OCR Text |
Show ENOUGH THRILLS AND SPILLS FOR ONE NIGHT Exciting flnishee, abundant tortus and ssversi spills featured last Blfht's weekly motordrome run to inch an extent that there wu eneasa ef ew ery-thine ery-thine to satisfy almost any kind of a fan. For close to death cll and dary ing iptcd the meet excelled anything ever Men on the track before. Tarta-netely Tarta-netely no one wu seriously hurt, however, and the biggest crowd 0 the aeaaon went away well pleased.' Manager Ivor Redman unearthed s crowd of "kids" snd threw in "Bill" Hamuelsoo for good measure for bis three-mile invitation profession. Every one of the "rid era" had fast machines and what happened after the starter's gun had been fired had Buffalo Bill ' famous roughridrr stunts bsrked fsr off the boar l. With the poeeible exception excep-tion of rsmulson, who remained bark out of danger until the finish, the bunch seemed lo be sll over the track. Samorlson won the race, Bernstrom was second. Hyatt third and Thomas fourth. After Bamueleon snd Bernstrom had 1' 1 1 meed thr-rape,- they r ntr whit of? their marhines and coaated bark to the finish mark. When within 100 ysrde of the tape, and while juat barely moving they were eosst ing side by eile, whra Peterson, on an N. ft. U., as wide as a hayrark," came tearing along, evidently believing that the rare wu still on. Instead of going up the bank and around Samuelsou and Bernstrom, where bs had all kinds of room, he saw ahnut a foot of apare hetweenSamnrl- ton and Bernstrom, and throngs mere he went. Bernetrost managed to extricate extri-cate himself, bnt "poor old Sam" went skv high with the green rider. As soon as" the fans had forgotten the serious portion of it all and noticed both men get up unhurt, thsv appreciated the humorous side of it snd they screamed with laughter. Bar Sevmnre again demonstrated that hie machine ha all manners of speed bv defeating Fred Whittler in their matrh race st five miles. Heymore got the jump on Whittler in ths first best snd gained a half lap on hi opponent oppo-nent befor a mile had been ridden. Whittler wss -rrasbra tr wseibsnt him. In the gerond best Whittler showed up murh better snd rode fceymor to s standstill, losing out only by inches at the tape after coming up with a spleo did sprint. After .ths rsr Whittler announced that he was fsr from satisfied over the manner in which his machine performed snd challenged Bey more for another rare at sny diatsnre. Hevmore swept ed ssd ths msteh will be run over next Thursday. The six-mile open profeaelona! turned out to be the real thriller of the evening. Seymore. Bruedberk. Whittler and Ward furnished grand race. First Seymore got sway with a beautiful start and opened a gap of about forty lengths on Broadbeck and Whittler. Whittler finally made up the dlatance with Broadbeck almost al-most on. They rode In thla manner until three laps to go when Whittler went by Seymore At two laps to go Seymore passed Whittler, but Whittler grabbed the lead again In hurry-up fashion. Coming Into the finish Whittler led by length. Seymore almost eucceeded In coming up even aa the tape was reached, but here something happened. Whittler had the pole with Seymore right ever htm on the hank. On the tap the two men seemed to come together like a piece of steel and a magnet and both a not to the railing. The people In the stands closed their eyea and expected one or both Whittler and Seymore to gbe eerlouely Injured. After hitting the rail both men rode the upright up-right railing for about fifty, feet when both came down In a heap. The two machines, ma-chines, badly wrecked, went on skimming over the track like plecee of paper in a windstorm, but to the surprise of all, both men got up unhurt except for a few minor bruises snd silver. The officials disqualified Whittler and gave th race to Seymore. After th rac Whittler made the following atatement: "I am eorry that It happened and had no intention of Injuring Seymore, but Key-more Key-more ehould not nave laid over on me aa he did at the finish. I did what any other rider would hav done put ont my elbow. A person doea that unconsciously to protect himself from being run down Into the ground. Seymore was right on top of me so that our knees touched. Seymore Sey-more muat have had on little more than 1 did for when our elbowe touched our machinee came together at the bottom and you know what happened. I am eorry that It happened ,ut after th rough riding rid-ing Seymore and Samuel son gave me laat week. I muat be expected to protect myself my-self whn on of these earn men ride so doee to me, especially whn he haa lota of room to get by whll I am on 'the pole, that our kne touch. Hardy Downing, Salt Lake's reach pacefollower. made hla first anpearance on a bicycle behind a motor thle oeason. He rode two one-mil xhtbltlone. one in 1:24 end th other In 1:17. Downing la dlasatlsfled with hi showing and expects to train faithfully and try It again. He found It difficult to bold ths new track on his first time out. but he states that he will yet do around a minute for the fans. The eummsry: Five-mile open, trade riders Claflln, Johnson. Westleke. Time, 4:31 4-6. Five-mile match race. Whittler and Seymour First heet won by Seymour. Time, 1:40 2-t. Second beat won by Seymour. Sey-mour. Time, 1:50 1-5- Mlle record trial by Hardy Downing, motor paced. Time. 1:17. Invitation professional, three miles Samurlson, Bergstrom, H. Hyatt, Thomas. Thom-as. Time. 1:14 2-t. Slx-mlle open professional Seymour. Henhouse. Ward. Time. 4:2 1-1. Whittler Whit-tler ran dead heat, but wss disqualified. |