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Show LOS ANGELES TRACK WILL OPEN KAY 2 i Iver Lawson Signs to Hide for Pickering: Thomas Arrives ! From Coast. Word has been received from Los Angeles that Manager Pickering will givo his opening bicycle meet on May 2, and that a mn.jorily of the bicycle riders now in tho west will take part in tho opening moot. .Several of the men who will go to California have boon signed by Manager Uoagren of tho Salt. Palace, and theso men will return re-turn when the Salt Palace track opens up on May 30. Ever Lawson received :i contract from Pickering Saturday and Lawson immediate' imme-diate' wired his acceptance, Lawson is riding faster than ho has been accustomed ac-customed to at this limo of the year and he is confident that ho will be as good as ho ever was. W. Palmer left for tlr Pacific coast Saturday night to ride in Los Angeles for the first, month. Walker and Scn-houso, Scn-houso, who rode here last 3'oar, have left. Atlanta, Ga . for Los AiiRcles to attend the opeuine moot, and from there theso two men will como to Salt Lake City. L. Thomas, one of last year's best amateur riders, arrived Saturday from San Francisco anil will comiuenno training train-ing for the races. Manager Ileagren is n"ing to securo T'Va'iK Goti'h lo appear hero for an exhibition ex-hibition contest on the evening of the bicydo track opening. With good weather, tho new surface for the bicycle track will bo laid during dur-ing Hie p rosea l week and the riders will be able to comnieuco training. : S, U. Wilcox and II. LaBelle have .joined the Olympic Theatrical company I and will tour the .slate,, doing stunts! 011 tho stage. If tho show business i proves a snccohs. Wilcox and LaBelle i may stick for tho season, although both .men have ordered their racing wheels and cxpcei to ride, Iho present season, sea-son, j |