Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-02
PRINCE AFTER
MORE RACERS
NO RACES AT COLISEUM FOR
TWO WEEKS
GRAND OPENING WILL BE A REAL
CURTAIN RAISER
Ample Machines Being Hurried west
for All Riders Who Heretofore
Have Been Seriously
Handicapped

There will be no races at the Coli
scum motorcycle track today. This
decision comes as. the result of the de-
termination of the management 10
close the track for two weeks, until tae
snort can be placed on a really hlgher
standard than it has yet occupied pc
cause of the absence of SUFFICIENT hlgh
sneed machines for the numerous RID
ers now at the track showing cham-
pionship form. .,a.,+,,
Because of the palpable SUPERIORITY
of lake De Roster, on his Indian ma
chimes. the public has unwittingly been
=,lEade to feel that he was the only star
at the saucer track, when, as a matter
of fact. Ii has been the belief OF the
management and of many other close
observers, that it has not been a ques-
tion of superiority of men, but rather
question of the superiority of machines'
To meet this condition JACK Prince
has gone east, and already number
of machines should have been started
west by him, equal in horsepower and
speed capacity to anything that mas
raced on the Coliseum tracks. These
machines will be here by the grand
opening" of two weeks hence, and af-
ter that time there will be no valid rea-
son why every race on the program
should not be hair-raising light tor
blood and for supremacy between rid
ers. The track has done one thing, If
nothing more, in having brought out
some remarkable timber both in the
professional and amateur ranks, and
it is the veriest miracle that Jake De
Roster has not had his colors lowered
more than once by some of the fast
professional men that he has ridden
against.
Derkum, the "dare devil" of the Pa
cific coast, has only been prevented
ffom wrestling De Rosters honors away
from him because of the failure of the
racing machine underneath him to per-
form properly at critical moments, but
this fact need never be written again
after the machines shipped by Prince
have arrived at the local track.
If the two Reading Standard ma
Chimes expected by Derkum within the
next few days do not arrive, then there
will be other machines of all the speed
shown by De Rosters string which Der
KUN may mount on a moments notice,
thus doing away entirely with that dis
appointment which more than one Sun
day afternoon crowd has felt at the
crucial stage when DerlSum has looked
to have victory in his grasp.
Samuelson, the Salt Lake wonder,
who went out week ago and showed
longer need depend on machine loaned
him in the eleventh hour for the occa-
sion by a rival contender. If he has
no machine, one of the Prince machines
will be there, steaming hot, ready to
Straddle for any race, rendered him by
he management, which is bending
very effort to make these races all that
srpromised of and for them, and pos
essed of the nerve pulsations that the
bublic has learned TO look for in a score
1f exciting close finishes.
1t has been recognized all along that
the one great obstacle confronted by
the promoters has been the lack of
racing machines, and with this obstacle
removed the grand opening promised
|. for two weeks hence should produce a
bumper crowd, equaled only by
the first days racing, when Derkum
and De Roster measured machines to-
gether in two of the most exciting and
Embarrassing races ever seen on any
track in any country