Show SALT tAKERS lAKERS f IN UA t Iv Iver r Lawson Floyd McFarland Farland M Hardy Downing Orlando c Stevens lilLy Billy Bowles ii i What They Are Jre Doing Don e 1 I I i 1 t The TM authentic vJ lof or the he sue cea of the Salt Lat Lake bicycle bl riders rl er i V and nd I I Lawson McFarland rland McF ln I Ii Stevens Stevene since the he Australian meeting j i in Melbourne Melbo rne to tore reach reath h this country was waa II received yesterday in a tt letter I from the I boys boy to the sporting editor of The r ILI e Her Het i aW alt They all aU send d regards to their tr Salt laid Lake friends and give an account ac out of at I II their recent races over there thera Floyd Yd I I McFarland seems ms to have haste had the best bes luck at the Melbourne meet He woo won the international In mile and was awarded the club blue ue ribbon by Lady Mech McEchern ern era All of the boys seem to have suf mit s mitered f ered however torn from the he grassy track tack and after a few races withdraw w on ac account account account count of their tb inability to make the turns Iver Lawson is 1 b matched to meet me t Major ajor Taylor and is also aim signed to ride at the worlds championship meet m t tIn in England B Gland next summer From there thu he be states he will Ul c mt to Salt Lake lAu to ride The boys oy are all winning money and I expect to make mike a n big cleanup They are the biggest attractions attraction in the cy cycling cling cUng line Une in ill Australia at the th present time What Bowles s Has IIa to Say Herewith is published la pact a let letter letter Iter ter received front from Bitty Bales Bowles tell tellI I ling log ing what id lit going on onI onI I I 1 herewith enclose you some clip clippings I pings of Australia Au papers p pe s showIng what I the Salt Lake boys beys tire are doing All toe I j boys had bad hard bard k luck at t the th tb big Au Aus ACRI I I meeting which ha hR has ut closed I Ea h one ODe of Qi them fell IJ during the meet mee land end and Iver Ier only Started r d once but fell felli i that time It was then decided to cut this meet out altogether es as as a none ot or r could hold held th thO ot track I 11 r rand I and a d Downing leave here today to t for West Australia to ride in Sn the Vestral I meet There is a 8 purse up for tor one on of the races ra e and Ivet expects to annex i it Iver will ride Taylor T Vor In n Sidney on Jan 16 JG the Sidney Thou I until March Marchin 1 J JIn sad cuI being postponed in lit order oi er to give Taylor r a dho e to tc toi train tram for Jr it H i f Lawson Heads Percentage L I ta is season for cle riders rs over here and rind our boy bOra arego I log lag to get their share of the prize ney m Iver Lawson heade betide the per percentage percentage tab table tabie with eight ight wins and one second to credit and has already won several hundred doll ts ta He h haS I won every e ery scratch race thi lion lias started stUrt m in up to w date dah I McFarland has made a great hit i over ver here her as ItS a handicap rider and J overshadows any one ODe here at it t that game BIll MartJn has hau the game up and was Vs married d last IatI j I week He e is now running a public house e here ht e in fa Melbourne and anti is ta s doing I well Iver her Lawson has signed s to at attend attend attend tend the worlds championship races at England and leaves leaved here about June 1 He expects to ride in Salt Lake but will not reach thorn there the until after f the championship races are over Unless he lie has a bad bed fall f U Ivers Ivors season 1 In Aus Atis Australia will n t hint him 4 ILLY BOWLES P S T e t Q Austral has just been bei Ju run ut i It wag wt won wee by Scheps from t te e l mack Hawk Hawker er from the Y 1 dI was Tva second None of our crowd rt 96 in itt this t ts race oy OJ account of the J Grass S ack Spoils R ces Here is wt the Melbourne Argus has to say about the meeting in Mel Melbourne M bourne The annual carnival of the Mel Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne bourne Bicycle Bi Club Cl b w vas opened on i Saturday afternoon most favor favorable 1 able ab weather conditions so far tar as aa a the large attendance of spectators was wast I concerned The riders rs perhaps would i ibaVe have baVe desired that as aa the wind is tern tem tempered ternI to the tile shorn the stint stiff brees e might have haye been blow bI w across anos I the tH Melbourne cricket cn mE ground nd from 1 southward and raced faced t twin cj opI each outward journey But ut for That Thai t at matter I personal comfort c idl haw haVe been be n a feature teat ol the occasion with the I experience Of ot i pie c competing cyclists I whose progress tO greg go n the tb e level lev grass track was about as uncertain as V that of an 1 amateur on roller r skates Accustomed 4 to ticks half bill of the Ut riders caution cau when ne irs neU U the turns and a It as acone a conse consequence quince quence q the tha t of or he ie e finishes w wore were re completely spoiled fals and nd k vf vi the riders were put out of ot the Uw contest when wb their lr chances of win winning wining ning Qing were brightest r in Hard Luck The hope tope of the public regarding the performances of the American Ameri ri riders riders ders M Farland Lawson Downing and Stevens Stev were wel dashed to the ground through their w ha every chance of winning the ft final of the ten mile mUe inter international national natIo 1 scratch race was making a brilliant run when w wi en n his machine slipped at t the home turn t rn and he described d a somersault in the air aJr involving cb In his fall faIL P Walker W felt fell in inthe inthe the t e same race Nee Lawson w on the champion champton sprinter came down at the same Ame ill spot in his heat het for the Inter International Int internatIonal t national bringing down with him Pye and Sheehan Downing who would have ba bad 41 a say My in hi the final of that hat race reds lost lest his heat in a pre precisely preM M ly similar manner The Ibe Tb of oC ofte the te Americans was WM s 0 persistent persi that at length Lawson refused ed to ride again and ard Stevens the fourth of the Ameri American can ean gi up scratched himself for all events The fear of a spill n did not en e 1 tee tar into Int their theil calculations at all alt bu buas buI I as 1 Lawson lAtso explained the time of pro professional was Wa too valuable to threw throw Away on en the Ute chance of a 8 broken br ken collarbone In spit M F ands win In of or orthe the mile JOU the same Rille pa p paper p per says is Honored He rode a magnificent t race how however ho however ever eer in IA 1 the tnt international mile Perched on a saddle about a foot above the handles his long 1 spidery figure was conspicuous among all lt the tile other riders as he challenged f W Wr pr r in the last Both riders narrowly escaped d da a fall but though t urh the Blip sitf spoiled their run d undoubtedly won on his I merits LAdy Invested d him with the blue ribbon of or the tb club and he was loudly cheered as he be roae round the track |