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Show FIVE-MILE TITLE RACE A THRILLER i Lawson MaKes Great Ride and Captures It; Hehlr Out of Race. Tb five-mile "western championship" champion-ship" at the Salt Palace saucer last night was one of the prettiest races seen on the local saucer in many a day, and Manager Pyo certainly needed It to save the evening's card. As It was all turned out to the marry. iver Lawson won ths big event with one of the sprints which ones made him famous the world over. Lowsoa showed a splendid .burst of his old tims peed sad sppare'ntly bad something in reserve. It took s good rids to wis and Lawson wa on the job. Paddy Hehir slid down ths track at one mile to go, while the bunch was clamoring for position behind ths madly mad-ly tesriDg lap ehaaers, snd waa out of it, of eourae. Seven oat of fourteen riders snrvivsd to th laat four laps to go. At this stsge Peter Droback ram from the very rear of ths pro-eeaeion, pro-eeaeion, and before the others aould realise what had happened Peter ksd opened up a gap of about tea lengths snd wss going for dear life. Walker, with Lawson partly oa, came out of the bunch, however, and sooa ever-hauled ever-hauled Drobaeh, snd then it looked like a race between Walker and Law-son, Law-son, but the latter fairly flew. Norman Nor-man Anderson npaet the beans on the back tretch by eosniag like a champion cham-pion almost at the top of the bank and atealing aeeond from Walker. Anderson's Ander-son's ride wss ths first flssh of old time form that the Dene has shows this season, snd he surely reds. Law-son Law-son unwound a sprint test wss too hard to heat, though, and he looked like hi former aelf when be mowed down the buneh and flniabed aa strong sa if he had ridden but a quarter mile. "Billy" Pamuelaon waa absolutely no match for Manaser Pya In the match pur-ault pur-ault rare. Pya rode a grand raoa snd merely hlppodromed along until he got ready to pull Ram down. - Uwkh felled by )uat a few notohee o lower hla own quartar-mlt record. He made good time but hla atsrt looked tike a bad one. At any rat, ha has made some that were much better. The motor race waa marred by th preeenre of a few tidera who hav no more bualneea on a motor than on tha aupreme bench, but luckily they escaped n n. Into the aeata. The two amateur events wore O. K and brought out aome keen competition. Huey and Colvln divided th honor. Hummery: One.quarter mile amateur Huey won, Maver eemnd, Meredith third, Colvln fourth. Tim :I0 1-1. Mile handicap, amateur Oohrln, scratch, won; Oberg. from forty yards, aeeond: Meredith, forty-five yarda, third; Kramer, fifty-five yarda, fourth. Time I:l2. Pye won tha Australian pursuit rap from Bamuelaon. Dletence. two miles, three lap and thirty yard. Time I 07 t-l. Five-mile lap profeeetonal ehamplon-ahln ehamplon-ahln I.awnn won. Anderaon aeeond, Walker third, Wright fourth. Time 10:00. Three-mile motor race MeCormlek won. Hteln second. Bsmoelson tblrd. Time 1:37. |