Show SALT SAl LAKE Ak HAS MY MANY GOOD ROLLER SKATERS V V IN TilE THE OPINION OF AN EXPERT IN I THAT TIT LINE V Salt Lakers Lak rs skate remarkably well on rollers said Warren W V Matthews ex cx expert expert pert trick and fancy skater at the Wa Wasatch Wasatch Va satch rink One reason for fot this is that there are arc a number of Ice skaters here and the movement is js the same One thing that has struck me about Salt Lake is the many tall taU and graceful women here who always make good skaters skaters skaters ers Now just look how many there are arc of that description hOre here tonight V VV V Just see that man fall faU he suddenly explained as one of the skaters lost con control tol hol of his feet and they reversed places with ith his head h ad That is one of the best skaters on the floor but no one Is immune from falls fails I have had some s me hard ones in my time but it is always the result of carelessness ca So long as a n man is care careful careful careful ful there is no danger dan er of his falling The uThe great trouble with beginners Is tl at they want to learn too fast It is something at which one has lias to take tak time It depends a great deal oh on on the person however Some learn to skate in half hal an hour and some never learn or at least reier acquire any skill or move with any grace or ease V VIt It Is great sport I started with the thc beginning of the former roller skating fad and mId watched It reach its great popularity and then saw its fall fallI f ll I did my first skating in a rink in Min Minneapolis Mm neapolis years ago when I Iwas Iwas was VIas 14 years of age and have been at it t ever since doing vaudeville and circus stunts In the thO interval when rink skating was unknown I opened op ned the first rink in Minneapolis during the present craze two years ago It was in a country town near Minneapolis lis Ifs that I got my start How long lorg will the fad last this time did you ou ask Just Jest as longas long as there are new skaters to learn When they all learn thc will tire of it and look out for something else I never expected to see it revived when It died out before but it was just when the public was pining for a new amusement and it appealed again to the popular fancy Skating in these days is different from what it was when I was a boy Then it was work to push around on the heavy wooden rollers and now the Im Improved Improved proved steel rollers just skate themselves and one has just to allow oneself to be carried along |