The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-02
MOTORS TRAVEL
FAST At SAUCER
liver Lawson Again Shows Him
self Kingpin of Pedal
Pushing Bunch.

Four coughing motors. manned by four
dare devil riders. circled the saucer track
for five miles last evening, and at the
end it was not necessary to hold a cor
oner's inquest While they did not break
any records neither did they break any
necks, and the pace was fast enough to
satisfy nearly everyone elem Turville
made his temperance on the track as a
motor rider and proved himself a worthy
rival of Ed Heagren's, who with T. NJ.
Samueison has been flirting with death
FOR the past two years Carl Schmidt was
the fourth rider and contrary to eZpeCta-
lions came out Of the race with his body
still intact The real race was between
Heagren and Turville, the chubby Dutch
man by birth Irishman by occupation
and Swede by association, coming in first
by q quarter of a lap.
Iyer Lawson again proved himself the
king Of the saucer In the mile open,
Lawson jumping to the lead on the fifth
lap, set heart-breaking pace, pulling
Downing into second place with him In
the final Lawson, Mcfarland and Down
ing were on very intimate terms and took
down the first three places. SamUelsCn,
who seemed to have taken a sudden lik
ing to FCIgers rear wheel could do no
better than fourth place The time was
record, breaking the new mark of LOS
made by Lawson on Wednesday night.
by Une-fifth of a second
Back Marx Men Smut Out.
It was in the mile handicap that the
fast bunch got theirs. The back mark
men stood about as much chance Of get
ting the money as Herrera does of get
ting a scrap in Los Angeles. in both
heats after going 'aII in to get the
limit men, the scratch men were unable
to stand the sprint for the tape and fin
ished in the ruck- It was in the first
heat of this race that Clark, one of the
Australians, made similar jump TO that
nN-
night. He won as he pleased, but was
not placed In the final. The final re-
suited in q fight between HOfister and
Bardgett, HOLSTER winning and Jack
Burris beating Bridget in for second
place. while ex-AmateUr Wilcox pCdaIed
his way into fourth money.
Amateurs in LimeIight.
Again the amateurs came in for their
share of applause. Jack Hume. suffer
ing from the fall of Tuesday night and
unable to walk. showed that his sprint
ing muscles had not been affected By the
sudden contact with the hard cement. 1t
was in the final that West jumped three
laps from the finish and got a lead OF
several lengths on the elongated one.
Hume began TO unwind and passed " est
pulling Mccormack with him. West re-
fused TO Quit and started second sprint.
beating Mccormack out, but was not fast
enough to get Hume. The three heats Of
this race also saw some interesting fin
ishes-
The summary
Mile handicap, prpfcssional-Final, HOl-
lister 70 YARDS. first. BUTFis 90 YARDS.
second: BaTdgett to yards. third; VIII
cox C5 yaUdsj fourth. Time. geo 50.
Three-quaTtcU mile open .amateUr-Fi-
uaI- Hume West. McCoTmaCk- Crebs,
SChnell- Time. 81 %
Mile omen. fessiOGal-Finai. paced by
FUrman. Lawson. Mcfarland, Downing,
SamueISon Time, 1.55 40
FiVe-miIe uncomfortable. first by q
quarter lap Heagreu- second, by five
laps- SamueIson. third by one lap;
Schmidt. fourth Time 6.39