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Show ;7ER UWSON ONCE MORE n TAKES THE FIRST MONEY . "By gudeness, ay seen planty baysackel ' races In my day, but ef ay ever look at noder race lak dls one last nlte ay hope . ay skol drop dead In my tracks, yas sir. I "Ay ban setting next to geerer vlt lce . cream suit and big red band In his hat. Ay ban from rrovo,' he tal me, 'and ay vant to tel yu, Maester, dar ban not'lng to dls har race. Samuelson skol vln In a valk.' Ay say, 'Val. ay ant so sure for 61s.' Den h sny; 'Yu big Swede, vy ant you sure? Ay skol bet yu ten to von.' he say. Val,' ay tal him. 'ay ant know much bout dis game, but ay got bout sax-ty sax-ty dollars har Uat say Iver Lawson yust ' wll win. Come on.' Don he get Just so red sum red band on his hat, and say, "'Ay vas only foolln' -yu.' yas sir. "My coin ban goln on dat Iver Lawson. v even money, tu, all time, yas sir. Interview Inter-view with Yon Yonson about his friend Iver Lawson, . "Again th 'Flying Swede wins!" - It was the same old story now that Iver ' Lawson is back -in form. Lawson Is Indeed In-deed a world's champion. While Lawson failed to put any knots In the world's records rec-ords last night he certainly showed too much speed for Samuelson, the - Provo wonder. In the three-mile open lap professional pro-fessional race Lawson covered the distance dis-tance In 8:18 minutes. It Is not record time, but It was fast enough to beat anything any-thing lit the race and Lawson won out. Eddie Smith certainly had his guiding and lucky star hovering over him last night. While going at a clip that resembled resem-bled a comet on his motor the chain , broke and threw him. lie plucklly got going again alter a new allotment of lung food and hit only the high places In bis dash against time. Then the machine parted company, the front forks breaking and the front wheel shot forward. So did Smith. He landed In a heap, while a horrified chorus of oh's went up from the 3000 people present. He was thought to be badly Injured, but speedily came around. But there was no ether motor for htm to rids so his match race with Heagren had to be called off. lieagren, however, went an exhibition mile on his motor in 1:15. The attendance last night was perilously perilous-ly near the record mark and the big crowd thoroughly enjoyed the night's card. Here is the summary of each race: Quarter-mile open dash, amateur-Marty amateur-Marty first. Mills second, Ellsworth third. Time, SO seconds. Second heat Hume first, F. Samuelson second, Castro third. Time, 30 seconds. Third heat Wilcox first, Welser second,' Redman third. Time, 31 seconds. Final Catro first. Marty second, Wilcox Wil-cox third. Time. 81 seconds. One mile sprint match race First heat Samuelson won. Time, 2:11. Second heat Samuelson won Time, 2:02 3-5. Three-mile open lap. professional I aw-son aw-son first, Samuelson second, Redman third, Holllster fourth. Time, 6:18. Laps won by Burrls 9, Williams 4. Agraz 3, Samuelson 2, Leyland 2, Achorn 2, Holllster Hollls-ter 1. Unlimited Australian pursuit race, amateur am-ateur Hume first, Wilcox second. Tate tMrd. Time. 6:32 3-5. Distance covered, 2 miles. 3 laps. In yards. One mile exhibition race against time by E. B. Heagren. Time, 1:15. |