Show ITHE THE WORLD OF SPORT LAWSON MYSON WON VON RACE RAGE FAIRLY Entitled to All Credit for His Initial Victory Over Kramer f i f SWEDE IS STILL SANGUINE Confident That lie Will Annex Honors Again aln Friday Nl Night ht In TwoMile Two Two- Mile E E t There Thero was as all alI sorts of talk about 4 town yesterday on the tho big match race I i. i of Tuesday nl night ht between Kramer and Lawson Lason On street corners In the theW W cars carEl and the tho dubs clubs the tho race was as the theone theone theone one topic of conversation Never before before be ue- fore forc In the history of racing has any event at the Salt Palace saucer created cre cre- so much discussion A large majority of those who saw F th the race were disposed to give e Ivor Iver Lawson full fulI credit for COl his victor victory Thc They I i. i figured that Ina inasmuch much as al he won son In Ina Ina a fair air and square race he hc S all that was coming coining to him There j were some however er who rHo claimed all allS S sorts of or things This cla class s of knockers knock hooch S ers can be found anywhere the thc world over oer whether It be bo In the tho vicinity of a bike race a prize light fight or a sermon Alwa Always knocking never boosting S seems to be their motto Some of these went so 80 far as to say that the therace therace race was the thc the mos most t ridiculous S claim that could po possibly be made madeS made made- S while others othel's said that Ivor Iver should have been disqualified on the ground S that he cut Kramer too close when he pa passed cd the New Jersey champ Luw oll for Publication S Ivor Iver Law Lawson Laws on himself was so piqued J b by the thc trend of or somo some conversations con that he talked for fOI publication last night night nighta a thing which ho has never done before I r didn't know kno there were so many S knockers knockel's around here he hc said I Ik 1 f k thought that the people were fair andS and S were willing to give gUe I c a man mun credit for anything that he hc does loes that Is Js worth orth S credit I r worked hard for this race S I r got sot myself cl Into better condition than S I r have ha ever been In my life Then I 5 went out and won fairly and squarely S I 1 did not cut Kramer lramer too close when I 1 passed him r I simply cau caught ht him 1 asleep At Al that he was riding us as fast fastS S Jio could and lie he didn't have a chance 1 bellevo that I r can beat heat him just as easily Friday night in tho the two mile race racer Financial End o of Big Bis E ent S h A mistaken Idea which some people 5 seem to have o Is that the management of ot tho the track Is making a barrel of ot I mone money out of the thc three heats cats o of this A r. r race mcc As AN a plain matter of or fact Manager Man Man- et i S 1 ager Chapman will consider himself lucky I It if he comes out a little better than even en He is the only manager during the six years eaIS since the track was vas built hullt who has had hael the gameness to put up a purse of sufficient magnitude to lure Kramer out from the tho East Ent It has been a gamblers gambler's chance with him The purse 2500 is Js the biggest t ever offered for one I S event c on oui a bike track anywhere In Inthe 5 the thc world The Thc races he lie has scheduled sched sched- to precede the bl big main event eventS S of each evening are o of a cla class that Is belter hettel than anything offered this season sea- sea son bon with the tho result that more monc money has been offered for each meet Last nights night's gate gale receipts were 2072 With ith an expense account on 5 tho the three meets that will come corne pretty close to It calr- calr be seen that S Chapman Is not in a fair wa way to make a n vcr very cry large fortune There would shave have been more mOIo money for 01 the track I If he lie had run the usual schedule of S races at the thc usual prices Ills his desire however to give I the public a race t which would decide the championship o of tho the world led him to bring Kramer out here herc And what does docs he get for Cor It Sortie Some unkind remarks from a a. hunch bunch of knockers who know as much about what hat Is what whal In sporting matters as a aS S cow does docs about the coming performance perform perform- ance of The Old Bedstead oll Won Oui Race Fairly These arc are plain words but they are true truc Lawson won on Tuesday nights night's race ruce fairly and Is entitled to all the credit In the world for or his victor victory victory- He lie Is confident that he hc will annex the honors in Fridays Friday's contest Kramer likewise is sure that he can get his hisS S stride In a two-mile two race and can set setS setH S a H pace for fOI the longer distance which S Lawson Lawon will bo be unable to follow S Should Iver win the third race will willIS willbe willbe IS be held Id just the thc I same samo me This ThiN Information S tion Is offered for fOI the edification of oC those who are arc saying that Kramer will win the race so that a third race can be he held |