| Show lA LAWSON W N TO I RIDE NO NOT T MORE Salt Lake Star Who Has Often Startled Cycling World Announces Retirement Retirement Re Re- Retirement From Game By W. W D. D Bratz YES sir Walter you canI can cantell JL I tell the world that the Swede is through with the bike hike game for good That That is is the greeting we received received re re- re- re reI I this morning from the I once famous Iver Lawson former former for tor- mer met worlds world's champion and from the manner in which Salt Lakes Lake's old time idol said it I am convinced convinced con con- vinced that he means it with absolute sincerity Thus Thua the career of one of the very greatest bicycle sprint riders the world has hai ever known is us at lit an end Lawson returned from the East after riding through tho recent New York six day race nursing a badly disfigured eye eyes which was in injured injured injured in- in in tho the Boston race and the positive pos pos- tive tivo knowledge that old father athor time has put a sure enough scissors on him The same game ia is gone OI for all an thua and andI I am am getting too old to ride six day races on percentage p Bald said tho the Swede The Iho last Jast New York raco race was a a. joke anti and all aU that prize money the winners were suppo supposed ed to have gotten otten was a still bigger Joke Instead ot of getting setting the which the press reports told you ou about out here hen the winners received cd about that many hundred dollars The old pep i-ep ep that MacFarland Rutt DO Downing Root foot Fogler Fosler Hopper Clarke Goullet and the bunch used to show them Isn't there and the New ew York people simply will not fall faU for the bunk the they are getting Where we use used to I draw three and four tOUl thousand people in the tl-e afternoons the they do not nol draw three I LIL hun VU There Them mere 1 K Is is not not Incentive C three I LIL hun VU There Them mere 1 K Is is not not Incentive C c especially for COI an ol old timer mc myself to ride your our head off ott to win one of ot those thoc races and amI believe me I dont don't I went Into the boxes at Bo Boston and almost almost al- al most tore my eye ce out and I wasn't to take a chance like that in New York with no mone money In sight On the Che ie last nl night ht when Egg went out and and got gol t that lap McNamara le was vas nil alt v d ln from chasing primes and Egg went alone There was vms nobody to bother other him an and n ny one seemed to care I know I dIdn't Even en Chapman Chapma is losing Interest in the game back East has quit I. I and Its It's taps tap as sure as an you OU live A hundred times In the last Jast year ear I have hoard heard l old fans Cans Ea say The game went to the lie dogs when Di Big Mac died And that is the truth It Tl may seem eem strange strange- I out hero to hear henr that one man like Uke I Floyd MacFarland kept the game alive alIe but truer words were n never er spoken No one but hut a MacFarland M I could bring the game back to life Jn In tho the East Lawson has not nol yet Jel decided what he I will do 10 In the h future but hut he has tnt Inti mated that he will Ill enter business s here A A. badly hadly hadl disfigured eye ce bears silent test test- I mon mony of ot the tho close call 11 which he had in the Boston race At any rate her Iver is through and long Jong after the thc old bike c game is Js forgotten tho the record books will show to future genera genera- ra- ra lions that the Swede from Salt Lake Inko City Jt waa wac probably the greatest sprinter of oC them all He lie Ie has sev several ral worlds world's records reci rec- rec i u u. u to I. I iu LU hlA ma eUL II B i u u. u to I. I iu LU ma eUL II B nat umi lat will stand au all ail time The They will never be broken outside of the of Utah at Any 0 rate In his lime Ifune Lawson Jawson trimmed the tho best tho the world had in Europe America and Australia L. Lawron's pons 1004 season when he went to Euro Europe after a year sear car hero and won cr c every Grand Prix and Important race lucId held on th will long Jong remain bicycle history He lie wound up his stay In Europe Eu Eu- rope that winter b by winning wEaning the worlds world's amateur and anel professional championships A feat teat that has lias never been accomplished sInce Ince Probably no athlete in an any branch of ot sport over ever enjoyed such general larity in Salt SJ rake Lake aa M did Iver Lawson Jn Sn his hi day Iu In the olden days das when hen Salt Lake used to turn out and people to 0 the old Salt Palace saucer two and three times a a. week Iver Lawson Lawlon was Indeed a a. hero When h he returned from his victorious Ious career Iu lit Europe at tho the close of the 1904 season the people of or Sill Sait Lake pr presented him with a gold medal which even today her Iver prizes s' s dearly Stovall Got Start in Utah George Stovall StO ia is the new manager of oC the V Vernon club according to last nights night's I Fed came eelS t to front from an agreement the ee Coast wJ with The the tho former g new I Tiger owners yesterday afternoon as had long lone been predicted All that r reminds us that George Stovall can rightfully bo lit called a a. Utah product The play player r who afterward l became po so fa tn- tn as first Jut baseman and manager of ot t the hL Cleveland 1 nd Naps and then then- as the 01 Ut me outlaw federals received received re re- re his ide real baseball start under Dad Gimlin In Ogden Back In 1903 during the th days das of or the two club league between tween SnIt Salt Lake and Ogden Billy BInford then tire Jre chief and manager of at the Ogden team came Caine to Salt Lako ko and found Stovall loafing In this city Ho had Just been r released Elders by Y the and was Wall out of ot a job took him to Ogden ae as he needed a a. first baseman haseman badly Stovall watt was merely rookie and Wiley Miley Mile McDonough at one a time limo a famous Camous catcher and first sacker and then a m member o the Ogden Lob Loll taught Stovall how to shift and to I generally play the bag When hen the league w wont went nt up tip In hi smoke I during Jul her ber July or Septem Septem- to en enable ble Salt Lake to take over Portland franchise In the old Pacific National league Dad Gimlin pick Jilek of oC the old Salt Lake and O Ogden took clubs tho the and barnstormed ed the Iho middle West McDonough McDonough Mc- Mc Donough and na J n Nash Nanh a h and Shurtliff were caught tho the Fette Stovall VelL er Thompson pitchers a few teW other famous ramous in tho those those- end and nd o days Utah team balL 1 Je I. up tho the balance of t the of oC Gimlin ran tan Into remarkable f s on flit trip and Stovall aJl became a 1 star slur Ho lIo HI nj not turn with the bunch but re reI re- re I In the East until Ted Sullivan an dug him up in the Texas league In his bin prime ho lie wa was wan considered next to Hal Rat chase the best bent fielding first baseman in th the American league SI rice then lie he has on various occasions lonH shown hown marked abil abU It ity an as a manager and Tigers will wl bear now he and the th watching ure surest t you OU know thing tiling |
