Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-04

IneIt is one lllnE tIIdt mas 10 ne cor
rected down at the salt Palace and out
at Satair too. 1t is the management
extremely dangerous habit OF letting
crowds down in the center of the track.
This IL going to cost lives unless ii is
stopped Officials may have to be there
butsthere is no reason for spectators or
others lettering around the base of the
track. Every race night at the Salt
Palace sees scores of men and women,
children and babes down In the center.
| Small boys play tag and have grass
| fights and young folks stroll around UNI
| mindful of the races, themselves. The
| older folks, including women with babies
| i'm their arms form "A solid barber OF
| humanity just behind the wire around
the bottom of the slant. While no grass
| tempts at Saltair the foolish fans are
| 10 be seen counting injury out there,
| too
The crowd seems more anxious to
go down and stand up throughout the
program than TO sit in the seats above.
Why, Is a mystery for II is no pleas
TIRE to keep turning around and around
like whirling derrick to follow the rid
Crs ana that is what has to be done
by those in the circle. People like to
get where they really ought not to get.
rs a rule, il may be this odd little
streak of human nature can explain the
crowds In the unprotected center of the
bicycle saucers.
hut the management Of the tracks
should keep every person up in the
seats except thosc who are paid to act
In capacities, demanding that they be
at the bottom OF the track, Unless
men, women and children are kept
where they belong a bicycle or motor
rs going TO shoot of the track some
night and there's going to be blood
Spilled-and II viii not be the riders
alone either
Motors. especially, are dangerous
things. If one Of those 300 pound NJ
fairs shouid get loose while going at
a mile minute speed II would plow
It's way through the crowd at the base
OF the slant There would he nothing
10 keep It from hurting itself into the
crowd, there Is no barrier ~ the bottom
OF the slant there Is nothing but one
thin wire stretched around foot high
sticks, II Il machine got loose-as they
| often do-what could women, with
| children II. their arms do ia save them
selves and their babes? There would
| be- a stampede which would result In
| deaths If the motor itself did not crush
| out lives, Its a bad piece OF negligence.
| some lives are sure to be the cost.
| Then there viii be a mighty hullabaloo
| and "A posting OF orders. but 1t will he
too late TO save the life or lives that
| could have been saved had the halluba-
| loo been raised and the orders posted
| before the accident happened. If the
| tracks should get an unfavorable de-
| clsipn In big damage suit. they Wor,~
| realize how careless they really were;
| how they permitted human beings To be
exposed 10 danger when there was abso-
| lutely no reason or excuse for IL. Is
u TO be an order for the safety Of the
| public or a horror
Colorado papers say tho now groy-
hound racing being worked out In this
| city dent 20 worth a red copper after
the dogs have followed the stuffed
bunny Tor "A couple OF times Here's
What Colorado paper says about the
game being perfected by o. +, smith
a present salt Laker:
Mi Smith, the inventor Of the troll
ley rabbit, is wcll known In this city.
where he spont some time, both before
and after he went To Hot Springs, in
the Dakotas. 10 handle the affairs of
national Courslng meeting. Mi Smiths
idea Is new as far as the trolley IL con
| Cernrd. but the use Oh dummy rah-
bits la courslng has been tried before
! A couIsiug meeting was conducted nj
Broadway park about n years ago
promoted by Denver men after the
Humane society mad legislated against
the use uf live rabbits In an enclosure.
"CoursnB men from Kansas aud
Colorado took part In the Broadway
park meeting. The hist day the sport
WAS good but thereafter the wise old
dogs dropped to the plan and refused
| 10 be deceived AZ Broadway park tho
rabbit skin was well mounted ana
| placed on a wire base, \ long rope on
wire was attached tu the fore of tho
| base and ran to "A large vel under
| the stand Here tNn Wrge nesroes
| We're stationed beside the big ii-fo1t
! wheel. and at "a signal they began
| to turn AS the Wire was wound on the
! wheel the rabbit went over the ground
at rate faster than the dogs could
! run, stirring up a dust, and, al a dts
| tance seeming very Ike the real
! hing. At these trials there WAS only
one means for scoring points the faster
! dog winning the course, Al the turns
and twists and the kin were naturally
cut out Of the trial.