Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-28
SIMON PURES TO
ENTER THE LIST
AMATEUR CHAMPION IS ON
THE GROUND
OTHER EASTERN CRACKS WILL
ALSO BE HERE
A Number of Fast Local Boys Are
Expected to Make Good Accounts
of Themselves Before the
Meet Ends

Aside from the professional motor
cyclists who will be in racing suits
at the coming motorcycle meet at the
Coliseum, there will be a practically
even division of events in which they
figure and of amateur events, in which
the Simon Pures'' may enter.
In the latter class there will be a
number of national amateur cham
pions. who are already here or who
are preparing to come on in the next
week. Among the latter is Fred
Huyck, who represents the Indian
nameplate as a travelling salesman and
who has already arrived in the city.
Huyck holds every amateur record in
the United States from the one to
the sixty-one mile events, and expects
to defend these marks against all COM
ers in his class when the Coliseum
opens.
Look Out for Duer
He will have plenty of opportunity
to do this, however, as there will be
other fast boys VINO have already en-
tered the lists and who must hence
forth be figured upon as very likely
possibilities in amateur motorcycle
dom. Among these will be Ray Duer,
the fast Buffalo boy, who is said to
be after Huyck's scalp in earnest and
who has declared his intention of COM
ing on to Los Angeles. Duer has
proved himself a very fast man back
Of the throttle, and if he finds the
new saucer to his liking may force
Huyck to disgorge some of his hard
earned record marks.
There will be any number Of local
boys, too, who will don the helmets
and leggings to fight it out for anna
| Ao,x q 4I, i
States has more really enthusiastic
| motorcyclists than has Los Angeles,
and it need cause no surprise if some
of these records are hung up on the
walls of the local club when the firs3
race meet ends.
Local Dealers Entering
Nearly every motorcycle dealer will
be represented with one or more rid
eTs in the amateur classes at the meet
although both the Curtiss and the M
| M. agencies have not entered into the
contests as yet. 1t is quite probable,
| also, that the M. M. will not do so,
Manager Holland of that agency as
| Serting that his people have never vet
gone into the racing end of the motor
cycle business, having up to the pres
| ent devoted all their energies to con-
! structing a strictly road, and not a
! track, machine. He gives it as his opin-
| Ion that in a short time they will take
up this phase Of the matter, but that
| their present style of road machine,
with long base and spring forks is
wholly inadequate for saucer track
work. The manager of the Curtiss ma
/ chine is still undecided as to what he
| will do, but shows a partial inclination
to come into the lists for strictly stock
machine events, once he. gets a little
better line on what these evnts will be.
Bill Enters the ar. S."
John T. Bill has come out squarely
| for the racing game and is making all
preparations to have his Reading
Standard represented in all of the lead
ing amateur events, two riders having
! been assigned to this task
One Of these riders is the game little
racer, Raymond Seymour, whose pic
ture is shown above. Seymour is a
| boy of but IL years, but has already
won his spurs as a racer, having cap
tured the worlds amateur record for
five miles on an eight-lap track by
negotiating the distance at the Seal
G. rdens track the past year in the
fast time of minutes so seconds.
Another Reading Standard rider who
has all the grit and the head for good
work is Billy Hoag, also a Los An
geles boy, who has done some splendid
work on dirt tracks.
M. j. Graves, who holds the Pacific
coast amateur record for twenty-five
mile competition, will enter the lists in
defenes of the colors of the N. S. u,
while G. Blalock, E. Nappe and A
Erhardt will contest for the supremacy
of the Indian. Blalock is a very speedy
rider who may be expected to do some
real stunts, having already gotten a
mark of 8 minutes and 40 seconds for
ten miles. and also the hour competi-
J tion record. Wilson, the Merkel rider,
will defend the colors Of that machine;
while the Thor nameplate will prob
ably be carried across the winning tape
in some of the events by Charles Bake
and j. H. Shafer, two very likely boys
who must be figured on.