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Show if MAYER MO DOWNING I WIIJ1EII RACE Limit Men Are Too Fast for the jB Scratch Riders in Mile The bicycle j.iccs at the Saltalr Coll-7'r Coll-7'r . Bcum bicycle track brought out the usual fc orowd Wednesday night. The majority R ! ' ' of the even is wure fast and hotly contcst-? contcst-? i. , C(i by ihe riders. The surprise of the 1 "1 evening was the defeat of McFarland and t ' Clarke by Mayer and Downing In a tan- M dom mile match race. It was run on the tJ, fy order of French "a la style," In which k'L tho real Interest comes at the sprint, t Mayer and Downing Jumped away from . i y; their opponents, taking the lead four laps Vl from home, nnd held it, winning In a close i . Ill finish In 2:1-1 1-5. , , i I ; Tho two-mllo handicap lap professional j J I race was won by Clarke, with McFarland, L, 1 1 Palmer, Wilcox finishing In the order i I named, all in a bunch, in tho fast time M of 3:5G 1-5 Mayer was boxed when tho s III sprint came and did not have an opportu- i, I nlty to show himself. ml jl, No scratch men uunllflcd for the mile i V handicap professional. Stove Senhouse ivM ' i won this event, beating out Samuelson In I I I , n hard sprint, and DeMara got third. The if K j ' time was 1:54 1-5. 4 1 E. J. Holllster won tho mile handicap. i f amatour, and "Cy Perkins" Herman beat ujr. out Giles for second place In tho fast time if! , of 1:57. m J Dlefenbacher and Crebs divided honors II m h In the nunrtcr-mlle record trial, their III I times being :25 4-5. which took llrst and IV i second money. L&9 n |