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Show MOTOR BIKE RIDER MAKES NEW RECORD By International News Service. CHICAGO. Sept. 12. Traveling ai a pace that shattered all previous longdistance long-distance records for a motorcycle. Carl Gowdy, mounted on an Excelsior machine, ma-chine, finished four laps ahead of the field In Chicago's first 300-mile motorcycle motor-cycle race at the Maywood speedway today. to-day. Dowdy's time for the 30ft miles was. 3:29:51 2-5, an average of over eighty-' five miles an hour. Teddy Carroll, on an Indian, was the second man to finish, crossing tho line in 3:35:17. Less than a minute behind hitn came Uav Weishaar. on a Harley-David-son, while Bill Brier, also on a Harley-Davidson. Harley-Davidson. finished fourth, exactly one mtnuie behind his teammate. E. BrUger-man, BrUger-man, riding an Excelsior, and Earl Armstrong, Arm-strong, on an Indian, were the others to |