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Show AWFUL ACCIDENT BARLT AVERTED New Motor Rider at Saucer frack Cau&'eS Spill, Endangering Endan-gering Many Lives. SAMUELSON AND WHITTLER HAVE MIRACULOUS ESCAPE Turville Is Seriously Injured; De Mara Defeats All the Professionals. An electric light pole, suspending one of tho arc lights on the Salt Palaco saucer track, saved tho lives of at least a dozen people Tuesday ovoning during the bicyclo races. Five thousand people were in tho stand., T. M. Samuelsou 'h' motor crashed into the pole going at a rutc of 1:12 to the mile, nearly cutting the polo in half and splintering part of it into tooth picks. The 300-pound machine dropped back to tho track, and, sliding slid-ing down to tho bottom, spun around liko a lop, as Samuelsou had forgotten to (urn off tho speed. Jt was tho most miraculous escape that the race spectators havo had from serious injury since' tho track was built, and tho accident caused tho hair of every man and woman at the track to stand up- straight. Children cried and women became faint-hearted at tho horrible hor-rible sight, which soomcd certain death to some one. Whittlor Onuses Spill. iS. Whittlor caused tho spill. Ho is a now motor rider, and it was seen at tho end of tho third milo that he had lost control of his machine. "Whittlor was in tho lead, with Samuelson following follow-ing about ton yards behind, both men going at tho rate of 1:12 to the mile. Whittlor was determined that. Samuel-son Samuel-son should not pnss him, and at tho terrijln clip set bv both men it is thought that 'Whittlor becamo dizjy. At any rate at. tho end of four miles, and on the fourth lap. ho rode up and down the track in a wild manner. Tho pcoplu held their breath and a pin could havo beenheard dropped on tho band stand. The expected happened just leaving the back stretch. Whittlor 's machino went from under him and slid to the. next turn, taking an upward course, while Whilllcr gradually slid down the track, barely missing the machine as it canio down. Samuelson shot up the track and touched the out-sido out-sido railing, just missing Whittlor 's machine, ma-chine, but. in so doing he lost control of his motor. It. seemed to become a lliing of life. Tho front wheel left tho track, and Samuelson rodo his motor going on the rear wheel for about a third of a lap before he fell off. The motor continued in an upward course, leaving the track with one great bouiid and crashed into a light polo near the middle of tho north turn. It was all over in an instant, and for a time the people could hardly rcnlizo what had occurred. Not until Samuelson Samuel-son und AVhittlcr jumped up from the ground was there a movement among the. people. "When they realized that the boys were snfo,a groat shout Continued on Pago Nino. AWFUL ACCIDENT RARELY AVERTED Continued from Pac One. of applause rent Uio air, and for the hundredth time the Salt Palace saucer track was placed ou the ''lucky list." Turvillo Seriously Injured. In the second heat of the mile open professional Clom Turvillo took a chance on the cemeut in tho sprint. His daring nearly cost him his life. Whon he reached the turn he was co-ing co-ing too fast to control his wheel, which went down from under him, and he came down on the track, falling on his chin aud cutting big gashes in his tempie. Ho rolled from thc middle of the track to tho bottom in an unconscious un-conscious condition, and it was soino time before lie was restored lo his senses, and ho was unable lo ride any more during the cvoning. Several of his teeth wero Joosened and he was otherwise prett' badly shaken up. ln the final of the mile professional Devoncviteh was put in as a pacemaker. pace-maker. He was slow in getting awav. and the starters ran him down on (he first turn. McFarland, Samuelsou and Burris fell with tho pace-maker, and McFarland got his feet tangled in Dcvonovitch 's whiskers, which mndo him mad, and ho complained to the officials. offi-cials. Samuelson was injured, but was able to enter again. The prettiest raco ever seen on (.ho track was the thrcc-milo lap handicap amateur. Twenty-six sturtera wont off their marks, aud tho race was concluded without a single fall. Jt was a prcttj' sight as tho big buuch of riders swung around the track, and several times it seemed as if they would be unable to hold out to the finish through the unsteadiness un-steadiness of soino rider. McCormack won tho race in a two-lap sprint, with Giles boating out Diefenbachcr for scc-oud scc-oud placo. DeMara a Surprise. ' Downing, McFarland and Samuelson had thiugs cut and dried in tho mile open, but, oh, -what a surprise when DeMara. cut looso from tho rear end of tho bunch and went by his field as if they wero going backwards, winning out by several lengths. McFarland, Downing and Samuolsou finished in tho order named. Tho qnartor-milo open amateur was a'"pipe" for Grobs. Ho loft tho mark first, and held tho lead to tho finish in (ho fast time of :2f) 3-5. Wilcox won tho two-mile lap handicap handi-cap professional raco from thc thirtv-fivc-yard mark. HoJliBtcr fought him all tho way tho last half lap, but could not do better than second placo, Samuelson Samuel-son taking third. Tho summaries woro as follows: Mile, novice Glvllu won. Time. 2:47 4-5. Quarter-mile, open, amateur Crcbs won, Wright second, DIcfonbacher third. Time. :29 3-5. Thrce-mllc, lap, amatour McCormack won, Giles second. Dlefcnbachur third, Lawrcnco fourth. Time. G:1S. Mile, open, professional Do Mara won, McFarland second, Downing third, Samuelson Sam-uelson fourth. Tlmo, 2:03 2-5. Two-mile, lap, handicap, professional Wilcox won, Ilolllster second, Samuelson third, Palmer fourth, De Mara fifth. Tlmo, 3:56 1-5. Flve-mllo motor, match race T. M. Samuelson won, S. Whlttler second. No time taken. |