Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-06

The fine card of motorcycle racing staged at the Norwich Fair Grounds Saturday afternoon brought out a than pleased with the affair-the first than pleased with the aqair-the first of it's kind to be held in this city Threatening weather all through the day considerably affected the size of the crowd, keeping away many, espe- cially from out of town, who had plan ned to attend. There were three speed model machines on the track, and the miles we're reeled off considerably fast CT than ever before on the local track, Ted Carroll of Springfield spinning off one mile in 58 seconds, in spite of the bad turns. At the start the track was in better condition than usual, but in a short time the upper turn was badly ripped up, making the turn a dangerous one. There was close com petition in all the events, furnishing plenty of excitement all through the programme
 Music from Tubbs band entertained the crowd during the afternoon.
 CarroIls Machine Broke Down.
 Ted Carroll of Springfield, riding an Indian speed model, the fastest ma chine on the track, stood out as a bright particular star, closely pressed by Wild Bill Burdick of this city, until . broken motor part forced Carroll from the list of contenders, leaving the local rider to carry away the chief hOnors of the meet. In the only event in which BuTdick and Carroll came to- gether, the Springfield mans machine walked away like a sreak, but Wild Bill rode the turns fast and kept the Springfield man hustlng to hold his lead. In the other two open events Burdick was forced hard by Frank Brown of Springfield and Steiner of Philadelphia, but always the local rid
 
 him under the wire a winner, Brown proved a game, clever little rider, but was unfortunate, being thrown twice on the sandy turns and riding several heats with but one pedal, a difficult feat on the turns. Pallaz2e of New burgh, N. Y, rode the turns well, as did Steiner, but neither had the speed In his machine to beat the racing mod els.
 G. B. Latham of Lebanon experience ed the only bad fall Of the day, when he skidded on the lower turn in the first lap of the final race and went over the handle bars. His shoulder was erous bruises, but no serious results of the fall. The machine was not bad ly damaged.
 New Track Record.
 Owing to the large number of start CTS in the three events open to all com CTS with machines of 61 cubic inch dis placement it was necessary to run each of these in two preliminaries and a final Riders finishing first and sec ond in the preliminaries rode in the final. The racers were given a flying start in each event excepting the five mile event for local riders. The pre- linainary heats were of three miles.
 The entries in the first race, five mile open, were: H. F. Burdick, Nor -1-.. ~ ~+L, TrI1 wien Excelsior .. D. LathaIn' Lep- anon, Excelsior; Benny DriscOll Hart ford, Excelsior; F. Stevens, Bridgeport, Txcelsior: J. Pallazzo, Nedburgh, N Y.. Excelsior; Steiner, Philadelphia, Ex~ celsior: Edward Carroll, Springfield Indian; Frank Brown, Springfield, In. dian
 Latham, Steiner, Stevens and Carroll drew positions in the first heat Car roll got away in the lead and easily kept his lead to the finish. Steiner passed Latham in the third mile by hard riding and finished second, with Latham third and Stevens fourth Time $50.
 Pallazzo, Brown, DriscoIl and Bur dick appeared in the second heat. Bur- dick had secured special speed model Excelsior for the day, but moter trou- ble forced him to ride his own stock model machine in this heat BurdIck got away in the lead, but was passed by Brown in the stretch in the second mile. Pallazzo and Burdick had a hard fight for second place, Burdick beating out Lis opponent by slight margin. Time 3.56.
 Carroll. Steiner, Burdick and Brown rode in the fl aIs. Burdicks racer had been coaxed to run so that he stood on a more equal footing with the speed Indians ridden by Brown and Carroll. Carroll went away in the lead like streak, with the other three punched close on his heels. Burdick lost sec