The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-18
MORE RIDERS COME
FOR SAUCER TRACK
Season at Salt Palace Begins
May 25; Motordrome ON
Memorial Day.
SPEEDY MEN ARE SIGNED
Indications Are That Cards
Will Attract Great Crowds
During Summer.
SPEEDY MEN ARE SIGNED
By Tad

With the arrival of ten more riders.
Two gangs of men at work on the
tracks and final details for the first
meets being arranged as rapidly as
possible, Manager Harry Heagren of
the Salt Palace and Motordrome tracks
announced yesterday that everything
was in readiness for the formal open
ing of the piepan and saucer
The Salt Palace track opens next
Sunday night, May %,
The Motordrome will open Memorial
day.
At the Salt Palace the race nights
will be Sundays. Tuesdays, Fridays and
holidays, and at the Motordrome the
cards will be run on Thursday nights
and on all holidays.
Races will begin promptly at S;l5
o'clock at each track.
Fast Riders Sign.
Not in years has SO much interest
been manifested here in an approach
ing season of bike racing as Is being
eyinced this month in the prospective
opening of Salt Lakes big tracks un-
der Heagren q management. NO track
of men than have been signed for the
Salt alace going. and at Wandamere
Whittier heads bunch Of the speedi-
est motor riders in the game
The surfaces of both tracks have
been thoroughly gone over and repaired
and at the Motordrome the training
quarters for the riders have been
erected inside the area, m order thaG
the men will not be obliged to wheel
su fhrnnHh
tunnel under the track
Manager Heagren announced the Of
ficials for the Salt Palace track week
ago, At the Motordrome practically
the same officials will serve who were
on the staff there last season
The riders from Newark who got IN
Yesterday and who will go on at the
Salt Palace include Ernie Pye. Gordon
Walker. Paddy Hehir, George Cameron.
r. Diefenbacker. Peter Drobach, Eddie
Root, E. Halstead. Martin Ryan and
Al Crebs.
In addition to these men. Billy Sam
uelson. Theo Samuelson. Demara. Har-
vev Wilcox, Duer and Turville are 20
ride.
SON on motors as PAGERS TOT Billy
Wilcox and Duer Manager Heegren
will have combination at tho Salt
Palace that will rival anything the
western tracks have ever had to offer.
Motordrome Plans.
For his Motordrome going. Heagren
has whittier, with four machines. One
of these, it is rumored. is dark horse
1t 10 reported that Whittier has been
working on 1t all winter and that he
has whipped an engine into shape that
has clipped second or two off his pre-
vious time on the coast, Whittier viii
ride the same Merkle, for one machine,
that he rode last year at Wandamere.
Billy and Theo Samuelson will ride In
dians and Mcneil and Ray Book viii
have Excelsiors.
Bert Smafley will straddle Merlxle
this year, and there is a possibility OF
Ward OF Seymour coming in with an
nther Indian.
Whittler's performances last year
at Wandamere are still too fresh In the
memory OF the fans to necsssitate COM
PARSONS He fought n hard battle
straight through the season, and with
] machine that was admittedly SEC
md or two slower than Ward q, he ran
np his winnings until he was generally
conceded the best and fastest man on
he track.
Taken all in all. the lineup for both
racks gives promise of the best racing
season either Wandamere or the Salt
Palace has ever had.