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Show DOWNING AND PYE MEET IN MATfflRACE Several Features on To-night's To-night's Salt Palace Bicycle Bi-cycle Card. Manager Ernie Pys's blcycl card for tonight looks Uk a good one Every vent Is in Itself a feature. Then thai 1 an Ann trail an novelty race. Thar 1 no difference in th riders for this event Whether they be professionals, . amateurs or trainers they may all compete in it The professionals will have a tw- line up for a three mile western cham jiionship. It is this style of race that delight the local riders more than any other distance. The Australiaa contingent contin-gent wan brought up on these distances. dis-tances. They have all learned that they ' must have plenty of speed left in them when the bell lap comes. Lawson haa hie old love. He seldom is sitting up "when the bell rings for the killing sprint. The younger riders furnish any number of riders who are liable to upset the done. Halstead. West, Anderson, Dro-bsch. Dro-bsch. Trehs snd Wright are all good contenders in this style of racing. Thcv first learned to plug and then to sprint. When the tape is crossed tonight the winner will hsve ridden in close to world "s record time to beat the field opposing him. Of special interest is the return to the game of Hardy Downing. He will compete with Msnsger Pve in a five-mile five-mile motor paced race. Downing alwavs was popular with the fans. He never made his greet hit because of the enormity of his speed, rather bis hesdv riding put him in populsr favor with the fans. It was his great amount of keen judgment that won for him the name ot "Heady Hardy." He . gTves the riding manager a handicap of one lap in the five miles. The simon pures hsve two good events to offer the fans. The first is a half mile handicap and the other a two mile opea lap race. The amateur riders are rounding into good form, and those who are new to the track have mastered the curves so that there is not s great deal of fear for spills. .They hould also offer some good exhibitions calculated to make the fans raise on tip toe. Msnsger Pve has srranged to have the election " Tcsults snnounced bs-tween bs-tween the races this evening. '- The appearanre of Dcinetral. the ' . wrestler, ia exciting- a grest desl of interest st the Salt Pslace theatre this week. The "Greek demon-' is meeting meet-ing all comers. He sgrees to throw anvone in fifteen minutes; fsiling to do ,0" he offers and should he he thrown in the same time he will forfeit Tonight Teddv Devonovitch, the bi i-vcle rider, will tiuwle with the swsrtlit man. Tcd.lv is not a world beatex as s wrestler yet lie knows some of the finer point" of the gstne. He has si peered here in wrestling contests and made good with the fans. He believes he can- hold the big fellow even for fifteen minutes |