Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-21

MOTORCYCLlSTS
TO RACE TODAY
LOCAL CLUB HOLDS MEET AT
COLISEUM
UNAVOIDABLE DIscoMFoRTs OF
LAST WEEK GONE
No Dust, No Delays, More Seats, Many
Entries, Club Rivalry and Hand
some Cups Promise a
Great Day

Log chains won't be able to keep
motorcycle enthusiasts away from the
Coliseum saucer track this afternoon
if the excitement of last Sunday is
promised to be duplicated-and all IN.
dications point to its being trebled ana
.quadrupled.
As a top-liner fact it is emphasized
that many Of the discomforts OF wees Sis
ago will be entirely eliminated this
afternoon because of two reasons. one
reason is that many ,of the hurry-up
conditions of week ago have been en-
tirely ironed out by the large force OF
carpenters and other Workmen VINO
have been employed during the past
week. and that new conditions have
been created hundred times more
pleasant for the spectator. The other
reason is that todays races will be UNI
der the auspices of the Los Angeles
Motorcycle club. the occasion being
their annual race meet; and the MEM
bers of this club, from whom all the
officials will be selected, have had an
experience in motorcycle racing in past
years which will permit of the races
being run off more smoothly than was
the case a week ago, when every omclal
was more or less new in his work ana
when conditions were more or less
churned up.
No one felt more keenly the delays
Jack Prince, the promoter of the track,
who was hauled in dozen different d.
rections on a dozen different errands
throughout the entire afternoon in his
endeavor to make events work out
more smoothly. If Prince were in
charge of the races today the pubic
would be as much justified in looking
Cor a more smoothly running program
as will undoubtedly prove to be the
case with the motorcycle club III the
saddle.
But with the club in the saddle, and
the reins of affairs in their. hands, the
officials are more insistent and earnest
in their effort to make the public feel
that things will be different today than
thew are to emphasize the quality of the
racing itself, which, by the way, Is
likely to develop far more excitement
than that of a week ago.
One thing the public is assured OF is
that there will be no dust today-not
enough to soil the daintiest party gown
because of the fact that sprinkling
wagons will have worked all yesterday
and all this forenoon in soaking the
ground In the arena SO completely as
to make dust impossible.
Increased Seating Capacity
Another added feature which the pub
lie will hail with joy Will be the IN
creased seating capacity, carpenters
the past week having been rushing
forward the construction of an extern
sion of the grand stands. which were
overlooked last week. These new seats
will take care of many more hundreds
of spectators, and those who desire to
watch the races from the arena will be
assured of much more pleasant condi-
lions because of the absence of dust.
Ticket offices will be opened at 1880
o'clock, so that no congestion need oc-
cur at the gates, and those who want
the best seats will have to figure on
going a trifle ahead of the hour sched-
uled for the races.
A new adjustment of admissions has
been made, so that so cents will admit
the spectator to any portion of the
grand stand, while children under 10
will only be required to pay half this
fee. This piece of long-headedness Will
greatly popularize the racing in the
minds of parents who otherwise would
be disposed to remain at home in case
there were too many children living
under one roof.
Rut the one underlined assurance
which the members of the motorcycle
club lay greatest stress upon is the
fact that no delays will be allowed be-
tween races.
I'VE intend to have the men in their
places ready to start when the race rs
called" said one official of the course
last night, land If any rider is not IN
his place, ready to start, the race Will
GO ahead without him. It's up to the
riders, as it should be. to watch their
own races and not require someone else
to watch for them. We shall have men
appointed to see that this one idea is
carried out to the letter. and those OF
the public who have ever attended any
of the races held by the club know
that we pull off our races with extra
ordinary promptness.
I'VE shall have plenty of assistants
IL 1t requires every member of the club
and you may say for the club that we
are going to try to break all our previ-
Gus records--and that's saying all that
can be said-and saying it strongly"