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Show , PlGIGOING -,0i'I:S AUGER easMsaesassMBeeesBSsasssBssBt Speed Mcrchanrs Set a Dizzy Pace on v Bike Track at Ogdcn. i -:. (Special to The Telegram.) v OGDEN, Aug. 1. Bucking hard st a strong -wind BIJly Samuelson on the Glenwood park saucer last night, went after 'his own unpaced . quarter- m" world's record. No one thought he v t1d succeed, but he surprised all by V Ing his, own. mark, 24 seconds; Indeed, oil watch gave the time as 23 4-5 sec-onW. sec-onW. There was a large and enthu- elastic crowd and the meet was one of the fastest of the season. ' One of the moLi exciting events of the season was -the one-mile match sprint race between N. C. Hopper and B. J. Bowler. The latter won the first and third heat. ;The third heat was the fastest of . the three and was negotiated , lij 1:57. ' . Riding frcni scratch Samuelson took the money for the half-mile handicap f professional. He came within three-quarters three-quarters of a second of equaling the world's record held by Frank Kramer; his time being 65 1-5.. Holllster second, Achorn third., ' . ' Jack Hume went after N. C. HoppeVs , world's half-mile unpaced record, but the wind took a hand In the fight and saved Hoper. Hume's time of 54 1-5 is Just a second behind Hopper's record. : In the five-mile match motor race be tween E. B. Heagrea and T. M. Samuel-. Samuel-. son the. former... won .by .-.sheer. nerve-Samuelson's nerve-Samuelson's machine was quite as fast as that driven by Heagren, but the fall I of a few days ago experienced by 8am- i - uelson was not forgotten and he evU i dently did not care to let It out to full ppeed. Heagren, however, let his ma-chin ma-chin out to the limit and' finished two laps to the good. : West took the final of the three-quar-i ter mile amateur In 1:34. Castro second. King third. Hopper won In the quarter-mile quarter-mile dash, professional. Williams sec- Ond, Holllster third. ' " |