The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-18
VETERANS WILL
MOUNT WHEELS
Hardy Downing, w. E. Samuel
son, Bill Furman and Ernie
Pye to Ride at Salt Palace.
iOLD-TIMERS SUCCUMB
TO LURE OF THE SAUCER
Famous Old Sprinters VIII
Make Things Warm for the
Younger Cyclists.

The coming warm weather always
brings interest in the bicycle game.
Ard that interest is strongest in the old
timers. The faces OF the riders now
quartered at the Salt Palace are, with
few exceptions, all new. 1t will no5
be so for long.
This week Hardy Downing will be
seen in riding togs again. 1t will be
welcome by the many fans who have
always rooted for Hardy. For many
seasons Hardy was a familiar sight on
the saucer. AS a match sprint race
rider he had few peers. What he lacked
in speed he more than made up IL head
work
Pace following is his one big hobby
There have been few pace followers
theh equal of Downing. Always hug
ging the motor he follows pace like he
was glued to his position.
". L. Samuelson would have made
his first appearance in two years last
week. had the rain not stopped the
scheduled He Will ride during the
coming week and match race between
him and Downing will sure remind or
old times
Bill Furrnan Back.
Big Bill Furman is another of the
old timers who is riding again after
several seasons rest. Bill rode here
the first season the track was built.
That was the season johnnie Chapman
and Iver Lawson were the big winners,
when Gussie Lawson was riding very
fast, when Oscar julius and John Law
SON were the pace followers and Barney
onv
the stars.
In the season of 1902 that Furman
rode best He started the season
as Barney oldfield's team mate. Old
field, as bicycle rider, never had the
daring that has since marked him as
death-defying autoist One month as
his team mate was enough for long
Bill Then he rode with Samuelson.
Sam was new as a professional rider
at that time and did not have the speed
that he later developed.
The last two months Of that season
he teamed with ''Dutch Hoffman.
Hoffman had just been turned profes-
sional He and Eddie Smith had been
winning everything as amateurs and the
\. c. A. referee decided they were
fast enough to be professionals. They
were the first riders Of the Salt Pal
ace 20 be termed professional
In Dutch Honmdn, Eurman FOUND
teammate to his liking Both were
fast men and whenever Furnam turned
Hoffman loose for the sprint if he was
within striking distance the team would
land in the money. During the two
months they rode together they COM
peted in fourteen races and out OF them
won nine hrsts, Since that time Fur
man has been interested in a merean-
tile establishment in Los Angeles He
tried once before to get here for
season s riding but could get away for
only one month. This season he has
the summer off and he headed straight
for the saucer. He still has some good
races in him and before the season is,
over it is almost certain a long lank
form will be regularly crossing the
tape in the money
Manager Pye seems to have been hit
with the riding bug. he likes long
grind and the cares of track man.
ager have kept him from his bicycle,
but the last few days be has been TAX
ing the time for fve-mile workout
daily and it would not in the least sur
prise the riders to see the track man
ager entered in the races before the
month is over.
Standing of Riders.
The standing of the bicycle riders to