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Show MOTORCYCLE TO HAVE INNING MEMORIAL DAY No Less Than Sixteen Big Events Have Been Arranged Throughout the . Country for May 30. Xo loss than sixteen big motorcycle events'- nm si-hodulcd for May 30, Memorial Memo-rial das-. In hk many cities, 3"ioiu California Cali-fornia to Virginia and from Michigan to Kloiidft. motorcycle's will be going through th'-Ir best paves in road und track raws, reliability and endurance .runs and hill climbs. Looming above the many vonls which Will hold the attention of molorcycllsta and lovers of good racing, is tho Hvn-mlle Hvn-mlle national championship race of the Federation of American Motorcyclists. This 1ms been awarded li dm North Shore Motorcycle club of Chicago. The F. A. M. two-mile national championship cham-pionship will be run Sunday, May "Ji, under un-der the auspices of "the San Francisco Motorcycle club at San Francisco and it was specified by Competition Chairman Thornley In awarding the liVc-milo event to the North Star Shore club that the date chosen should not conflict -with the two-mile event In San Francisco, or with the races in the F. A. M. national meet at Buffalo, July 10-15. The interval between May 21 and May ."!0 will givo nil riders who participate In the San Francisco event ample time to ret to Chicago for the five-mile race. Thlts insures the best and fastest riders for each of the two events. Undoubtedly there will be many other noteworthy Memorial day events arranged ar-ranged in the next threo weeks, but even with the present list it will probably be the biggest day in the history of general motorcycle events throughout the country. coun-try. The 1911 motorcycles are better than ever before, and now motorcycle riders have been budding forth faster than the spring flowers. The motorcycle ndvance during the past year is remarkable. More than 2000 riders have joined the Federation of American Motorcyclists since last September. Sep-tember. All of this increased Interest Is manl- j feat in the Memorial day activities of riders. rid-ers. Some of the events now scheduled for that day arc? Terro Haute, lnd race meet: Cleveland, O., throe-day reliability run; Newark, X. J., twenty-four-hour endurance en-durance run: Elmlra, X. Y., race meet; Detroit. Mich., first of five race meets; Grand Rapids, races: Baltimore. Md.. race meet; .Toliet, ill.. Chicago, M. C. race meet; Boise City, Idaho, road race to Caldwell and return; Xewport Xews, Va., endurance run to Richmond and return; "Los Angeles, Cal., endurance run to Santa Barbara and return: Bridgeport, Conn., motorcyclists and aeroplanes; Springfield. Spring-field. Mass.. race meet at the stadium; Rockford. 111., race meet; Bridgeport, Conn., reliability run, and Indianapolis, lnd "mystery run." Scores of minor events are also on the card for Memorial day. |