Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-09-07 | Page 8 | Ogden Bicycle Track is Leased

G BOTE TRACK 18 LEASED Announcement was made Tuesday night that the management of tho three western bicycle tracks had been taken over by Ernest A. Pye, the clever clev-er Australian rider, who has been a popular rider at the Salt Talace track for several seasons. .Mr. Pye will manage the Pickering five-lap track at l,os Angeles, the Salt Palace bicycle bi-cycle track at Salt like and the Gk-u-wood saucer at Ogden. The track In Ix)s Angeles will open next Sunday and meetings will be, held I here every Sunday for eight weeks. All of the riders who have been riding at the Salt Palace saucei track the past season, with the exception excep-tion of Clarke, MacFarland and Hopper, Hop-per, will leave at once for Los Angeles An-geles to ride at Pye's track. neginnlng on Decoration day next year the Salt Palace saucer track will open for the 1011 season under the management of Mr.-"fyc. Practically all of the riders j who have been in Salt Lake this season will be back n?ain with the addition of several eastern and foreign cyclists, whom .Mr. Pye Is trying to secure. Kinle Pye was 'born on April 21. ISSu, at Swan Hill. Vlctorlu. Australia. He began his career as a bicycle rider In Australia In 1 SOT. From the time, he began cycle racing bis success has been meteoric. Within a short time he was one of the foremost cyclists of Australia. He won the Australian championship three times. He won the A. and A. wheel races in 1902 and I'.iu.l. with first uiouey of over $l,0u0 In each c-venL Pye's first appearance in America was at the Salt Palace saucer track in Salt Lfke In lOtC. lie also role here in H7. returning to Australia In l'.'us. After repeating his successes in Australia he returned to America in '.)'., riding at the Salt Palace track during the seasons of Uio'j and 1010. He was teamed with Lawson during these two seasons and had finished sixth in the big six-day race- at Madison Mad-ison Square Cardeu and In WJ Tell and broke his collar bone when be was tied for second place.