The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-27
BIG CROWD SEES
MCFARLAND Win
Lengthy Californian Has Easy
Five-MiIe Victory Over
SamueIS0n.

When FIeyd Mcfarland is bl0using his
own Bravo and riding fair dnkum-which
IS the Australian way of saying, when
Mac is betting his own money and is rid
ing to winnie always cashes in the big
ticket at the box office. This was the
status Of affairs in the match race be-
tween Mcfarland and Samuelson at the
saucer track. A crowd OF 1900 persons,
the largest of the season, was there and
they saw the lengthy Californian easily
defeat the man who has made Provo IA
nous When the time came for the big
sprint. II was missing as Mcfarland was
not forced TO use one.
The race was paced by two tandem
teams, Downing and Bardgett and Wileex
and BuTTis, These alternated pace every
six laps, or therea bouts, and carried the
men within four laps of the finish Nc
Farlsnd and Samueisan alteFnated with
the pace, which was not fast enough TO
extend either rider. When the tandems
quit. Samuelson was leading and watched
two laps from home and instead Of bat
ting Ii out, Mcfarland merely passed
around Sammy and watched him over his
shoulder to the tape, Mcfarland won sit
ting up and wearing the smile which has
won him more races than his lengthy ped
al stride.
Samuelson had the misfortune TO fail in
one of the earlier races of the evening
and ran a big splinter into MS leg. This
was taken out by Or. G. q. Plummer be
fore the match race with Mcfarland. IL
was a painful injury, and may have both
cred SamuelsoH in riding However, had
the accident not occurred the result would
have been just the same
Hopper Wins over Lawson.
BY tar the best race of the evening was
the final Of the tfree-quarter mile haHdi-
cap in which Norman Q. Hopper crossed
the tape i'm front Of lveF Lawson. Fol-
ger and Pyc were the combination used
10 pull Lawson 10 the limit, and this pair
certainly lined II out To get Laws with
in striking distance Fer some reason
Lawson cid not so en- up 10 the lead or
the race when the, nigh mark men were
caught. Probably he was waiting for one
OF those famous spread eagle spirits
which make the rest of the bunch look
like selling platess. At any rate ne start
ed the sprint and was making nay when
one of the upper mark men threw him
M tie bank
Larson lost MS stride for an instant
and this instant lost him the race. In
fraction Of q second he again began TO
put those piston rode kicks into his pedal.
but HUpper's jump carried him over the
tape a fraction over the fast coming Law
In his heat Of this race Lawson added
another record to his already Ions list OF
this season by riding the three-quaTters
from scratch in lei a.. Announcer Fred
MeaSin overlooked the fact until some
one Of the many who carries a Herald
dope book called his attention 10 a.
Hume After Fame.
Jack Hume ne of the tail frame and
Kitchen stOYe sprint, sought now worlds
10 conquer last eVeEins with &Duck Soup
TurviUe as n pilot. 1t was the nils paced
record held by himself which Hume
thought easy. Jack got going, and got
ceiug some, when his rear wheel collapsed
Tie did the slide for life stunt along the
high banEs Of the saucer and nit ahe bot
tom s-ith the remark that 1t never
touched me Those who saw the fall
have some opinions of their own on this
matter.
The mile open was easy first for Law
son. easy second for Mcfarland. easy
third for Downing and an easy meal tick
ct for the light haired youth who rides
as Freddie Fogler. In this race Samuel
SONS tire nunctured and this put him out
of the running
Summary of the Races.
The summary. also rams omitted.
Three-duarter-mile handicap profession
sI-FInaI: Hopper $50 yardsl- Lawson
tscratchi. Wilcox go Yards, Aunr0e tlOD
Nardl Time, ] 81 %
Mile open teUT-Final, Hume. Nc
Lsughiin- West, Deifenhacher, McCorm-
HsJf-miie open. pFofessionaI-FinaI
Lawson. Mcfarland, Downing, Fogler-