Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-07-19 | Page 12 | Steamroller Speed Kings Will Compete in Covered Wagon Days Racing Classic

Steamroller Speed Kings Will Compete In Covered Wagon Days Racing Classic f 4 v 1 "i f ' & TJ (77 v, .-:V'i'.'-",l n ( V-':" ' n :V V? FLEET VEHICLE GROOMED FOR DASH UP MAIN STREET Commissioner J. B. Mullins, proud of hit "County of Salt Lake." If there's one thing a man with sporting blood can't talcs it's ths Implication that his steamroller cannot beat another man's steamroller. steam-roller. Accordingly, when W. E. Ryberg started hurling challenges with reckless aoandon as a feature of the Covered Wagon Days celebration celebra-tion he got Into trouble. Quick as a fox, he was snspped up by County Commissioner J. B. Mullins and City Commissioner John B. Matheson on Saturday. "Never," they chorused, let It be said a government-owned steamroller steam-roller is not as good as a privately-owned privately-owned machine." Mr. Matheson hinted hs might flls charges of professionalism against his two competitors, pointing point-ing out that, while Mr. Ryberg and Mr. Mullins ars old hands at the throttle of a steamroller, he has never operated one in his lifs. But a little thing like inexperience can't deter a man of sporting blood. As plans took shaps, names of officials emerged. City Commissioner Commission-er William Murdoch will be starter and judges will be Charles N. Fehr, preeident of the chamber of commerce; com-merce; Orval W. Adams, vies president presi-dent snd manager of the Utah, State National bank, snd H. M. Chamberlain, Chamber-lain, vice president of the Walker Bank and Trust company, all of whom know a good steamroller race when they ses It run. The course, though not long, will be a trying one for the contestsnts. It runs from Second South street to First! South street on Main street All would have been well had not Mr, Ryberg appended a clause "for gentlemen riders only." "Gentlemen riders," in ths equestrian field, means a mount must be ridden by the owner.