The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-09
PYE HOPES To
BREAK RECORDS
His Programme for Tonight In
cludes Many Of the Fastest
Riders in Business. !.
CREBS, WHO SHATTERED
WORLD MARK, is ENTRANT
Salt Palace Management Prom
iSes Fans Excellent Card,
With Several Specials.
Salt Palace Programme.

Salt Palace Programme.
Quarter mile western championship.
Two-mile handicap, professional.
Ihree e-quarter-mile handicap. amateur,
Unknown distance. amateur.
Match race, Walker VS.. Crebs
Three-mile motor paced race, Pye vs..
Drobach.
Manager Pye announces another special
race meet for tonight. He says the pro-
gramme equals any he has offered the fans
this season. There were so many race
meets postponed on account Of the bad
weather that TO hold good his contract
with the ground concession men Mr.. Pye
has had to give few special meets.
The quarter-mile championship for the
professionals Is full OF interest. Last
Tuesday at Newark the big riders OF the
east competed at this same distance. II
will give the local fans an opportunity to
see just how fast the local riders are as
compared with the flyers In the east.
The difference In altitude makes some
difference In the time of riding here and
there. II is harder for the easterners to
get fast time than 1t Is here. For that
reason the records OF Clarke and Kramer
are trifle slower than the records made
here.
Fast Men VIII Compete.
The tonight's quarter mile three riders,
They all have fast jumps and are capa-
BILE of riding the quarter Ia record time
Crebs is holder OF the one sixth mile rec
ord, that he established Tuesday, He
lowered the old record by two-Nfths of a
second. All three are joint holders OF the
worlds quarter-mile record.
The two-mile handicap. professional
viii be another fast race Just to give
an Idea OF the speed the riders ut the
saucer are showing. The world tandem
record for two miles was established In
g4 by Samuelson and Williams. For
seven years that record stood. Two miles
is the most popular distance for a tan
dem race. To be competed as often as
this distance is means that Samueson
deserved all the popularity he had In
those days
Last Tuesday night Furnan and
Wright did something that has possibly
never before been done. In the one night
they broke the same record twice. There
have been times when several groups
have competed at the same distance and
record but. for the same team to breaS
the same record twice Is unusual: And
two miles is a distance that TO ride does
not leave much power In one.
saucer who can travel the two miles as
fast as Furman and Wright. The handi-
cap will give them the same competition
that the tandem team had. The record
breaking tandem for nearly the whole of
the two miles was on the bank fighting
for the front with a good fast team.
The amateur riders have several
among them who are of almost. equal
speed. Mayer is forcing Colvin. Smertz
and Huhey All Of them are fast and
none is lacking in the judgment that calls
bell rings for the final effort. Mayors
return to the game is making competition
more keen. He is fast, full Of good track
generaiship and always gives good fight
to any one who tries to go around him.
New Record Expected.
OF establishing a new track record The
present worlds record was made by Fred
die West on this track. Thas has stood
since the day when West was giving the
Redmans and Jack Hume the hardest
competition they ever had as amateurs.
The unknown distance race is always
fast ono In both the amateur and profess
sional class. To have chance for the
finish one has to be In a good position for
the sprint at all times. This means that
the fast riders are always we'll TO the
front and are being pushed all the timo
by the handicap men. When the sprint
starts there is no waiting TO get off. They
are there and just go.
Both match races are good events. In
the motor paced race DrobeCh and Hehir
arc evenly matched pace followers and
are very much the same style OF riders.
each setting a clip and able to hold II
some time. The motors TO be used are of
about equal speed and the pacemakers.
Mccormack and Samuelson. are as good
as the game affords. The match should
show an evenly contested and hard
The sprint race gives Crebs mn opportu-
nifty TO show what he can do In coTnpeti-
ton, He maintains that he can heat
broke the sixth OF q mile record bears
out his contention. He clipped two-tifths
of second from u and rode II three
fifths faster than the riders In the east
were able To ride IL In the Sunday be-
fore, lie Is acknowledged by riders the
country over to be the fastest record trial
rider He lacks the case and Judgment
that counts FOR success in competitions
A schooling from "A Downing or Il McFar-
land would make worlds champion out
OF him. Ills match. with Walker viii
track gene-alshlp works for the winning
OF races. Walker is Il seasoned match
race rider. and while he is not tho fast
est. he has few kinks OF speed that
make the best OF them take notice.
II Walker does not take Crebs around
the bank and tire him out before the
little local rider will be returned the win
ner. II looks much like crebs victory.
Match Races Interesting.
The match races from now on are OF
double interest. Not only Is there the prize
AN incentive for. the riders TO so after
nate ones I'm limo for the big matches TO
be ridden when the eastern champions
come out here next month To do battle
for tho. worlds championship ut match
race riding.
The point column is showing signs of
a big change coming up In the amateur
division the return OF Mayer has taken
several points away from the usual win
ners and Is dividing the smnller points
TO them. In three races Mayer annexed
first and second. From the rtck he
has set It Will not be long before his name
is among the leaders.
In the professional class most OF the
races OF the past week have been handi-
caps and the front markers have worked
torether so we'll that the scratch riders