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Show J .-if. .I 11 1 i LM l! L- 0.. J.-. .EFJUUfndKBV EVE EMM ' I 1 ' . . ; :' ' '"' ' ''"' ' ' --; . . - f . - ' . y . . . I , ERNIE PYE, Champion pursuit rider of Australia, one of many champions to ride on the local saucer track this season. them; they're in training. And it's the same with most o' them, when out of training. They -can't afford it. It would hurt their busingss. Misleading reports published some time ago that a law had been passed prohibiting sports and amusements on Decoration day have caused the public to understand that resorts' in and around this city will be closed Decoration Decora-tion dav. This'is wroug. Salt I'alaee and all other place of amusement will be open Decoration day, and offer special events in honor of the day. Tho bicycle champions will take part in one of the most important events seen in this country. Iver Lawson received "a letter from Floyd MeFarlandj in Paris, that he will leave soon for this country and be here in time for the big show "on Decoration day. Mae. is in fine shape and expects to break? something when he lands here. Ernie J'ye, champion pnrsuit rider of Australia, also will bo here this season. Modern athletics Is a business of hard work, constant effort, clean living and glory sometimes. If you don't believe be-lieve it, watch the bike riders at the Salt Palace track. Get up with them at 8 o'clock in the morning. Join them at breakfast, and help get on the outside of three soft-boiled eggs, a bit of toast and that's all. Then after a little time put on the gloves and box bard and fast until your wind comes in puffs and heaves and you feel weak in the props. Then a little more rest, and then a 'spin on your .wheel on that wonderful, splendid saucer sau-cer track. . Round and round and round again and again you'll spin until your head whirls and your eyes blur. But if you're a good man, your head '11 stay clear and vou'll never get rattled. If you do, it's Ihe bottom of the track for you, and maybe the hospital. JVs about time for lunch now, and you bet you can do justice to it. It's a big mess of juicy, rare roast beef with blamed little- trimmin's the kind of grub that sticks to the ribs and makes men. Another rest, enough to give the gmb time to settle, and then it's more work. Put on your track shoes and your pantalettes.'and join the lads in a sprint around the inside of the track. Keep on runnin', 'cause if you don't you'll get left behind, and the boys '11 swat you as they pass. It's a little old two-mile two-mile jog, and by the time you're through with that stunt you know you 've gone some. Then some more noxing and wrestling and funny horsc-plav, horsc-plav, and the day is done. It's rest and talk and talk and rest until about 10 o'clock and the boys go to bed. That's all. If men and women and children of today to-day would live and act as cleanly and morally and peacefully as the professional profes-sional athlete, doctors, druggists and undertakers would starve to death. There's enough champion material at the saucer track every day, hard at work, to keep the world supplied for ten years to come. They're human, those men of musclo and brawn. They like to live, to hit the high places, to look upon the wine when it is red, to mix with a cold bottle and a hot bird but nix for |