Show I I DAY AND NIGHT RAGES Two Series of Events on the Saucer LONG RACE DISAPPOINTING The Amateurs wore Given Possession in tho Afternoon but the Attend ancoAvas LIghtAt Night tho Full Seating Capacity vns UsedGus Lawsons Motor Acted Badly and Chapman Took the FifteanIililo Bace Lawsons Fine Sprint Features Fea-tures of the Other Races Rrces were given yesterday afternoon 1 and evening on the Salt Palace saucer in observance ot the Fourth the amateurs ama-teurs racing In the afternoon and the professionals In the evening I The saucer was packed solid in the evening The event of the occasion was the fifteenmile race between Gus Lawson Law-son and John Chapman but owing to the failure of the motor pacing Lawson the race was a good deal of a failure This was made more disappointing by reason of the failure of the timers to take down the time by miles so that only the time of the fifth tenth and Mftconth miles was given The crowd was very orderly and there was no cushion throwIng or overboisteious demonstrations Tho music too was very acceptable The first was an Australian pursuit race In the trial heats of one mile each W B Vaughn won first place In 210 25 with Gus Lawson second by only three Inches and Benjamin Green third The second heat was captured by Ivor Lnwsqn in 209 Chapman second sec-ond Turvijlc third The final heat and pursuit race pioper was taken by Iver Lawson after a pull of one mile six and a hall lalSin ool Vaughn was the first victim fall by the wayside than Turvillc dropped oITthe perch and Chapman when overtaken by Iver made a great sprint and got away from him but had waited Just too long and the Judges called him off The tandem was a very pretty race between Caine and Chaffce and Ensign and May It was a pursuit affair and the men worked hard for their money It required a ride of three miles one lap and twentyfive yards in G35 for Caine and Chalteo to overhaul their opponents There was a long wait for Gus Lawson Law-son and Chapman to show up for the fifteenmile njotorpiiccd Vaughn and John Lawson rode the motor to pace Gus Lawson and Iver Lawson and Turvillc rode Chapmans motor The rear men on both motors were padded laterally to more effectually break tho wind for the racers behind Gus Lawson Law-son s motor got to apting badly in the first mile the spark igniter failing to work and as Chapman caught up with him Gus caught on and rode behind Chapman This was done several times during the race while Gus Lawsons motor was getting its bearings Chapman Chap-man scored five miles In 930 and in throe laps further had gained two laps on Lawson In six miles he was two and a half laps ahead which was increased in-creased to three laps at seven miles Chapman made ten miles In 1852 nearly near-ly five laps ahead of Gus which was Increased > eased to six laps at eleven miles and the fifteen miles was made seven laps ahead in the oflicial I time of 2D22 It was claimed that more than the distance dis-tance stated must have been run with this time as the motors were going at a 150 clip a fair share of the time Watches in the crowd gave the lime between be-tween 2C and 27 minutes Great credit was given to young Lawson for his pluck In holding out the way he did and he made a fine sprint at the close of the contest His admirers carried him from the field on their shoulders I |