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Show LOCAL SPORTSMEN READY TO DO BIT ! IF ALLOWED HALF I AN OPPORTUNITY j ' Alex MacLean, Prominent Bike Rider. Manager and I Promoter. Going Oyer to Provide Sport for Yanks ByW.D.B. SALT LAKE BporUraen and promoters have done nothing definite aa yet toward wcj"J which the nation will raise during the week of November 11 to 18, but they are all talking it up and are merely waiting for the influ gink to even how aigna of a . prtaajbi- wjnirtgnoaa t make hia! ejtit in the very near future. I All of tho boys ar mora than anxious 4 to do their share and ask only the opportunity. High school and college ! athletic teams aro not only willing; but anxloua to ftiVw a larg-e sharo of any . earn in a that might coma aa a result of their effort a before tho public and tha same goea for all others connected with a port In any way. I Haroy Downing has volunteered to1 stture anything, large or small, that might be iftiggeated to bring; tho bast financial reeulta and. rlfnt now. ha la merely awaiting deftnlt word from Jack Har-hrieon, Har-hrieon, of Ogden. If tha Oejden grap-pier grap-pier ia willing to talk turkey on tha proposed pro-posed match with Ueorge Nelaon In thla ,rlly, Iowning belleva that that will be the proper atunt fur the occasion. If Har-bertaon Har-bertaon is not aarioua. 1 owning may con-aider con-aider bringing In a aultabia opponent for ih former Halt Iake fireman or the poe-albilit poe-albilit of staTlrig a bg boxing; carnival Alex MacLean , . Joins K. of C The National War Work council added another valuable man to It overeeaa ataff recently when It Induced Alex alaclean. frttnoue aMrlaman and promoter, to Join the KnlKhta of folumbue forrea. Alex haa already reported in New York and la read y to aa 1 1 a a soon aa hia paaaports hava been ptrperly arranged for. Hurdle of Halt Lake paople will welt remember M.trlan aa a famous bicycle racer of tha nlon days. With hls brother, broth-er, th hit Ilurhev MucTan, he formed aoBaBHaxaBaaaKsaaBMinBasBaaaaaBwwaBaiM a raelng; team that waa known all over Kurope and America. After wiving; farewell to bike racing. Ales became a promoter In Hoe ton and occasionally took the maaagement of a 1 boxer vho happened to a how promise. I Among- the prominent men Maclean handled In the ring were Jack Johnson, Sandy Ferguson, Matty Baldwin, tillbert Oallant and numerous others. It was MacLean s Introduction of Jack Johnson to Auatrallan fight fans In lt"3 tht paved the wny for the negro's annexation of the world's title later on. Alex, who Is a grand mixer and a prince of good fellows, exects to take a hand r promoting an forma of recreation for the Tanks in Pari a. hia detfnatlon. Mac-Lean Mac-Lean rode races at tha old Velodrome de Hlver, In V arts, yeara aaro, and will not be a stranger In that city. Maclean la at present th president of the Armory A. A., the famoua Boston fight club. Ha had been a director In that rlub for six years. Before leaving; the Hub for New York, Maclean waa tendered a fire well supper by hie aaeo-riate aaeo-riate in the club. They gave him an aluminum case wrist watch and told him they were glad that he was going to do "lite bit" over there. They are going; to hold for him his share of profit that the club earn while bo la away from noma MacLean built th flrat saucer track In this country at Revere, Maae Ha ran the first slx-dsy bike race In Boston and has conducted ouch events yearly since IPOs. |