Show W H tiL NOTES What iff i to Become of Road Boad Racing This Year is By While the talk of the seasons pros prospect pest for racing on the saucer track is all absorbing among the local riders there Is quite a coterie of the speedy men who are beginning to wonder Is to be done toward a frond race this th year Many of the men are ale better road rend riders than they are on the track arid and they quite euite naturally want a chance show their ability As yet no one has h taken up tile the matter of a road race arid and no one seems to be wining willing te tackle it J IT P Gunn was responsible f for r much of the road riding last year but he is not in itt the he city now and will not be here No one has come up to take his place It Is just such a man as Guns Gunn that the local men want but they cant find him None of the dealers seem willing to promote a race and there the matter stands Al Shorten is one of th riders who wants road racing revived and he Is trying frying to get some one to un It There are quite a number who are In sympathy with his efforts and it Is hoped that something will nIl materialize soon s S Most of the have now gotten their wheels and have gone into active training From the number that has already started the work of getting into shape there will be more local riders on the track this year than last and the Competition among the amateurs will be snore more spirited Of course many of the novitiates may drop out after they see what they are fitted for and then again some of them cay ay develop into the speediest men on the track trackS S That meteoric rider John Chapman one time of Atlanta and later of Salt Lake has been at nt his old tricks again in Los Lbs Angeles and has been playing with the records It is a marl that thai Is his latest conquest and he lie has lowered it to one hour 37 minutes and 19 seconds The previous record was made by Frank Wailer Waller at Baltimore Sept 9 1898 and was one hour 48 utes and IS 18 seconds When Chapman rode the dazzling fifty miles with John Lawson at the Salt Palace track hers her last fall fail he came caine within a minute of the worlds record making it In one hour 49 minutes and 48 seconds His race rhee at Los Angeles was rode with Hardy Downing and John Lawson and he left both of them far behind The local lovers of the sport will be more than glad to see him back here this year From the pace that he has been Betting he promises to be one of the worlds greatest riders O O OJ J S A Augustus the physical director of the Y V M C A has been taken in charge by Trainer Cushman arid and gives indication of being one of the speediest men on the track He will probably shine most at long distance riding as he has remarkable staying power along with his speed O Herman Johnson who rode some in the amateur class last year and who made a good name for himself has se so secured cured l lila Kis m year arid and is goA goi Ing Into active training He promises to show his friends what speed really is S 8 Dod Riter is to go into active training right away under the direction of D ID DA A Callahan the oW old coach of the High school football team Ded fe is to try fo lou louthe the honors of the short dashes and hip hI friends predict that he will get quite a afew afew few of them |