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Show DOINGS IN THE I CYCLEWORLD I "Billy" Samuelson's I Brilliant Ride. I His Speed Is Remarkable l at This Time of the II Yr" 9 Happenings of tho "Week at the 1 Saucer Track and Else- I : $t where. 1 m WE. SAMUELSON'S brilliant 1 iWrformance at the Salt Palace ilflfl. 0aucer-track last Tuesday eve- MlwJ ling when he broke the two-mile fflOfal unpaced world's record, is one of thc (S&lPl grandest achievements of the speedy Iffifl Utah rider. "Sam" has always been Ilf!I recognized as one of the fastest com- flllrl petition riders In this or any other IcM! country, but few believed the Provo (Ofilfll lad would be smashing world's records Inlflff so early In the season. He turned thc ffljj! B trick, however, and now the cycle fiends Irlj IS are wondering what record, will be the m M next to fall before the "Utah specd-mcr- ffl chant. . , WH i Chapman's pace following and the n speed of his "chug-chug" machine was llil a a revelation to a number of out-of- B'iitli town people who dropped into the city tWrn Tuesday before the political conven- fiifllfl Many of the visitors had never before 33raB seen a saucer-track, and it seemed 'WmW little lees than marvelous to them to mW witness the riders skimming around n'QiHf the track with their feet almost on a Pwjly plane with their heads. SnSliS When "Chappie's" motor started imm around thc track at a 2:40 clip the 3nUi countrymen stared violently, and when Eddie Smith let the machine out a few MM notches they fairly gasped. "Gosh. ,mm Jack, that's got the Sanpete Valley jgul mall skinned to death," said one, when ijurtB Informed that the machine was rolling Jlifl off miles at the rate of about 1 minute 3l ?f 18 seconds per. h l A fast bunch of riders Is now quar- mi tered at the Salt Palace track, and jiu J several new ones are expected dally. Ml, jj Jimmy Bowler, the speed king of Chi- Wm cago, arrived last week, and Fred Kill Schcpps. the Australian champion, is jViwm expected in today. With Hoffman, Hop- m$Em per, Downing, Sarauelson, Collett, 'Sggill Chapman and others, we havo an ag- ilSffll gregation of riders hard to beat any- iflfHI where. fi j The news that Iver Lawson was NjjjS going abroad came as a disappointment Icfsf 1 to bis many friends in this city, who fflllfjjj J hoped 'that the popular little speed- j merchant would remain In the United States and attempt to lower the colors M2f& of Frank Kramer, thc world's cham- pion. Lawson probably had an offer 'Sfjujl of more money from the Europeans, 1 ft and, as this iH what he Is In the game !J lr for, he cannot be blamed for accept- llsJi Ing. It is to be hoped that he will re- d B turn early this fall and meet the Amer- j Mjiw lean before thc season closes. j dj Frank Kramer, last year's champion. 1 ft' was beaten by the phenomenal speed Mn of Floyd Krebs. the "Flying Dutch- f K- man," at thc Vailsburg, N. J., track K l last Sunday. The new member of the H fa Tribune team defeated' Kramer fairly n y and nquarely in the half-mile scratch jtl ft event, with John Bedell third, ijater a n In the day Kramer showed great speed L i by winning the mile handicap from mm' scratch In 1 :52 2-3, a new record. fij! Hardy Downlng's "kid brother," who fl f rode at the saucer several seasons ago, Upafi won time prize in a big roadrace In yJn New York State on Decoration day. lllfltl Downing broke thc record for the dls- fifRji tance, riding from scratch, and won x PJIfs 5600 piano for his pains. He also won several firsts at a recent meet held at Mil Syracuse. m U 9!I George Leander of Chicago has se- flit SI cured a release from the Rambler rac- Jr3 ing team, and will sail for Europe on (h lu Juno 17, for an Invasion of the foreign IMS W i cycle tracks. He Is under contract to f J II Victor Breyer, who conducts thc Buffalo S m Velodrome in Paris. He will do all his mrlH riding behind the motor pacing ma- fliM-! chine. fl Ili Fred Titus, tho bicycle rider made fa- 'Am' ' mous by his winning of the great Quill n 1 : J2000 handicap at Manhattan Beach. aim and who retired from bicycle racing Ili K ; j for stage life, has decided to enter the Ss 8 I automobile field. He Is expected to join m jjj i John Fisher as a driver of a Pope-To- fijs ledo racing-car. Titus is thc husband of Edna May, the actress. h M |