Show HARDY DOWNING DEFEATED followers of the racing game were treated to a surprise tuesday evening when samuelson turned the scales on hardy downing and beat him out an fn the half mile open professional at the salt lake saucer track it happened this way the whole bunch of riders was loafing jockeying for places sud denly saxon williams starting from the tail end worked up a beautiful bursts of speed circled the bunch and struck out for home downing and samuelson both laid back and so did the rest of tho riders for a moment it seemed as it williams would win in a walk but downing fancy that idea and started out after him with sam glued to his rear wheel the crowd cheered and cheered a hardy cut down the distance and sailed round saxon on the bell tap but just then sam unwound one of his famous old time spurts dashed past downing and sailed over the tape feet to the good it was simply a case of downing underestimating sam and yet tho prove boy deserved credit for the good head work displayed in this race had downing saved the steam that it took to overtake williams be could un have won out from sam who as it was just sailed on behind him tailing life easy until the last halt lap was reached bardgett was third and carl redman fourth time mccormack won the quarter mile dash amateur after a splendid fight with allcox who pressed ihm right to the tape mccormack got off handily jumped to tho pole and held it during the entire race wilcox tried hard to pass him on the bell lap and in tact did press the san jose lad so aard that he had only inches to spare at the tape west was third time 30 45 4 5 the consolation three quarter mile handicap professional went to achorn who had a 75 yard handicap hopper with a 65 yard handicap was second and hollister Hol llster who rode from scratch was third there was an effort at team work which worked splendidly until the riders got bunched but then there was a mixing up and while some of the men were looking for their partners the pat riders jumped out and won the money time 1251 5 humes victory in the two milo open lap amateur was the expected yet it was surprising because the lanky university just ran right away from the bunch on the last lap the race was interesting throughout and considerable cleverness was exhibited by the youngsters on more than one occasion like professionals they rode the bank squeezed out of tight places and worked into positions west allcox and castro followed humo across the tape in the order named they were closely bunched and riding fast as they hot over the tape time 45 4 5 hardy downing won out in handy style from iver redman in the alve mile motor paced race but the race was a good one and the riders went at a gay clip all the way the time Is a new record for the track and a good record for it means tha the riders were going at a clip every mile of tho race eddie smith paced downing and T M samuelson paced redman redman got off in the lead and for the first three miles ll 11 looked as if he could not be headed finally by a burst of speed that brought tho crowd to its feet smith and downing whirled by and sailed on to victory both men followed pace beautifully |