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Show Nil RATTLING Bicycle Programme Is interesting. Sprints, Motor-Paced arid Consolation Races Features. Collett and Hopper Are Matched for Another Contest, and for a Sixty-Dollar Sixty-Dollar Purse. SPRINTS, motor paced and consolation races will make up tho varied and Interesting bicycle programme which will be seen at the saucer this evening. even-ing. Five main events, which will necessitate neces-sitate nino rattling good heats have been scheduled. The sprint races will bo tho feature of the evening and promise to be productiyo of the most hair raising finishes fin-ishes ever seen on the local track. The local management ha3 decided to permanently maintain tho hlgh-prlzo schedule inaugurated at the Decoration meet. The sum total of money held up in prizes is equal to that offered by any Eastern track and as a couseouonco tho best men In tho country aro now Hocking Zlonward. Fred Schcpps. Iho Australian champion, and Orlando Stevens, who needs no introduction to tho local followers fol-lowers of the game, arc among tho many famous sprinters who have Just started for Utah with high hopes of plucking some of the golden bags. Johnny Bowler, a whirlwind from Chicago, Chi-cago, arrived In the city yesterday, nnd will compete In tonight's races. Bowler's strong fort Is middle distance riding, but it is expected that ho will give the speed merchants at the Palace track some hunt-your-money-qulck races. Excepting Frank Kramer, Ivor Lawson and Major Taylor, tho little colony at the saucer track now contains the speediest men In tho country. It also contains t-ome crack middle distance and long distance dis-tance riders, as well as many paced and unpaced riders. With such a variety of performers the management will be able to furnish a varied and novel programme for almost every meet. Georgo Collett Is not satisfied with his defeat In tho recent match race and still persists In declaring that ho can run rings around Hopper This was Cbllett's first defeat and during the past week he has been persistently seeking a return match, with a view of regaining his laurels. Ho offered to race Hopper in private for a b?ldo bet. but when Manager Heagren saw that he was In dead earnest ho offered them another trial. This was agreeable to Collott and as ?C0 looked good to Hopper Hop-per he readllv consented. Thu race was sot for June M, nnd until then both men will train every minute. It promises to bo a battle roval, for the two men arc evenly matched niid In for blood. In tho recent meet Collett took tho first heat, but was beaten out In the two following by tho barest margin. Tho programmo follows: FIve-mllo motor-paced race J. M. Chapman Chap-man vs. Hardy Downing. Two-mile lap handicap, professional The following start from scratch: Frank Horfman. Hardy Downing. J. M. Chapman. Chap-man. N. C. Hopper, W. E Samuelson, George H. Collett, C L. Holllster, J. E Achorn. Saxon Williams and Eddlo Smith. Onc-mllc handicap, amateur The entries are: Carl Dedman, F. D. Morgan, Fred Castrol. Emll Agraz, E. B. Heagren, Joe Rayborn, Iver Redman, J. II. Tate, lorn Hlllon, S. A. Ellswood, Victor Larson and Robert N. Russell. Half-mile open consolation, professional. Half-mile open consolation, amateur ' - |