OF
any records. but IL always furnishes Its
share of thrills In the sprint which comes
at the finish Downing is more dis
tlnctiyely sprint man than Mcfarland.
and accordingly will have somewhat the
advantage In race OF this sort. The In
tense rivalry existing between the two
men, through their falling out OF month
ago. should make The race hard fought
to the last lap.
Tuesday evenings card has on II also
a three-mile lap race for professionals
and three-quarter mile handicap race,
In which liver Lawson Will be set back
at scratch with hard ride ahead OF him
to beat out the limit man. The amateurs
Will get their chance in a two-mile lap
handicap race and one-mile open,
Vests victory over Hume last Friday
xI,,..
was back into form again, lends interest
to the contests to be held between the
non-pros.
Battling Nelson the Feature.
There will be the regular races next
Friday evening, for which the programme
has not yet been announced. and ON Sat
urday evening comes the red letter event
the appearance of Battling Nelson.
lnasmuch as this Is to be an entertain
mont which the fair patrons of the track
can view-and it Is hardly likely that
many Of them would not like to see a
champion OF the reputation of Nelson in
action-Manager Chapman looks for the
biggest crowd OF the season. Nelson's
exhibition will be held on the band stand
He has sent for his sparring partner
Billy Gallcgan of Chicago, but lf that
energetic young man docs not arrive, he
will box with some local boy near mis-
weight,
Downing and Lawson.
Hardy Downing and lver Lawson will
each follow motor pace In an effort to
break the mile record. Downing Is con-
sidered to be the best pace follower ut
the track In this event. however. he
Will ride bicycle geared at 90, which is
30 points below the usual gear employed
In trailing q motor. He will do this be-
cause Lawson has insisted upon IT. Law
son, in his training for his races with
Frank Kramer. is using 96-gear. on
account OF the races being all of the
sprint variety, He will not use larger
gear In any event from now on. and, so
that he an Downing might have an equal
break in the motor-paced exhibitions
against time to be held next Saturday
night he insisted on Downing using the
same low gear
Turville Will Appear.
Clem Turville's failure 10 get his old
reliable motor working nicely last Friday
night was responsible for his not making
n good showing against r. NJ. Samuelsons
new machine. He has accordingly chal-
lenged Sam TO a nve-mile race. to be
held on the Nelson night and the chaI-
lcnge has been accepted. They Will fight
II out in one OF the preliminary numbers
Jack Hume will also make n trial for
the one-mile amateur record behind n
motor. all of which makes up card
which Manager Chapman figures will
bring huge crowd into the arena.