Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-01 | Page 8 | Motor Bike Racers End Season Tonight

MOTOR IE RACERS EI SEHf TONIGHT Tonight Is the last opportunity the local lo-cal motor-racing fans will have of enjoying enjoy-ing their favorite pastime until next Decoration day rolls around, as tonight's race meet at tho Wandamere motordrome ends tho present season's racing ln this city. Manager Ileagrcn has arranged a fitting fit-ting card to close a very successful season sea-son and has left nothlni; undone in ids effort to make this the one best meet of the year. The feature event will, of cour?e. be the match raco between Fred Whlltier and Ray Peck, who has been cleaning the boards at the local track In the last few weeka. Peck's riding has really been phenomenal, as he Iirs won the last sixteen events In which ho has rld-dn rld-dn without as much as losing a heat. While ho has been beating Whlttler only by inches, that Is enough to win and really shows what wonderful riding ha has been doing. Whittlor still Insists lhat ho can beat Peck with a machine that has equally aa much speed as Peck's, and says he thinks he will be able- to get enough speed out of his mill tonight to put the last match of the season over to his credit Whether ho will or not remains to be seen, but in any event ,lt will be a battle from tape to tape, and It's dollars to doughnuts that they will be only inches apart, regardless re-gardless of who wins. Another event that Manager Heagron Is banking: on to give the fans aomo Interesting In-teresting racing Is the match team pursuit pur-suit raco between Samuelson and Rognon rs the ono team and Bert Smalllng and Theo Samuelson as tho other. Thin will be an unlimited affair, and the rldors will have to keep golnj? until one man of a toam passes both riders of the opposing team. The "Labor Day Special." a slx-mlle-, free-for-all raco. In which all the rldors now at the track will start at once, should also produce some high-class racing. In addition to these mentioned features, fea-tures, there will bo several othor class A and B races to round out what Mr. Tleacren hopes will be the banner meet of the year. Tho races will start at 8:30 o'clock, as usual.