| Show CRACKS TO COMf TO SAlT LAKE PROSPECTS FOR CYCLE RACING ATTRACT FAST MEN ° Terrible Swedes Infernal Machine v to Arrive Soon Will BeJUsed In 24hour Race Fridays Racing < f 4 From present indications i would seem as thought Sal Lake City will be the gathering place of a large number nun her of professional racing men beforE 4 the season L ended Letters from the east indicate that the small meetsEare gIving small prizes and thetravtflni h I expenses necessary to keep racing men vith dates makes i almost impossible for any but the very best of them to make any money Sut h men as Mc Farland Stevens Kiser Cooper Bald and Kimble are making big money but they are getting it all There are hundreds hun-dreds of very fast ones who are on other circuits and racing at other meets who are menof note but not quite fast enough to do more than finish behind the above named cracks Iver Lawson who has been competing compet-ing at the Chicago races says the prizes are small and it is possible he may return to Salt Lake very soon John and Iver Lawson have another brother ng Buffalo who Is also a rider of ability and well known in New York state The Terrible Svv ede i stte Terble Swete yesterday yes-terday telegraphed for this brother whose name is Gustave to go to Chicago Chi-cago at once and arrange to get the electric tandem which is to pace the Suede in his twentyfourhour race and bring it with him to Salt Lake LAWSONS INFEBNAL MACHINE uusiave Lawson will therefore arrive ar-rive here with John Lawsons infernal machine about the 25th Inst He will remain here for some time and will ride in all professional events Manager F E Schefskl of the Salt Palace track has written to Chicago St Louis Kansas City Denver and San Francisco to racing men In those places giving them a prospectus of the seasons racing on the Palace track SchefskI enjoys a personal acquaintance acquaint-ance vith nearly all the racing men in the country and his efforts to induce a number of them to locate at Salt Lake for the summer will undoubtedly meet with success With regular day and night races It would be worth the racing mens while to stay In Salt Lake City and compete regularly in the Palace races as the men would have no traveling expenses and other expenses would be licht The Terrible yesterday received a letter from his brotherinlaw in Chicago Chi-cago saying the electric tandem would be ready for shipment in two days I has been fitted up with new batteries and equipment and when ready for stalling up will have a speed capacity of thirtyfive miles an hour The machine ma-chine is of the tandem type and carries car-ries two riders who assist the motor In Its work The gearing for the men Is 140 and the machine without riders will weigh In the neighborhood of 400 pounds The electric machine will be used first to pace all the longdistance riders rid-ers in their twentjfourhour race the 29Oth inst T D Fenton was in town yesterday visiting with the racing men Fenton is today one of the fastest longdis tance men In Utah and i is to be regretted re-gretted that his duties with the Rio Grande Western railroad prevent his training Fenton says he wi come to Salt Lake for the July 4 racqs at Cal ders and the Palace track opening Lawson will ride for the 100mile state I record at the Danish celebration at Calders park next Friday He is try Ing to secure Emery Sharman Gunn Caine and Jensen for pacemaking and will try to bring the record down close to four hours The event will probably prob-ably be sanctioned bj the C A C C cial and if so the figures made will be offi |
