Show SIX DAY SIX ix DAY VETERANS VETERAN RECALL RACE OF YEARS AGO U T Teamed earned in 1906 C Copped Second Money Hardy H Real Vet Yet By Bill Yeat s T wo VO Salt Lakers are taking 1 more than a passing interest in Iris the six-day six bicycle race now no 7 going on at t Madison Square Sq are Garden Galden in iii New York City They are Hardy K L. Downing manager manage of ot of the th-e M Manhattan club and Norman C. C h Hopper a local motorcycle dealer Both Bothof of or these men carved their names In the tome tame of nC the saucer tracks of ot this country and and Australia Australla more than a a I decade ago age and and added fame to their records by achievements In ire the now historic Madison Square Garden six-day six grind Hardy Downing competed In five of of ot these gruelling grinds and one year ear had Norman Hopper as his running mate and they finished second It was in 1904 that Downing returned from Crom a successful cycling campaign in Australia and entered tho the six-day six race at New York He had ha hadis fr as a partner Carl Lindberg and andl they finished e l seventh In a bunched field The year following he entered entered entered en en- with Jimmy Bowler and the they took fifth mone money that race Bowler Bowler Bowler Bow Bow- ler went back to Chicago and was elected alderman in that city and has held the he place ever since DOWNING MEETS DOWNING ItT It T wa in 1906 that nd Hopper hooked up together in in- inthe the great Madison l Square Garden event Both were about I at the height of oC their careers at that time and grabbed s second cond money In 1907 Hardy Downing w was s again called caned upon by the promoters to enter this race He planned to have Ed Folger as a running running running run run- ning mate but Folger was hurt in a Boston race so Downing was asked to enter with Nat Bruckler This he did did getting 1250 0 for starting the prize money money mon mon- ey if it he won any and the contract read that hat If It his partner was forced to quit therace the therace therace race hed he'd get his 1250 Just the same whether ho he finished or not About the tho second day Bruckler fell and his injuries forced him to leave the race In the same Mat Downing of ot Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton found himself without a running mate when his partner broke his collar bone The promoters of the six-day six race then gave Hardy Downing Do ning a day bonus to finish out the race with Mat Downing There were thirteen teams tied tie for first place and by changing partners the Downings were penalized a alap a lap Bv By Bya a sensational spurt however they managed managed managed man man- aged to make male up the the- loss arid and finished fourth 1 HARDYS HARDY'S FINAL FLING It was a year later that later that Hardy Downing took his final fling at the six- six day affair He He- entered with Cy Hollister but was forced to quit after twenty-four twenty hours Hardy had been unable to get Into the pink of ot condition for the race race but entered believing that he would be beable beable able to take a gradual start and thus get himself himsel Into excellent condition for the I final grind during the race New Now tactics were used by the entries however who started out with a t spurt port that put DownIng's DownIngs Down Down- Downings Downing's Ings Ing's legs out of ot commission and forc forced d him to retire Since that time Downing has had practically practically little to do with racing He lIe has been conducting short-round short boxing contests contests contests con con- tests as weekly shows under the name of ot the l I Manhattan club in Salt Lake ever since It might be stated however that at one time Hardy did the famous loop- loop the-loop the around the country His loop was only about twelve Inches wide all the way around and a new novelty in the country which brought him in real big money He got so much that he bought outa out show and started to tour the country country country coun coun- try with it ft but it stranded som somewhere where wherein in the Middle West Both Downing and ana Hopper have hl high h respect the for athletes grinding out the miles mlles in Jn the six-day six race Both declare It Is the most tedious and strenuous com com- competition petition a bicycle rider can go through |