The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-28
24-H0UR TEAM RACE
PLANNED FOR SAUCER
Manager Floyd Macfarland Is
Arranging Event for His
Best Professionals.
TO BE ENDURANCE TEST
Riders Who Have Taken Part
in Six-Day Contests Will
Participate in This.
TO BE ENDURANCE TEST

Preparations are now being made
for twenty four-hour team race at the
Salt Palace saucer before the close of
the season. Manager Floyd Macfar-
land will have eight teams in the race,
and it will start at 10 'clock in the
evening and finish at 10 O'Clock the
next evening.
day racers in the world are riding here
this year, and this will make il posi-.
bic for Macfarland to put on twenty
four-hoIr race which is bound to be
success with anything like good
weather.
According to the present plans, the
race will be begun either Saturday
evening. August IL or Sunday even
ing, September 1. If the latter date is
selected, it will mean that the riders
will finish on the evening of Labor
day.
The eight teams in the race probably
will line up as follows:
Clarke and Root, Goullet and Hehir,
Fogler and Hill, Lawson and Walker,
Thomas and Ryan, Duer and Morgan,
Mtten and Downing, Wilcox and prob.
ably Phil Wright.
Practically all of these men are ex-
perienced long distance riders. Clarke
has won three sfx-day races, including
the big event in Madison Square Gar,
den last winter Root is a four-time
winner Of the New York race, and with
Hill won the six-day race in Brussels
last winter.
Goullet captured both the Sidney
and Melbourne six-day races in Ans
tralia last winter, and is being picked
rs che winner of the coming six-day
race In New York. Fogler is another
great distance man, having won the
New York race three times. while prac-
tieally all Of the others have been in
the money in the Gotham grind.
The race here will be under condi.
tions which will give every team a
chance: In New York time out is
allowed for spills, punctures, etc. but
such will not be the case here. If a
man is compelled to drop out his mart
ner must take his place at once, or the
team will be sure to lose a lap or more
Ia tho race.
So far Macfarland has not found
tteammate Tor Harvey Wilcox, but be-
1eves that Phil Wright will get back
into the game for this contest. Wripbt
keeps himself In good condition all of
the time, and on eeveral occasions this
season has worked out at the SANGER
showing both speed and endurance, He
Is one OF the most popular riders who
has ever appeared here, and was good
one when he retired from the game at
the end Of last season
For this race tents will be erected
In the centerfield for the use OF the
riders The men will have to be close.
to the track all the time, go in case
anything goes wrong with man, his
tean1nlate can get into the race without
any delay. Their food will be cooked
at the track. and the scenes will re.
sembie those at the big New York six
ress.
1t is the intention of Manager Mac.
farland TO start the big race at the
conclusion of one of his regular pro-
grammes of cycle racing. The follow.
ing evening and inst before the finish
OF the grind, he will put on several
amateur races The amateurs win be
racing and the twenty .four-hour men
time.