Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-13 | Page 5 | New Saucer Track

t e NEW SAUCER suc TRACK To Be Built B at Butt ly 1 Salt Lake ke Capital C WORK TO S SOON i 3 W WALTER AUD BEN BENAT BE f XING AT HEAD 4 4 A number of or Salt SaR Lakers Laker headed by Y g and Ben King have been iy working ki g for some time on a aI prop I x tiOn t erect a saucer cy de le track at a Butte Eute The arrangements have all aU been Completed ot and work will be commenced bec in inthe tb tile the near r ne future Captain T rr O 0 Angell eU ot Of this city y have the e t work io ot of CO ac tion U tr charge having haing made Ute the plans lans for for t tl tte le track 11 which it is said Id Wi be an over the Salt palace trick track tJ k m In 11 ever every particular The raises that t ap apt pear par t pt en ea the local Joeal track both as the rider leaves and enters the he stretches str hes have ave ave been b en eliminated in the proposed d fc 11 1 run e feet t t wide on the me tc c pole oJe will converge Into the banking pro proper per r allowing the handicap riders rider to make a B start as a quickly as the scratch men nen neni i The Th Butte Butt track will be an eight lap Ia p at fair faiT he ht SL rne e as the Sait SQ Palace Pala but jt t will be O III wider oa OD both the Use stretches str and turns and will have havea a larger seating capacity The greatest Improve Improvement Improvement ment however will wUl be Lc In In the surface of oC the track the wards being aid on edge edae edget t and the whole surface smoothly planed pI which will give a much stronger back background background ground for the heavy h avy motor machines It is stated positive positively by the manage management ment nent of ot both hoth tracks that they will wUl J 1 no noway noway noWay way be but local experts expert e r t at atthe att atthe the he t racing game think differently and asid claim calm that they will ill be competed cOmpelled com Hed t te com coat combine bine interests before the season is I half MIf over oer for tor self protection The promoters of o 0 the Butte track think t 1 tv y will he bet aWe abe abet to t get the pick nf or the men teen aa q they Ut will he t e in a do position to larger purse and are already in re pt nt of letters from frat f several of last years Salt Palace rid as asking for information as to when the track will wUl open for racing Past expert experience ence has h shown that the Salt Lake pub lu liu wants the best be t men in the business bu and this mean increased prize prise money in lu order to secure them eventually T in lit open competition between the ther two trucks w weh ch will be very v IY satisfactory to th riders alid the public but hard ton On the managers The new track will be opened i about the firs firM of June and ana during the i month o of July will give races every ev even n ning ing lug During Durin this month the Montana horsemen hor will win hold a race meeting inline bO leg ine racing every afternoon which with WI If cj C C Te tc O racing in the evening will give ivo Butte sports porta plenty of amusement along this line